An outdoor activity centre that has become a right of passage for school trips has reopened with a £6m upgrade. The new facilities at Llangrannog residential camp in Ceredigion - including a new Calon y Gwersyll (Heart of the Centre) development - were officially declared open on Thursday, November 24, to coincide with the Urdd's 100th anniversary this year.
Llangrannog was founded in 1932 and has come to be a right of passage for school children most often than not on their first trip away from home. In 2019, it was thought that around 23,000 children visit Llangrannog each year about a million people have stayed there.
The camp has come to be known for it's traditional wooden buildings - which the Urdd say served the site for over 90 years - and activities such as horse riding, dry slope skiing, tobogganing, swimming, climbing, trampolining and more. The funding has been used to replace the wooden buildings that have been a staple of the centre and create a range of new facilities.
