The Firewood Poem

Beech-wood fires burn bright and clear If the logs are kept a year; Store your beech for Christmastide With new-cut holly laid beside; Chestnut’s only good, they say, If for years ’tis stored away; Birch and fir-wood burn too fast Blaze too bright and do not last; Flames from larch will shoot up high, Dangerously…

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Flysheet Camp Medical Form

Download medical form Dear Parent / Guardian In order for us to provide the best care possible while you child is with us please fill in the following details. The information on this form will kept confidential and will only be seen by the Children’s Secretary, Camp Organiser and your child’s assigned staff member. Name…

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2016 Camp

Well it is over for another year, but what a year we had! The best weather for years on a camp. I think we had about 5 minutes of rain all week. The marquee was put away completely dry for once. We welcomed a few new children & staff this year which is great so we had…

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Flysheet is 50!

We are very excited that this is our 50th year taking kids camping. Watch this space for news on some of the stuff we will be doing to celebrate. The Flysheet Camps were established in 1973. We were originally part of the Forest School Camps (FSC) organisation, involved with the production of the associated magazine,…

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What Flysheet is about

We aim to build a community for a week where people camp together as a group, learn to take responsibility for themselves and grow and experiment in a safe and caring environment. Everyone is welcome to come and take part in creativity through music, arts and crafts and friendship. You will be expected to co-operate…

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