Our Approach | Lakewood Lodge

Lakewood Lodge is New Zealand’s premier adventure farm camp and events on the north island. We provide adventure farm camps, events, retreats, away days, lessons, activities and celebrations. We have been doing so since 1995.


WHAT IS

OUR APPROACH?

To provide the highest quality educational and cultural exchange camps and events to enrich the lives of young people and adults. Lakewood Lodge is a safe homely environment where all guests can improve their self confidence, leadership skills and learn about caring for the environment and animals.

We care about children, we care about animals, we care about the environment. We encourage children to care too.

The wellbeing of all our guests is close to our heart as we welcome them into our Lakewood Lodge family. We are different because we are the largest privately owned Farm camp on the north island so we have been able to put our homely feel into everything we do. In our school, holiday, international, family camps, retreats and away days, we encourage the development of skills with all our activities from our Lakewood Lodge Skills Development Matrix as shown below:



LAKEWOOD LODGE

SKILLS DEVELOPMENT MATRIX



DEXTERITY

Accuracy with fine motor skills, hand-eye coordination and development of physical skills



CONFIDENCE

Building up a feeling of achievement of difficult tasks or performing in front of others, breeds confidence. We also throw people into positions where they learn leadership skills



PROBLEM SOLVING

The ability to solve complex problems and persevere until a problem is solved. This fosters a feeling of achievement and independence



COMMUNICATION

Some activities require communication skills to be developed, including the ability to negotiate and solve issues with other people



COURAGE

Some activities stretch people beyond their comfort zone and through the achievement of that activity, a feeling of courage is instilled



TEAMWORK

Working together with others is a great way to further develop communication skills and confidence





HOW DO WE PUT TOGETHER OUR

CAMPS AND EVENTS?

We believe in a very guest-focused customized approach. We have a range of activities and templates for camps and events we can put together so we can leverage this material and experience to offer the best experience possible for our guests: whether they are schools or companies. Usually someone will get in touch with us, tell us what they are looking for and our team puts together a completely customized solution including activities, catering needs, accommodation options and other extramural events which meets budgetary needs as well as outcomes to be achieved. All our guests are provided with a full itinerary and plan for the time they spend at Lakewood Lodge and from the moment they arrive, are right at home cracking on with what they are here to do.

Most camps in New Zealand are incredibly structured and formulaic, whereas we cater for our guests’ unique requirements.




HOW DO WE FEEL ABOUT

SUSTAINABILITY?

Lakewood Lodge’s commitment to running an environmentally sustainable business means we hold ourselves responsible for using natural resources in a way that does not permanently damage or diminish those resources. We love our animals and our beautiful grounds and believe very deeply in preserving this little haven we have created. We practice what we preach and not only have our own water and sewerage systems, we are very focused on recycling with recycling stations available on premises. We use all our food scraps to feed our animals and teach these environmentally conscious policies to all our visitors too.

We also believe in educating all campers who visit, the basic concepts of sustainability and resource conservation as well as actions they can take in their everyday lives to live sustainably. We help all our campers develop an understanding of sustainability concepts and respect for our natural environment. We teach about actions they can implement each and every day to lessen their impact on our environment and conserve resources and encourage attitude and behavioural changes that leads to their lessened impact on the environment.




THE UNITED NATIONS

SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT GOALS

As part of our approach to sustainability and to help guide future decision making, we have aligned Lakewood Lodge with the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals – SDGs. We have chosen eight goals where we believe we can have the biggest impact and are the most appropriate for Lakewood Lodge: These are: 1 No Poverty, 3 Good Health, 4 Quality Education, 6 Clean Water and Sanitation, 7 Affordable and Clean Energy, 8 Decent Work and Economic Growth, 10 Reduced Inequalities, 13 Climate Action, 15 Life on Land, 17 Partnership for the Goals



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