Clubs
Angus Council Ranger Service hold a variety of Clubs for pre-school children to the over 50s at various Ranger sites throughout the year.
By going along to a Club you will be able to make friends with like minded individuals and have lots of fun taking part in all sorts of exciting activities - from windsurfing to wildlife safaris.
Angus Council Ranger Service clubs are organised by the Countryside Rangers who are trained as watersports instructors, and also know about the local places and its wildlife. They generally work with their members to organise all kinds of adventure, wildlife and environmental activities such as:
- kayaking
- windsurfing
- sailing
- rafting
- pond-dipping
- wildlife campaigns
- wildlife gardening
- mini-beasts
- survival skills
- arts & crafts; conservation workshops
- environmental games
- species surveys such as nest box, butterfly and plants
- composting
- woodland wanders - and much, much more!
Monikie Country Park
Junior Outdoor Activities Summer Club
- For children aged 8 years and over
- 10am - 12noon Saturday or Sunday during school summer holidays. (First meeting 2 July 2011)
Windsurfing, kayaking, sailing and rafting are just a few of the activities on offer.
See Ranger Service Charges for costs. (Equipment included)
T15 Windsurfing Club
- For 8 - 15 years
- 6 - 8pm (First meeting 9 May 2011)
This is a new exciting club for young windsurfers who like a challenge. Meeting every Monday evening throughout the summer you will learn new tricks, racing techniques and how to go faster. There is no joining fee; just pay for each session you attend.
See Ranger Service Charges for costs. (Equipment included)
Check out www.team15.org.uk for further details
Sub Zero
"The coolest club to meet since the last ice age".
- For 10 - 14 years old
- 11am - 1pm Meeting twice a month from November to April.
(Free introductory meeting to be held on 31st October, between 11am and 1pm to discuss with the Ranger what's on offer).
The club offers you a chance to learn new survival skills in a safe controlled environment. Shelter building, wildlife tracking, wild food, camp craft and fire making are just a sample of some of the skills required to survive in the wild.
Club Numbers limited to 12. New members welcome but booking is required in advance.
See Ranger Service Charges for costs. (Equipment included)
Contact the Park by telephone 01382 370202 or by email: monikiepark@angus.gov.uk
Crombie Country Park
Young Naturalists' Club
- For 5 - 14 years
- 10.30am - 12.30pm on the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of each month - including during the school holidays.
This is a well established informal environmental nature club with a very wide programme of activities. Meeting throughout the year - activities include navigation, bird watching, digital photography, bats and moths, country crafts...
New members are always welcome but we recommend you book in advance.
FREE.
Contact the Park by telephone 01241 860360 or by email: crombiepark@angus.gov.uk
Forfar Loch Country Park
Little Acorns
- For pre-school children and their carers.
- 10.30 - 11.30am Friday (fortnightly)
- 2.00 - 3.00pm Friday (fortnightly)
A new addition in 2010, this club is proving itself to be very popular. Making full use of the outdoor classroom available to us activities have included scavenger hunts, fur and feathers, camouflage, seeds, corms and plants, minibeast hunts and pond dips and so on.
New members are always welcome but we recommend you register your interest.
FREE.
Junior Rangers
- 5 - 14 years
- 10.30am - 12.30pm First two Saturdays of each month during term time.
- 1.30pm - 4.30pm Every Wednesday during school holidays.
Recently re-branded from the well established Mighty Oaks, this club now focuses on learning about the natural environment whilst experiencing the role of the Countryside Ranger. This is done with a very hands-on approach with the children taking much more responsibility for their own programme, within the confines of the Country Park Management Plan.
This year so far: Children have recently completed a Visitor Centre garden extension entitled 'Hospital Bed and Open all Hours' where after being given the brief they chose the plants, and did much of the physical work of digging and planting up the border. This project has been a great success, with visitors to the country park admiring the children's very hard work.
PS The children were runners up in the CSV Action Young Persons Award. Well Done to All!
New members are always welcome but we recommend you register your interest.
FREE.
Montrose Basin
Montrose Basin Visitor Centre is internationally important for geese and other wildfowl. They have a great interactive visitor centre and have teacher/naturalists on-site.
As a Scottish Wildlife Trust Reserve they hold a Wildlife Watch group on a regular basis.
There are around 300 Watch groups across the UK with the Scottish Wildlife Trust having over 20 Wildlife Watch groups all over the country taking part in outdoor games and being nature detectives.
Contact the Visitor Centre by telephone 01674 676336 or by email montrosebasin@swt.org.uk
Angus Glens
Unfortunately there are no clubs at present.
Contact the Base by telephone 01575 550233.
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