News & Special Offers

2024 Bursary Awards

We are very pleased to announce that we have additional funding for the Chellington Bursary Fund thanks for the generosity of the Carlton Education Trust.

This means that we are able to accept new applications for schools or youth groups looking for financial support with their residential experience at Chellington in 2024 or 2025.

For further details please call our team on 01234…

Christmas Drinks at Chellington

Thanks to all our friends and supporters who joined us for Christmas drinks on 11th December at the Centre.

It was lovely to see lots of new faces as well as many familiar ones.

Special thanks to our neighbour Raj for generously donating our Christmas tree and delivering it too!

Mobile Animal Farm Comes to Chellington

Our first school to experience our new Mobile Animal Farm partnered activity.

This is a great way for children to get close to farm animals in a quiet and safe environment delivered by an award winning, small mobile animal farm with experience of animal assisted therapy.

Call us on 01234 720726 to find out more.

"Chellington" by John Tusting

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. 

Read John's…

Share Our Commitment To The Environment

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. 

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Brilliant Residentials: The Intuitive Case

"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…

Chellington Bursary open for 2023 applications

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…

New Red Kite campsite available for schools and youth groups

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…

Forest school fun at Chellington

Fire lighting, shelter building and bushcraft. Bookable through the website.

Green Tourism Silver Award

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.…