Date: 30th Aug – 5th Sept 2010
Cost: A family ticket costs £200. We can offer a reduced rate of £170 for single adults with one child. Please email Nick through the contact us page if you have any questions about this.

Important
Dogs are permitted by prior arrangement with the site owners. Please email Helen.

Food
Food will be available again at the camp this year. We will be able to cater for lunches and evening meals. Tea coffee and drinks for the kids will be available again from the kitchen.

We are hoping to create a wonderful community atmosphere at this camp whereby everyone has a chance to offer whatever skills they may wish to input.If anyone would like to bring along an idea for a session or workshop please get in touch and we will do our best to make it happen.We would love to be able to offer the opportunity to draw out your talents.

We also have had the offer, from Sarah, to facilitate a home education discussion forum. Sarah has had experience of this all over the place in this country and abroad. We will provide a small marquee for this to take place and it`s up to you to get involved if you like the idea.

We will be running a stall at the camp selling all kinds of bit`s and pieces including a large amount of army gear in small sizes. We will also be running a larger shop selling basics to stop the need for running down to the village so often. We also plan on having an open market day so if you have anything you want to bring and put out to sell then please do, the more the better.

4 days of environmental education sessions.

Weds 1st Sept. Environmental ed sessions will begin with an afternoon session to be confirmed.

8.pm – 11p.m – Bat Walk. After the success of last years bat walk, Paul will once again lead a walk around the farm, ending along the woodland walk using professional bat detectors.
9p.m – Midnight – Moth trapping and I.D session. This is another event using professional surveying equipment. It is always weather permitting and hopefully we will have a better opportunity than the weather gave us last year.

Thursday 2nd September 10 a.m – 11.30 a.m. Small mammal trapping.
This event uses professional monitoring techniques and equipment. No animals are harmed during these events as they are widely used to monitor small mammal species in a variety of habitats. We use professional Longworth traps, which are similar in design to conventional humane mouse traps only much larger and more robust. Bedding and food is placed inside the traps, castors (live fishing bait) are used in case of shrews, which are carnivorous and mixed bird seed in the case of mice and voles. Paul is trained and licensed for this event and in fact helps in the training of other conservation officers for this type of work. The animals are identified by species, sexed, weighed and released. The traps are left for an absolute maximum of 6 hours between checks.

1.30p.m – 4.30p.m. First den building session.

Friday 3rd Sept.10.30a.m – 12.30p.m/1.30p.m – 4.30 p.m. A full day of den building out in the woods. It was the most popular session last year so we have decided to extend it for this year.

Other events may include butterfly sweep netting and I.D during the day to see what species we have present at that time of year.
Games from the earthworks rucksack which include tree i.d games, animal i.d games and bat and moth blindfold for the little kids.

All Paul`s events are weather dependent to some degree so may be swapped round.