Pendarren House has provided residential adventurous outdoor activity courses since 1972. It is now available to schools and groups outside of Haringey including clubs, youth groups, D of E groups, companies and other organisations. These groups will need to arrange their own transport to Pendarren.

The Main House and Annexe are available for larger groups and the price includes full board and activities. Smaller groups (up to 16) may prefer to book the self-catering Firs bungalow, activities can be arranged for these groups.

Groups can choose their programme, here is a selection of possible options:

ADVENTUROUS ACTIVITIES
All the adventurous activities are available to groups staying in the House and Annexe.

TEAM CHALLENGES AND TEAM BUILDING
Pendarren House has many team challenges that are designed to test the ability of a group to work together; these can be stand-alone exercises or incorporated into extended, more complex team challenges. These can be used as fun team bonding sessions or as part of a broader company strategy to enable people to work more effectively in team situations. The Dragon's Head at the bottom of the drive can be utilised to unwind at the end of the day.

D OF E AWARD
Pendarren house can offer training, practice and qualifying expeditions to all levels of participants and residential experiences to gold participants.

Our packages include:
Bronze Training and Assessment Packages
Silver Training and AssessmentPackages
Gold Training and Assessment Packages
Residential(Gold Only) Packages                            

All our standard packages can be either by foot or canoe and are conducted in the South Wales area, (other forms of expeditions can be arranged but may incur additional charges, please contact us to discuss the options).

Local Groups – If you are looking to take part in an adventurous or outdoor based activity for your ‘Skills’ or ‘Physical’ Sections, our instructors may be able to arrange regular activity events for groups with a shared interest. We can offer climbing/abseiling skills, canoeing/kayaking, caving, bushcraft, field studies courses etc. contact us to find out what we can do for you!

Haringey Schools – It may be possible to deliver a D of E package on similar terms to our standard 1 week Outdoor Education packages, please contact the office for further details.

NATIONAL GOVERNING BODY (NGB) AWARD COURSES
Pendarren House offers training and assessment for aspiring outdoor activity leaders in nationally recognised schemes as listed below.

For details about the following awards and to register for the award scheme contact Mountain Leader Training UK:

Mountain Leader Award (summer)
Single Pitch Award
Climbing Wall Award
Walking Group leader Award

For details about the Local Cave Leader Award Levels 1 and 2, and registration, contact the British Caving Association.

NGB COURSES 2012

LCL Level 1 training 10-11 November 2012 £130
LCL Level 2 training 13-14 October 2012 £190
LCL revalidation level 1 and 2 2nd February 2013 Contact BCA

ML training Expedition in N Wales £420
31 March-5 April 2012
28 July - 2 August 2012
20 October - 1 November 2012

WGL training £195
5-7 May 2012
7-9 September 2012

SPA training £135
19-20 May 2012
15-16 September 2012

Application form

Assessment and training courses can be arranged at other times, please contact the Centre for all enquiries and bookings.

SPECIALIST COURSES
If you would like training and the opportunity to progress in one particular activity we can provide a programme to develop your skills from novice to advanced level. These specialist courses are most likely to run if you can get a group of like-minded individuals together. Depending on the activity the ratios vary but for advanced courses will be 1:2.

This includes bushcraft, rock climbing, walking and mountaineering, winter mountaineering and climbing, sea kayaking, flat or white water kayaking and canoeing, orienteering, caving and potholing. These courses may take place away from Pendarren. Note that some courses are seasonal such as white water kayaking where there are more options from October to March due to access restrictions.

We can also run multi-activity courses off-site using venues such as the Pembrokeshire coast.