Rippledown Summer Holiday Club August

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SUMMER HOLIDAY CLUB 11 - 15 AUGUST 25 - 29 AUGUST Two packed weeks of outdoor fun 9am – 4pm for kids aged 7 – 11 years  From £20 per day or £80 per week Extend their stay 8am – 6pm with optional: Breakfast for £3 Tea time for £5 per child per day

Meet animals and spiders on an animal safari or discover marine wildlife on a seashore adventure.  Make your own woodland camp and learn to cook on an open fire.  Plus lots of sports, games and archery.

Green Fun for Kids this summer - Rippledown

Calling all parents! Looking for fun activities this summer?

Rippledown Environmental Education Centre, part of The Bay Trust, St Margaret’s Bay, Kent is hosting a Summer Holiday Club. 

Two weeks full of fun activities run by our experienced team. From camouflage to shelter building, habitat making to outdoor cooking. Your children will learn valuable outdoor skills, make new friends and have fun!

Safely leave your children between 9am – 4pm

Ages 8 – 14 year olds

Tuesday 6^th – Friday 9^th August and Tuesday 27^th – Friday 30^th August

20 miles from Canterbury, 15 miles from Ramsgate, 6 miles from Dover

To book. Call 01304 851737

£25 per day

For further information and images please contact Poppy Jackson

poppy@baytrust.org.uk

01304 851737

www.rippledown.com

Rippledown Permaculture Intro course Nov

Introduction to Permaculture @ Rippledown 
(just outside of Deal - Ringwould)
Three Day Weekend course

Learn to live more sustainably. This introductory course will give you a ‘taster’ of how permaculture design and principles can be applied to your own life and work.

Date(s)
Friday–Sunday 9-11 November 2012

Cost
Residential £175 including all meals & refreshments
Non-residential £135 includes lunch & refreshments

http://rippledown.com/eco-courses-kent/introduction-to-permaculture/

Intro Permaculture Course at Rippledown Sept

Our colleagues at the Rippledown Environmental Education Centre at Ringwould nr Deal have 'Introduction to Permaculture Course' coming up soon.

The Course is an exciting, involving and thought provoking way to get a good understanding of the world of permaculture.

It  is on 7th to 9th September and cost's £135

Full details at the Rippledown site www.rippledown.com

Learn how to build your own clay oven in Deal

Photo from Natureshead blog

Clay Oven Workshop
Come and learn how to design and build a clay oven, a beautiful addition to almost any garden and there is nothing quite like a pizza cooked for 1 minute in a 350 degree home-made oven. Clay ovens can also be used to bake bread, cook roasts or stews etc. Clay ovens require minimal purchased materials, can be built by almost anybody of nearly any age and the design options are endless.

Saturday 18 August

Cost: £40 including light lunch
9.00 arrival for 9.30am start until approx 4.00pm

For details of this and all the new courses being offered at Rippledown for adults and children, go to www.rippledown.com or contact
louisecoombes@baytrust.org.uk
T: +44 (0) 1304 364 854

Permaculture and much more at Rippledown

Rippledown - the local environmental centre just outside Deal at Ringwould has a bumper set of courses and events to get in involved in year ... Please try to support this fantastic resource for the whole of East Kent. @rippledown

Outdoor learning for Teachers at Rippledown 1st March

Rippledown is holding a free event for teachers on:  

Thursday March 1st 2012 between 4pm - 8pm

At Rippledown Environmental Education Centre and we'd be delighted if you and your colleagues would attend.

Find us here on Google Maps: http://g.co/maps/c7ssc

The event is for all: Head Teachers, Teachers and Classroom Assistants interested in Outdoor Learning.

As well as fantastic home cooked food, campfire and activities there will be a wealth of interesting talks on Outdoor Learning for schools as well as a tour of the facilities available to your school at Rippledown.

For more information and to book places online see: http://rippledown.com/march-1st-a-free-event-for-teachers/ or call us on 01304 364854.

We sincerely hope you and your colleagues can make it.

Kind regards

Dave Jones & Carol Hopkins

Rippledown Open Day

It was wet June Open day at the Rippledown Environmental centre today but could not dampen the enthusiam shown by the many kids who explored Kent's environmental jewel. There was lots to do in spite of the rain. It was the ideal conditions to see Newts!

Deal With It had a stall (the stuffed fox was not ours!). Many thanks for Vicki, Tony, Charles, Rosie, Norman and Steve for helping.

Well done to all at Rippledown who organised the day. It was a great day despite the weather - please rerun in 2012!

