Try Caving taster sessions:

There will be more trips available during the summer school holidays dates will be posted on this site shortly.

Go off the beaten track and experience the mine just as the miners left it, centuries ago. This special event trip allows individuals and family groups to go caving without having to make up minimum numbers.

Most abilities are suitable as long as you can walk and crawl, if unsure please ask when booking. This is a three hour activity, suitable from 7 years upwards.

Please arrive wearing old clothes (so you won't mind getting dirty) and boots or wellies (with a good grip). Some wellies are available if you don't have your own. We supply helmets, caplamps, overalls and the guide (of course!).
Be prepared to get dirty, do some crawling, simple climbing and oh yes, have fun too! Deep Level activities are good value and suitable for any reasonably able bodied person, with no prior experience of caving. Give it a go!

Cost: £13.00 per child (7-17yrs inclusive), £18.00 per adult (18yrs and older).

All caving trips are limited to 15 persons per trip, please pre-book to be sure of places. All children aged 15 and under must be accompanied by a parent/adult.

To find out more about these activities or events, and to book tickets, please call us on 01594 832535 or email us at info@clearwellcaves.com

Midsummer musical spectacular: GSO presents -

A Celebration of the Natural World - inspired by the Moonflower.

6.00pm Sat 20th June 2009. 100ft underground.

A Midsummer spectacular performed by the Gloucestershire Symphony Orchestra. GSO perform underground with the children of the Forest to tell the story in music, art and movement in Hayley Savage's extraordinary musical odyssey in pursuit of the moonflower; a delicate wildflower that miraculously only blossoms for a single night each year, deep in the Amazonian rainforest.

The evening will begin with a guided tour culminating in our main candlit cavern, followed by a buffet and concert of superb inspirational music.

Margaret Mee's painting of the Moonflower/Selencereus or Strophocactus wittii, Rio Negro, 1988. Nonesuch Expeditions. Image reproduced with permission of South American Pictures.

Concert: In Nature's Realm - Dvorak, Luna Nueva - Hayley Savage, Wand of Youth (selection)- Elgar, The Sorcerer's Apprentice - Dukas.

Tickets: Adult £16.00 (Conc. £14), Child (under 18) £6.00, Family ticket (2+2) £36.00; includes concert, buffet and guided tour. The evening begins with the guided tour at 6.00pm, buffet approximately 7.00pm, concert begins 8.00pm.

All children must be supervised by a responsible adult.

For more information about the GSO see: www.gsomusic.co.uk

Forest Fairy Fayre:

Saturday and Sunday 5th/6th September 2009

Two days of enchanting entertainment, soak up the atmosphere at this magical event.

Fairy music with live bands and soloists! Story telling in our main cavern 100ft underground! Magical fairy boats on the underground lake! Fairy Market and Art Gallery! Wing making workshops! Fairy costume and face painting!

Tickets: £8.00 adults, £6.00 under 16's - tickets are per day: includes access to all events, roundhouses, marquees and Caves for the day.

Forest of Dean Brass Band:

Sat 28th and Sunday 29th November 2009

The excellent Forest of Dean Brass Band will be playing seasonal favourites again this year 100ft underground in our main cavern. See their website at: www.fodbrass.co.uk.