Overview:
It's very hard to beat a good day at the races and if you win, it's even better.

The atmosphere at a race track is always amazing whether you're dressed in your Sunday best in the members' enclosure sipping bubbly or staying casual and snacking on hotdogs all day.

Those that think they know a thing or two can study the form and chew their pencils whilst the others can pick on the funniest name or the best coloured silks. Horse racing covers all the bases and has something for everyone.

Includes:
 - Ticket entry to the races

Only real men need apply:
This survival course is one of the toughest and most challenging survival courses on offer in the UK. The course will cover how to make your own ropes and how to build your own shelter using those ropes. You'll also create fire from scratch - no lighters or
matches - just good old wood-on-wood friction. You'll also learn which fruits and berries you can eat without keeling over.

You'll learn how to trap and hunt animals for food and how to skin and gut the critters as well as improvised fishing techniques. Cooking without pots and pans and much much more is included in this awesome day of survival techniques.

Duration:
- Full day (includes 2 x 3 hour activity sessions and a packed lunch)

Notes:
- This course is for people who are reasonably fit and with lots of stamina.
- The instructors are experts in survival and many of the techniques used for this course are as advised by the SAS

Going down:
With plenty of choice for all members of the group ranging from the pansies to the real men you'll all love a bit of abseiling. Take your pick from low, tame crags up to high-adrenaline cliff faces and get yourself strapped in.

Once shown the best descending techniques, you'll be left to bounce off the rockface, lowering yourself jubilantly to the ground below. Vertigo suffers sling your hook, those with a sense of adventure get involved!

Duration:
- Full day (includes 2 x 3 hour activity sessions and a packed lunch)

 

Overview:
Get high in the forest with a thrilling high ropes session. Set deep in the Moor Valley this is a brilliant setting for you to face your fears and swing through the trees like Tarzan.

After being kitted out in all of the essential equipment and a full safety briefing from the instructors, it'll be time to head for the trees. You'll tackle a course of over 30 hanging rope bridges, scramble nets and zip slides which are up to 30ft off the forest floor. You can also have a go on one of the few tree zip lines in the country.

If you are a bit nervous about heights our advice is simple; clear your mind and focus on what is in front of you. Whatever you do don't think about slipping over and you falling head first to your death*. 

Included:
- Briefing and guidance from qualified instructors
- All safety equipment

*This won't happen as you'll be attached by a safety harness at all times so at worst you'll swing in the air for a few seconds before being pulled to safety. Mong.

 

Overview:
Get ready for a full day of fun-fuelled activities that'll squeeze the most out of your daylight hours. With the choice of 2 activities, one in a 3 hour morning slot and one in a 3 hour afternoon slot, your day will be filled to the brim with action and adventure.

Choose any 2 activities:

Raft Building:
Get your survival instincts to kick in as you are set the task of constructing and racing your very own raft. Teams will compete against each other as they test the buoyancy of their water vessels and have their race efforts timed. Will you sink or swim? There's only one way to find out!

Canyoning:
Canyoning is a high-adrenaline activity that'll satisfy your thirst for adventure. Scrambling and climbing through a rocky river, you'll be fearlessly sliding and jumping into plunge pools in a river gorge. Jumping from cliff edges and abseiling down waterfalls should see your adrenaline glands well and truly knackered. Awesome.

Canoeing:
These two man canoes are completely open topped similar to the ones used by Indians or Canadian Trappers. You and a partner will need to get coordinated in order to steer and paddle effectively. During the day you will play lots of games and learn a number of different paddle strokes used in the sport.

Kayaking:
The Eskimo's preferred means of water travel, these single person, closed in, kayaks are great fun. Learn to paddle and steer before engaging in a wet water based competition against your friends. These thing have a mind of their own and remaining upright may not be a luxury which you can afford to count on!

Gorge Scrambling:
A top activity for the adventurous who are excited by the thought of clambering over rocks, climbing through wet crevices and jumping into plunge pools. You'll need to have a basic level of fitness but the guide will look after you and tailor the activity to match the capabilities of the group.

Abseiling:
Take your pick from low, tame crags up to high-adrenaline cliff faces and get yourself strapped in. Once shown the best descending techniques, you'll be left to bounce off the rockface, lowering yourself jubilantly to the ground below. Vertigo suffers sling your hook, those with a sense of adventure get involved!

