Summer Camp or Day Camp recommendations?

[Stellasos123]

Hi we’re trying to think of Summer camps available for our three kids 9,11,13 for Summer. Any ideas? Anywhere in UK is fine for us. The only ones we can find seem to be mainly open as kind of foreign exchange student type courses which is fine but they seem to focus super heavy on learning English (which mine don’t need)… more like theatre, art, adventure, academic? Anybody any ideas? TIA

PGL? They do full weeks or 5 days I think.

There are often day camp schemes run by local authorities, either pop-up activities in a school or using their outdoor activity centres.
It may be too early at the moment as some schemes will only open bookings for the summer holidays after the Easter activities are done.

YMCA Fairthorne Manor in Hampshire do daycamps and residentials. There are different themed camps depending on which week you go, along with the regular daycamps.
There is a campsite on site too if you wanted to join them!

https://www.campcrusoe.com/

disclaimer - no experience yet - DD is going this year after much nagging!

https://www.superweeks.co.uk/

I used to volunteer with this company when I was at university. No big adventure stuff, but some are themed around different activities.

You should try XUK camps! Very good - my girls have been there, love it and have made friends from all over the world!

https://www.adirondackcamp.com/

Here's one of the great American summer camps. Founded in 1904 and has been helping kids grow into leaders for over 100 years.

Hello. I was wondering about sending my daughter next summer. Did you finally send yours? How did it go?

@StephieBrownie she loved it! She enjoyed everything about it really and she made some lovely friends . They remained in occasional contact and then liaised so some of them, inc my daughter, returned for the same week this year.

Loads of kids are returners. My daughter intends to attend until she is 15 - and then at 16 they can attend as a volunteer and train to be a camp counsellor (CC). They can then apply to be a paid CC from 17, so many of them are retired campers.

The kids are out into groups of 10 - similar ages - and each group has their own CC to hang out with, arrange games , they sleep in cabins near the kids .

She wants to go for 2 weeks this year.

One thing that I noticed was that when I took my daughter this year - we went to book her in - and the camp director , Jeremy, immediately greeted her by name and told her that one of her friends had already arrived. Given that they run the camp for about 5 weeks, with over 100 kids every week, I have no idea how he does that but I was v impressed.

Hope that helps.

Camp Cooper. As close to a US summer camp experience as you’re going to get, without going to the states!

https://www.internationalsummercampuk.com

I know several children who have been and had an amazing time