Residential Centre in Swanage

The Cumulus Outdoors Residential Centre has a range of outdoor facilities including a Bushcraft area, adventure trail, playing fields and a sanded team sports area. There is also ample room inside for recreational activities and facilities for field studies.

For many of the outdoor adventure activities we move off site to locations along Dorset’s Jurassic Coastline. These activities include, coasteering, kayaking and deep-sea fishing.

Our emergency contact number is manned 24/7 giving you a direct link to your child day and night in case of emergency.

We supply all the equipment you’ll be using, you just need to bring clothes, medication and toiletries. Your school or youth group will supply you with a detailed kit list, which will tell you everything you need to bring.

Each activity has different ratios. When staying at our residential site, there will be on-site staff looking after you at all times.

All of our safeguarding policies are available upon request. All of our instructors and on-site staff are safeguarding trained and DBS cleared.

Half of our dormitories have on-suite showers and toilets, with the other half having toilet and shower blocks. These are regularly cleaned and the showers are warm!

All Cumulus Outdoors instructors are first aid qualified and both centre staff and instructors will be on hand to deal with any emergency. Should we need to contact you, we have your contact details.

During our activities we challenge the students to participate voluntarily, to push their comfort zone and test themselves, but no child will be forced to do anything they don’t want to do. We operate a ‘challenge by choice ethos’, which allows participants to choose the level of activity they are comfortable with.

We adapt our activities for all participants. We can also cater for all dietary and religious requirements.

We rotate activities to best suit the weather. If the wind or swell is too strong for water sports, these will be switched for something land-based, such as rock climbing. We will always do our best to deliver the activities as per the agreed programme.

There is time spent in Swanage midway through the week, so some pocket money for souvenirs would be welcomed.

Yes. This is a private site for the sole use of Cumulus Outdoor clients. All adults are DBS checked and the gates are locked at night.

Yes, we are insured and we have £10 million public liability insurance. We are accredited by: Institute of Out­door Learning, National Coasteering Charter, Adventure Activities Licensing Service, DofE Approved Activity Provider and Learning Outside the Classroom.

If you would like to see all our information, including risk assessments, policies, emergency procedures, insurance and affiliation certification, please ask. You will be sent a link to our website with a password to access and download as much as you need.