10 of the best UK activity holidays and summer camps for teenagers

Journey camp, West Sussex

Cobnor Actions Centre in Chichester harbour runs senior journey camps for younger individuals who wish to study new expertise and make new pals. It includes full-on days of canoeing and crusing expeditions, plus climbing, bushcraft, rafting and aeroball (a cross between basketball and volleyball – on a trampoline). Evenings are spent honing cooking expertise on the out of doors pizza oven. Teenagers keep in log-cabin dorms.
£345, ages 13 to 16; 8-12 and 15-19 August, cobnor.com

Crusing camp, Isle of Wight

UKSA Summer Camps

UKSA, a crusing academy in Cowes, runs watersport summer season camps. Teenagers can attempt dinghy crusing, keelboating, kayaking, windsurfing, paddleboarding and raft constructing/racing. Land-based actions embody archery, pool video games and crabbing. The night programme features a cinema evening, disco and the “UKSA olympics”. Lodging is bunk-style; buffet breakfasts, packed lunches and scorching dinners are supplied.
£280 for 5 days, ages 8 to fifteen; 1-26 August, uksa.org

Competition of sport, Norfolk

This competition within the grounds of Holkham Corridor affords kids professional teaching of their favorite disciplines, in lesser-known sports activities. The core programme includes soccer, tennis, netball, rugby, hockey, athletics, gymnastics, cricket and rowing. Every sporting zone is led by a “legend”; the rugby zone boasts Will Greenwood, Austin Healey, Mike Tindall and Rachael Burford. Households can deliver their very own tent or ebook a bell tent, tipi, yurt or Airstream.
From £370 for one grownup and one baby, ages 5 to 17; 12-15 August, festivalofsportuk.com

Youngsters fish summer season camp, Hampshire

Kids Fish Summer Camp, Hampshire

Teenagers can spend three days at Nether Wallop Mill studying to fly-fish. The course covers deal with and kit, fishing knots, casting, catch and launch and security. Members will progress to a day’s fishing on the River Check and find out about chalk streams, trout and different river wildlife, go bug-hunting, and learn to prepare dinner their catch. The camp concludes with a casting competitors and group speed-fishing contest.
£285 excluding lodging, ages 12 to fifteen; 25-27 July, fishingbreaks.co.uk

Horse driving vacation, Denbighshire

Lone girl and her pony in countryside
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Springhill Farm stables, close to Llangollen and Oswestry on the Welsh/English border, has been operating driving holidays for youngsters for 17 years. The six-day holidays embody hacks, leaping classes and a tack and turnout class. The spotlight is a two-day path journey by means of moors and woodlands, with an evening’s wild tenting. Riders take packed lunches, hearth up the barbecue at camp, and toast marshmallows over the hearth at evening. Again on the stables, everybody competes for rosettes in equitation and the group gymkhana. Teenagers keep in bunkhouses or cottages and have use of a scorching tub.
£790 for six nights, ages 12 to 19 (should be capable to canter in open countryside); 10 July-26 August, springhill.farm

Tryout camp, North Yorkshire, Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Derbyshire

The Summer time Camps Belief runs one- and two-week camps for kids who've by no means attended an in a single day camp earlier than. Week-long camps are at Longtown Out of doors Centre in Hereford, Frank’s Place in Worcestershire and White Corridor in Derbyshire; the two-week camp is at Aysgarth faculty in North Yorkshire. Out of doors actions are combined with video games, exploring the countryside, and tales across the campfire. Kids sleep in small dorms, all meals are included, and accompanied journey on public transport is on the market at no further price.
£295 for per week or £495 for 2 weeks, ages 8 to 16; 10-23 July and 21-28 August,summercampstrust.org

Expedition summer season camp, Highlands

Teenage Rock Climber on Climbing Wall

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unning since 1969 and attracting individuals from world wide, this camp is predicated at an journey faculty in Ardmore. Expeditions embody a mountain journey – three days and two nights trekking and wild tenting – and a sea kayaking journey, with an evening on a abandoned seashore. There are survival expertise, mountain climbing and abseiling periods; and a seashore day with bodyboarding, swimming and video games. A spotlight is an adult-free evening on uninhabited “Survival Island”.
£1,475, ages 14 to 18; 8-19 August, ridgway-adventure.co.uk

Abilities programs, Snowdonia

Plas y Brenin outdoor centre runs five-day summer season camps. The week contains a style of all the pieces: climbing, kayaking, coasteering, mountain strolling and orienteering. There are additionally weeks centered on a single sport. Night actions embody competitions and quizzes. The worth contains bunkhouse lodging and pickup/drop-off at Llandudno Junction station.
From £689, ages 12 to 17; 25-29 July and 1-5 August,pyb.co.uk

9 | Sea kayak expedition, Highlands

Kayaking on the west coast of Scotland
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Arisaig Sea Kayak Centre runs all-inclusive sea kayaking and wild tenting expeditions for households with older teenagers who've paddlesport expertise. They vary from three or 5 days exploring distant seashores and lochs within the Sound of Arisaig, to more difficult weeks in Mull, the Summer time Isles, Harris and Lewis or Orkney. Most journeys embody kayaking and tenting package, breakfast, dinner and transport from Inverness or Fort William. There are additionally two- and four-day newbies’ kayaking programs.
From £390 for 3 days, ages 15+; till 17 September,arisaigseakayakcentre.co.uk

10 | Surf membership, North Yorkshire

Group of surfers heading in dunes
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Households on vacation in Scarborough can ship the kids to surf faculty – there may be one in Cayton Bay all through the summer season holidays. Scarborough Surf Faculty’s Grommets Summer time Surf Membership is appropriate for newbies and improvers who can swim 25 metres. It contains 5 mornings of surf classes, from seashore security to stand-up browsing, plus paddleboarding and video games. The week culminates with a coasteering session and a seashore barbecue.
£150 for 5 mornings (excluding lodging), ages seven to fifteen(mother and father to stay on website with under-10s); 25 July to 26 August,scarboroughsurfschool.co.uk

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