The Kelpies Experience- an exciting BRAND- NEW aerial challenge event for 2025!

Barnardo's Charity Day - Saturday 24th May

Raising money to support more than 11,500 children, young people, parents and carers in Scotland through more than 150 specialised community-based services and partnerships across the country. We work to ensure that every child has the best possible start in life.

The Kelpies Experience is the first ever guided aerial exploration of the worlds largest equine sculptures. Embark on an exhilarating climb to the horse's mouth via a network of cables, ladders and suspended platforms. Then, feel the thrill as you descend with a free-hanging abseil or the breath-taking Quick Flight rope drop! Climb inside these iconic sculptures and uncover the history and stories behind this magnificent artwork and help our charity partnership with Barnardo's to support young people across the UK.

What would you be committing to:

• Experience takes 1.5 hours, from registration, saftey briefing through to completion
• Sign up registration fee paid to Barnardo's of £50pp plus £2.75 booking fee
• Minimum fundraising pledge of £250 raised via JustGiving

We hope you will pledge to raise a minimum of £250 for Barnardo's work in Scotland

To take part you must be:

• over 10 years old (if you are aged between 10-17 years old a supervising adult must participate alongside you)
• be at least 140cm tall and a max 200cm
• weigh less than 120kg

Got any questions? - check out these FAQs

https://www.kelpiesexperience.co.uk/faqs

What does the course look like:

After a full safety briefing, you will be moving around cables, ladders and ropes at up to 90ft off the ground. The course is designed to be challenging but you will always be clipped to a safety line and guided by professionals. Be prepared to climb up at least seven 3m vertical ladders, walk across cable bridges, crouch and crawl through gaps and crawl on suspended nets. There are platforms to stand on and rest on the way up. You will ascend 25m to the mouth of the Kelpie using a series of ladders, cable crossings, suspended platforms, nets and aerial course features before descending back down to ground level either by abseil or a quick flight device (an automatic rope based descending device that provides an initial ‘free fall’ experience before lowering to the ground).

It's amazing!!

Barnardo's Scotland

In Scotland Barnardo's support more than 11,500 children, young people, parents and carers in Scotland through more than 150 specialised community-based services and partnerships across the country. We work to ensure that every child has the best possible start in life.

We help children and young people feel safer, happier, healthier and more hopeful, by directly supporting them and their families with specialist services across Scotland and the rest of the UK raising awareness and campaigning to change the way the system works for the better. We try and do this by making your voice heard in rooms where big decisions that affect the lives of children, young people and families are made. We produce briefings, reports, consultation responses and written evidence for the Scottish Parliament, Scottish Government and a whole range of public bodies.