Yr Hen Felin Cynwyd Activity Centre

30/10/2025

The centre is used by Northamptonshire Scouts for all its Kings Scout Award / Gold DofE expeditions with groups using the Berwyn mountain area for their practice from Carrog to Bala and southern Eryri from Bala to Barmouth for their assessed expedition. It’s a great venue for doing expeditions from.

05/04/2024

Breakfast when you are out with KSA/DofE teams

15/03/2023

Book your next adventure now!
https://www.northamptonscouts.org.uk/campsites-facilities/yr-hen-felin

08/02/2023

A very good article from the March Country Walking Magazine about the Berwyn which is our range of mountains behind the Centre

12/01/2023

In 1907 a famous Army officer ran an experimental camp on an island in Poole Harbour
This idea promptly grew
Still needed by young people today it survives as the Scout Association
If you want ADVENTURE
If no one else can help
and
If you can find them
Maybe you can hire the YHF team….

Booking for adventure now available on Northampton District Scouts website

Availability and Bookings Thank you for thinking of booking Yr Hen Felin! Please see the calendar below and when ready fill in our booking form. Use of Yr Hen Felin is charged at a flat rate of £225 per night.

30/11/2022

Some dedicated people spent the weekend at the centre last weekend giving it a makeover thank you to all who came. What a great asset for Adventure we have in the heart of North Wales

22/09/2021

If you love coming to Cynwyd and the surrounding area you will love Corwen Walking Festival which takes place in the Dee Valley and on the Berwyn mountains

05/03/2020

For our March camping challenge we look at a programme for a single night camp.

Micro Adventure Camp

7.00 pm Arrive at site - ensure the young people have all had dinner before arriving
7.15 pm put up tents and arrange personal space and bedding
8.15 pm gather wood and light a fire
8.45 pm Play a wide game
9.30 pm Make a hot drink and snack using the fire
10.00 pm Bed and lights out

7.30 am Light fires and make a hot drink
8.30 am Cook breakfast on a fire
9.30 am Take down tents (strike camp)
10.30 am Leave for home

These micro adventures are amazing and we actively support them

01/03/2020

1st March and so onto our March challenge which is this month go to camp of at least one night. This could be as simple as arriving on a Friday night putting up your tents, having supper and sleeping the night in a tent then getting up the next morning having breakfast and then going home. These micro adventures are amazing. It could also be a whole weekend camp with two nights camping and a number of activities to take part in. Whatever sort of camp you choose work with your young people to make this happen so they are a true part of the team. For this activity ensure the young people learn what to take with them and pack their own kit. Camp showing that everyone can look after themselves and the equipment. When you return tell other young people who have not been to the camp to encourage them to take part next time

12/02/2020

Have you booked a climbing activity yet. We are racing through February already and our second challenge. Another video showing some climbing skills.

Essential tips for indoor climbing, focusing on top-roping and leading. In this episode: tips on how to top rope indoors. This is one of a series of instruct...

05/02/2020

To inspire your young people that climbing is fun we attach a video from the British Mountaineering Council on the youth climbing championships. Perhaps one of your young people could be the next world class climber

A short film of the 2016 BMC Youth Climbing Series Grand Final held at Edinburgh International Climbing Arena, Ratho on 23 April 2016. The Youth Climbing Ser...

01/02/2020

February already so today we launch our second challenge which is to climb. Well I hear you cry we don’t have an adult with a climbing permit in our group. Do not despair if you want to take your young people climbing you have lots of alternatives. The best option in Northamptonshire is to book a two hour instructed climbing session at Pinnacle Climbing. This is very reasonable and will give you a great two hour activity. You might even get some of your young people enthused to join their Rockies young people’s climbing club and work for their NICASS awards. There is also climbing available at the Big Rock in Milton Keynes. As well as the traditional climbing centres we have other alternatives at Wickstead Park’s Click and Climb and Rushden Lakes Rock Up. We will be sharing some other climbing activities throughout the month