Everyone

Changes for 2026 are highlighted in red, please take special note of these.

Arrival — Residents may arrive from 2:00pm. Campers should arrange to arrive after 11:00am to set up camp. There is nothing provided by Bible School until drinks in the marquee at 2:00pm. Please bring food and drinks with you, visit the Kaldi Café onsite or go into Newport. Please follow signs to the camp site and report to Sis Lois Brace who will register you, check your fire extinguisher etc, show you to your pitch and supply a welcome pack and site details.

Car Parking — When you have unloaded, please park your car in the car park. Do not obstruct access routes or fire doors. Your car registration will be required when checking into Bible school.

Resident registration and refreshments for all start at 2:00pm in the dining room/marquee — You will be given a welcome pack that includes your programme and Bible School name badge. Please ensure that you, and those in your care, wear the name badge at all times and that it is not defaced or damaged.

The Programme starts at 4:30pm on Monday and finishes at 1:00pm on Saturday. It is expected that all those booked in attend all the main meetings and participate in the Breaking of Bread on Saturday morning. Please be punctual to all events. A bell will be rung ten minutes before the start of each session.

Tour of Campus — For those coming for the first time there will be a tour of the campus at 3:30pm on Monday. Please meet outside the main door of the dining room.

Dress code — Please take special care that you are dressed modestly so as not to give offence (1Tim 2:8–10). At Bible School sisters wear a head covering to the main sessions.

Residents have the use of Jerman, Leverhulme and Princess Royal Halls. These have single rooms with en-suite facilities – bed linen, soap and towels are provided. On the Saturday please strip the bed linen leaving it outside your room, vacate the room and return your key by 10:00am to reception.

Room Keys are provided and you are advised to lock your door when you leave your room. Lost keys are charged to you by the university at £25 each. Please do not hang your key on your badge as this scratches the plastic cover and is the greatest cause of key loss to attendees.

About your possessions — Bible School insurance does not cover your personal property so please make sure your home insurance covers you. You may wish to take out holiday insurance as cancellations after 24 July may have to be paid in full. Lost property is looked after by Bro Nigel Arscott but please take care of your family’s property and check all rooms before leaving on Saturday. Please leave your pets, bicycles, skateboards, scooters, roller blades etc. at home.

Please read the fire regulations displayed around the university. Pushchairs are not allowed in the Main Hall or upstairs foyer. Trained fire marshals will be on duty at certain times – please cooperate with them in the event of an emergency.

Shared campus — Parents and guardians should be aware that we do not have exclusive use of the Harper Adams campus. Staff and some postgraduate students remain on site. The self-contained flats on the very top floor of all the residences we are using are let out to postgraduate students during the Bible School week.

Visitors — the Bible School is not able to facilitate anyone visiting you or the school during the week. Please ensure your family and friends are aware of this beforehand.

Internet access is provided within the campus in the form of Wi-Fi.

Mobile phones — Please ensure these are turned off during all meetings. Other mobile devices to be set on silent.

Recordings — The main sessions (and the optional sessions) will be live streamed on campus and also free for all attendees to watch immediately afterwards up until the end of August. Audio recordings will be available for download on our website. It will also be possible to order a USB memory stick with the Video and Audio recordings which will be posted to you a few weeks later, £20 for new memory stick or £10 for recycled. Please remember to bring your previous memory stick if you want to recycle. It will be possible to pay by card this year.

Photographic images — We may take images of sports, crowd or group events for display on our website, and it is understood that websites can be seen throughout the world and not just in the United Kingdom, where UK law applies. We will not include personal details on our website or in printed publications. The absence of an objection is taken as an agreement to this practice.

Drones — No drones are allowed on the University Campus.

Children

Children’s classes have been arranged during all the main sessions. Parents/guardians are responsible for their children at all other times. Please ensure that they are in the allocated class on time – contact Bro Dave or Sis Jo Morgan if you have any concerns. For the safety of all Bro Dave and Sis Jo check attendance at the start of each lesson.

Mobile Devices will not be permitted during children’s classes. Please ensure the children have a hard copy of the Bible with them.

Crèche — The quiet crèche with video relay is intended for small and sleeping babies and their parents during the main sessions, this is in the small dining room. The supervised activity crèche caters for children aged three and under and they will have Bible stories and activities. Please note the activity crèche is not a suitable place to leave a sleeping baby — please make use of the quiet crèche in this instance. All three crèches will be available during the Breaking of Bread.

Babies/young children — For those sharing a room with a child aged four or under you need to bring a travel cot and/or bedding with you. Microwaves for heating milk and baby food are provided in the kitchens in all Halls. Yellow bags are provided in your room for nappy disposal.

