Summer Camps

Find information about summer camp opportunities abroad, including selection, preparation, safety considerations, and making the most of your experience.

Are You Suited to Working at a Summer Camp?

How do you know if you’re the right kind of person to succeed at a summer camp? If you’re thinking about working at a summer camp for your ‘work abroad...

Choosing Which Summer Camp To Work At

The general image of a summer camp is of a place where kids go to enjoy physical activities during the summer. It’s certainly true that many camps are exac...

Holiday Rep or Summer Camp?

When you start looking into opportunities for working abroad, you may think that working at a summer camp or as a holiday rep is basically the same thing. Th...

How To Apply To Work At A Summer Camp

When applying to a summer camp, you should be aware that many camps are not self-standing organisations, but belong to large companies or associations which...

Organising Group Activities

When you’re working as a guide or counsellor at a summer camp, much of your work will revolve around organising group activities for the children. Typicall...

Responsibilities When Working With Children

So you fancy working abroad for a spell and summer camps seem like an ideal way to see another part of the world without spending too much money, and hopeful...

Senior Jobs at Summer Camps

Although many people working at summer camps are young people on a gap year before or after university, there are all sorts of jobs available for more experi...

Site Seeing on Camp Trips

When you go to work in a foreign country, you’ll probably have a list of the famous sights you’d like to see. If you’re going to work in a summer camp,...

Teaching a Specialist Subject

Most summer camp work is fairly general in nature. You look after children and lead them on various activities, many of them quite physical. But not all camp...

What is a Summer Camp?

The summer camp is a bit of an alien idea to most British people, although, in recent years, it has begun to make some inroads even here. In some other count...