Welcome:

Bromley Environmental Education at High Elms (BEECHE) is a place where everyone can come to observe the very best of Bromley’s wildlife! From our wildlife walks and talks to our weekly clubs, half term events, school visits and birthday parties, there is something for everyone to enjoy!

 

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Our Visitor Centre:

Based in the beautiful High Elms Country Park with over 250 acres of wonderful woodlands, chalk meadows and some areas of rich history like the ice well! With plenty of walking trails available to pick up the centre including the history trail, nature trail and long walk covering the whole site. We also have maps and trails of our sister parks across bromley including Keston, Jubilee, Hayes and many more.

We are open weekends and half terms 10:00-16:00 weekends and half terms, throughout the week we hold our school sessions and kids clubs including toddlers and home education groups.

Our shop has many activities for all the family, including our large bug collection with over 50 different animals to see and learn some weird wonderful facts! We also have many toys and activities available to purchase to get children involved in wildlife including bug pots, guides, bird feed and books!

Bromley Environmental Educational Centre at High Elms (BEECHE) was created in 2008 by London Bromley Borough to ensure the community of Bromley, London and many more communities could be shown the very best of Bromley’s wildlife and encourage all ages to be involved and learn about wildlife.

At present they work in partnership with idverde to ensure BEECHE can show off the very best by running educational sessions, including schools, home education and many more wildlife sessions. The visitor centre is open weekends and half terms 10:00-16:00, where you can pick up maps, trails and guides on High Elms and our sister parks. In addition we have a new, large bug collection with over 50 different animals and you can find out more about them here;

 

Meet the team:

Here at BEECHE we are a small but devoted team to sharing the love for all the wonderful wildlife that Bromley has to offer;

Nuala joined our team in 2025 and runs our toddler sessions on a Tuesday and Saturday;

 

Spider joined our team in 2023 and runs our home education groups;  junior rangers/ bug club sessions; arachnophobia courses and has a deep passion for loving all creatures big and particularly our mini beauties!

 

Sue joined our team in and is the manager of countryside and education! Her deep passion for wildlife has been shown for many years and her great skills for bat catching and newt patrols are just a few of the many skills she has developed throughout the years within bromleys parks.

 

We are also very lucky to work closely alongside the ranger teams allowing us to develop our knowledge and skills further to show of the best of bromleys beautiful wildlife.

Events:

We cover a range of different events from seasonal activities, adult courses, nature walks and sessions with our expert rangers, you can see them all here: upcoming events

Duke of Edinburgh: We are happy to hear from both groups and individuals looking for a way to achieve volunteering hours for your Duke of Edinburgh Award. We may refer you to a local friends group if you are interested in volunteering in local parks.

 

 

Find all of our current Home Education offerings on our bookings page.

Here at Bromley Environmental Education we are committed to our Core Values:

  1. Responsibility & Ownership: We foster positive attitudes in our learners, empowering them to take ownership over our environment and natural world. By promoting sustainable behaviours and positive attitudes towards nature conservation we aim to inspire action for the nature found on our doorstep and beyond.
  2. Fun, Creativity & SEAL (Social & Emotional Aspects of Learning): We aim to nurture the sense of enjoyment, inspiration and creativity gained from experiential learning within nature. We believe that outdoor learning improves self-esteem, well-being, behaviour, problem-solving, cooperative learning and promotes a sense of respect for the natural world and each other.
  3. Passion: Passion is the cornerstone of our environmental education. A passion for our environment and education is key to achieving positive outcomes for each of our learners. We aim to instil our passion in our learners by embedding our core values and culturing a sense of awe and wonder in all that we do.
  4. Scientific Inquiry: The ‘outdoor classroom’ provides a meaningful way to engage learners in practical science, giving them experience of collecting and analysing data, and making predictions in the real world, beyond the limitations of the classroom or laboratory.