News from the Blencathra Centre – November 2010

The Field Centre in the Olympic Park
As the Commonwealth Games finished last month you might be interested to hear that the Field Studies Council are currently working on the Olympic site in London. We currently run the ‘Viewtube’ which is a first floor classroom that has a panoramic view overlooking the Olympic and Paralympic Park and provides the backdrop for our dynamic range of teaching programmes for primary and secondary schools led by London Wildlife Trust and Field Studies Council.

Earlier this year the FSC and the Olympic Park Legacy Company signed a Memorandum of Understanding to work together to achieve their shared vision of developing a residential learning and education centre in the Olympic Park. The vision is to develop a world-leading residential field centre specialising in outdoor education in the built environment – using the evolving and vibrant mix of buildings, spaces and parks to inspire and educate forthcoming generations of young people and their families.

Ours will be an education resource which serves the local community but also reaches out to groups nationally and overseas. No such residential Field Centre with a strong urban and sustainable living focus exists in London, or anywhere in the world.

We try to be pioneers of environmental education around the country and I hope to bring you news of exciting developments at Blencathra in a future issue.

Tim Foster
Head of Centre Field Studies Council Blencathra
Tel: 017687 79601