Activities & Packages

Explore the grounds at Avon Tyrrell using a tablet which will act as your GPS system. Enter each code one by one to be lead around site on a giant hide and seek in search of our hidden containers. Once you have found each container see if you can crack the code from the numbers you have collected to reveal the answer.

Think fast, play hard and your team will conquer our Challenge Course. A great team building activity, our Challenge Course has all the basics you would find on a traditional assault course, but our focus is on your ability to work as a team.

The better you work together the faster it all gets.

What better way to end your day with us than sitting around a campfire. Enjoy the warmth as you toast marshmallows, tell stories and sing songs.

Either led by one of our experienced staff, or self-guided a campfire allows you the opportunity to relax and spend some quality time together in the great outdoors.

This activity is all about fun and is a very popular and fitting end to a great stay with us. 

After a long week, see our enthusiastic instructors turn DJ for the night as they turn up the beats and get the music pumping.

With a selection of old and new hits to get the party started, we hope there is something for all tastes.

Take on a range of mini challenges to earn as many points as possible to protect your egg in the final task. You will be rewarded for your efforts with items of scrap materials that you will need to create a protective case with in order to survive the drop…

Will your egg end up in bits as it’s put through its paces in a battle against gravity?

An opportunity to explore Avon Tyrrell during dusk or darkness and discover the nocturnal creatures that live here. It is a great time to see new things, listen to stories connected with the house and test your night vision with some of our night tricks.  You will be amazed what there is to see.

Orienteering will introduce some practical map reading skills so you can locate various points within the grounds. It is a great way to explore the grounds and discover new things. You will need to interpret your map and communicate well together to make decisions in order to find all points as quickly as possible.

Avon Tyrrell has a two bike trails within the 65 acre grounds making Mountain Biking an exciting and challenging session.

We can tailor Mountain Biking sessions accordingly and help you improve techniques, learn new skills, improve your bike control or just enjoy mountain biking under the guidance of our qualified instructors.

Session content will be led by your requirements, but also by the experience of your whole group. 

Whether you are climbing up, or abseiling down our Climbing Tower, this is a challenge for anyone and really pushes you to your limits.

Restrictions:

• Our maximum weight limit for this activity is 16 stone (120kg)
• Our minimum age for Climbing is 5+ years

Are you a budding Robin Hood or Maid Marian?  Step on to our Archery ranges and take on the challenge to hit the Bullseye! Designed to develop skill and foster a sense of achievement, you can practice to perfect your technique from the shooting line and show us what you have got. 

Partner up in our 2 person canoes and paddle across the waters. With open tops you will learn traditional canoeing techniques and skills including the added buoyancy that comes with larger boats.

Restrictions

• Weight limit is restricted to 20 stone (130kg)
• Canoeing is suitable for 5+ years (adult needed for under 8 years)

Enjoy the excitement of our High Ropes course with various tree based elements. 

Crate Stacking – Tackle the crate stack in pairs and see if you can build the tallest tower. Whilst balancing on top of the crates, your friends and team will have to help pass you crates but also keep you safe by belaying your ropes.

Jacobs Ladder – Take it in turns and work together on your way up the Jacobs ladder. With the rungs getting further apart as you go higher, you’ll need your best team work to make it to the top.

Play Pen – Climb up the swinging beams, over the cargo net and up the tyres; be careful they spin! All on the way to conquering our play pen activity. Difficulty can be increased or lowered depending on the groups age and objectives.

Leap of Faith – The ultimate adrenaline challenge! The objective is to climb to the top of our 20ft pole, stand on top of the platform and make the ultimate leap of faith to see you can catch the hanging trapeze bar. If you catch it once, we can always move it further away to make it harder.

High all aboard – A great activity for building stronger teams. Take it in turns for you and your friends to climb to the top of our 20ft pole and once four people are stood on top see if you can complete a series of challenges without losing balance.

Restrictions:

• Our maximum weight limit for this activity is 18 stone (120kg)
• Our minimum age for this activity is 5+ years

Can you work together as a team to construct and build a raft that will float on our lake and keep you dry. We will provide you with a number of barrels, planks and ropes to construct your vessel before taking it to the water. Will you end up in the water, or will your team stay dry?

Tackle our tree climbing challenge as participants have the freedom to go as high as they want, experiencing new sensations and perspectives. Once you’re in the canopy of the trees, you can enjoy the beautiful views of Avon Tyrrell or challenge yourself to go higher. As well as being able to enjoy a great fun session you can also learn about the trees, estimate their height, or even try tree orienteering!

Restrictions:

• Our maximum weight limit for this activity is 18 stone (120kg)
• Our minimum age for this activity is 8+ years

An adrenaline charged experience where you can race against friends as you travel at high speeds over our stunning lake. Climb 30 feet up to your starting platform, but make sure you don’t close your eyes, or you will miss the amazing scenery as you zip from up in the trees, down to water level. It’s an exhilarating experience you will never forget.

Restrictions:

• Our maximum weight limit for this activity is 18 stone (120kg)
• Our minimum age for this activity is 7+ years (must be 130cm in height)

Take on the lake solo in our Piranha Master Kayaks, or tandem sit on tops which allow individuals to explore their own competency levels. Develop skills as you paddle forwards, backwards and sideways taking on new challenges.

Restrictions

• Weight limit is restricted to 20 stone (130kg)
• Double Sit on Top Kayaking is suitable for 5+ years (adult needed for under 8 years)
• Kayaking is suitable for 8+ years

Paddle boarding is a fun and challenging activity at Avon Tyrrell. Enjoy a paddle around the stunning lake and see if you can get up on both feet with support from our instructors.

Explore the world of mini beasts as you investigate what creatures you can find and in what habitats. Look into adaptations and classifications and discover the bug world from a whole new perspective.

