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Family Canal Camps are back!

Join us for a weekend of fun environmental activities at Whitehouses Pocket Park on the Wendover Arm of the Grand Union Canal.  Activities will help enhance waterways for wildlife and to teach children what it is like to ‘live like a Navvy’!  We will be working with Wendover Canal Trust.

Open to families with children aged between 6 and 14.

 

Event Dates

14th to 16th April 2023

Location

Tring

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Wendover Canal Family Camp

Family Canal Camps are back!

Join us for a weekend of fun environmental activities at Whitehouses Pocket Park on the Wendover Arm of the Grand Union Canal.  Activities will help enhance waterways for wildlife and to teach children what it is like to ‘live like a Navvy’!  We will be working with Wendover Canal Trust.

Open to families with children aged between 6 and 14.

 

Details

Activities

Fun, family-friendly, environmental activities

Contact us

Email [email protected] to book a place.

Accommodation

A nearby activity centre...

Accommodation is at Green Park Activity Centre, which is warm and comfortable.  Families will be sleeping in private facilities as family units during the weekend.  Participants will not be camping.

Booking

Our family camps are open to families with children aged between 6 and 14.

Each family camp costs £25 per person for the weekend.

Email [email protected] to book a place.

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Location

Tring

Wendover Arm Canal, Aylesbury, UK

Accommodation

A nearby activity centre...

Accommodation is at Green Park Activity Centre, which is warm and comfortable.  Families will be sleeping in private facilities as family units during the weekend.  Participants will not be camping.

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Safeguarding

Family camps require a young person to be accompanied by an adult who holds parental responsibility, such as a parent, guardian or youth worker.

The Activity Leader is responsible for ensuring accompanying adults are aware of their responsibility for supervision and direct care. This includes briefing volunteers at the start of the activity and filling in a signing form, to confirm they understand their responsibilities.

All Activity Leaders have a Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS) check.

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You can help Save Waterways Heritage.

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