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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Some of the problems highlighted by Philip Barnes in current religious education (RE) may be legitimate. One survey of pupils may well indicate pupil dissatisfaction with RE as taught in schools. But we cannot pass smoothly on from this one survey in one county to assert that this is because the subject itself is nationally [...]

A landmark report has indicated that tens of thousands of children are underachieving because of patchy standards in Scottish schools. The report, Improving Scottish Education, reveals concerns about the performance of a third of the council education departments which have direct control over schools, with the watchdog embarking on a programme of monitored improvement. The [...]