Countryside Education Trust Residential

What makes us a great choice for education

Being based on a farm in the heart of the New Forest means that we are able to offer a unique range of educational activities to our schools. These include animal feeding sessions, orienteering in our 40 acres of private woodland, access to the National Motor Museum and much more.

We only hire our residential center to one group at a time so you will have sole access to the facilities during your stay.   

What is typically included on our school trips

Our residential center has its own playground which our guests have exclusive access to. School groups have animal feeding sessions included in their timetable as a default option and self-catered guests can book an animal feeding session if they wish.  

Group Sizes Catered For

We can accommodate a maximum of 41 children and 6 adults.

Photography, Filming & Audio Restrictions

We are happy for teachers to take photos and/ or videos while they are here.

Risk Assessment Details

All of our activities are risk assessed and are available on our website at Schools - Risk Assessments (cet.org.uk). We encourage all group leaders who have not visited us before to arrange a visit to the site prior to their trip.

Pricing Information

Residential prices vary with the time of year and are available on enquiry. We allow for 3 free adult places per school for groups of up to 39 children and a fourth adult place free of charge for groups with 40+ children. Additional adults are charged at £115+VAT.

For details of our self-catered prices please email mail@cet.org.uk

First Aid Information

All of our education staff carry their own first aid kits and undergo regular first training. First aid kits are also kept at multiple locations across our farm and woodland sites. We recommend that all visiting schools have a trained first aider with them for times when our education staff are not on site.  

Available Facilities

Shop, dining area, kitchen, shower block, toilets, study room, conservatory, playground and play field and free WIFI. We also have separate classrooms to hire if required.

Accessibility & Disabled Facilities

All of our facilities are DDA compliant with wheelchair accessible buildings and fully accessible toilets.

Opening Hours & Information

Our office is staffed on weekdays between 9am and 5pm. Due to the busy nature of our work there are times when all of our staff will be out of the office. In the event that a member of staff is not available to take your call you can leave a message on our answer phone or email your enquiry to mail@cet.org.uk

Location Information

We are based in the village of Beaulieu, home to the National Motor Museum and Bucklers Hard Historical village. Our center is the perfect base to access the New Forest and is within a 20 minute drive of Lyndhurst, Lymington, Burley, Brockenhurst and many other New Forest attractions.

Room Sizes and Facilities

Our residential center consists of two corridors – woodland (traditionally the boys wing) and heathland (traditionally the girls wing). Each corridor has 4 childrens’ rooms and two teachers’ rooms. There are separate toilet and shower facilities for children and adults.