Why choose us?

With over 30 years of experience providing safe, enjoyable activities for young people, Carlton Lodge is the ideal choice.

Situated just 10 minutes from the  A1 and less than ½ mile from the nearest Train station, Carlton Lodge is easy to get to from anywhere in the country.

Our standard or bespoke packages offer the maximum flexibility to meet your aims and more importantly your budget.

Carlton Lodge boasts a lake for water sports and its climbing wall. These two assets complement our other activities on our 12-acre site, meaning we can cater for any need from the adrenaline-fuelled 100m Zip Wire to the more relaxing Archery.

Our activities are run in a way that can be linked to the National Curriculum and meet its requirements.

With 3 separate, self-contained residential buildings you can be sure of individual attention in your own space. 

Carlton Lodge is licensed and inspected by the Adventurous Activities Licensing Service (AALS) and was one of the first outdoor centres in the country to gain the Learning Outside the Classroom Quality Badge (LOTC), in conjunction with approved supplier statutes from NYCs Educational Visits Advisor give you confidence that everything is in place to cover all your Health and Safety requirements.

Our staff also hold the relevant National Governing Body (NGB) qualification or complete our intensive in-house training for the relevant activities. We also ensure all our activity staff undertake basic youth work training to make sure the young people get the maximum out of their visit.

The facilities in conjunction with our high-quality activity staff make Carlton Lodge a fantastic venue to bring young people to what will be the experience of a lifetime.

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Graeme and David Sharp in Practice for their Everest Challenge

Mount Everest Challenge for Carlton Lodge Activity Centre boss…

David Sharp, chief executive at Carlton Lodge Activity Centre and his cousin Graeme are to undertake a major challenge on Mount Everest this spring to raise funds for its charitable Bursary Fund and for Women Against Cancer, a subject close to the Team’s heart. The ‘everesting’ challenge, will…

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Catering conference 2024

AHOCE Catering Conference

2024 AHOCE Catering Conference

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Heritage Activities for 2024

Heritage Activities at Carlton Lodge Activity Centre

Carlton Lodge Outdoor Centre is one of the 1st Outdoor Centre's to offer these alternative activities to schools.

Let our Learning & Heritage facilitator guide your group through the ancient art of Hapazome & release your Inner palaeontologist whilst doing Fossil making. 

Merry Christmas from Carlton Lodge 2023

Thank you to everyone who visited us in 2023 and we cant wait to see some of you again in 2024. 

We are looking forward to meeting lots of new people next year too. 

George & Lauren were joined on the…

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12 Dips of Christmas 2023

12 Dips of Christmas at Carlton Lodge Activity Centre.

George our Head of Centre decided he needed a challenge for winter, so he took on the  …

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Dave Roebuck

Carlton Lodge Bursary fund Remembering David Hubbert

Carlton Lodge Bursary Fund.

We're passionate about giving everyone the opportunity to realise their greatest potential and believe that adventurous outdoor activity gives children and young people the chance to challenge themselves and discover new skills and abilities…
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The Lakehouse

The Lakeside Accommodation Opens

Carlton Lodge Activity Centre has announced the opening of ‘The Lakehouse’ a new accommodation block that provides a brand-new level of facilities at the Centre. The new accommodation has more bespoke bathrooms, improved use of space and an upgraded experience for guests on residential…

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canoeing

Easter Activity days

Wednesday 5th April – Climbing Tree, Bush Craft, Archery, and Problem-solving – Suitable for children ages 8-14 years old. They will need warm layers and waterproofs, trainers and wellies as well as a packed lunch. Drop off is at 09:15 am and collection is 16:40 pm.…

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FEAST Logo

FEAST Activity Days in December

We are bringing back our FEASTive activity days for Christmas holidays including activities and crafts for children aged 8 to 14 years on Monday 19th, Tuesday 20th and Wednesday 21st December 2022

 

We will be running both activities and crafts for children aged 8…

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Half Ter Holiday Activity Days

Autumn Activity Days

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Jasmine eating chocolate en route

First female to make 900-mile swim from Land’s End to John O’Groats

Jasmine Harrison, 23, a swimming teacher from Thirsk is swimming the length of the United Kingdom from Land’s End to John O’Groats.

Jasmine did some practice swims around the lake at Carlton Lodge leading up to her adventure and Bex Plant, activities manager at Carlton Lodge Activity…

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FEAST Logo

FEAST Activity Days

North Yorkshire Youth at Carlton Lodge Activity Centre provides activity days for eligible children in the North Yorkshire Together FEAST programme. Activity days are provided for children who have access to free school meals. A special FEAST voucher is provided by schools for this initiative.…

Summer Activity Days 2022

North Yorkshire Youth has a range of activity days organised for the summer holidays. Here are some links to take you to the booking pages for these events. Click the link or use the QR code on your phone.

