During the summer months we run camps and holidays.
Junior members are taken each year for a weekend at a fairly local camp site. While we are there the boys and girls sleep with a friend in small tents which they put up themselves.
They enjoy all sorts or sports and games at the camp site and go to nearby facilities for other exciting activities such as archery, swimming, abseiling, climbing, crate stacking, Laser Quest, zip-wire, 10-pin-bowling etc.
We begin to train our Junior children in the skills of cooking while at camp, this comes in very useful when they are older and taking part in the Duke of Edinburgh's Award Scheme. The children cook their own breakfast at Junior camps.
Sometimes the Juniors camp for a weekend in the grounds of Wicksteed Park, which is a theme park in Kettering. Whilst there the children can enjoy all the amazing activities on offer for the whole weekend.
Our Company and Senior Section members are taken on a week camping holiday during the last week of July each year. We usually go to either Skegness or Great Yarmouth.
The camp sites we use are top quality, with excellent facilities. Activities during the week will include swimming, boating, crazy golf, go karting, theme parks, time on the beach and visits to wildlife centres and other places of interest. In the evenings we go to shows, cinemas, amusements, stock car racing, firework displays, etc.
The young people are given a list of possible activities on the first day of the camp, and they then vote on what they want to do during the week. There's never a dull moment at our camps and because our own voluntary staff do all the organising, the cost can be kept down below similar holidays run by other bodies such as schools.
Our Senior members are encouraged to do the Duke of Edinburgh's Award with us. Because of our voluntary status we are able, unlike other providers such as schools, to offer this activity free of charge.
See the Picture Gallery for images of all our camps since 2004.
