Wild Days & Camps

Fun and learning in the woods for children

In an age of video games, urbanisation and rising obesity, we bring back the spirit of adventure. We teach children to take risks in a safe environment, taking them out in to the woods to get mucky, to learn and to have lots of fun!

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About our Wild Days & Camps:

Our Wild Days & Camps are fun, exciting days out and camps for children in our beautiful beech woods - often for less than the cost of child care! We run half day, full day & overnight camps, tailor-made for specific age groups, all year round.

There are lots of creative activities, such as: Survival Skills - Wild Crafts - Magical Quests - Fantastic Games - Exploring Nature - Watching Wildlife - Silent Stalking - Making fire - Campfire Songs and much more...
See more about what happens on our Wild Days & Camps here

Wild Days and Camps - The 2010 Summer Extravaganza

  • Choose from 30 Wild Days, overnight camps and family days over six weeks!
  • NEW! Book activities before and after each Wild Day
  • NEW! Special offers for booking a week of Wild Days
  • NEW! Family camps, Dads and Lads and Camps for Girls (and big girls)
  • NEW WILD DAYS including Tower of Pizza, Woodland Archery & Photography

Throughout the Summer
Pre and Post Wild Day Activities
NEW!

Get off to work early or stay a bit late if you have to. We will entertain your children with woodland crafts and activities in our wonderful yurt before they go off on a Frontiers Wild day and/or when they come back.
Either session or both can be booked in addition to the wild day. The sessions have fixed starting and finishing times so that the children arrive to start/finish the activity together.

Details:
8.30am – 10am session - £10 per child
4.00pm – 5.30pm session - £10 per child

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WEEK ONE: Monday 26th July - Sunday 1st August

SPECIAL OFFER: Book all Week One Wild Days for just £130

Monday 26th July
Introduction to Wilderness Living

Location: Path Hill Farm
Time: 10am - 4pm
Age: 6 - 10
Cost : £29

Woodland Shelters including Debris, Raised Beds and the “Super Shelter”.

Tuesday 27th July
Fire and Woodland Games                 NO SPACES

Location: Path Hill Farm
Time: 10am - 4pm
Age: 6 - 10
Cost : £29

Wednesday 28th July
The Way of the Scout

Location: Path Hill Farm
Time: 10am - 4pm
Ages: 6 - 10
Cost: £29

Tracks, Tracking, Camouflage and Silent Movement

Thursday 29th July
Primitive Tools and Woodland Crafts

Location: Path Hill Farm
Time: 10am - 4pm
Age: 6 - 10
Cost : £29

Thursday 29th July
Possible overnight camp – please request details

Location: Path Hill Farm
Ages: 6 - 10
Cost: on request

Friday 30th July
Scouting Mission

Location: Path Hill Farm
Time: 10am - 4pm
Ages: 6 - 10
Cost: £29

A day to put your skills, knowledge and tools into action (suitable for children who have attended at least one of the other days this week).

Friday 30th July 6pm - Sunday 1st August 2pm
Dads n’ lads Camping Survival Weekend         NO MORE SPACES

Location: Path Hill Farm
Age: 6+
Cost : £195 for father and son / £250 for father and 2 sons

Enjoy a fun weekend learning about survival in the wild; fires, shelters and games Bring all your camping stuff and food and relax at Path Hill Farm.

WEEK TWO: Monday 2nd August - Friday 6th August

SPECIAL OFFER: Book all Week Two Wild Days for just £130

Monday 2nd August
Introduction to Wilderness Living

Location: Path Hill Farm
Time: 10am - 4pm
Age: 10 - 14
Cost : £29

Woodland Shelters including Debris, Raised Beds and the “Super Shelter”.