What would you do if you were lost and your phone battery died? Would you know how to find your way if you had no signal?

With the popularity and invention of modern technologies such as the Sat Nav or Google Maps, many people have lost the basic skills of navigation.

This session will teach you how to understand the key on a map, contours and how to relate it to your physical surroundings as well as learning about a compass and how to use it. This is a great session for anyone that wants to get back to basics and explore the world.

Identifying animal tracks and signs can open up an unseen world, a window into the lives of shy and elusive animals. Can you track animals by following their footprints and habitats? Let our instructors show you how.

Discover more about the natural environment, what lives there and what it leaves behind as you walk the grounds at Avon Tyrrell looking for signs of animals and wildlife.

Discover deer, rabbits, birds of prey and squirrels and use your identification sheet to record what you find.

A hand’s on fun session of creativity using nature as both an inspiration and material resource where you will gain knowledge of the environment and design your own piece of art. 

Gain confidence in using a wide range of materials an develop understanding of colour, line, texture, shape, pattern and form. 

Explorers and Adventurers – Learn the essentials to surviving and camping in the wild whilst keeping the protection of the environment in mind. Learn from our skilled instructors how to safely light a fire, boil water and make a cup of tea with our Kelly Kettles or how to build a protective shelter. Bushcraft teaches valuable life skills and shows you how to adapt and survive in the outdoors.

This is a sensory exploration with a difference! Learn some interesting facts about the Avon Tyrrell grounds. Discover how the environment changes with the seasons and how the wonderful environment has many secrets to show you.

You will be guided through the grounds at Avon Tyrrell and given as many opportunities as possible to connect and interact with the natural environment. Use your sight, smell, touch, taste and hearing to investigate different aspects of the environment. When you get outside and experience the atmosphere this is when you discover an often unseen world.

So whether you are making smelly cocktails, leaf crowns, natural postcards or leaf rubbing, tasting plants or having close encounters with trees, we guarantee you will discover something new.

Gain some insight into the history of Avon Tyrrell and encounter some of the flora and fauna around the New Forest. Our Forest Walk will take you around the centre and off site into the National Park in a fun and interactive way. Exploring vegetation, landscape and wildlife species, you will come face to face with the outdoor environment and discover so much more.

Perfect for newly formed groups or those meeting for the first time, this session helps to break down barriers and initiate conversations. Play and connect as you break the ice and start getting to know each other, understand each others strengths and begin truly working together.

Our Low Ropes course at Avon Tyrrell is a low level balance activity combining problem solving, team coordination and cooperation. Work together as a team to take on each element and navigate you way around the course as you build confidence together on a series of beams, ropes, planks and tyres.

This fun session allows you to power and steer the craft with your feet as you experience the lake from an alternative type of boat – one of our Pedalos. With four people per craft you can take it in turns to compete in challenges and games or just take in the views and relax together.

Ancient Greeks and Romans used Pioneering skills to create various structures and weapons that were capable of firing at their enemies.  You will use ropes and wooden spars and work together to build your giant Ballista. We won’t let you fire weapons at each other but you will fire sponge balls at targets or your opposing team. It takes a lot of precision and aim to hit the bullseye!

A fun and simple way to explore an aquatic habitat and observe a diversity of different creatures from leeches to dragonfly nymphs. Equipped with nets, trays and magnifying glasses, you will have the opportunity to explore our freshwater ponds and discover what creatures inhabit them.  Learn about the wide variety of creatures and their adaptations and how to identify them using simple ID keys.

Stretch your brain to its limits as you solve complex puzzles and tasks of both a physical and mental nature. Use your initiative and work as a team to make decisions and strategies to complete you challenges. Are you a good communicator? Can you work as a team? You will need to, to solve these problems.

One of the great secrets to survival is creating a shelter that will keep you protected against the elements. Split into teams and go hunting for natural materials to design your structure before we put them to the test. Are they big enough, are they strong enough and will you stay dry and survive our waterproofing test?

Grab your trail map and riddle sheet and use your mind to work your way towards the finish. Solving riddles and clues to find different posts around the site that hold the clues you need to make it all the way.

Starting with simple challenges, you will then progress onto our Trust Walk trail where your team will have the opportunity to navigate a series of obstacles, tackling each of the different challenges that lay ahead and each taking it in turns to take a leadership role.

Trust Walk is a great session for team development. You will need good communication, teamwork and above all else…Trust! Starting with simple challenges, you will then progress onto our Trust Walk trail where your team will have the opportunity to navigate a series of obstacles, tackling each of the different challenges that lay ahead and each taking it in turns to take a leadership role.

Explore the grounds at Avon Tyrrell using a tablet which will act as your GPS system. Enter each code one by one to be lead around site on a giant hide and seek in search of our hidden containers. Once you have found each container see if you can crack the code from the numbers you have collected to reveal the answer.

Think fast, play hard and your team will conquer our Challenge Course. A great team building activity, our Challenge Course has all the basics you would find on a traditional assault course, but our focus is on your ability to work as a team.

The better you work together the faster it all gets.

A hand’s on fun session of creativity using nature as both an inspiration and material resource where you will gain knowledge of the environment and design your own piece of art. 

Gain confidence in using a wide range of materials an develop understanding of colour, line, texture, shape, pattern and form. 

What better way to end your day with us than sitting around a campfire. Enjoy the warmth as you toast marshmallows, tell stories and sing songs.

Either led by one of our experienced staff, or self-guided a campfire allows you the opportunity to relax and spend some quality time together in the great outdoors.

Orienteering will introduce some practical map reading skills so you can locate various points within the grounds. It is a great way to explore the grounds and discover new things. You will need to interpret your map and communicate well together to make decisions in order to find all points as quickly as possible.