Black Mountains College

Black Mountains College is a brand-new college in the Brecon Beacons National Park, having launched in 2021 with our first cohort of students. We aim to create a future where nature and humans thrive. BMC focuses on the challenge of our times: how to build a fair and just society within safe planetary boundaries. We offer Further Education NVQ courses, various short courses and residential camps, and a single degree programme - BA (Hons) Sustainable Futures: Arts, Ecology and Systems Change. 

Our learning model, applied across all our courses, integrates the head, hands and heart, multi-sensory protocols, outdoor learning and multiple hierarchies of knowledge or ways of knowing.

Learning in context, on the land, in ecosystems, within economies and social structures and organisations is what applied, experiential and problem-based learning is all about. All our courses acknowledge the forest school principle that re-connection to nature begins with making nature itself the classroom. Studies have shown that outdoor learning correlates with enhanced learning outcomes, well-being, concentration, behaviour, memory, and confidence.

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Tool Sharpening and Maintenance Workshop

Sat 10 Jun 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Talgarth Car Park, LD3 0PQ

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Aquaponics Short Course

Sat 10 Jun 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM

Vowchurch, Herefordshire, HR2 0RA

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Moth and Butterfly ID Course

Sat 24 Jun 9:00 AM - 2:30 PM

Talgarth Car Park, LD3 0PQ

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Tiny Homes Short Course

Sat 24 Jun 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Vowchurch, Herefordshire, HR2 0RA

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Bat Ecology Short Course

Sat 1 Jul 9:30 AM - 11:00 PM

Talgarth Car Park, LD3 0PQ

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Botanical Dyeing

Sat 1 Jul 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Hay Castle, HR3 5DG

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Hurdle Making and Greenwood Crafts

Sat 1 Jul 10:00 AM - 3:30 PM

Hay Castle, HR3 5DG

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Print Making for Activism

Sun 2 Jul 9:30 AM - 2:00 PM

Hay Castle, HR3 5DG

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A New Story – Radical Adaptation

Wed 12 Jul 3:00 PM - Sun 16 Jul 2:00 PM

Talgarth Car Park, LD3 0PQ

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Writing, Climate and the Living World

Thu 20 Jul 4:00 PM - Mon 24 Jul 11:00 AM

Talgarth Car Park, LD3 0PQ

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Botanical Illustration for Nature Connection

Sat 5 Aug 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Hay Castle, HR3 5DG

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Hurdle Making and Greenwood Crafts

Sat 5 Aug 10:00 AM - 3:30 PM

Hay Castle, HR3 5DG

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Tiny Homes Short Course

Sat 19 Aug 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Vowchurch, Herefordshire, HR2 0RA

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Tiny Homes Short Course

Sun 27 Aug 11:00 AM - 4:00 PM

Vowchurch, Herefordshire, HR2 0RA

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Music, Climate and the Living World

Wed 27 Sep 4:30 PM - Sun 1 Oct 11:00 PM

Penpont, Brecon, Powys, LD3 8EU

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Radical Adaption for Parish & Town Councillors : Creating Green and Resilient Communities

Wed 11 Oct 7:00 PM - Wed 25 Oct 9:15 PM

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Radical Adaptation for Faith Leaders: Creating Community Sanctuaries

Tue 14 Nov 7:00 PM - Tue 28 Nov 9:15 PM

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