Tuesday 3rd August
Fire Master Class

Location: Path Hill Farm
Time: 10am - 4pm
Age: 10 - 14
Cost: £29

Including Flint-Strike, Fire by Friction and Cooking over fire

Wednesday 4th August
The Way of the Scout

Location: Path Hill Farm
Time: 10am - 4pm
Age: 10 - 14
Cost : £29

Tracks, Tracking, Camouflage and Silent Movement

Thursday 5th August
Primitive Tools and Woodland Crafts

Location: Path Hill Farm
Time: 10am - 4pm
Age: 10 - 14
Cost : £29

Includes knife skills, hunting tools and traps

Thursday 5th August
Possible overnight camp – please request details

Location: Gutteridge's Wood layby / Path Hill Farm
Age: 10 - 14
Cost: £29

Friday 6th August
Scouting Mission

Location: Path Hill Farm

Time: 10am - 4pm
Age: 10 - 14
Cost : £29

A day to put your skills, knowledge and tools into action (suitable for children who have attended at least one of the other days this week).

WEEK THREE: Saturday 7th August - Friday 13th August

Saturday 7th August
Family Bushcraft Day

Location: Gutteridge's Wood layby
Time: 10am - 4pm
Age: 6+
Cost : £35 per child / £5 per adult / £125 for family/group (includes lunch)

A day of bush craft and adventure for all ages. Undertake the team fire challenge, build debris shelters, learn to stalk, and find out what's really hiding in the woods. A delicious lunch, cooked on the fire, will be served. Please let us know of any special dietary requirements. At last – an opportunity to accompany your children on a wild day.

Monday 9th August
Platoon

Location: Gutteridge's Wood layby
Time: 10am - 4pm
Age: 8 - 12
Cost: £29

Frontier's military wing is regrouping for a deadly assault into enemy territory. Foreign agents' recent efforts to destroy our position have left us weakened and as a result we will be recruiting more soldiers to our side. Report for duty at 10h00. Full camouflage (if you’ve got it).

Tuesday 10th August
Family Taster Morning – children with adults

Location: Path Hill Farm
Time: 10am - 1pm
Age: Up to 7
Cost : £15 per child for children 4 and over / Under 4s and adults free

Come and try out some of our wild day activities and bring a picnic to have afterwards.

Wednesday 11th August
Tower of Pizza (includes lunch)     SOLD OUT

Location: Path Hill Farm
Time: 10am - 4pm
Age: 6 - 12
Cost : £35 (includes lunch)

Have you ever cooked pizza yourself? Outside? In an oven that you heat with a fire you've made and wood you've collected? You'll be amazed at what you can cook with fire. Magic potions, chocolate soup, even roast chicken. We'll supply the ingredients; you come up with the imagination. Join us for a day of games, adventure, cooking and, of course, pizza.

Thursday 12th August
Family Taster Morning – children with adults

Location: Path Hill Farm
Time: 10am - 1pm
Age: Up to 7
Cost : £15 per child for children 4 and over / Under 4s and adults free

Come and try out some of our wild day activities and bring a picnic to have afterwards.

Friday 13th August
Earth, Water, Wind and Fire

Location: Gutteridge's Wood layby
Time: 10am - 4pm
Age: 8 - 12
Cost : £29

4 challenges. Each more impossible than the next. Bravery, brains and skill are a must. Climb, run, dig, hide, light fires and uncover the magic of the woods. Think you've got what it takes?

WEEK FOUR: Monday 16th August – Friday 20th August

Monday 16th August
Bushcraft Academy                               SOLD OUT

Location: Path Hill Farm
Time: 10am - 4pm
Age: 6 - 9
Cost: £29

Develop your skills at shelter building, fire lighting, carving, archery, tracking, fire cooking and foraging. Learn to live in the woods with nothing but the clothes on your back. These sessions will be group led and focus on what participants would most like to do on the day.

Tuesday 17th August
Wild play day

Location: Path Hill Farm
Time: 10am - 4pm
Age: 6 - 9
Cost: £29

An adventurous play day specially paced for our younger children. Explore the woods, make stick monsters and find your way around the blindfold trial. Brave the troll hole while he is asleep if you dare! Chuck in a few games and eat your packed lunch round the fire. What a way to spend the day!

Wednesday 18th August
Raven Quest

Location: Path Hill Farm
Time: 10am - 4pm
Age: 8 - 12
Cost: £29

The Raven quest returns! Only the cunning and brave are needed for this challenging day. Think outside the box to solve the puzzles and play your way around the woodland games with your team. Win points of your skills and lose them for your mistakes! Could you be the winner?

