Hello and welcome to Camp Quest UK!

CQUK is the first residential summer camp for the children of atheists, agnostics, humanists, freethinkers and all those who embrace a naturalistic rather than supernatural world view.

2009 was our first year of camp, and we were the first Camp Quest to operate outside of North America, where there are currently seven successful branches. Due to high demand, we are holding two camps in 2010, in Somerset and Lincolnshire, with a capacity of 40 campers each, more than tripling our 2009 capacity of 24.

We aim to provide summer camping holidays and trips that focus on our childrens needs - physical and mental activity, and a lot of fun! As well as the more traditional outdoor activities - canoeing, climbing, zip wire, high ropes - our enthusiastic and knowledgeable counsellors will lead the children on a variety of activities which could concern anything from critical thinking and logical fallacies, to the scientific method and pseudoscience, philosophy, ethics, famous freethinkers and world religions!

Children at Camp Quest aren’t “required” to be atheists. We want to encourage children to think for themselves and to evaluate the world critically and thus draw their own conclusions. However, parents should be aware that we adopt a critical, scientific approach as opposed to a “faith-based” approach. At Camp Quest, children aren’t taught that “There is no god”. Instead, they are taught to come to their own conclusions, but more importantly, that “It’s OK not to believe in a god”.

We believe that the positive influence of Camp Quest UK will help to develop children into happy, healthy and respectful adults.

Samantha Stein

Camp Director of Camp Quest UK
January 2010