Lanehead Notes
Courses and Events
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Activities A-Z
All paddle2climb staff are fully qualified and experienced in working with groups in the UK and overseas.
You get great activities and course leadership at competitive prices. Check out our Activity Pricing List here.
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AbseilingFollowing instruction participants will control themselves descending a rope on a rock face or from our purpose built abseil platform. Our new facility allows those not doing it to be busy on our new traversing wall making abseiling a much more active option.
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ArcheryA beginner’s course in safe practice and good technique followed by a competition to test new found skills.
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Bouldering
A great way to get lots of climbing experience. No ropes are used and climbing is limited to boulders so each person gets significantly more done than in a traditional roped session.
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Bush Craft
An introduction in the skills needed to survive outdoors!
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Canoeing
We use open canoes, not kayaks, and sheltered inland water. The session can be dry and so is good all year around. But it can also be very wet and great fun on a summers day!
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Climbing
A traditional roped climbing session either outdoors or indoors in our new climbing wall facility.
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Environmental Day
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Gill Scrambling
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Hill Walking
MLTE, WGL and SPA approved courses...in stunning environments.
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Improvised Raft BuildingIn teams participants are given the ‘bits’ required to make a raft. Then it’s time to build, then race then usually swim!!
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Kayaking
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Lead Mine Experience
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Local Walk
A walk with added spice! Our introductory session allows us to Adventure view the group in a low level activity and assess their nature and dynamics.
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Mountaineering
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Mountain Biking
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Orienteering
Following some coaching, participants take part in a competition based at a British Orienteering Federation permanent course.
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Overnight Expeditions
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Team BuildingWorking together to solve a task, the better the team the better the result.
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Welcome...
Paddle2Climb is a small adventure activity company that provides outdoor activities to groups who are seeking a safe, exciting and informative experience in the outdoors.
We have a residential centre in the fully refurbished 19th century Lanehead School in Upper Weardale The Centre sleeps 32 and we can offer anything from day activities to full week residential programmes.
Paddle2Climb also offer a mobile activity programme, where our staff can come to your location or other agreed venue to run activities.
We offer a great range of activities from pond/woodland/river studies, canoeing, kayaking, climbing, problem solving, orienteering, fell-walking, lead mine exploration and much more.
All programmes are bespoke and staff are flexible so that your requirements and goals are met.
Accommodation at Lanehead
Lanehead Centre is a recently converted 19c village school situated in the scenic grandeur of Upper Weardale. Only a few miles from the North Pennine watershed, which is the highest point of any A class road in Britain, it offers panoramic views of the surrounding fells as well as easy access to the Lake District to the west, the Allen Valley’s and Hexham to the North, the towns and villages of Weardale to the East and Darlington and the Yorkshire Dales to the South.
The immediate area offers potential for fell walking, pony trekking, gill scrambling, canoeing, orienteering and rock climbing and industrial archaeology: in the first years of the 19c more lead was mined here than in the whole of the rest of the world.
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Bunkhouse Facilities and Hiring Lanehead Centre
Lanehead Centre is a converted Victorian school, with many original features still in place.
The school is centred round a large hall used for dinning and relaxing. There are 3 dorm rooms, sleeping 16 in total and 6 smaller rooms sleeping 16 in total. Some of the rooms are en suite and the main toilet and shower facilities are on the ground floor.The kitchen is well equipped and available for groups wishing to self cater.
The school grounds can be used for games and onsite activities and the immediate surroundings are perfect for short walks.
The centre is available for group bookings.
Prices
Sole Use of Centre (sleeps up 32)
Week day nights: £200
Weekends : £550
Comments & Conversations
We welcome your comments and feedback. Simply click the comments link below most of our postings. Please note that all comments are moderated before publication.
Came to Paddle2Climb for an outdoor based stag do. Party of 10. Joe, Katy and team catered for us perfectly. The organisation, pla
• Matthew Lear:
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I chose to come to Lanehead for my hen weekend as I wanted to do a few activities with all my friends and family. The price for t
• Nichola Smith:
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Dear Joe and Katie,
I would like to say thank you for the welcome you gave Sudbury canoe club at y
• Carole Jarvis:
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Many thanks again for the fantastic hospitality this weekend. I had a great time and felt really well looked after – food, accommo
• Al Wilson:
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What a fab weekend - Started off canoeing on Coniston on a perfect winter day, sunny with snow on the tops, we arrived at base cam
• sine kidd:
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As we neared the centre the landscape changed becoming more rugged and remote. After seven hours in the minibus the sight of open
• Flic Archer:
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A Plumpton report of paddle2climb visit, from a personal view!
This report is on behalf of the National Diploma Outdoor education
• Jake Godfrey:
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I totally agree, it has got to be the best center ive ever been to. The center was very welcoming and so were the people,
The in
• Ben Morton:
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This centre was by far the best centre I have ever visited. Your made very welcome when you first arrive and from then onwards you
• James Willard:
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L3 assessment never thought I would manage it but support and confidence building from all involved was superb.
great venue great
• Josien Woolmer:
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Thanks for an excellent course. I'm looking forward to practising everything I learned over the weekend and I'm sure I'll be a be
• Dunmail Hodkinson:
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Hello Joe, just sent you this brief comment to say thank you so much for supporting us with Alistair Howes attempt to canoe the Ri
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Recommended
Our website is currently being remodelled...please bear with us as we fill in the gaps over the next few days...Lanehead Centre is of course, still open.
01388 537877
Management Training and Team Building
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Bespoke Activities
Team building, problem solving, outdoor activities, bush craft and much more. Bespoke courses in a location of your choice
School and Youth Bookings
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February Half Term 2009 Activities
February Half Term 2009 (16th-20th) we're running a comprehensive package of activities aimed at young people aged 10-15. Participants can choose from a menu including: Canoeing, Bushcraft and Survival Skills, Archery, Raft Building, Hill Walking and Underground Adventure. Parents and Guardians must read the accompanying notes and booking conditions. It's going to be a fun week...we advise early booking.
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Residential Courses for Schools
Lanehead Centre sleeps 32 and we can offer anything from one night accommodation to a full week activity programme. The activity programme is very flexible and we can provide a combination of full and half day activities. Evening activities can also be provided but must be arranged with the rest of the programme.
All programmes are bespoke so individual school requirements and goals are met.
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One Day Courses for Schools
Paddle2climb also offer schools and youth groups a day programme. This can be based at the Lanehead Centre or can be a mobile programme based at your school or a suitable location near you.
Stag and Hen Groups
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Much better than a weekend in Blackpool!
No, you don't want a boring pub-crawl ending with you being tied to a lamp-post or gagged and bound and thrown on a ferry to Amsterdam. Or maybe you do? We can offer something much better...oh yes! Book the Centre for the weekend, chat through with us a range of activities you'd like to get involved in (Kayaking, Archery, Fell-Walking, and much more) and let us arrange the evening festivities too. We can organise food, refreshments and even a live band if you need one. We can even lend you headcams so the entire event is captured for use on your MySpace site. Oooo-er.... Pick up the phone and call us!
Video Capture
Let's see what it's all about...we often take video cameras out with us...We'll be adding to this section frequently so come back often. Enjoy! We can also capture your activities with us using headcams for use on your own website...please ask about this optional service.
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Location and Contacts
Paddle2ClimbLanehead Centre
Lanehead (not Coniston)
Weardale
Co Durham
DL13 1AJ
T: 01388 537877
T: 07739 466197
info@paddle2climb.co.uk
Directions to Lanehead Centre
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