Harbour Challenge

Welcome to Harbour Challenge, a unique adventure, and training company based in the very heart of Poole Harbour on Brownsea Island. Welcoming all group types, they can cater for individuals, clubs, schools and more. They also run kids camps during the school holidays!

We are proud of our ability to design and deliver specific and highly professional experiences and training, tailor-made especially for our clients. We can deliver courses and training throughout South-West of England, depending on the requirements of each adventurer.

Their instructors and trainers are taught to the highest of standards in their chosen fields and are regularly assessed to ensure that they maintain and develop their good practice.

Harbour Challenge offers the following adventure sports activities:

• Abseiling
• Sailing
• Summer Activity Club for 8 - 16-year-olds
• Climbing
• Kayaking
• Orienteering
• Canoeing
• Archery
• Coasteering
• Rafting

All income from the centre goes towards supporting charitable work with young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. If you´re looking to have a ball in the great outdoors, look no further than Harbour Challenge. For more information please do not hesitate to contact us

Welcome to Harbour Challenge Canoeing, where you can have a go at one of the greatest water sports out there. Once you pick up the basics, the sky´s the limit. There are oodles of different things you can do with canoes and endless places to visit. With a canoe, you can get up close in a way no other type of watercraft would let you.

It is a complex discipline that becomes easier helped by the hand of our coaches. The company is extremely professional and the canoeing has excellent benefits for souls. The internal health, the inside thoughts and the magic of the water ... you can find those characteristics at our centre.

Red or green canoes, children or adults chances!

Harbour Challenge offers a British Canoe Union (BCU) introductory course so you will be on your to thoroughly enjoying this sport and moving on to the next level.

So come out and try canoeing (or if you´re already experienced, come and enjoy it more!). Explore, discover, ride the waves, play games, get fit. It´s an experience you won´t want to miss out on. Contact Harbour Challenge Canoeing today and get out on the water!

Face the challenge; feel the power of becoming one with your kayak and the sense of freedom that it brings at Harbour Challenge Kayaking. Live the exploration at an extreme level... The sea, the water is there. The central of monitors was reunited based on the experience and the professionalism of each one. 

Kayaking is an adrenaline filled activity that is suitable for anyone looking for adventure and excitement. We combine the British Canoe Union certified course with Harbour Challenge’s expert and professional tuition with fully qualified instructors, you are bound to rapidly improve your skills and be set for the rapids.

This is a wonderful activity for individuals or groups. Whether you’re a complete beginner or want to fine tune your skills, Harbour Challenge can cater for you with sessions and courses designed for your level of ability.

Harbour Challenge Kayaking will be delighted to get you paddling so don’t delay; contact us to book. The days at our water are plenty funny and suitable for you. No matter the distance, it justs matters your mood and the smile that you gift to us.

At Harbour Challenge Sailing, get out on the water and enjoy the exhilarating sport of sailing! It´s the one and only way to enjoy the water! They are a water sports centre that offers expert and professional RYA tuition for everyone, no matter what their sailing abilities!

Their selection of RYA courses runs from Youth, Adult to Advanced, so there´s never limits to the improvement of your sailing skills. Their private lake is a wonderful backdrop to practice this activity; not only is it scenic, but it offers excellent water conditions for lessons.

Navigation is for brave people. The most our little sailers have a special spirit at the time they arrived. Our special guest is those little members of the family. The impression is bigger when the age is smaller so we can provide the best knowledge day about sailing to them. Enjoy a performance!

Share the sailing experience and come along with friends, family, colleagues or even schoolmates. Harbour Challenge Sailing will be delighted to cater to you. Contact them today and book your sailing experience as soon as possible.

Harbour Challenge Coasteering offers you the opportunity to have a go at the ultimate adventure activity; coasteering! Involving a bit of everything, coasteering will have you scrambling, climbing, swimming and jumping off coastal cliffs into the wild water below!

Our professional staff is proud to tailor to groups while providing instruction and training suited for each adventurer. This is an excellent activity for corporate days, team building events, hen and stag dos or any other special event you can come up with.

This is also a great adventure to develop certain skills, including survival and physical ones, like logic, partnership. We dare to say that if you come with your family, including kids, or a group of friends, your relationship will strengthen due to the fact that you will need to put into practice other skills like confidence and guidance. 

Contact Harbour Challenge Coasteering and their friendly and professional staff will be more than happy to help you book your coasteering adventure today!

*For further details, like directions, proper clothing and more, don't hesitate and write to us. 

