Youth and Wilderness Centre Metsäkartano

Metsäkartano and surroundings

Metsäkartano is part of a national network of 10 youth centres specialized in youth work. Their function is to develop the methods used in the field of youth work, to act as centres for furthering the skills of the youth, and enable young people’s travelling domestically and abroad. The Youth Centre work together in the developing of programs and methods used in youth work, also they are cooperating in different kind of common projects. Moreover the Youth Centres serve as regional development centres for youth work and they are part of a comprehensive network of local education and serving children and youth. 

Facilities

Activity building Savotta

• Comfortable meeting rooms (10–250 people) with good acoustics and functional arrangements, and plenty of team work rooms

• A fully licensed atmospheric restaurant seating 200 and a summer terrace for 50 people with authentic Finnish food

• A peat cabin for social evenings

• Blacksmiths workshop and many outdoor activity locations

Wall climbing

• Savotta the activity building with gym, climbing wall, fitness gym, craft workshops, disco place, darkroom

• Lake with beach, two lakeside saunas and two fireplaces

• Forest with hiking and skiing routes

We also have

• Media equipment as laptops, projector, sound system, karaoke machine, cd-player

• Equipment rental service (skis, sleights, bikes and much more)

Peat cabin

Accommodation

-2 Wildernesshotels situated in log buildings Justeeri and Sirnikka: hotel standard rooms with ensuite bathrooms (87 beds, 29 rooms)

-6 Holiday Apartments (from 4 to 11 people) all are equipped with a stove, microwave, coffeemaker, dishwasher, fridge, washing machine, fireplace, tv and sauna

-Forest Lodge Metsäpirti offers 22 beds in 6 rooms and an attractive main room with log fire, sauna and well equipped kitchen

-Lumberjack Cottage Metsäkämppä is a 26 person charming lumberjack cottage, with the best Sauna around for miles

-3 star camping site area with 55 lawned pockets with electricity, well-equipped service areas and a large indoor eating area with fireplace

Holiday apartment

Target group

• Youth Work (Campschools, 5^th or 6^th grade)
• Social Youth Work (Nuotta Program a preventive program against social exclusion)
• International Youth Work (EVS, Creative Projects as Music or Art, International Projects)

Peaceful moment in winter

Canoeing

Number of young people in contact with centre: Between 3000 to 4000 individual youngsters visit Metsäkartano per year, they come with their classes (around 100 campschools per year), within the context of social youthwork (Nuotta), international projects or other camps

Our activities

• Summer / autumn programs:
  Canoeing, biking, hiking, archery, wall climbing, swamp soccer, team building games, problem solving track in the woods, wilderness skills, environmental education, handicrafts (pottery, t-shirt printing, felt work etc.), overnight trip in the forest, disco…

• Winter programs:
  Cross-country ski trips, snowshoe trips, kick sled tours, winter olympics, tobogganing, archery, wall climbing, handicrafts (pottery, t-shirt printing, felt work etc.), volleyball, basketball, disco, ice fishing, alpine curling, snow sculpturing…
  
  

Winter joy

Metsäkartano cooperates with the schools in the area (Rautavaara in Region of North Savo), the Youthwork in the area, the other Youth Centres in Finland as well as with the Ministry of Education and Culture.

Stuff: Metsäkartano employs 13,5 people full time. Throughout the year 20 people per month are averagely employed, full time staff plus part time workers. Working Fields: Reception, Maintenance, Cleaning, Kitchen, Guides, Social Work, Sales and Marketing, International Youth Work, Program Director, Executive Director

Group gathered before an activitity

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