Our Centre is a quality provider of Outdoor and Environmental
Education.
We operate year round with a wide variety of different groups
including youth club groups, primary schools, secondary schools and
young people with special needs.
Hindleap Warren is a purpose built Outdoor Education Centre in a
beautiful position overlooking the northern edge of Ashdown Forest.
We have approximately 300 acres of woodland grounds. The Centre
accommodates 184 people and employs around 35 staff.
Our on-site activities include:
» Archery
» Map reading and orienteering
» Forest Adventure
» Team Exercises
» Climbing Wall
» Obstacle Courses
» Team Challenge
» High Ropes
» Abseiling and Zip Wire
» Various Environmental Studies activities
Our off-site activities include:
» Rock climbing and Bouldering
» Canoeing and Kayaking
» Mine exploration
» Caving
» Forest expedition
» Mountain biking
Hindleap is a fantastic place to work amongst a team of committed
outdoor enthusiasts.
About London Youth
We are London Youth: a charity on a mission to support the
capital’s youth sector to improve the lives of young people. We do
this with and through our members – a network of 600 youth
organisations – and at our two outdoor residential centres,
Hindleap Warren and Woodrow High House.
Throughout our 135-year history, community youth organisations have
provided a constant lifeline and a vital safe space outside the
family and formal education, where young people can develop
confidence, resilience and skills. Young people need opportunities
outside school to have fun with their friends, to make a positive
change in their communities and to shape the city they live
in.
We look to work with all young people, focusing particularly on
those who wouldn’t otherwise have access to the kind of
opportunities we offer.
Last year we worked with over 28,100 young people through our
sports development, employability, youth action and involvement,
mental health, arts and outdoor education programmes. Our member
network supported over 575,000 young Londoners. We delivered 149
training sessions to over 1,000 youth professionals.
London Youth is committed to anti-racism and embraces
equality, diversity and inclusion. We are committed to the ongoing
development of an organisation that values and represents a variety
of backgrounds, perspectives and skills and welcome applications
that reflect this
Our commitment to anti-racism
In July 2020, we issued a statement committing to become
an anti-racist organisation and to actively tackle racism. Since
then, London Youth has worked with our staff and trustees to
understand first the issues within our organisation,
collaboratively developing a Theory of Change to define our areas
of focus, approach and plan of action moving forward.
We have a Race Equality Action Stakeholder Group which is chaired
by a London Youth member and trustee. This group includes
representatives from across the organisation and oversees the
implementation of our Race Equality Action Plan.
At the heart of youth work is the drive to level the playing field
for all young Londoners to succeed, regardless of their
backgrounds. Over two thirds of the young people we work with are
from racialised communities and we know that without the
opportunities which youth organisations provide, there would be
limited experiences open to them.