Lea Green Centre is a leading outdoor education and activity centre set within 25 acres of beautiful Derbyshire countryside. It offers inclusive, accessible and challenging experiences for schools, groups, clubs and families. The centre is well known for combining adventure, learning and outdoor fun in a safe and supportive environment.

Activities at Lea Green include abseiling, archery, bell boating, bushcraft, canoeing, caving, climbing tower, environmental art, equilibrium challenges, expeditions, frisbee golf, jungle trails, low ropes, navigation, night walks, night line, orienteering, paddle boarding, play park sessions, pond dipping, problem solving, rock climbing, rock scrambling, skyline high ropes with zipline, stream walking, indoor bouldering in The Cave, wheelchair abseiling and wide games. The site also offers extensive grounds to explore, indoor soft play, games rooms, accommodation, dining facilities and accessible accommodation options.

General activity pricing is available on request directly from the venue. Adventure birthday parties are priced at £20 per person for the Explorer Experience and £25 per person for the Active Adventurer, with a minimum of 10 participants. Soft play parties cost £290 for sole use for up to 40 children, and private hire options are also available for large groups and events.

Overall, Lea Green Centre delivers a truly memorable outdoor experience packed with variety and challenge. Its wide range of land, water and climbing activities makes it suitable for all ages and abilities. With expert staff, excellent facilities and a stunning setting, it is an outstanding destination for adventure days, parties and group stays.

• Abseiling: Abseiling is an outdoor activity, which we deliver in the beautiful countryside of Derbyshire. Challenge yourself to descend a rock face or bridge, whilst learning how to confidently lower yourself. Equipment, including a harness and helmet are provided.
• Archery: Learn how to load and shoot bows in our safe indoor archery range, before challenging yourself to improve your score and compete with your friends. All equipment is provided, with full training and supervision from our Archery GB qualified staff.
• Bell Boating: Enjoy a paddle on the river Derwent, whilst learning skills from our British Canoeing qualified instructors. Bell boats are twin hulled open canoes, which can seat up to 12 people alongside an instructor who will be in control of the craft. Equipment including buoyancy aids, helmets and paddles are provided.
• Bushcraft: This activity teaches the basics of survival skills, which may include fire lighting, shelter building, water filtration, water irrigation and marshmallow toasting.
• Canoeing: Enjoy a gentle paddle along a canal in our Canadian Canoes, either as a solo craft, or as a raft. A canoe is an open narrow boat that can seat up to 3 people. Basic skills of how to paddle are taught by our British Canoeing qualified instructors. Equipment including buoyancy aids, helmets and paddles are provided.
• Caving: Come and challenge yourself underground in one of Derbyshire’s caves and mines. Our cave leaders are all British Caving Association qualified and can assist you in exploring mines or naturally formed caverns.
• Climbing Tower: Put on your harness and helmet to access the 10m high climbing tower. Start off on our sloping side before progressing to the vertical side. Routes are also coloured coded for varying difficulty to add an extra challenge. Our climbing tower can also be used to run abseiling sessions. Equipment including a harness and helmet are provided.
• Environmental Art: Create beautiful images from natural materials. Have fun and work in teams to collect your chosen materials from the woods and grounds around Lea Green, before placing them together in a new and imaginative way.
• Equilibrium: Work in groups of different sizes to find and maintain the point of balance on our enormous seesaw. See if you can balance the equilibrium for 10 seconds.
• Expeditions: Explore stunning areas of Derbyshire such as: Nine Ladies, Robin Hood’s Stride, Black Rocks and Cromford on a day expedition. Additional activities such as orienteering, land art and rock scrambling could also be added to the expedition. 
• Frisbee Golf: Learn a new sport in a single session. Frisbee golf combines the skills of frisbee throwing with those of golf to develop accuracy in throwing and precision. Participate in a challenge to be the team with the winning score, hold a distance competition or try for the greatest accuracy.
• Jungle: Put on your Lea Green coat and take a trip to Ravensnest Woods, where you will be challenged to crawl, belly slide and climb through the undergrowth of Rhododendron bushes. So, if you’re up for getting a little muddy, grab your old clothes and explore the countryside in a different way.
• Low Ropes: At Lea Green we have 3 linear low ropes courses, which can be tackled individually or as part of a progressive and challenging session. The HEX is a six-sided course that has a variety of elements from a balance beam to a wobbly bridge. 
• Navigation: Learn new map reading skills whilst exploring the stunning areas of Derbyshire. The session’s difficulty can be adapted to fit your group’s needs from navigating around Lea Green site, in our nearby Swine Park woods, or further afield. 
• Night Walk: Enjoy an evening 2-mile circular walk from Lea Green, through Swine Park Woods, towards Dethick and back. Take a break at Dethick Church and explore inside the church, or if you still have day light look North-West towards Riber Castle. 
• Night Line: A team challenge for groups to successfully make their way around a course. Groups are split into pairs, one individual is blindfolded, whilst their partner guides them on their route through tunnels and undergrowth.
• Orienteering: Learn new map reading skills and explore our 25 acres of beautiful grounds. Work in small groups to find our orienteering markers hidden around site. We have different courses on site to accommodate different groups including a full site day course, full site night course with reflective strips.
• Paddle Boarding: Enjoy a paddle on the river Derwent whilst learning skills from our British Canoeing qualified instructors. Stand up paddle boards are inflatable long buoyant boards and are propelled using paddles. 
• Play Park: Our onsite play park is the perfect space to be used as part of a session or during recreation time. The park consists of swings, slide and playframe, bucket swing & seesaw.
• Pond Dipping: We have the facilities available for groups to connect to nature and trawl the shallows of ponds and streams to capture the creatures that are found within our local countryside. Learn the names of new creatures and their natural habitat.
• Problem Solving: We have a range of different team building challenges, requiring high levels of group work and communication. Some activities can be tackled in small groups, whilst others are more suited to larger groups.
• Rock Climbing: Rock climbing is an outdoor activity based in the beautiful countryside of Derbyshire. Individuals are challenged to navigate a route up a rock face before abseiling back down, learn how to belay as a team and progress to more difficult routes with the supervision of our qualified instructors.
• Rock Scrambling: Rock scrambling is an outdoor activity based in the beautiful countryside of Derbyshire. Climbers are demonstrated how to tackle routes, whether that is traversing along a rock face, climbing over a rock, or crawling through small spaces.
• Skyline: Skyline is our hexagonal structure, which has two levels and a zipline. Starting on our lower course, individuals make their way around the challenges with partners by their side to offer support, before progressing on to the high level, which requires harness and ropes.
• Stream Walk: The stream walk takes place in the nearby Coddington Brook, where groups make their way up the stream encountering several obstacles along the way, including crawling under low logs, and forming human dams. Equipment including helmets, wellies, and coats are provided.
• The Cave (Bouldering): The cave is our small indoor bouldering room, which is used to learn or improve your climbing skills. Traverse, climb up, play climbing games, or even participate in a dangling competition. This activity is low level and doesn’t require a harness, rope, or helmet.
• Wheelchair Abseiling: Wheelchair abseiling is an outdoor activity based in the grounds of Lea Green, using our purpose-built wheelchair abseil facility. Wheelchair users can experience the thrill and challenge of an abseil without leaving their chair. Equipment including a harness and helmet are provided.
• Wide Games: Madness and joyfulness within our 25 acres of grounds. Challenge your group to smuggle goods around Lea Green, whilst staff are doing anything they can to stop the group from winning, whether that is giving individuals forfeits to keep their goods or taking the goods away.