Adventure Pirate

29/07/2024

Euro Road Trip. First stop Bruges. The Adventure Pirate-mobile may be too big for Bruges! 😳🦑🛻😂

26/07/2024

Our next project is so close to being finished. Jemima Puddleduck is officially alongside, starboard side to with her lovely new decking and covered seating/bar deck. Our new woodland campsite pitches are starting to look lovely too.

25/07/2024

We want you!
Join the best kid’s club in Dorset - Every Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday throughout the summer.

Activities include but certainly aren’t limited to:
- Nerf Battles 🔫
- Bushcraft - Fire lighting, campfire cooking, den building and knife skills (whittling) 🔥 🍳🌭🪵
- Target sports - Archery 🏹, Air Rifles and Axe Throwing 🪓
- Big Tree Climbing 🌳 🧗🏼
- Wide games on our awesome games arena - 🏃🙈🥷🤾‍♂️
- Crafting 👩‍🎨🧶🍁🎨🖼️
- Games 🎳🎯🤺🤹‍♂️
- Guided play in our amazing woodland setting which includes: trampolines, play trail, swings, inflatables, play park, tuck shop, toilets, cool teenager hangout area.

For ages 7+
Located in Lytchett Minster, Poole
Full days £35
Half days £23
Book here: https://form.jotform.com/92483015073352

20/07/2024

This week we attended various schools to run activities for year 6 and year 8 leavers as well as activity weeks. Contact us ASAP to book in next year’s events!

10/07/2024

01/07/2024

What we do and love.

24/06/2024

Booking form:

https://form.jotform.com/92483015073352

To find out more:

https://www.adventurepirate.co.uk/portfolio/adventure-pirate-kids-holiday-club/

15/06/2024

Well done to James and Steve for competing in the first Studland Swim Run. 530m🏃 🏃‍♂️ 490m🏊‍♂️ 🏊 569m🏃 🏃‍♂️ 660m🏊‍♂️ 🏊 5200m🏃 🏃‍♂️ 860m🏊‍♂️ 🏊 200m🏃 🏃‍♂️🏅🏅 .sc

31/05/2024

We’ve had the best week at holiday club!

24/05/2024

We’re going to need another frame! Adventure Pirate has been awarded the best campsite in the review awards for the second year in a row since we opened! Thank you so much to everyone who has left us a review. It means so much and makes what we do even more rewarding.

15/05/2024

Our May Half Term Holiday Club is available to book. We’re excited to see all our regulars back along with some new faces. Book using our online booking form here:
https://form.jotform.com/92483015073352

26/04/2024

Oscar visited Adventure Pirate for his first 1:1 session with James today. We had an awesome firelighting session and used some of the tools of the trade.

26/04/2024

What a Young Man Should Know, from 1933. A checklist for becoming a proper man…

1. He should know how to swim at least a mile, dive creditably, and not feel panicky under water. He should be able also to revive those less skilful than himself by rolling them on a barrel and pumping their helpless arms.
2. He should be able to drive an automobile well. And he should not be altogether helpless when a car breaks down. He must know how to change a tire and offer some sort of diagnosis when the engine sputters and dies.
3. He ought to know how to clean, load, and shoot a revolver or a rifle.
4. As for self-defense, a man should certainly be able to take care of himself in a scrap. He need not learn jujitsu — old-fashioned boxing will be enough.
5. He ought to know the rudiments of camping, how to build a fire, how to chop wood, how to take a cinder out of his eye, how to deal with a severed artery, how to doctor himself for ordinary ailments.
6. He should also be able to take care of other people in emergencies, to apply first aid, set a broken bone, revive a drunk or a victim of gas, deal with a fainting fit, administer the right emetic or antidote for a case of poisoning.
7. And he should be able to feed himself, to cook, not only because some day he may need to, but because cooking is one of the fine arts, and a source of infinite pleasure. He should be able to scramble eggs, brew coffee, broil a steak, dress a salad, carve a chicken, and produce, on occasion, one first-class dish, such as onion soup. The more he can do, in these days of the delicatessen store and the kitchenette, the better. It is not effeminate, it is not beyond him, and the best chefs are all men.
8. He should know how to use paint brushes, a saw, a hammer, and other common tools.
9. He should also have a beautiful and distinguished handwriting. But the bulk of his writing, particularly if he is a professional man who has much of it to do, should be done on a typewriter, capable of turning out three thousand words an hour.
10. He should play one outdoor game well, and have a workable smattering of several more. An American who cannot throw and catch a ball seems pathetic and grotesque.
11. The bicycle has gone, yet every young man should know how to ride one.
12. He should also be able to skate, sail a boat, and handle a canoe passably.
13. Fishing is a specialty, like chess.
14. Walking is a noble but neglected sport. Americans “hike” once in a long while but seldom walk.
15. He should know a great deal about animals and how to take care of them.
16. He should know how to ride a horse.
17. He should learn how to stay in a saddle with pleasure to himself and a minimum of annoyance to his mount.
18. He should learn how to dance.
19. He should know to play at least one card game.
20. He must have knowledge of how to tip naturally, justly, without fear and without reproach.
21. On the matter of alcohol, he should learn his capacity and stick within its limits; he should know something about the different kinds of drink, and which drinks produce chaos within him when mixed.
22. Where s*x is concerned, nature clearly intended us to make many mistakes in her hope that some of them would be productive.
23. He should know the rudiments of gambling. But gambling might be placed on the same plane as drink — the less use one has for it the better.
24. Higher than almost any other accomplishment on the list is knowing music. There is no reason why any young man who is not absolutely tone-deaf should not learn how to play one musical instrument well enough for it to be a self-resource and a tolerable pleasure to others.
25. A civilized man should know how to read. The ability to read, or rather the habit of reading, is very rare even among intelligent people, and has to be taught and kept up if it is not to become rusty.
26. He should have knowledge of at least one foreign language. French or German preferably both. German children learn an amazingly good brand of English without ever crossing their borders. Why can’t we? For one thing, we don’t really want to. Yet we should. An American who knows only English is blind in one eye.
27. He should know to travel well, efficiently, without fuss or complaint.
28. A young man should be able to express himself clearly before a crowd of strangers, without shyness, muddle, or a pathetic resort to “so much has been said and well said” or “I did not expect to be called on.”
29. The American adult can get to his feet, propose a toast, introduce a stranger, voice a civic protest, heckle a windbag politician, and give utterance to an unembarrassed thought.
30. A a man should command the elementary tool of written language, and be able to put simple things on paper in clear words.
31. He should have a good workable understanding of the structure of business, investments, and banks.
32. Let every educated man, as a necessary part of his education, be thrown into the muddy stream of American industry and see what it is like to swim alone on daily wages.
33. He should before reaching twenty-two have done something because he wanted to, whether other people wanted him to do it or not.
34. He should not acquire property unless he needs it. Insensitiveness to his personal property, unless of course it is extraordinarily beautiful, is a desirable skill for any man to have; It must be learned and worked at.
35. Unusual though this young man may be, he should not seem so. Is not a parent’s basic ambition for his child that he be very different from other people, yet manage to seem almost exactly like them?
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What do you think? Doable or unreasonable?
How would today’s youngsters fair? Should this just be for men?

