Explore Life at XUK Camps

Safety underpins everything we do. We’re regulated by OFSTED who rated us ‘outstanding’ on their last inspection.

We do much more than just meet OFSTED’s requirements. We’ve created our own safety system and have implemented all of the following:

• Each child is registered in at least 6 times per day
• We safety-check every room before any activity is allowed to take place within it
• There is a member of staff on duty at the entrance to camp throughout the day
• The staff team do a lock up each night to ensure all areas are safe and can not be accessed from outside
• We risk-assess every activity that takes place at camp
• All our staff undergo full training before camp starts each year.
• We also offer first aid courses
• All our staff under go suitability checks. We use the Disclosure & Barring service (DBS) and the Barred list to carry these out
• We have experienced and suitably qualified staff in charge of childrens health and well being. They look after ill children, medicine administration, hygiene and cleanliness

We’d completely understand if you’d like to call and chat about specific safety issues at camp. If you have the time, please have a look at our Policies and Procedures.

Children at camp always have an opportunity to call home each week. If you’d like to contact your children, we have a camp phone line and email address.

Kids and teens can bring mobile phones to camp. The Juniors phones are kept in the office and are accessible during ‘phoning home time’. Our inters and teens are fully responsible for their own phones and can use them during their free time.

Every camper can let us know which friends they would like to share with at the time of booking or closer to the time of camp. Do not worry if your child is coming alone, we put in a special effort to make sure we put every camper in a fun and friendly dorm with other campers of a similar age.

Pocket money can be spent in the XUK tuck and merch shop or on any of the trips away. It is your choice how much to send your child with but having it on a card maybe safer for them!

Every week, our staff vote for the camper who embodies everything we love about XUK. The ‘Citizen of the Week’ will be helpful, fun, caring and enthusiastic all week long. And you’ll love it if your child wins because we’ll invite them back to camp next year for one week free of charge!