staying safe At Cowley Adventure
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At Cowley Adventure, we take everyone's health and safety, and our legal obligations seriously. We therefore have a number of risk assessments to cover the range of visitors we see, and activities that take place on site. All our activities also have standard operation procedures, known as SOPs. Please take the time to read the relevant documents for your visit.
Whilst the documents on this page are updated at least annually, and therefore the links to the documents themselves will change, this page will remain static, so feel free to link this page in your own documents, or when gaining permission to attend our site. Please remember that we can only risk assess the activities, facilities and events that we provide. Therefore, unless your visit is part of a Cowley Adventure organised activity/event, you will also need a risk assessment for your group/organisation's planned visit. Please note, our 2025 documents still refer to the site as Deer Park. This is our historic name and the documents are still valid. We will update these to Cowley Adventure in 2026. |
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General risk assessment
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It doesn't matter who you are or why you are visiting Cowley Adventure, this general risk assessment is for you. It details all the general risks regardless of whether you are coming for the day or overnight, staying indoors or outside, are a customer or a contractor. Please ensure you read this before your visit.
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Location risk assessments
For those using any of our outdoor spaces during your visit to Cowley Adventure, eg a camping pitch, the Bradshaw Wood, a campfire circle, patrol cooking areas, etc., the general risks associated with these spaces are included in the general risk assessment above.
Site activity risk assessments (RAs) & standard operation procedures (SOPs)
We have a wide range of activities that take place at Cowley Adventure, each with its own risk assessment and SOP. Please read the relevant documents linked below for the activities you will be taking part in.
Party risk assessments (RAs)
If you are visiting us for a birthday party, please read the relevant risk assessment below, plus any relevant risk assessments above.
Our risk assessment process
We believe it's everyone's responsibility to help keep everyone visiting Cowley Adventure safe. We therefore encourage our visitors to report anything that they feel is unsafe, as well as share ideas with us of risks we haven't thought of to feed into our risk assessment process. If you would like to share something, speak to our centre manager during your visit, or email us.
