NATURE CLUB OVERNIGHT TRIP 

Trip Dates Confirmed: Tuesday 29th September - Thursday 1st October.

Location: The Quadrangle, The Granary, Shoreham Road, Shoreham, Kent, TN14 7RP https://thequadrangle.co/ 

The site is set in a beautiful garden with a forest garden to explore and river. We are hiring all the buildings and this will provide a mix of shared sleeping and private rooms to accommodate the group, as well as kitchens for us to cook in and cosy spaces for us to be with each other. They also work with a lot of similar groups to ours and can offer a community rate which works with our budget.

The next steps is to work out our agenda, travel options, food requirements and to find out who wants to be involved in different elements of the trip so please fill in the form below.

Travel

You can see the travel options on the website for the Quadrange here: https://thequadrangle.co/location/

We are proposing to travel by overground/tube to Victoria and get a direct train to Otford (37minutes) early afternoon on Tuesday. If you prefer to travel on your own at a different time/route that is also an option. For direct train times the afternoon options are:

London Victoria departing at 14:55 (arrives 15:32) / 15:25 (arrives 16:02) / 15:55 (arrives 16:32) / 16:25 (arrives 17:00)

For returning to London, we aim to also travel back as a group around 1pm. If you need to travel at different times and are happy to do so on your own that is also an option.

Food

Our initial plan is to prepare and cook all our meals at the site and stick with vegetarian food (safest from a food safety point of view and we are still on quite a tight budget!). This looks like Breakfast - porridge/cereal, fruit, bread and eggs. Lunch - hearty soup/salad Dinner - open to suggestions/recipes, probably a bit pot of stew/curry with rice. We’ll have healthy snacks and could also do some baking while we are there! You are very welcome to bring in any additional food and snacks that you need. If you have an idea for recipes or happy to lead on cooking please put your ideas below!

Initial Rough Agenda

Tuesday 29th Sep - Arrivals from 3pm. Group opening circle at 5pm. Dinner at 7pm.

Wednesday 30th Sep - Breakfast / 10-12.30pm Morning group activity, 1pm Lunch Afternoon Free time/Go on a walk/River Swim/Resting 7pm Dinner + evening activity

Thursday 1st Oct - Breakfast / 10-12pm Group Activity/Closing Circle. Lunch/Packed lunch for travel / Departing before 1pm

The agenda might also move around based on what the weather is doing!!

Activities

This is YOUR trip so we’d love to get your input on how you would like to spend the time. We are imaging a mixture of group activities and also free time for people to do their own thing or organise into smaller groups. There are some lovely local walks which some of you might like to spend time exploring. Some of us might want to be more active ,some might like to embrace some river swimming, whilst others might like to cosy up with a book or simply enjoy a good old rest! So we are aiming to find some balance where everyone can go at their own pace. If you’d like to suggest an activity that you would like to run please do so in the form below.