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Educational firm, Kingswood, has taken over the former Environmental Visitor attraction known as the Earth Centre in Denaby, South Yorkshire. The 20 hectare site will be transformed into a residential ‘outward-bound’ centre for schoolchildren, creating an estimated 200 jobs including a number of apprenticeships with local colleges.
Kingswood already provides residential educational field trips to its centres at Ashford, Albrighton, Bembridge, Hexham, Mold, Penistone, West Runton, and Criel-sur-Mer in Normandy.
The Earth Centre, built at a price of £55m on the site of a former colliery, opened in 1999 but closed just 5 years later. Since then, it has been costing Doncaster Council £200,000 a year to maintain. In an effort to reduce its expenditure, the council finally put the site up for sale in October.
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