Camp Quest UK is a voluntary not-for-profit organisation that runs a series of secular summer camps for children aged 9-16.

At our camps, children take part in a combination of challenging physical activities and stimulating mental activities.

2009 was our first year of camp, and we were the first Camp Quest to operate outside of North America. Since then, we have expanded to hold 3 camps across the UK, with a total capacity of 100 campers!

We aim to provide summer camping holidays and trips that focus on our children’s 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, evolution and psychology!

Children at Camp Quest aren’t required to hold any particular worldview. 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.

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
May 2011