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Mark Faulkner with the NYY Team at Carlton Lodge

Mark Faulkner Retirement Celebration Event

A celebration for Mark Faulkner was held on 13th April 2022, to mark his 13 years with North Yorkshire Youth at Carlton Lodge Activity…

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Aussie Bush Fire Fundraiser BBQ and Climbing Event

Aussie Bush Fire Fundraiser BBQ and Climbing Event

Carlton Lodge Activity Centre is holding a fundraising event to raise money for the Bush Fire crisis in Australia. We are opening up our Climbing Wall and cooking up a barbeque all for free! All we ask is that anyone wanting a climb or a sausage puts some cash in the ‘Donation Buckets’ that we’…

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Halloween

Halloween

The Halloween day went terrifyingly well last weekend!
There were Witches doing Archery and someone throwing Axes at Zombies!
Toffee Apples and Toffee Bugs kept everyone fed and the camp fire kept everyone warm.

See you next year if you dare....

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Axe Throwing

AGM 2019

Well Saturday 26th October was our AGM. It was pretty wet and soggy for most of the day but we had great time. 

Thanks to all our members who took the time to travel to Carlton Lodge for the day and enjoyed the activities. As well as those that visited to be part of our AGM.…

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Jayne Shackleton at Carlton Lodge

Youth Participation Worker

New team member at North Yorkshire Youth and Carlton Lodge Activity Centre to support growing Youth Participation network. We have appointed Jayne Shackleton as our Youth Participation Worker within the Youth Development Team at Carlton Lodge. Jayne will be supporting colleagues in the Youth…

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The Big Youth Sleep Out

The Big Youth Sleep Out

We had a very successful AGM for North Yorkshire Youth held at the Centre on 13th October. As part of the event we hosted the Big Youth Sleep Out. We had nearly forty young people sleeping rough on site for the night. This was after hearing stories and listening to speakers…

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Autumn is upon us!

Autumn is upon us!

Is it just me or has the past few months just flown by! With the Autumn beginning to show with changes to the leaves and the weather, although I do like these bright chilly morning’s, it is beginning to get to the time of year when we say good bye to our amazing seasonal instructors and…

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YLCC SPORTIVE 2018 ‘IF CARLSBERG COULD DO SPORTIVES…

YLCC SPORTIVE 2018 ‘IF CARLSBERG COULD DO SPORTIVES…’

The Yorkshire Lasses Cycling Club Sportive was held at Carlton Lodge this weekend. With 528 ladies from all over the United Kingdom (and Ireland) taking part in a fantastic event to raise money for charity.

This year the sportive was held in aid of Women v Cancer, which is made up of 3…

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A busy week!

A busy week!

The 16th – 20th July has been the busiest week Carlton Lodge has ever had.

We welcomed Millthorpe School’s year 8’s from York.

They brought 164 Students and teachers to experience and enjoy what the outdoors has to offer. The activities ranged from Dry Stone walling to Gorge…

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IGNITE Yorkshire

IGNITE Yorkshire

Over the past few months we have been working with IVE and 5 other partners putting on events for young people all based on heritage. 

This work was a pilot to test if our ideas and activities inspired young people into thinking about heritage in a different way and I'm pleased to say…

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May Half Term Holiday Activities

May Half Term Holiday Activities

Those of you who are regulars to Carlton Lodge - School Holiday Activities will already have received feedback from you kids about the great times they have had with us.

We have listened to the comments asking for something that gave children a mix of both our most popular days – High…

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Seasonal Instructors 2018

Seasonal Instructors 2018

Introducing the seasonal instructing team for 2018.

George, our Chief Instructor, and Bex, our Senior Instructor, have, over the past few months advertised, interviewed and trained our seasonal instructing team for 2018.

We are very pleased to announce that; Sam,…

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IGNITE - Taster Day

IGNITE - Taster Day

Wow what a brilliant day.

The young people of Thirsk have had a great time at Carlton Lodge Activity Centre experiencing some brand new activities.

As part of the IGNITE project run by IVE, which North Yorkshire Youth is a partner, we put on a day of activities all…

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Blogging here I come.

Blogging here I come.

So I'm being dragged kicking and screaming into the 21st century.

Watch out - Blogging here I come.

I've resisted this for such a long time but now realise the error of my ways.

The use of social media is now a 'normal' part of life and as such I really…

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AHOEC Catering Confrence

AHOEC Catering Confrence

The 5th AHOEC Catering Conference @ Carlton Lodge Activity Centre 17-01-18

The AHOEC Catering conference has now been going for 5 years. It was developed to bring Outdoor Centre Catering and Housekeeping staff get together.

Aims

1. To further…