Ferny Crofts Scout Activity Centre

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Ferny Crofts is a scout activity centre in the heart of the New Forest, offering a range of outdoor activities, camping space and indoor accommodation.

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Ferny Crofts is a scout outdoor activity centre and campsite owned and managed by Hampshire County Scout Council and is one of 9 national scout activity centres.

Set in 31 acres of the beautiful New Forest National Park, our location is idyllic. Onsite high-level activities add to the attraction and include abseiling, adventure course, archery, bushcraft, climbing, crate stack, high ropes, raft building, rifle shooting, team build and zip wire. We also have off site links to water activities.
The centre offers indoor accommodation in the form of two 32 bed units and one 6 bed unit which can be either catered or self catered. Camping for up to 500 is also on offer; campsites of various sizes are available both in the woods and on open fields.

Our MISSION at Ferny Crofts is:
To provide a safe and welcoming environment that offers young people quality opportunities for learning through fun, adventure, development and achievement.

"Ferny Crofts is a 31 acre Scout Activity Centre in the heart of the New Forest National Park. With a stunning location, Ferny Crofts boasts a whole host of outdoor activities, camping for 500 people, and a variety of indoor accommodation.The Centre is open to all Scout, Guide, School and Youth groups, whether it be for an activity day or a full week of fully catered adventure. Highly experienced staff are always on hand to assist you through the design, booking and delivery of your programme.We are approved by the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme and the Council for Learning Outside the Classroom, making us the perfect base for your DofE hike or your school's annual residential trip.Sadly, we cannot accept private/family bookings."

Address: Beaulieu Road, Beaulieu, Brockenhurst SO42 7YQ, UK

Phone: 023 8084 5092

Website

ku.gro.stforcynref@stforcynref

State: Hampshire

City: Brockenhurst

Zip Code: SO42 7YQ

opening times

Monday: 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Tuesday: 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Wednesday: 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Thursday: 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Friday: 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Saturday: 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM
Sunday: 8:30 AM – 4:30 PM

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Reviews

Great fun with a school group. Had a rotation of 4 activities including backwoods cooking, Jacob's ladder, archery and team building. The leaders were high on safety but having a good time. Everything ran to schedule. FAB!

The home of Hampshire Scouts! A wonderful activity center nestled in the New Forest. Splendid camp site, with modern facilities. The activities such as the high ropes and zip wire look amazing!

Lovely location unfortunately the staff weren’t very helpful and our stay wasn’t very nice no heating or electricity in our lodge. When brought to the staff they took 3 days to get back to us just to tell us it’s our problem it was -2 most nights. Beautiful to visit wouldn’t recommend staying or paying £400 for a lodge with no heating or electricity

Proper camping site. Substitute  summer camp. Good wood pile and camp fires no problem.  We did all our cooking on the fire.  excellent. Hot and cold running toilets. Walks, countryside, sound  activities available. I hope to do do summer camp there one day.

Thanks scouts for a good campground and clean facilities.  We had a wet bike ride to the site so warm showers were welcome.  Its leaders only camping at present. We all look forward to the place being filled with the happy noise of scouts

This is a great place for a Scout, Guide, or similar holiday. We spent a week on site, and participated in a dozen or so on-site activities, the majority of which were excellent.  The site team were friendly, supportive, and great with the kids.  There are a mix of instructor led and self led activities, and those with instructors are definitely the better activities, though most self led activities are good fun too.  Based on the current setup, orienteering is one to avoid, as the compasses seem of poor quality, and the 'pace' size is about 2m, making it impossible to complete the course.... but out of the 16 activities we completed, this was the only one we didn't enjoy.  I would fully recommend the site to others.  One point of note - there are a lot of squirrels on site, which will eat anything and everything they can get to, so almost all food needs to be stored in sealed wooden or metal boxes they even gnawed through a supermarket crate!

I much prefer the Croft building due to the layout but looking closer it’s getting tired.  The beds haven’t been changed in seventeen years and are showing signs of wear, risk of finger traps for young children and even the slightest movement caused horrendous creaking.

It is a huge place, nice environment. Lots of potential in activities. I do understand it was a lots of people around but the shared shower/ toilet area was a disgrace. Very smelly. Could do with more daily cleaning.

Good place to do leadership training, though if sleeping in the bunks be careful, I'm over 6' and I was too tall

Site is lovely and a proper shower/toilet block is a blessing. Can be a long walk from car park to pitch and ground like concrete. We would stay again without hesitation.

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