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Gilwern Outdoor Education Centre

Young girl Canoeing
MonLife Outdoor Adventure offers a range of exciting adventure activities including canoeing, caving, orienteering, climbing and gorge walking.

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Get in touch

Location:
Ty Mawr Lane, Gilwern, Abergavenny, Gilwern, Monmouthshire, NP7 0EB
Telephone:
01873 735485
Email:
outdooradventures@monmouthshire.gov.uk
Website:
https://www.monlife.co.uk/outdoor/outdoor-adventure/

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Facilities

  • Business Facilities
  • Cater For Groups
  • Children Welcome

Activities offered

  • Abseiling
  • Canoeing
  • Caving or Potholing
  • Climbing
  • Gorge Walking
  • Kayaking
  • Mountain Biking
  • Other Activities
  • Scrambling or Canyoning
  • Stand Up Paddleboarding

Take a look around

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Young boy and instructor in waterfall and stream
Stream Scrmable
Abergavenny
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Young girl in an accessible Canoe
Accessibility
Abergavenny
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Adult canoeing in a river
Scenic Monmouthshire
Abergavenny
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Boy taking part in High ropes exercise
High Ropes
Abergavenny
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Young girl rock climbing on site
Rock Climbing
Abergavenny

About Gilwern Outdoor Education Centre

MonLife Outdoor Education offers a broad range of outdoor activities in the SE Wales area. Most courses are residential of 3 to 5 days duration. Annually we deliver around 17,000 user days both residentially and as single day visits.

We can offer pupils a range of experiences of outdoor and environmental activities of increasing challenge throughout their school career, covering a spread of National Curriculum, A level /GCSE courses and personal and social development.

In addition to being located close to rivers, caves and mountains, the centres have many on site facilities including good standard accommodation, high ropes courses, indoor climbing and traversing wall, forest schools site, camping facilities, problem solving challenges and orienteering courses.
Course fees for young people from three of the four owning authorities are substantially subsidised providing excellent ‘value for money’. (Pupils entitled to Free School Meals are subsidised at a greater rate)

Young Girl Gorge Walking
Gorge Walking

Our centres take a flexible and innovative approach to meeting your objectives so please contact them to discuss your needs.

GILWERN OUTDOOR CENTRE has over 90 beds available & is one of the largest centres available to hire in South Wales. The centre is available to book for your club, corporate or team residential. Small & large Meeting Rooms, large dinning rooms, large areas of grassed open space , woodland area with fire circle, camping available, small lake, climbing wall & ropes course, site soon to have WIFI available. Why not run your Bushcraft courses in our woodland areas.

Location

51.82973, -3.08184

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