Tryout Camp for August 2025
2-9 Aug, The Elms, Malvern, Worcestershire.
We are delighted to have secured this fabulous location for 2025!
The Elms in Colwall, close to the beautiful Malvern Hills, is the location for our 2025 TryOut Camp, once again being offered in collaboration with The Campaign for Adventure.
The Elms has 40 acres of idyllic grounds, including large playing fields and plenty of explorable woodland.
There are great indoor facilities too, including a large gymnasium and a heated swimming pool.
Scroll through the photographs below to see more of this wonderful camp setting.
Try Out Camp Information
A week spent in a summer camp with children from across the UK, spending time outside, making new friends, laughing, learning and growing, through having a lot of fun together, is what we’re all about! Children and parents report how our summer camps lead to growth in confidence and resilience for the children and a widening of opportunities through learning new skills. Children also report how much fun it has been - the “best week of my year” is a regular comment!
What activities will I do on Camp?
Our summer camps are packed with activities and we minimise screen time during the week so children remain focused on their activities and socialise with the other campers. Camps are full of activities, both indoor and out, for children aged 8-15 years including loads of games, crafts, exploring the countryside, den building, songs and stories around the campfire at night, plus much more.
Holding the camp at The Elms also gives us access to the extensive facilities that the school setting provides, including an on-site farm,, a heated indoor swimming pool, sports courts and extensive grounds.
How are children looked after?
Children attending camp are looked after by our Young Camp Leaders. These are all young adults who have completed our week long residential Young Camp Leader training programme. This is an intensive course that teaches our Young Leaders all the fun games, songs, activities and skills they need to lead an engaging and enjoyable camp. They also learn extensive safeguarding skills.
In addition to our Young Leaders, we have an extremely experienced team of Camp Directors and Assistant Camp Directors who are on hand to oversee the smooth running of the camp. There is also a cook and matron on site ensuring children are very well fed and have any of their medical needs attended to swiftly.
Do You Have Any Feedback?
We’ve had fantastic feedback from our camp attendees and their parents. Here are some of the things campers and parents have said in our post-Camp questionnaires! We look into all the feedback we receive and are constantly striving to improve our camps to make them as fun, educational and interesting as we possibly can whilst, of course, being exceptionally well run.
“It was perfect, I wish I could have stayed longer!” Camp Attendee
“Absolutely brilliant! My two loved it!” Camp Attendee Parent
“Camp fire singing was the best thing ever!” Camp Attendee
The Providers
The Summer Camps Trust hopes to add some more TryOut places later, in camps being offered by our friends at ATE Superweeks, Camp Crusoe, and Learn & Experience. These will be publicised in January 2025 - but for now do consider booking for The Elms.
Campaign For Adventure
The Campaign for Adventure works in a wide variety of contexts to urge people to have a go at exciting projects out of their comfort zone, in
the belief that being adventurous can bring enormous pleasure and enormous rewards.
For children and young people aged 9 to 15 it is quite brave to decide go to a summer camp with others they have never met. The many thousands
of children who have done this over the years have ended up having the time of their lives, making new friends from all over the country, and growing in all sorts of ways.
All of them, and their parents, are delighted they took the risk. The Campaign is proud to work with The Summer Camps Trust again to offer another great Try Out Camp in 2025. This will be the third year of these camps, and we are confident that this one will be every bit as much fun, as exciting, as full of friendly laughter, and as life-changing, as the camps in 2023 and 2024 have been. SO - Be adventurous and sign up to come to The Elms. You will be very glad you did.