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Approved Residential Activity Centres

NST own and manage 2 superb, high quality residential activity centres, Winmarleigh Hall in Lancashire and Lou Valagran in the Ardeche region of Southern France.

  

BAHA LogoWe take great pride in the quality of activity and accommodation provision at our 2 centres, which we operate to extremely high standards.

Our Winmarleigh Hall centre in Lancashire offer an ‘Active Education’ programme and attracts over 400 Primary and Year 7 groups every year, not just for the quality of activity provision, but also for our excellent education modules, which we are offered to complement outdoor activities. Our Lou Valagran centre is France is smaller, but is also recognised as one of the best centres of its kind, so much so that it is sold out almost every year.

BCU LogoBoth NST activity centres are BAHA and BCU approved, and although we operate to standards similar to those required of UK centres by ‘AALA’ , our Lancashire centre does not warrant AALA inspection due to the differing type of activities on offer.

 

The Best Activity Experts!

One way in which we continue to raise standards is through employing the best experts we can. In 2006, we employed one the UK’s leading experts in training and development of adventurous outdoor activities, Bob Timms to head up our team.

Bob’s vast experience and range of qualifications provides real added reassurance of the commitment we make to safety on activities, to all schools visiting our centres.

More on Bob Timms   http://www.theardeche.co.uk/Bob_Timms


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NST is a school travel company and offers school trips, educational visits and group travel to the Opal Coast, Paris, Calais, Boulogne, Le Touquet, Brittany, Normandy, French Alps, Disneyland Resort, Loire and Futuroscope in France, Berlin, Rhine and Moselle, Black Forest and Munich in Germany, Barcelona, Madrid, Andalucia and Cantabria in Spain, Rome, Florence, Venice, Bay of Naples, Lake Garda and Sicily in Italy, Noordwijk, Valkenburg and Amsterdam in the Netherlands, Brussels and Belgian Coast in Belgium, Warsaw and Krakow in Poland, Moscow & St Petersburg in Russia, New York, Washington DC and Los Angeles in the USA, China, India, Mexico, Egypt and Turkey

Primary school trips are available to London, Edinburgh and Glasgow, York and Scarborough, the Isle of Wight, Bournemouth, Llandudno and more. 

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