Child protection — Parents and guardians should be aware that the facilitation of children’s sessions is based on an informal, non-commercial arrangement between friends and family, so that children enjoy lessons/activities while the adults are in their sessions. Those adults facilitating the children’s sessions are not DBS checked as part of Bible School.

Sports and Leisure Activities

Recreation — There is a wide range of supervised sport and recreational activities, details of which are contained in the programme for the week and also displayed on the sports notice board. Bring your own rackets, balls, trainers, walking shoes etc. Trainers must be worn in the Sports Hall. Sadly, the swimming pool is permanently unavailable for this and future years. All sporting activities you participate in are at your own risk.

The Book Shop will be open Monday, Wednesday and Thursday evenings and Tuesday afternoon. Please note, payment is by card only.

Cash machine — There is an ATM available in the entrance area of the ‘Welly Inn’, which is located near the Faccenda building.

Socialising — This year we have provided a marquee for socialising. The dining room and the Marquee will stay open for all and drinks will be available until 22:30 every evening. Please look out for each other, especially those who are with us for the first time, or have come on their own. Drink-making facilities are also in the halls of residence kitchens. The Friday evening meal is for everyone to attend and is included within your booking. In the large Marquee on the Friday evening there will be an ‘Open House’ including singing for all from 20:45.

All are requested to be in their own room, tent or caravan by 23:00 and quiet between 23:00 and 07:00. Parents/guardians are responsible for ensuring that their children and young people observe this rule. For reasons of safety, and in the interest of others, ‘sleep-overs’ and room sharing is not permitted.

Campers

Additional requirements for 2026.

Fire prevention — It is a condition of the university that each pitch must have a fire extinguisher for their main cooking area and a second one if they have a gas barbeque. These will be checked on arrival.

All caravans and motorhomes must have a smoke alarm, a carbon monoxide alarm and a fire blanket. These will be checked on arrival.

Spacing — There must be a 6 metre gap between all pitches. Pitch any gazebos etc. in front of unit, not between pitches. All tents, caravans, motorhomes, gazebos, event shelters must fit with in your 10mx10m pitch.

There should be one designated cooking area on each pitch and it must be away from trees and hedges.

Charcoal BBQs, including disposable ones, fire pits and candles etc. are not permitted.

Vehicles — Once your tent or caravan is set up, please move your car off the campsite and into one of the car parks.

If you are sleeping in a motorhome, using a rooftop tent or similar, then please park up safely and do not move the vehicle during the week.

Washing and drying machines are operated through the use of plastic ‘laundry top-up cards’, which can be obtained from the campsite warden Sis Lois Brace. Please pay for your usage via the QR code on the rear of the programme.

Toilets and showers each pitch will have a key to an allocated room in Gloucester Hall for their sole use. This room is not to be used as a bedroom. There are also toilets and showers available in the rugby changing facilities and the Student Union changing rooms by the Main Bar.

Drinking water taps are available at the bottom of the camping field and near the entrance to Ward Hall. A waste water disposal point is available by the Ward Hall tap.

A chemical disposal point is located near the rear of the Lounge Bar.

Food — The Kaldi Café, located in Bamford Library (Mon to Fri 09:30 to 16:30) offers grab and go sandwiches, rolls, snacks and drinks, which are paid for at the counter on the day. Take away meals will be available from QMH Dining room after residents are served, payment by card at the servery. Food items can be purchased from the convenience shop in the Faccenda building. Opening times displayed on site.

Cold storage — fridge freezers are available in Leverhulme and Jerman ground floor kitchens. These can fill up so campers are advised to use ice blocks in cold boxes or purchase fresh food/milk as required from Faccenda shop or superstores in Newport (2.5 miles).

Rubbish must be bagged and disposed of in the skips at the rear of the kitchen. Please bring rubbish sacks and leave your pitch clean.

Mobile Phone charging will be available in the QMH Hall,
The campsite must be vacated by 3:00pm on Saturday.

Generally

Any damage to university property must be reported to a committee member. Please do not remove university property from the Halls.

Illness and Accident — There are first aid kits in the activity crèche, teaching blocks, reception and with Sis Lois Brace on the campsite. There are accident forms at reception which, in the event of an incident, need to be completed with Sis Faith Ashton.

Professional advice is available from the local doctors at Linden Hall surgery on 01952 820400 or out-of-hours call 111. For dentistry there are local services: NHS 01952 811973 or private at Wycherleys’ 01952 459459; both are in Newport. The nearest hospital with 24-hour A&E (10 miles) is Princess Royal, Apley Castle, Telford TF1 6TF. 01952 641222. The nearest minor injuries unit (20 miles) is at Whitchurch Community Hospital and is open 9-5 Mon-Fri. Claypit Street, Whitchurch, Shropshire, SY13 1NT (SatNav SY13 1RR) 01948 509232.

All these arrangements are subject to the will of our Heavenly Father.