Calvert Trust Kielder

Best for: activity taster days.

Calvert Trust Kielder provides outdoor activities for people of all abilities. Activity taster days are run throughout the year for day visitors to the Park. The Trust has won many awards in particular for its work with people with disabilities.

Come here to:

• Dare to try the Zip wire and the King Swing.
• Challenge yourself on the indoor and outdoor climbing walls.
• Practice canoeing, sailing and motor boating.
• Learn archery.
• Try orienteering.
• Test your nerve on the high ropes course - new for 2011.
• Enjoy the low ropes course or 'Velcro Olympics'.
• Try laser clay pigeon shooting - new for 2011.
• Relax in the hydrotherapy pool and infra red sauna.
• See the new state of the art snoozelum (sensory room).

The centre also provides holidays for people with a wide range of disabilities visiting in groups, with families or individually. Accommodation can be fully serviced or self catering in Scandinavian style lodges. Activities are available to both staying guests and day visitors to the Park.

Click here to book a self-catering lodge break at Calvert Trust Kielder

Calvert Trust Kielder is a registered provider of outdoor activities for people of all abilities both able bodied and those with a disability. All activities are supervised and conducted by experienced and qualified instructors.

What you said:

"We love being in Kielder because it is somewhere where the whole family can go and enjoy themselves without feeling different and without people looking at us differently. We can get involved in everything and be part of everything." July 2010

School visits

Calvert Trust Kielder takes mainstream schools during January to March and also from October to December. Schools bringing children with disabilities can visit throughout the year.

Activities include: Sailing, canoeing, kayaking, climbing, (indoor and out) zip wire, abseiling, King swing, orienteering, nightwalks to name but a few, and encourage confidence, team building, self worth and independence.