The Mepal Outdoor Centre is a very unusual recreation, leisure and training resource, unique in East Anglia (at least) for its blend of facilities, programme and clients. Although in the middle of the Cambridgeshire Fens, Mepal is less than 40 minutes drive away from Peterborough, Cambridge, Newmarket, Wisbech and Huntingdon!

The Centre is situated on the West side of the A141 (Ely - March road), between Sutton and Chatteris. The Centre offers a wide range of facilities for watersports, adventurous activities and children's play.

Modern purpose built premises include dormitories, showers, toilets, dining room, lecture room, lounge, sports hall and an indoor climbing centre, built in the shores of a twenty acre lake.

The Centre is owned and run by the Mepal Outdoor Centre Charitable Trust and although it provides residential and day activities for more than 40 Cambridgeshire schools and colleges, receives no support or assistance from the County Council, meeting all of its day to day costs from income.

Volunteers are always welcome at Mepal; we would like to run more activity clubs for young people and adults in the local area but are constrained by the need to provide qualified and experienced Instructors to supervise them. A volunteer application is available both as a word document and a pdf file in the Downloads Section.