Outdoors

Allotments Monday and/or Wednesday 10.00am to 4pm on a ten week course. Held at Rectors Way allotments in Weston-super-Mare. This involves practical outside work but toilets and a shelter are provided. You can decide on whether to help on a communal area or have an area of your own to grow your own choice of plants. There is a course fee of £219.60 for the ten week course reducing to £10 if on a means tested benefit.

Gaining Confidence through Bushcraft and Rural Skills. 10 week course on a Thursday. Next course is 9 September 2010. Transport is provided from the Carlton Centre to different locations and back. These locations could include woodland, a farm or a beach. Activities will be determined by the weather but could include creating shelters in the woods, making benches, making lunch over a fire or pit oven, orienteering, farm tours, stories around a bonfire, carving a spoon, weaving or spinning and other creative outdoor activiites. Students should wear suitable clothing and bring a packed lunch. There will be a course fee of £219.60 reducing to £10 if on a means tested benefit.