Students come to Cumberland Lodge for an intensive academic retreat
in fantastic surroundings

Students report that, having been here, they return to their studies with renewed energy and enthusiasm. Click here to read your testimonials>>

For over 60 years we have been a forum in which the greatest minds of the day meet with university students from a range of disciplines. Our visitors book contains the signatures of the great and the good from the earliest days of the foundation. Click here to find out more>>

Click here to listen to our earliest testimonial: from a student who came here in the 1950s and went to lectures given by T.S. Eliot, Karl Popper, Stanley Spencer, A.J. Ayer, Paul Tillich and others>>