Climbing:
These rockfaces offer a great challenge. After getting some hot tips on climbing techniques and having a practice at low level, participants pair up within the teams with a climber and a "belayer". The climber scales the wall to get maximum points for height achieved while trusting the belayer to keep them on that rope. 

Clay pigeon Shooting:
Ever fancied getting your hands on a shotgun, setting your sights down the shiny double-barrel and scratching that itchy trigger finger of yours? Yes? We thought so! What better way to satisfy the urge than blasting a clay pigeon to smithereens, catching a victorious waft of the smoking barrels and reloading to unleash more destruction on yet another unsuspecting ceramic projectile. Qualified instructors will help you maximise the carnage inflicted on your clays

Archery:
Pick up a bow and arrow, take aim and shoot 2 foot wide of the target to the heckling jeers of your mates. With steady handedness a prerequisite, those who've had a heavy one the night before will be pulling their arrows from the dirt.

Mountain Biking:
A very popular activity for anyone who can already ride a bike and has a reasonable level of fitness. The ride will be over rough terrain with some very fast sections of downhill biking and some very slow technical downhill sections demanding your every care and attention. The rides will be tailored to meet the needs of the group accordingly.

Included:
- Full body wetsuit, life vest and crash helmet for all water based activities
- Qualified Instructors for all activities

Duration:
- Full day
- 3 hour activity in the morning and a 3 hour activity in the afternoon

Ready, aim, fire!
Ever fancied getting your hands on a shotgun, setting your sights down the shiny double-barrel and scratching that itchy trigger finger of yours? Yes? We thought so! What better way to satisfy the urge than blasting a clay pigeon to smithereens, catching a victorious waft of the smoking barrels and reloading to unleash more destruction on yet another unsuspecting ceramic projectile. Qualified instructors will help you maximise the carnage inflicted on your clays.

Included:
- 200 shotgun cartridges per group
- 200 clay pigeons per group
* Just ask if you require more!

 

Onwards and upwards:
Although it was very confusing trying to figure out quite just what Rocky Balboa was doing scaling mountains and what had happened to his fighting career, Cliffhanger reminded us all that climbing is cool.

Whilst you won't be swinging one-handed from a cliff face sneering and slurring your words, these rockfaces offer a great challenge. After getting some hot tips on climbing techniques and having a practice at low level, participants pair up within the teams with a climber and a "belayer". The climber scales the wall to get maximum points for height achieved while trusting the belayer to keep them on that rope. Don't worry; a qualified instructor will be watching like a hawk.

Excellent fun incorporating some good old fashioned exercise, this should make you feel better about the 20 odd beers followed by the soggy kebab you're bound to encounter in the early hours.

Duration:
- Full day (includes 2 x 3 hour activity sessions and a packed lunch)

Notes:
We can also run indoor climbing sessions depending on the weather conditions and needs of the group.

Where are we?
Get into the team spirit and race against the clock using your map-reading skills to navigate you to various checkpoints dotted around the beautiful country scenery. Bragging rights go to the quickest and most efficient team while the losers scratch their heads and argue about who lost the map in the middle of nowhere.

Duration:
- Full day (includes 2 x 3 hour activity sessions and a packed lunch)

Get pedalling:
Mountain biking is a very popular activity for anyone who can already ride a bike and has a reasonable level of fitness. A mountain biking session would usually consist of a quick look at your personal riding skills and a short introduction to some new skills that will be useful on a ride.

The ride would then be over rough terrain with some very fast sections of downhill biking and some very slow technical downhill sections demanding your every care and attention. The rides will be tailored to meet the needs of the group accordingly.

Duration:
- Full day (includes 2 x 3 hour activity sessions and a packed lunch)

Overview:
The Eskimo's preferred means of water travel, these single person, closed in, kayaks are great fun. Learn to paddle and steer before engaging in a wet water based competition against your friends. These thing have a mind of their own and remaining upright may not be a luxury which you can afford to count on!

Duration:
- Full day (includes 2 x 3 hour activity sessions and a packed lunch)

Gorge yourself:
Gorge scrambling involves exactly what it says on the tin - scrambling through gorges. A top activity for the adventurous who have harbored a fascination for clambering over rocks, climbing through wet crevices and jumping into plunge pools ever since they watched 'The Goonies' all those years ago. You'll need to have a basic level of fitness but the guide will look after you and tailor the activity to match the capabilities of the group, especially if some of the guys have beer bellies that have seen a 'truffle shuffle' or two.

