Are you planning your programme of trips away for your cycling or walking group? We give a minimum of 5% discount for named cycling or walking groups – often more if you are coming off-peak season! The Old Brooder sleeps up to 22 but we’re happy to consider smaller groups with space to cook, eat together inside or outside, socialise in a sitting room with squidgy sofas, well-appointed showers and super-comfy joiner-made bunks and conventional beds. We have farm trails on the farm, and maps and planned circular routes for beyond taking in Constable Country and the Wool Town villages. For cyclists we’ve got maps, suggested routes – and 22 bikes for those that come without their bike!

We’ve hosted lots of repeat visits from cycling groups and walkers – check out what they say on Tripadvisor. Suffolk is undiscovered by many, yet has many delights to visit. Ancient hedged landscape, historic Wool Town villages with incredible churches and bright painted houses, beautiful river valleys and coastal heath, long distance walking and cycling routes – there’s something for everyone. Contact us with estimated numbers and we’ll send you a quote.

Self-cater or camp – and earn a badge, or work towards several badges here on our environmentally-friendly working farm. Here are some of the badges we are set up here to help you earn – Artist, Camper, Environmental Conservation, Farming, Forester, Hikes Away, History Comes Alive, Nature, Nights Away, Orienteering, Photography, Survival, Writer and many more! We regularly host youth groups here – we have a 500-acre farm to explore and use with woods, ponds, hedges and flowery meadows all teeming with wildlife. And for history explorers, there are ancient listed buildings, archaeology, castle earthworks and a growing farm museum. We can guide or teach depending on what you need!

Our small family team are here to help but, equally, can leave Scout Leaders to do their own thing. We’ve hosted and led a multi-award-winning Wildlife Watch group here on the farm for nine years – and between the members, they earned hundreds of badges and enjoyed years of fun summer camps! Whittling, investigating ponds, writing wild poetry, fieldwalking for artefacts, painting, photographing wildlife and obscure items, making camp fires, orienteering trails around the farm, working in the woods, doing nature conservation projects. We would love to welcome scouts here on this working farm and share what we’ve got to offer.

If you have a large group, you can hire both the Old Brooder and the Tudor Barn too, sleeping a combined total of nearly 50 Scouts and Leaders. There are private rooms for leaders and larger communal rooms for children. The farm is peacefully situated down a long farm drive away from the road. It is very rural but the nearest large village, Lavenham with shops, is only c3 miles away. We unpack a supermarket delivery free of charge ahead of arrival to help and can organise catering too.

29 Scout Leaders are booked to stay here next year … what would you like to do here? 10-20% discounted rates for Scouts & other Youth Groups with charitable status. Enquire with as much info as possible about your group and plans.