Scouts & Guides
Set in a unique riverside location near Marlow, Buckinghamshire, Longridge provides a range of exciting water sports and land-based activities aimed at young people of all abilities.
Our environment is perfect to provide a fun, challenging and safe environment for Scouts and Guides to visit from across the UK and enjoy our unique blend of water and land-based adventurous activities. Longridge is equipped to offer both residential and day visits. We have Scouts that come and camp with us for two weeks in the summer and bring entire area groups, and Scouts that just join us for their Water Adventure Weekend. We can work together to create the visit that suits your needs, all you have to do is get in touch.
Special Events
Scout Association Adventure Weekend
Back by popular demand! Our Scout Adventure Weekend gives your scouts the chance to break through their comfort zones, participate in a range of our exciting activities and integrate with like minded scouts from neighbouring districts.
Each participant will take part in 8 activities across the weekend; including kayaking, climbing, leap of faith, laser tag, Jacobs ladder, water orbs, Dragon Boating and rafting. Plus, you get two nights camping for the whole group. Arrive Friday evening or Saturday morning (for you early risers) to set up camp, ready for the day’s activities ahead. To view the programme for the weekend please click the link below;
For further information, dates, prices and booking click here;
Scout Association Adventure Weekend
Staying on site
Longridge has great transport links with ample parking and a range of bunk room and camping facilities and options for fully catered stays. Fully accessible toilets and showers (open 24 hours a day for our guest), masses of open space and dedicated groups areas are available. Our training centre also has a variety of rooms that you can use if you need to have a skills session whilst you are here, or even just to use as a communal space to watch a film in the evening.
We have a selection of indoor accommodation that can take up to 87 people, although this is slightly dependent on the gender split of the group in question. Our campsites can take up to 500 people in total (less if you need open space for wide games or self catering), spread out across our beautiful riverside site. We also offer a range of catering options, whether you’d like to go self-catered and use our training centre kitchen, or select from our hot or cold food menus.
Full board is provided by our own team of caterers who have years of experience in catering for young people, providing simple, tasty menus that can be adapted to suit many dietary requirements. Seating is in our Café and our covered outdoor dining areas. Alternatively you may wish to self-cater. Our Training Rooms have a small kitchen which can be used in conjunction with our Training Rooms for indoor dining. Or we have a larger outdoor kitchen which is perfect for those camping with us. Some groups choose to do a combination of both, using the self catering kitchen to provide breakfast and lunch, allowing our team to prepare a hot meal in the evening. The choice is yours. Our campsites are also large enough for you to bring along your own mess tent if you choose to camp, and we have fire pits and drinking water taps dotted around the campsites that allow for a totally self sufficient camping experience.
Packages
You are very welcome to create, with our Team’s help, your own itinerary. Alternatively you can pick one of our day or residential packages below which sorts out the activities during the day for you. In the evening you can either add in additional activities – we run activities up to 9.15pm or bring in your own entertainment – over the years our visitors have bought in magicians, petting zoos and circus acts. Our training centre also has a variety of rooms that you can use if you need to have a study session whilst you are here, or even just to use as a communal space to watch a film in the evening - (0r you can just sit and enjoy our rather beautiful setting).
Every year, Longridge is host to a number of county organised scouting and guiding events. We have years of experience of delivering county events and are proud of the relationship and events that we have developed and run for the benefit of all young cubs, scouts, brownies, guides and anyone associated with scouting youth groups. We can create bespoke events for all of your needs or check out some of the pre-organised events we have running.
Contact
With so many options on offer, we appreciate that booking a school trip can be a daunting task - so please get in touch with our bookings team and we will help you plan your perfect visit. Call us on 033 03 03 01 01 or email [email protected]
