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Camp Quest A has SOLD OUT!

By Samantha • Feb 25th, 2010 • Category: News

Camp Quest A (Kilve Court) has now sold out, but we still have places left at Camp Quest B (Caythorpe Court). Book now to avoid disappointment!



Helen Kagin, Co-founder of Camp Quest dies at 76

By Samantha • Feb 18th, 2010 • Category: News

HELEN KAGIN, FREETHOUGHT HEROINE, DIES AT 76

Edwin & Helen Kagin and Camp Quest campers witness a rare unicorn sighting

Helen Kagin died early this evening following complications from cancer surgery.  She was 76.

Kagin was a heroine and activist in the Atheist movement.  Along with her husband, attorney Edwin Kagin, she co-founded Camp [...]



Bookings for Camp Quest UK 2010 now open!

By Samantha • Jan 13th, 2010 • Category: News

We are proud to announce that bookings for Camp Quest 2010 are now open and this year you have the choice of TWO camps - one in Somerset and one in Lincolnshire.
Camp A – Kilve Court, Somerset (SOLD OUT!)

Monday 26th July to Friday 30th July
Camp B – Caythorpe Court, Lincolnshire (11 places remaining)

Monday 23rd August [...]



Camp Quest Texas Launched

By Richard • Sep 21st, 2009 • Category: News

Camp Quest UK has been in the media a lot recently, but over in the US media interest has focused on a new Camp Quest that is starting in Texas!
Visit the Camp Quest Texas site!
There are two main ways to help out Camp Quest Texas. The first is to donate. Donation money goes to help [...]



CQ: Atheist and the Bishop

By Richard • Aug 27th, 2009 • Category: News

Camp Quest on BBC Radio Four’s ethical debate show with AC Grayling and Richard Harries. This is just the Camp Quest segment of the programme (following a visit to a faith school in inner London). This part features some soundbites of the campers doing improvised skatting, learning about astronomy and trying some origami as well [...]



Camp Quest 2009 News Coverage

By Richard • Aug 5th, 2009 • Category: News

Camp Quest seems to have attracted a large amount of media (our media section) coverage as the first ‘atheist summer camp’ in the UK. Many were quick to judge and wrote inaccurate stories of exactly what we would do and how we were set out to indoctrinate. A donation from the Richard Dawkins Foundation for [...]



Response to the Sunday Times

By Richard • Jun 30th, 2009 • Category: News

A recent series of articles in the Sunday Times (printed 28/6/2009) has caused significant media interest and unfortunately the dissemination of incorrect information.
Camp Quest is often labelled as an ‘atheist camp’ as we have a non-religious ethos, but we are open to the children from parents of all belief systems and none. Articles frame Camp [...]



Website Traffic Skyrockets!

By Richard • Mar 31st, 2009 • Category: News

Our marketing campaign organised by Christian Schneider, has already proved to be a resounding success has within hours of going live, traffic to our site has sky-rocketed from an average 50-100 hits a day to over 600 in the first few hours!
Christian worked hard to secure banner space on some of the most prominent freethinking [...]



African Birds Understand Monkey Communication

By Richard • Mar 27th, 2009 • Category: News

from nationalgeographic
Monkeys and birds in West Africa may be inadvertently pitching together to protect themselves. A new study says the hornbill can understand different diana monkey alarm calls and respond accordingly. Also, monkeys have been found to use birdcalls as early-warning systems. Various yelps, hoots, screams, squawks, and other vocalizations are used by many species [...]



Scientists track asteroid on collision course with Earth

By Richard • Mar 26th, 2009 • Category: News

Scientists have achieved a world first by tracking an asteroid heading straight for our planet and have even recovered its remnants scattered in a desert in Africa.
The object - nearly as big as a double-decker bus - was spotted by telescope and tracked as it hurtled towards the Earth’s atmosphere, where it exploded over the [...]