Thursday 19th August
Bushcraft Academy

Location: Path Hill Farm
Time: 10am - 4pm
Age: 9 +
Cost : £29

Develop your skills at shelter building, fire lighting, carving, archery, tracking, fire cooking and foraging. Learn to live in the woods with nothing but the clothes on your back. These sessions will be group led and focus on what participants would most like to do on the day.

Friday 20th August
Woodland Archery

Location: Path Hill Farm
Time: 10am - 4pm
Age: 7 - 12
Cost: £29

How good’s your aim? Come and find out playing this new game in the woods. We’ll throw in some of the old favourite games as well.

WEEKS 5 & 6:  Saturday 21st August – Wednesday 1st September

Saturday 21st August 5pm - Sunday 22nd August 10am
Camp for Girls (and Big Girls)

Location: Path Hill Farm
Age: 6 + (under 8s must be accompanied by an adult)
Cost: £65 per person

Dinner and breakfast and tents will be included – please advise us as to any specific dietary requirements. This camp is only for the wild and intrepid. It is for the intelligent and brilliant. It is, of course, a camp for girls. And the good news is that just because you are a teenager or a grown-up you still count as a girl. There will be fire, adventure, night games, quests and challenges, things to make and stories to tell. It might be scary, it might be hard, but it will most definitely be wicked fun.

Monday 23rd August
Photography (more details to follow)

Location: Path Hill Farm
Time: 10am - 4pm
Age: 10+
Cost: to be confirmed

Tuesday 24th August
Summer Fire making and knife day ( not suitable if you did this day at Easter)

Location: Path Hill Farm
Time: 10am - 4pm
Age: 9 - 12
Cost: £29

Come and learn the essentials of making a fire and using a knife. Collect tinder bundles, try the one match challenge and learn to use a fire steel to make different fires. After lunch learn techniques to use a knife safely to strip bark and make feather sticks.

Wednesday 25th August
Primitive Camouflage and Scouting Skills

Location: Path Hill Farm
Time: 10am - 4pm
Age: 7 - 11
Cost: £29

 

Thursday 26th August
Primitive Hunting Day

Location: Path Hill Farm
Time: 10am - 4pm
Age: 10 +
Cost : £29

 

Wednesday 1st September
Monkey Business

Location: Gutteridge's Wood layby
Time: 10am - 4pm
Age: 6 - 9
Cost: £29

Eeek! The monkeys have escaped. They have disappeared into the woods and are causing trouble everywhere they go. They must be stopped! You will have to become like a monkey to catch them. Climb, jump from tree to tree and run as fast as they can. And who knows what adventures we'll find while we're looking for them. All monkeys need refuelling so if you'd like to bring anything to cook on the fire at lunchtime do.... nothing that can't be eaten raw though!

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How to Book

  1. Read through the notes below
  2. Email This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it or phone 0118 326 8322 to check availability
  3. Complete an online Booking Form (or print form & post with cheque) 
  4. Complete an online Medical Form for each child attending
  5. View directions if necessary

NOTES

  • All activities will only go ahead if there are sufficient numbers to make them viable. One week’s notice will be given if an event is not going ahead and we will endeavour to find another suitable course. If not, you will receive a refund.
  • If you cancel your place due to your child's illness or injury, you will receive a credit for a future event.
  • BEFORE you book, please phone or e-mail to check availability. We will cancel any online bookings made without checking availability as we need to keep an eye on numbers.
  • Please complete the medical form ONLY in respect of YOUR OWN child/children.
  • Please note our new meeting place, Gutteridge's Wood Layby. The old King Charles Head pub has no connection with Frontiers, so please respect these neighbours and do not knock on their door.
 
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Frontiers, Path Hill Farm, Goring Heath, Reading RG8 7RE
Parties & Wild Days: 0118 326 8322 / parties@frontiers.uk.net / wilddays@frontiers.uk.net - General enquiries: 0118 984 2500 / contact@frontiers.uk.net
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