{"id":144,"date":"2016-11-05T14:25:32","date_gmt":"2016-11-05T14:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bluewoods.co.uk\/?p=144"},"modified":"2016-12-20T14:55:08","modified_gmt":"2016-12-20T14:55:08","slug":"official-opening-5th-november-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/bluewoods.co.uk\/?p=144","title":{"rendered":"Official Opening – 5th November 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bluewoods Campsite and Adventure Lodge are open!<\/strong><\/p>\n

Girlguiding Crawley Division’s new hall and campsite were officially opened on November 5th this year. \u00a0The new Hall, situated amongst Tilgate Forest Huts, and its nearby camp-site, replaces Girlguiding’s former premises at Little Trees; the site has been relinquished by Girlguiding Crawley Division to make way for the much-needed new cemetery for Crawley, opening summer 2017.<\/p>\n

The Opening Ceremony of Bluewoods took place in the middle of a day filled with activities, in which around 250 Rainbows, Brownies, Guides, Senior Section members and parents, members of Crawley Borough Council and Girlguiding leaders took part. \u00a0Woodland activities on the new camp-site included fire-lighting, balancing on a rope bridge and slack-line, making creatures from clay and natural materials, cutting and decorating wooden pendants, learning about conservation and toasting marshmallows; \u00a0in the new hall were many craft activities, and participants also planted bulbs around the site and visited the Nature Centre.<\/p>\n

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The Lodge was officially opened by the Deputy Mayor of Crawley,Cllr Brian Quinn, who praised \u201cthis great partnership between Crawley Borough Council and Girlguiding\u201d, saying that is was \u201cabsolutely wonderful \u201c, and that he was \u201cdelighted to come to Tilgate Park, and see young people being able to enjoy so many activities\u201d.<\/p>\n

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Girlguiding Crawley Division would like to thanks the following sponsors and supporters:<\/p>\n

Crawley Borough Council<\/p>\n

Courage-Dyer Recreational Trust<\/p>\n

Gatwick Airport Community Trust<\/p>\n

members of the local Co-Op Community (Tilgate)<\/p>\n

Girlguiding Sussex Central County<\/p>\n

Bluewoods is now open for bookings; the Lodge has a large hall, carpeted second hall \u00a0and equipped kitchen, in additional to toilets, showers and a fully accessible wet room, and is approved for both residential and day events. The campsite is a securely fenced area of woodland next to the Lodge, with water and electric points, an altar fireplace beside one clearing, and campfire circle.<\/p>\n

Bluewoods is situated in Tilgate Forest Recreation Centre, in easy walking distance of\u00a0both K2 Crawley (leisure centre with swimming pools and climbing walls) and also of\u00a0Tilgate Park. Dynamic Adventure run kayaking, raft building and off-road cycling in the\u00a0park, which also has an adventure play area, Nature Centre, and extensive walks.<\/p>\n

Further information is available on our website www.bluewoods.co.uk<\/a>, or by emailing\u00a0bookings@bluewoods.co.uk<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Bluewoods Campsite and Adventure Lodge are open! Girlguiding Crawley Division’s new hall and campsite were officially opened on November 5th this year. \u00a0The new Hall, situated amongst Tilgate Forest Huts, and its nearby camp-site, replaces Girlguiding’s former premises at Little … Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","two_page_speed":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-opening-day"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluewoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluewoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluewoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluewoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluewoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=144"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/bluewoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":158,"href":"http:\/\/bluewoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/144\/revisions\/158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/bluewoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluewoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/bluewoods.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}