Our exciting Birthday Parties are available at the following Field Studies Council locations:
Amersham (Buckinghamshire), Bishops Wood (Worcestershire), Epping Forest (Essex), or London: Beckenham Place Park
They run after school, at weekends and in school holidays (depending on availability and centre) and include a range of outdoor activities with an indoor space for your party food.
Offering a Birthday Party with a difference each location has a selection of activities to choose from:
- Activities organised by friendly and professional tutors
- Parties are two hours with half an hour dedicated to birthday cake and party food (please bring your own cake/food)
- All tutors are trained in First Aid and all sites and activities are Risk Assessed
- All you need to prepare is the food and refreshments for the children
Prices include 1.5 hours of activities and 30 mins in a classroom. Please bring along your own food or cake and decorations if you’d like to.
- £180 for up to 15 children
- £260 for up to 20 children
- £390 for up to 30 children (subject to availability of an additional tutor)
For age 3 parties, there is a maximum of 15 children. An additional tutor may be bookable to increase to up to 30 children (subject to availability).
Up to 8 adults are welcome to join the activity (more are permitted for under 4s).
At weekends, parties run from 10am-12pm and 1:30pm-3:30pm.
For parties on weekdays during the school holidays, parties run 10am – 12pm, 1.30pm – 3.30pm or 4pm – 6pm (depending on availability).
To find out more about booking these experiences at a particular centre, visit our booking website.
Birthday Party Activities
| Available at | Activity | Age range | Description |
| Amersham, Bishops Wood, Epping Forest, Beckenham Place Park. | Forest School Adventure | Ages 3+ | Have fun playing and exploring the woods and building dens. Take part in Forest School inspired activities and games. We will have a wide selection of age appropriate resources to encourage play and exploration. |
| Amersham, Bishops Wood, Epping Forest, Beckenham Place Park. | Minibeast Adventures | Ages 3+ | Grab your bug catchers and discover the bugs and beasties that are hiding in the soil, under logs, and in the trees and bushes. You will need a keen eye to be able to spot all the weird and wonderful creatures camouflaged into their environment. |
| Amersham, Bishops Wood, Epping Forest, Beckenham Place Park. | Nature Explorers | Ages 3 – 5 | Have fun discovering the secrets outside in nature. Play games, use your senses, hug a tree and pretend you’re an animal travelling through the treetops. |
| Amersham, Bishops Wood, Epping Forest, Beckenham Place Park. | Enchanted Woodland | Ages 4 – 7 | Ever wondered how magical creatures share the woodland with other plants and animals? Now is your chance to walk through our enchanted woods playing games and making homes for these mystical creatures, while exploring all the wonders the woodland has to offer! |
| Amersham, Bishops Wood, Epping Forest. | Pond Detectives | Ages 5+ | Be amazed at the variety of creatures that lurk in the pond. Each is specially designed to live in the water, and this is your chance to get a close up look at them by taking part in pond dipping and other activities and games, who knows what we will discover? |
| Amersham, Bishops Wood, Epping Forest. | Woodland Adventure | Ages 5+ | Build dens in the forest and find out if they are waterproof. Go bug hunting and discover what lives in the woodland take part in games and other activities. |
| Amersham, Bishops Wood, Epping Forest, Beckenham Place Park. | Team Challenge | Ages 7+ | Become the ultimate team by overcoming a series of obstacles and challenges. Complete all the obstacles, to succeed you will need to work with your team to solve our challenging puzzles and complete the games. |
| Amersham, Bishops Wood, Epping Forest. | Junior Conservation Ranger | Ages 8+ | Become a ranger and take part in conservation tasks around the site. For all budding naturalists. |
| Amersham, Bishops Wood, Epping Forest. | Woodland Survival Skills | Ages 8+ | Bushcraft and survival techniques are a useful life skill and include activities such as making shelters, tracking and foraging for food and learning knots. Build a natural shelter to protect yourself from the elements, using natural materials around you, and practice your survival skills in the woods. |
Please note: Whilst we do our best to deliver the agreed programme, we sometimes must change the programme due to weather or staffing issues. Most changes are insignificant and will not affect your trip. If a significant change has to be made we will inform you as soon as reasonably possible.