Tree Surfers are looking for Casual Staff to join the team for the coming 2014 season.

If you are interested, and would like to learn more please email on [email protected] or call 01822 833409. If you would like to apply please send your CV to the same email address.

We are excited to announce Yoga for Children sessions will start running at the Tamar Trails Centre from Tuesday 17th September onwards.

Sophie Whalley from Yoga Nurture will be leading the sessions especially designed for 3 to 5 year olds.

Tuesday‘s 9.30 – 10.15am in term time

Parents and carers are all welcome to join in or enjoy a cup of tea and a slice of cake at the cafe, whatever suits you and your child best.

Please bring a mat, or blanket each and wear comfortable clothing.

To book a place phone the Tree Surfers/Tamar Trails Centre: 01822 833409

Drop-in if space allows.

Donations only whilst we trial the sessions

For more information visit: www.yoganurture.co.uk

We have been thrilled with the positive response to our flourishing Beech Café. Helen bakes a mountain of yummy cakes in the morning and by the afternoon they’ve always gone! Jonathan who bakes proper bread in his tiny bakery ‘Pepper Street Breads’ just a few miles away from here, works hard to keep us stocked up in fresh bread for our filled rolls and paninis.

The Beech Cafe is open every day from 9am serving cakes, light lunches, home made soup and fantastic teas and fresh coffee

In our new look as the Tamar Trails Centre we are now offerring lots of new family events in the holidays.

We have lots of family activities throughout the summer, booking is essential for most things so please call us on 01822 833409 or email [email protected]

The cafe will be open every day from 9.30am for yummy cakes, hot food and fresh coffee and tea.

All our other activities will also be open every day including bike hire, tree surfing, archery and zip wire.

Wednesday Family Days

Every Wednesday we have themed ‘Explore Nature’ day. Themes include butterflies, trees, bugs, bird song. The days include a variety of fun activities to help children and adults discover habitats, learn new stories, role play bird song or animal behaviour, identify species and be inspired by nature.

• Natural Art Drop In, Scavenger Hunt plus other activities for younger children Further Details on the Events Calendar
• Guided Walk with resident wildlife expert Richard Hibbert
• Explore Nature workshops for children with Richard Hibbert

Kids Go Wild Adventure Days

9.30 to 4.30pm
Drop the kids off for a day of adventure in the Trees.
Activities include Tree Surfing, Zip wire, Tree Jump and Tree Climbing, Bush Craft and Archery , kayaking and raft building.
£30 per child
8 years and upwards

Full details plus dates can be found in our events calendar

Guided Canoe Trips

Every day you can join us for a relaxing amble up the river Tamar, in canadian canoes. Every one can join in (3 years plus) including well behaved dogs. Full details including the timetable can be found at www.canoetamar.co.uk

Mountain Bike Skills

A half day introduction to mountain bike skills around the Tamar Trails suitable for 12 years upwards.
9.30am to 1pm. £20 per person.

Booking is essential for most activities

Please call 01822 833409 or email [email protected]

On Saturday the 30th of March the new Tamar Trails Centre will open with FREE tasters of all the activities the centre has to offer.

Come and try your hand at:
- Tree Surfing*
- Tree Jumping*
- The Zip-wire*
- Archery
- Bushskills
- Panning for gold
- Easter Egg Hunt

Also bring your bikes and dogs and enjoy a walk of cycle around the 25km of trails that wind their way through an Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty and the Cornwall and West Devon Mining Landscape World Heritage Site.

Explore the remains of old mines - the legacy of one of the greatest copper producing areas in the world!

Call 01822 833409 to book or email [email protected]

Booking Essential

*These activities are only suitable for children over the age of 8 and are subject to weight restrictions.

Tree Surfers and Canoe Tamar are excited to announce that from the 28th of March the new Tamar Trails Centre will officially be opened, and we will be managing it on behalf of the Tamar Valley Mining Heritage Project.

The Tamar Trails Centre will not only be our new and very beautiful home, but it will also be home to a new Cafe and Interpretation Centre, and of course the hub for outdoor activities in the Tamar Valley.

The new Tamar Trails Centre has replaced the old building, so we are still in exactly the same place, doing the same things and offering the same great level of service, it’s just that everything is better and of course shinier!

We hope that you will come down to explore everything that’s new, and you will soon be receiving your official invitation to our public launch on Saturday the 30th of March 2013.

All these changes do mean that all the emails that you get from us from now on will come in the guise of the Tamar Trails Centre from our new email address [email protected] - we just wanted to let you know, so that you wouldn’t think we’d sold your details on, which we would never ever do!

Other changes also include a brand new Facebook page and Twitter account, so it would be great if you could like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.

Opening this year on the 16th February,Treesurfers will be opening on the first day of half term. We will be in our brand new building The Tamar Trails centre. The new building will boast a smart new cafe and will be the interpretation centre for the trails. This has all been done with the help of ; Devon County Council, West Devon Borough Council, Cornish Mining World Heritage Site, Tamar Valley AONB, Heritage Lottery Fund and 1 South West. Do come along and take a look there are some amazing new things happening!

Come and get a nationally recognized qualification in Mountainbiking at Treesufers. MIAS level 1/2 will enables you to take a group of cyclists off roading. A great qualification for teachers, youth workers and Scout leaders. Its also a great course for any individual who is a keen mountainbiker.

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Access all areas! Thanks to the introduction of a ‘Tramper’ all-terrain mobility scooter at Treesurfers in Gunnislake, the stunning woodlands of the Tamar Valley are now accessible to all.
Launched in 2009, Treesurfers offers ropes courses and zip-wire tours designed to help people get up close and personal with some of the South West’s most beautiful woodlands in the Tamar Valley, a designated Area of Outstanding Natural Beauty (AONB). With the introduction of the Tramper, people with limited mobility living in and visiting the South West region can now head out and explore the 25km of Tamar Trails.
John Ladlow from Gulworthy was the first person to try out the Tramper on the Tamar Trails. John said: “I tried out this vehicle last week and was able to go on all the multi use tracks throughout the trails. It is robust enough to tackle even the steeper tracks and felt very safe. This means that people with walking problems can get to see all that the trails have to offer”.
Kate Blake from Treesurfers said: “It was our intention when launching Treesurfers to open up this dramatic wilderness to as many people as possible. We’re delighted that with the help of the Tamar Valley AONB and Living Options Devon we’ve been able to introduce this fantastic mobility scooter.”
The Tramper was part-funded by the Tamar Valley AONB – which aims to protect and enhance the landscape of this special area – and the Countryside Mobility South West scheme, run by Devon wide charity Living Options Devon (LOD), working to improve access to the countryside for people with limited mobility. The Tramper all-terrain mobility scooters and wheelchair accessible Wheelyboats are available for hire at over 20 countryside locations across Cornwall, Devon, Dorset, Gloucestershire and Somerset. Other local sites operating mobility Trampers include The National Trust’s Saltram Estate and Mount Edgcumbe Country Park.
To hire the Tramper people need to join the Countryside Mobility South West membership scheme (£8.50 per year or £2.50 for 4 weeks) which covers users for all Tramper sites in the South West. The cost of hiring the Tramper at Treesurfers is £2.50 per hour.

For more information visit www.treesurfers.co.uk / www.tamarvalley.org.uk/explore/access/tramper/