Bronze and Silver Duke of Edinburgh [DofE] groups MUST have a supervisor onsite overnight.

Supervisors from all groups onsite are responsible for the condition of the Third Field Loo Block.

ALL Duke of Edinburgh [DofE] groups MUST have a supervisor onsite overnight.¹

Supervisors from all groups onsite are responsible for the condition of the Third Field Loo Block.

¹ Considerations relating to duty of care, insurance liability and legal responsibility mandate that adequate supervision must be arranged by the Licensed Organization [LO] or the Approved Activity Provider [AAP] who made the booking and physically put in place, both for the benefit of the DofE participants as well as Westermill Farm.

The Edwards family cannot accept responsibility for personal injury to clients or their guests — howsoever caused by the client, members of their party or other visitors to Westermill Farm.

The Edwards family cannot accept responsibility for loss or damage to client’s or guest’s personal property — including damage to vehicles, horse boxes or trailers parked at Westermill Farm — howsoever caused by the client, members of their party or other visitors to Westermill Farm.

• Students or Participants: Camping ONLY in the Fourth Field — see Summer Campsite

• Supervisors, assessors or suport staff: Camping in ANY campsite field

• Students, participants, supervisors, support staff camping in First Field ONLY — see Winter Campsite

Please see this diagram for DofE parking at Westermill Farm: Summer Campsite

• Mini-buses should not be driven on the fields

• Mini-buses should be parked in the area on the left as you drive into Fourth Field — see Summer Campsite

• “Regular” 5 or 6 passenger motor vehicles may be parked on the fields

• All parking in First Field ONLY — see Winter Campsite

• DofE supervisors and support staff may use the First Field Hot Water Shower and Loo Block — see Summer Campsite

• DofE students and participants to ONLY use the Third Field Loo Block
  • No showers
  • Cold water washing up area
  • See Summer Campsite

• DofE supervisors to check Third Field Loo Block on departure

• In effect — the Third Field Loo Block is to be managed by DofE supervisors, individually or co-operatively with other groups’ supervisors

• Students, participants, supervisors, support staff use the First Field Loo Block ONLY — see Winter Campsite

• The First Field Loo Block is to be managed by DofE supervisors, individually or co-operatively with other groups’ supervisors

Westermill Farm Camping requires DofE groups to provide the route maps for each of its teams illustrating ingress to and egress from Westermill Farm.

Please take into consideration that the information provided by these route maps may be shared with neighbouring property owners in the event that a gate is left open — along a route — which results in unintended livestock movement or other incovenience to the relevant landowner.

Westermill Farm Camping appreciates that “ad hoc” changes to DofE team route maps are a common occurence but nonetheless we require alterations to routes be communicated in a timely fashion to us.

All rubbish and recycling to be removed by DofE participants, supervisors and support staff.

DofE bookings must be paid in full BEFORE arrival.

Whether you are a Licensed Organization [LO] or an Approved Activity Provider [AAP] — in booking a visit to Westermill Farm Campsite you must comply with our pre-payment system.

Institutional or Third Party invoicing protocols will be accommodated at Westermill Farm Camping’s convenience BUT in all cases — without exception — payment must be made in full before a group’s arrival.

Our preferred method of payment, for its security and utility, is bank transfer — BACS — but are agreeable to accepting British legal tender — upon arrival — if arrangements have been made in advance.

We do not process credit card transactions.

Details for BACS:

• Name:   Westermill Farm Holidays Ltd.
• Sort Code:  30-90-49
• Account No:  44493460

Details for cheques:

• Please make cheques payable to:  Westermill Farm Holidays Ltd.

Please include the…

• Name of the Institution for which the booking is made
• Booking Reference Number
• Name of the Booking or Administrative Contact
• Email address of the Booking or Administrative Contact

… in all communications: Thank you.

If you have to cancel your visit, please inform us as soon as possible.

All monies which have been paid will be returned minus a £10 handling fee.

Changes to numbers of participants or dates of arrival and/or departure will be accommodated.

Monies owed due to increased participant numbers must be paid either before or upon arrival.

Monies to be refunded due to decreased participant numbers will be made available upon arrival or on the first bank business day after the date of arrival via BACS to a designated recipient.

• In the event of your camping pitch becoming unavailable due to circumstances beyond our control — such as a mandated “local lockdown” which affects Westermill Farm — a refund of all monies paid, less a £5 handling charge, will be made by Westermill Farm.

• In the event of your camping pitch becoming unavailable due to circumstances within our control — a refund of ALL monies paid will be made by Westermill Farm.

5 MPH

All Road Traffic Act regulations apply on all areas of the farm.

We are a working farm and a family campsite: Please drive slowly at all times — Thank you.

• Dogs must be kept under control at all times.

• Dogs must be kept on a leash in the campsite and on the tracks running through the campsite.

• All fouling must be picked up and deposited in one of the specialty bins provided.

• For the safety of yourselves, your dogs and our animals, do not take dogs near our livestock: especially sheep, cows and calves.

At Westermill Farm we have a variety of animals: geese, chickens, dogs, cats, sheep and cows — please respect any farm animal you meet and ensure that both your safety and theirs remains paramount when you interact with them.

Westermill Farm is a quiet — family campsite — so we ask for NO NOISE after 11 PM.

If you wish to listen to music, sports or other audio broadcasts — that is well and good — but IF others can hear them — then it is not.

In general — please keep sound to a minimum: Thank you.

• There is NO SMOKING allowed inside ANY buildings on the farm!

Westermill Farm reserves the right to require people to vacate the site if it has been determined they have been, or are, exhibiting disruptive behaviour.

The Edwards family reserve the right to charge for any non-trivial damage to Westermill Farm property howsoever caused.

• Fishing with rod and reel on the River Exe within Westermill Farm’s property boundaries is available.

• Prior approval from Westermill Farm is required.

• The flying of drones strictly prohibited without prior approval from Westermill Farm.

• The flying of drones is limited to drone pilots with CAA certification.

  • CAA certification to be verified by Westermill Farm prior to flight.

• The details of drone flights must be confirmed by Westermill Farm prior to flight:

  • GPS location (center)
  • areal extent
  • altitude
  • time of day
  • duration of flight

ALL flight telemetry and visual data MUST be released immediately to Westermill Farm without charge or constraint of copyright.

• IF you wish to metal detect you must obtain prior approval from Westermill Farm.

• ALL metals recovered must be made available for inspection by Westermill Farm.

• Without hindrance or let you agree to share 50% of any findings with Westermill Farm, pursuant to an independent third party valuation.

• The following details of an undertaking must be confirmed by Westermill Farm prior to detecting.

  • GPS location (center)
  • areal extent
  • time of day
  • duration

• You agree that you are fully responsible for your activities whilst using the internet service provided by Westermill Farm and that the provision of this service is a privilege and not a right.

• You also agree not to engage in any unlawful activity whilst using Westermill Farm Wi-Fi.

• You respect the privacy and security of other users on our networks.

• You understand and accept that we do not guarantee privacy, security or access to Westermill’s Wi-Fi network.