Dirty Day is brought to you by Rat Race, the UK’s largest provider of adventure challenge events and the guys who were behind the world’s biggest assault course – Dirty Weekend. This epic event unfolded in the glorious woods and countryside of the Burghley Estate between 2012 and 2022 and for 10 years was the world’s biggest assault course.

 

When Dirty Weekend came to a spectacular close after a stellar 10 year run, a series of huge wooden obstacle structures that were built into the woods of the Burghley Estate were conserved, loads of materials were upcycled, some super-cool extra activities installed - such as zip wires, laser tag, axe throwing and all sorts of other stuff - and Forest Facility was born. Over the past 3 years Forest Facility has established itself as a premier small-group adventure centre offering loads of action to birthday parties, corporate groups, schools and loads of other users.

In a nostalgic nod to the famous Dirty Weekend of old, for 1 day only we are opening up the assault course, putting together a special-edition 4 mile lap featuring over 60 obstacles of the old Dirty Weekend course, plus some absolute whoppers like the Ewok village. We will also be opening up old-skool classics such as the big water jump, lake swim and the underground tunnels.

HOW WILL IT WORK?
Our format will see us using the existing awesome obstacles at Forest Facility, whilst opening up a few of the old favourites that do not get used much anymore, such as the maHOOSive water jump, lake swim and underground tunnels. It will all take place on a special-edition 4 mile loop and you will have the option (as an adult) to do 1 or 2 laps, offering 60 (or 120) obstacles. For teens, (13 – 17) we are offering the 4 mile course and for families, we have a super-cool 1.5 mile wave that you will be able to do together.

We will start folks off in waves and you can choose your starting wave when you enter, enabling you to enjoy the course at your preferred time (subject to availability – early waves are likely to sell out fast). This also enable those who wish to experience more of the Forest Facility action to do so, by signing up to some of the other exciting activities that will be running on-site all day. For info on those activities, check out the Forest Facility site HERE .

 

FAMILY WAVE?
The family wave will be separate from the adult waves and will enable families to enjoy the course together at their own pace on  shortened (but still massively action-packed) 1.5 mile lap. This will include most of the same obstacles as the 4 mile loop but will not have the lake swim, big water jump or underground tunnels; more accessible and family-friendly obstacle options will be presented at some locations on the course, too. This option is suitable for all children 6 and up; with a special price offered for groups of 4 (minimum of 1 adult, but any combo is fine – e.g. 2 kids, 2 adults; 1 adult, 3 kids; 3 adults,1 kid, etc).

Those who want to do the full lap (4 miles) or 3 laps (8 miles) can do; those who want to do multiple laps and work towards our special Dirty Weekend Challenge medal can do so too (more on that below). As with all Rat Race events, everything is un-timed and this is not a race. We celebrate finish lines not finish times.

DIRTY WEEKEND RETRO MEDAL
In a firm nod towards the epic beast of old, if you are busting for a fix and want to put yourself through 20 miles of awesome obstacle action, you can choose to tip your hat firmly back towards the days of DW and opt to do as many laps as you can within a 6 hour period. For those who manage 5 laps or more, that will be the equivalent of 20 miles – the course length of the old Dirty Weekend and you will have also racked up over 300 obstacles if you go round 5 times, too. Phew! We reckon that is worthy of a special medal and for those who want to try it, we are offering the DW Challenge retro medal up for grabs. If this is for you, you may choose this option when you enter. If you just want to go round once or twice, (4 miles or 8 miles), don’t worry, that is also fine. You do not have to do the full 5 laps!

 

SPEND THE DAY AND DO MORE
Introducing Forest Facility adventure centre
For those who wish to make a day of it, Forest Facility will be operating its fantastic array of adventure activities. Choose from loads of family fun, such as zip wires, axe throwing, archery, laser tag, mini tanks, family treasure hunt and more. Forest Facility will be operating a schedule of bookable activities on the day and you can book all activities direct on the website, HERE

WHY ARE WE DOING IT?
The reason we are doing all of this is both to have a great time in the woods on these amazing obstacles with a quirky nostalgic nod back towards the Dirty Weekend of old; and to raise some funds towards the purchase and protection of a totally different forest, several thousand miles away.

This is a special edition event, hosted in partneship with Forest Facility and using the power of 1 forest here in the UK to help us purchase and protect a strategically important tract of another forest, in central America. You can read all about our Project: Jungle HERE and proceeds from Dirty Day go towards this project. So far, we have raised over 100k GBP towards this lofty goal and this event will bring us closer to our target of buying our target plot in 2026.