Fun Day for all ages in the Big Outdoors at Rippledown June 5th

Fun Day for all ages in the Big Outdoors at Rippledown - part of COUNTRYSIDE 2011

COUNTRYSIDE 2011 takes place from 28th May to 12th June and celebrates the enormous variety of events and activities that you can enjoy in the countryside across the South East of England. It brings together hundreds of country-based events, activities and attractions; a one-stop-shop of things to do and see.

This year Rippledown are involved and on Sunday 5th June we have an exciting day full of outdoor activities for all ages to enjoy. Bring your family and friends - a chance to explore outdoor activities.

So what is happening?

Pond Dipping

-find out what lurks underneath our pond-

Introduction to Humane Mammal Trapping

-what little friends share our surroundings-?

Treasure Trail

-find the treasure we take for granted while exploring the grounds-

Teambuilding

-find your strengths & weaknesses while having fun, things aren’t always as easy as they seem. Get your family & friends involved-

Campfire & Story Telling

-get lost in the imaginative world of storytelling whilst surrounded by trees and woods with the smell of an open camp fire-

Badge Making

-create your own piece of the woods to keep with you-

Model Making

-making fun things out of recycled materials-

Also throughout the day there will be:

Face painting, Music, Food and Drink & More….

Rippledown is the leading independent environmental education centre for school groups in the South East of England. The team of full time staff run educational programmes for all ages and the secure & homely surroundings make the perfect base to explore the countryside and the stunning White Cliffs of Dover. Situated between Deal and Dover, the centre is an ideal location for school, scout and family groups. The old rectory has been restored to provide quality hostel accommodation (for groups up to 70).

Rippledown is part of The Bay Trust, one of Kent’s leading environmental organisations. This charity prides itself in its ethos of building sustainable communities; of its outstanding deliverance in environmental education to young people at its Residential Environmental Educational Centre; its award winning eco conference venue used for weddings and events; its visitor attraction The Pines Garden with adjacent Tea Room and by making a difference to peoples’ lives now and in the future.

Contact:

Louise Kjaertinge, General Manager, 01304 851 737 – louise@pinescalyx.co.uk

Chris Luckhurst, Deputy Head of Centre, 01304 364854 – chris@rippledown.com

Permaculture Course at Rippledown Environmental Centre

Introduction to Permaculture

Date: 26/27 March
Location: Rippledown
£210
Learn how to use permaculture principles and practice for your own life, your workplace and your community. Rippledown is our local environmental educational centre at Ringwould just outside Deal, in East Kent.

Contact Rippledown here

Permaculture - Courses at Rippledown

Permaculture Course Rippledown Environmental Education Centre, just outside Deal on the A258 at Ringwould, is running two Permaculture weekend courses this Autumn on the 23–24th of October and the 20–21st of November.

Attend these 2 days and leave with the skills and aptitudes for sustainable living in the 21st century.
During the course you’ll learn how to use permaculture principles and practice a) in your own life, b) to contribute to the processes in the Transition Towns / Village movement, c) for community projects and d) to improve sustainability in your workplace.

The course also covers eco-building, sustainable energy, sewage, composting, eco-community, appropriate economics and much more.

For more information please contact Rippledown on 01304 364 854.

Transition Deal workshop

Great day at our Transition Deal workshop at the Rippledown Environmental Education Centre at Ringwould.

What we did not have in numbers we had in the quality of Rosie's presentation on 'Climate Change, Peak Oil and What is a Transition Town' in the morning, a extremely good shared lunch, a fascinating tour around Rippledown and two very intensive sessions on Local Food and Energy which were packed with ideas and energy!

We will publishing the outputs from two workshops later in the week - there was a lot of it!

Centre Manager David Jones took through the low carbon buildings the Centre was building out of reclaimed wood and straw

A big thanks to Dave for his support today and the wonderful facilities at Rippledown.

Green things for Little ones over the Summer...

Looking for somewhere fun, safe, and affordable for your children this summer?
Then why not book your child into Rippledown’s Holiday Club, which is guaranteed to provide your child with a fun and action-packed week.
•  Holiday club for children aged 8-12
•  Based at Rippledown in Ringwould, Deal
•  Three themed weeks available:  Adventure and Discovery (2/8–6/8), Sport and Outdoor Games (9/8–13/8), Outdoor Pursuits and Adventure (16/8–20/8)
•  5 days of fun outdoor adventure and discovery including at least one great excursion each week
•  Price £25 per day or £80 per week
•  Places limited, therefore BOOK NOW

To book a space on the course please call 01304 364854 or email office@rippledown.com