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A PACKED PROGRAMME OF ACTIVITIES
Outdoor Activities
Within easy reach of the Venture Centre are areas of great natural beauty which provide opportunities for exciting outdoor pursuits. These range from walking and cycling to climbing, caving, canoeing and other water sports led by fully qualified instructors.
Cross Curricular Learning – Education and Personal Development
The area is well suited to a wide range of cross curricular educational projects encompassing history, geography, science and P.S.H.E. as well as creative language and art.
 

Environmental Studies
The location of the Venture Centre makes it an ideal base for studies of woodland and wetland. From the play area there is direct access to the woods, watercourses and meadows of Slinter Valley and Dunsley Meadows Local Nature Reserve. This large area is a designated Site of Special Scientific Interest and is available for groups to explore.
Alternatively groups can study rural conservation by finding out all about the art of dry stone walling as well as learning the skills of video filming and editing in order to record their experiences.
 

Cromford Green Energy Project
The Venture Centre offers its unique and contemporary two-day two-night residential experience for primary and secondary schools in which students take part in a range of energy based science activities aimed to raise ‘Energy Literacy’. This enables students to develop their knowledge of key curriculum links: materials and their properties, renewable energy and scientific investigation. More details on this programme are available here.
 
 

Corporate Volunteering
The Venture Centre works closely with a number of major companies to provide opportunities for employee volunteering schemes. These can range from a few people to a few hundred working on conservation activities in the woods, watercourses and fields adjoining the Venture Centre or at other locations belonging to the Arkwright Society.

INSIDE THE VENTURE CENTRE:
Lower Floor – 3 bedrooms with a total of 11 beds, shower and toilet room, separate shower and toilet for disabled visitors, washing machine.
Middle Floor – Reception room, drying room, T.V. room, library, payphone, staff toilet and shower and two staff bedrooms with two beds each.
Upper Floor – 3 bedrooms with a total of 19 beds, shower and toilet room, dining room, kitchen, fridge and freezer.
The Centre has been designed with the needs of the physically challenged in mind but wheelchair access is limited – details available on request.
OUTDOOR FACILITIES:
Parking with space for two minibuses is available to the front of the building and extra parking is available to the rear of the Centre by arrangement. To the side of the building is a beautiful mill pond and behind this is a play area with artificial grass. There is a brick built barbecue for visitors’ use.