Castleshaw Centre

The Castleshaw Centre is an outdoor and environmental education centre near Delph.

Residential facilities can be hired by educational or community groups.

The Centre is open all year round.

• Book a visit

• What to bring

• Getting here

Activities

Environmental education

• Geography days

• History days

• Science days

Outdoor adventure

• Ghyll scrambling

• High ropes course

• Hill walking

• Canoeing

• Kayaking

• Mountain biking

• Orienteering

• Raft building

• Rock climbing and abseiling

Team building

Activities are tailored to your needs.

• Low key problem solving courses or challenging adventure based activities

• Residential or non residential

• Full or half day

• With or without catering

Group leaders

Guidebooks

• For Oldham Teachers and Youth Workers (PDF)

• For non-Oldham Teachers and Youth Workers (PDF)

Health and safety

• Oldham Children, Young People and Families Services Regulations and Guidelines for Educational Visits (PDF)

• National guidelines - TeacherNet website

Insurance

The Service is covered under the Council’s Public Liability and Employer’s Liability insurance policies; these do not cover loss of personal items, or provide compensation for injury except in cases of negligence.

Additional personal insurance should be taken out by the organiser for group leaders and participants.

About the centre

Facilities

• Accommodation for 36 people (some en-suite rooms)

• Animal/nature areas

• Camping field

• Central heating

• Classroom facilities (including data projectors and interactive whiteboard)

• Dining room

• Drying rooms

• Garden, play field and children’s adventure trail

• Kitchen (or choose full/part board)

• Lounge area with TV, DVD, video, data projector and “cinema screen”

• Parking

• Showers (including wheelchair accessible facilities)

Photos of bedroom and bathroom facilities

Castleshaw Centre floor plan (PDF)

Staff

• Meet the Castleshaw team

Schools Linking Project

The Schools Linking Project brings together schools with significantly different ethnic intakes, and encourages young people to examine issues of harmony and conflict, tolerance and co-operation, positive communication and trust.

• More about the Schools Linking Project

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