Duration:
- Full day (includes 2 x 3 hour activity sessions and a packed lunch)

Notes:
- The gorges used are in a variety of locations around Lancashire, Cumbria (The Lake District) and Wales.

Into the dark:
Caving is an especially popular activity for all year round. It's a great activity when the weather is miserable because it is inside and is surprisingly warm in the wintertime. Caving involves walking through underground passageways created over hundreds of thousands of years by the wearing away of soft rock types such as limestone by water.

Caving is about exploration, challenge and discovery. Explore the many subterranean passageways and caverns; challenge yourself to squeeze through small holes and tight spaces and discover geological features that you can see preserved by the underground environment that you will never find replicated on the surface.

Duration:
- Full day

 

Paddles to the ready!
These two man canoes are completely open topped similar to the ones used by Indians or Canadian Trappers. You and a partner will need to get coordinated in order to steer and paddle effectively.  During the day you will play lots of games and learn a number of different paddle strokes used in the sport of canoeing. If your compadre fancies himself as a bit of a joker, you'll be at his mercy as a few well timed rocks could send you tumbling into the wet.


Duration:
- Full day (includes 2 x 3 hour activity sessions and a packed lunch)

Friday:
You'll check into your gorgeous four star guest house in Central Carlisle from 4pm. Once you're all spruced up it's time for your perfect weekend to begin.

Party time!:
Jump the queue with guest list entrance to this super cool nightclub. Free bubbly for the group will have you dancing the night away until the club closes at 3am. No need for a taxi, it's just a few minutes walk back to your accommodation.

Saturday:
After a full English breakfast you'll be ready for the fun day ahead.

Burlesque lessons:
It's time to take those dance moves away from the bedroom mirror and transfer that energy from the comfort of your carpet to the bright lights of the dance studio. These dance lessons are the perfect opportunity to learn some new moves to throw into your hip-shaking repertoire and, more importantly, a really good laugh for all the girls.

With corsets, suspenders and feather boas a plenty, this chair-based routine is a great way to get involved with the resurgence of this sexy, tongue-in-cheek dancing style. Ridiculously good fun, you'll have all the moves at your disposal to do some Dita Von Teasing of your own (no stripping required!)

Duration:
- Morning and afternoon sessions with a break for lunch

Let's get dancing!:
On your last night you want to go big, and there's no better way to do it than VIP entrance to a super cool club, featuring a New York style disco, a sports bar with seventeen pool and snooker tables and a cabaret club with dancers and drag artist DJs. All the recipes for a smashing time, you'll be supplied with even more complimentary bubbly to give you a night you'll never forget. The club closes at 4am and is just a short walk away from the comfort of your bed.

Sunday:
Party's over and it's time to head home. Before you head off we'll make sure you enjoy a nice healthy breakfast.

Friday:
You'll check into your gorgeous four star guest house in Central Carlisle from 4pm. Once you're all spruced up it's time for your perfect weekend to begin.

VIP Nightclub Entry:
Jump the queue with guest list entrance to this super cool nightclub. Free glass of bubbly for the group will have you dancing the night away until the club closes at 3am. No need for a taxi, it's just a few minutes walk back to your accommodation.

Saturday:
After a full English breakfast you'll be ready for the fun day ahead.

Belly dance lessons:
The performance dance form known in the West as the belly dance is based on one of the oldest social dances in world history, native to North Africa, Asia and the Middle East and it's your turn to give it a go.

Fun for all the girls, you'll get taught how to "pop and lock", shimmy, belly roll and a variety of seductive moves which will have you feeling like an Arabian princess in no time. You'll get to shake those hips and wind your belly under the supervision of a professional teacher who'll bringing out the Shakira in you regardless of shape or size.

Imagine the look on your fella's face when you slide through the bedroom door with a tea-towel round your face showing off your new found skills. Exactly.

Midriffs to the ready, give it a try...hips don't lie!

Duration:
Morning and afternoon sessions with a break for lunch

Let's get dancing!:
On your last night you want to go big, and there's no better way to do it than VIP entrance to a super cool club, featuring a New York style disco, a sports bar with seventeen pool and snooker tables and a cabaret club with dancers and drag artist DJs. All the recipes for a smashing time, you'll be supplied with even more complimentary bubbly to give you a night you'll never forget. The club closes at 4am and is just a short walk away from the comfort of your bed.

Sunday:
Party's over and now it's time to go back to the normal world. Before you do we'll make sure you enjoy a lovely healthy breakfast to get you on your way.