Internet Access for Visitors | Duke of Edinburgh Award Residentials |Eco-Centres Award 2005 | Live Weather | New Staff
Our weather station at the centre has been linked to the website so that you can see live weather readings. To view current weather at Cranedale click this link: Weather station
Wireless broadband internet access is now available free of charge to our customers. Simply bring along your wireless enabled laptop and log on anywhere around the Centre. We hope this facility will be valuable to both visiting staff and students.
Duke of Edinburgh Residentials 2010
Every year the Cranedale Centre runs a residential multi-activity course which qualifys for the Duke of Edinburgh Gold Award. Unfortunately, this years course has had to be cancelled. For details of future courses please contact admin@cranedale.com
For some pictures from the 2009 multi-activity course, click Gallery.
Eco-Centres Award 2005 to 2010
Cranedale was awarded Eco-Centre status by Environmental Campaigns group ‘Encams’ in 2005. The Green Flag is proudly on display in the Centre. Since 2005 we have been avidly spreading a sustainable message through the Centre facilities and also through 'Eco-Challenges' that children can complete during their stay. Our aim is to focus on telling our customers what we are doing and why, encouraging visiting students and staff to take part in our sustainable practices whilst they are at Cranedale, but also to take the environmental message back to school and their own homes.
We are currently taking part in the 10:10 campaign and are encouraging staff and students to 'Switch Off' as one of the steps to achieve this.
In March/April we said a sad farewell to tutors Jo Collins and Keith McSweeney, they did a lot of fantastic work for the Centre and will be missed.
Stepping into their tutoring shoes we have Mark Slaughter, a Geographer from Sunderland and Jonny Watkinson an Ecologist and 'local' originally from Driffield. We warmly welcome both of them to the team, they bring plenty of enthusiasm for the natural environment and fresh ideas with them.
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