John Tusting, founder of The Chellington Centre charity and driving force behind its success, describes the incredible journey to achieving the vision for the Chellington Centre as we know it today.
Put simply, wiithout John, The Chellington Centre would not exist and we are all extremely grateful to him.
We are committed to sharing knowledge, engaging and leading in caring for our environment. This is particularly important to us as we work with young people whose future will be impacted by how we operate.
"A residential learning experience provides opportunities and benefits/impacts that cannot be achieved in any other educational context or setting."
Learning Away aims to demonstrate…
The Chellington Bursary is a fund available for youth groups and schools to apply for to support part of their accommodation costs. The fund is designed so that the Centre is accessible to all.
“The Chellington Centre is a place of expedition, contemplation, inspiration and invigoration, particularly but not exclusively for young people, providing many opportunities to build self-confidence…
Our long-awaited Herald Buidling is finished and the new Red Kite camping grounds are open. This means we can now welcome larger groups of up to 66 young people with some staying indoors and some camping.
We can now offer camping for a further 30 in our brand new sole-use camping zone, complete with modern showers/toilets in the new Herald Building (13 Vaude tents…
Fire lighting, shelter building and bushcraft. Bookable through the website.
We're very proud of our Silver Award from Green Tourism
Since going independent we have had a schedule of works to make the centre as green as possible, which is no mean feet when you're talking about 12th century church!
The first step was to insulate the church windows with bespoke secondary glaze windows, we then insulated the kitchen ceiling, which is the old belfry.…
Our vision for the future of the Chellington Centre moved closer to reality this spring with the opening of our new “Herald Building”.
The creation of the Herald Building adjacent to the main building increases our overall capacity to 66 through the addition of washroom facilities to support camping. It also provides a much-needed permanent work place for paid and voluntary team members…
The centre is run on 100% renewable energy, with our air source heat pumps taking care of the hot water and heating and our electricity coming from 100% renewable sources hydro and wind through SSE's green tariff.
The exit time for all overnight groups has changed to 12pm (midday). This is to support our enhanced cleaning protocol and procedure and make sure we have enough time to prepare for the next group.
This change took affect for all bookings from the 12th of April 2021,
If you have any questions or queries, please feel free to contact us.
