Outdoor Education Centre
Bowles is a friendly, professional and quality conscious outdoor education centre. Established as a charity in 1961, thousands of young people now experience the benefits of a course at Bowles every year.

Our highly experienced and qualified outdoor instructor team will help you to get the most out of your visit so that young people learn, have fun and stay stafe. Our purpose built accommodation will ensure everyone gets the rest they need. Our friendly and efficient admin team will make things easy for you throughout the booking process and our home cooked food will keep everyone healthy and happy during their visit. Throw in our beautiful, unique activity site, boasting two ski slopes, a sandstone rock face and an indoor pool, and Bowles truly becomes a place where young people will have experiences that will last a lifetime.

The Benefits of a course at Bowles
Adventurous outdoor activities help pupils to become more aware of their strengths and abilities. This often leads to increased self-confidence, with lasting results and learning experiences which transfer back to the classroom and to home life.

Living and working closely with each other in a residential situation helps to develop understanding and awareness of other people.

Learning to manage their own safety in real situations through problem solving and challenging outdoor activities helps to develop responsibility and maturity.

Bowles has accommodation for 128 and caters for a wide range of clients including primary schools, secondary schools, colleges, youth groups and community organisations.

If you are considering a course at the centre, come and meet us and have a look around. You are very welcome to visit Bowles at any time. We are easy to get to on the Kent Sussex border, an hour South of London, 10 minutes from Tunbridge Wells.

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Don't ask us - what do our customers think?

We send all our year 6 kids and they just grow.  They come back different people. Peter Wilson, Headmaster, Old Bexley

Instructors did really well to communicate so effectively with our children who all have speech and language difficulties. The technical instruction was excellents. I couldn’t imagine anywhere being more suitable, or any staff more accommodating.  Thank you! Oakley School

Collectively and without exception the staff at Bowles make our visit special, safe and exciting.  Thank you for your care and attention to all of us.  The ethos of Bowles was special 20 years ago and is still of paramount importance today.  Thank you and see you next year. 
Frances Nash, Head of Woodchurch School

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