Face the challenge, defeat gravity and scale up rock faces and boulders at Harbour Challenge Climbing. Climbing is an adrenaline filled activity that is suitable for anyone looking for a bit of adventure and with Harbour Challenge´s expert and professional tuition, you are bound to rapidly improve your skills and be set for the mountains. a natural contact day! 

Our clubs and special instructions make our coaches special people who have a special eye for those climbers that want a deep knowledge about this rocky discipline. 

This is a wonderful idea for a group activity. Harbour Challenge can cater to all so chose them for your hen or stag do, corporate day or team building event. Share the fun!

Roper help but the mind is the principal tool in that box to ascend to the summit. Even at the ground, the rush of the passion overwhelms your body. The views are hypnotic and the sound of the river... is our classic kind of music. 

Harbour Challenge Climbing will be delighted in showing you the ropes, so do not hesitate to contact them and let them show you the ropes!

Contact our centre!

Welcome to Harbour Challenge Archery, where you can release the Robin Hood or Maid Marion in you! Armed with a bow and arrow, work on your aim, concentration and upper body strength while you enjoy the traditional and ever-popular sport!

Basic entertainment and funny classes of aiming. The equipment is very modern and like we think generally in alls, the bows adapt easily from the little archers and experts are provided of more professional guns. 

We find inspiration in every face that enter for our doors. The target practice is a fundamental step that we take in a count to feel independence inside this archer world. 

Try this crazy archer session. Every age and every mood. 

Come along with friends, family or even colleagues and see how much fun it is getting some friendly competition going. It´s a brilliant idea for hen and stag dos, corporate days, team building or any other special event you can think of!

Come and find out how much fun you can have with a bow and arrow! Contact Harbour Challenge Archery today and they will be thrilled to help you arrange your Archery session!

Welcome to Harbour Challenge Abseiling where you can learn to control your own descent down rock faces, boulders, even buildings! Practically opposite of climbing, abseiling great fun for those who are already fans of climbing or those looking to enjoy heights (or get over their fear of them)!

Harbour Challenge boasts of excellent instructors that will tailor their tuition individually to each abseiler. Why not come along with friends, family or even colleagues and share the adventure with others. Fun is always more fun in good company!

Work out vertically! We attribute our passion to our years in the summits and the intention of breath better in a natural world. Rappel into the rocks and watch awesome views. The monitor´s capacities are the hand to develop yours. . We considered talented every climber and you make us useful to the sport world.
Generally we adapt the guide and the route to newbies and remember that you will have us like your backup.

For more information or enquiries, contact Harbour Challenge Abseiling and they will be thrilled to help you planned your abseiling adventure today!

Welcome to Harbour Challenge Windsurfing where everyone can have a go at the exhilarating water sport of windsurfing. Windsurfing is a wonderful sport for every to try. Although it presents a bit of a challenge at the beginning, in no time everyone will be up at gliding over the water with the help of nature´s natural propeller: the wind.

Extremely funny, best beaches and vibrant mood. Every aspect is fully check it for us like a responsible staff. Let the wind be in your side and create a windsurf group in one day. Compete and smile, navigate and enjoy! Everyone technique is perfect but just different. Nowadays the importance of the windsurfing is at the top of the disciplines. 

Harbour Challenge Windsurfing offers RYA courses for both adults and youth. Their courses are mostly geared towards beginners, but once the windsurfer has the basics down pat, there are no limits.

Come along with friends, family or even colleagues and enjoy the adventure with others! Do not hesitate to contact Harbour Challenge Windsurfing for any enquiries and they will be delighted to help you get out on the water as soon as possible!

Come and learn to drive a powerboat and experience the thrills and adrenaline of flying over the water with the wind whipping around your face! Come to Harbour Challenge Powerboating and with their powerboating lessons, learn how to handle safely this endless source of fun and thrills and blow your cobwebs out!

Come along to Harbour Challenge Powerboating and get RYA certified. You will start off with all the basics and essentials and you can move up until you´re an absolute old hand at it. They offer introductory lessons for children as young as 8, up to advanced courses.

These inflatables have a huge power thanks to a motor that drive and ride the waves like a fish but... above the water. The true personality of every staff member recharges the energy of the guest to let them breathe some pure air. The speed is incredible but very suitable for every need. 

Look no further for expert, professional and quality instruction. Harbour Challenge Powerboating will provide you with the best tuition, and they will be more than happy to help you book your powerboating tuition today!