21/04/2024

Anyone recognise a certain squid logo on the back of those jerseys? 🦑 🏴‍☠️ 🏉

27/03/2024

Our new multi-use range is almost ready! We have loads of plans for this new awesome space. Shooting clubs, holiday clubs, range hire, birthday parties and a classroom for

26/03/2024

Starting on Monday 15th April we are starting a brand new group starting called Wanderers. For ages, 7-15, It’ll take place at 10:30-12:00 and will be a weekly rotation of all our activities -

Here is the booking form to book your spaces: https://form.jotform.com/240815872782364

25/03/2024

Outdoor Ed students completed their end of term survival assessment. They had to build a shelter suitable for sleeping under, make their own pegs (safety use tools) and build as sustainable fire. As a bonus some of them created pot hangers and managed to boil some water.

22/03/2024

We still have availability on some of the dates at our incredible outdoor holiday club. Themes will include: Fire! Weapons in the Woods, Vikings and Gladiators.
Book directly using our online booking form here:

https://form.jotform.com/92483015073352

19/03/2024

Getting our Archery on at club today. 🏹

19/03/2024

17/03/2024

Proud to be the match ball sponsor rugby match. A massive 87-0 win to Well done team! also played Lytchett’s 2nds. We have a close affiliation to both teams so really pleased with the competitive result of 19-10.
Remember to use the code EASTER24 when checking out, to book activities at Adventure Pirate over the Easter holidays!

https://www.adventurepirate.co.uk/activities/

17/03/2024

Join us this Easter for some epic adventures! What have we got running? - Everything! Family and group axe,archery,shooting sessions, our super popular kids club and our campsite will be back open. If booking activities with us this Easter use the code EASTER24 when checking out for a 20% discount which can be used for target sports and tree climbing.

https://www.adventurepirate.co.uk/activities/

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15/03/2024

The fire string challenge is a great bushcraft activity that really challenges participants. Get them to tie a bit of string between two sticks poked in the ground at a set height (around 25-30cm), give participants a log, a ferro rod (fire steel), a hatchet and a knife. They must make their own tinder shavings and kindling to light a fire under the string. They must keep building up their fires until the sting parts. Can be done as a race or just as an individual, fun challenge. This is a great all rounder where participants must safety demonstrate the use of tools and fire.

10/03/2024

Our Easter Holiday Club dates are now available to book! We have availability on 4th, 8th, 10th and 12th April.
Thank you for your patience. We have been working behind the scenes to get our booking system easier for you to book.
Book here:

Kid’s Holiday Club Activities to enjoy during the holidays Nerf Battles and target shooting in our awesome arena Survival – with our Bear Grylls trained instructor. Forest School crafts…

09/03/2024

It’s starting feel a little more spring like in the woods this week! Sandwich Friday didn’t disappoint thanks to the amazing

08/03/2024

Happy international woman’s day to all our amazing ladies, especially this one… For those of you who don’t know Lucy, she is the person behind the scenes running the show. Without her, just wouldn’t be a thing. Her work ethic, fun loving, sense of adventure is what keeps us all going.

05/03/2024

Den wars with our groups.