Coast Futures II

'Wise Up To Water' Project

About the Centre

The Centre is a Grade II listed traditional flint and brick building converted from the town's school in 1968, in the Centre of the small fishing port and holiday town of Wells. It offers homely, centrally heated accommodation, combined with reassuring health, safety and security systems.

The Centre is well resourced, offering:

• Laboratory and extensive field equipment
• Broadband Internet access
• 17 seater minibus
• Excellent reference library
• Games room and lounge with piano
• Spacious and comfortable bedrooms (no bunk beds)
for up to 34 people
• Drying room, showers, toilets and washing facilities
• A washing machine is available for emergency use or special need visitors
• Well equipped self-catering kitchen and dining area 
• Sole use of the Centre during your stay

The centre offers self catering facilities, giving opportunities for student involvement. Local suppliers will deliver daily. A cooked or packed lunch can be supplied if required and restaurant meals or fish and chip suppers are available locally.

Through the goodwill of local landowners, Wells Field Studies Centre has easy access to sand and shingle beaches, dunes, woods, coastal marshes and parkland together with the increasingly rare wildlife communities these habitats support. The Centre has worked with the Norfolk Coast Partnership to develop and effect a ‘Code of Sustainable Practice in Field Studies’.

We were the first field centre in Norfolk to be awarded the prestigious EnCams ‘Eco-Centres’ green flag award, acknowledging our commitment to a more sustainable lifestyle. We aim to incorporate learning for sustainability in all areas of our work.