Over 40 Sportily sports camps are taking place across the county throughout the summer 2022 school holidays.

At the camps, children are able to try out and play a variety of different sports and activities which they may never have heard of before. They can make new friends and enjoy being part of a team all while having an amazing time.

Many of the camps taking place between 1 and 26 August are available as part of the Gloucestershire County Council Holiday, Activity and Food programme and will include lunch for all who attend. The Holiday Activity and Food (HAF) programme is funded by the Department of Education for who receive benefits-related free school meals.

One child who attended a Sportily activity exclaimed: "This was the best morning ever! I want to do it all again.”

“We’re really excited about this year’s summer programme,” said Richard Witham, Head of Sport and Faith for Sportily. “After an academic year where, supported by 55 volunteers, we delivered over a thousand sport and activity sessions, we’ve lined up the biggest summer of sports day camps ever. Our focus this summer is on ‘creating playful spaces all summer long’, we’re working hard to make sure that every child who comes to one of our activities this summer can have simply the best time checking out our motto:  "fluff it, duff it, score it, smash it, whatever you do, just give it a go.”

The camp days are open to children in school years 1 to 6. Most sessions run 10am – 2pm and can be booked via our website or the Holiday Activity and Food programme website.

Also download the Sportily summer flyer to see all the dates.

At Sportily, one of our 7 spaces is CONNECT – we love connecting (and EATing too!). Coming up on 3 May, we have our first Big Man, Little Man residential camp for fathers and sons!

Jam packed with activities, food and fun this an adventure to look forward to. Big Man Little Man (BMLM) is a father and son bonding weekend residential camp. 

In a busy world, we invite you to carve out some time out to invest in this vital relationship, taking on challenges and learning new skills. Building relationships that last a lifetime.

We understand that the father son relationship can be complicated and are very happy to invite boys with a significant adult male be that uncle, grandfather, brother or godfather. We also run this camp on a ratio of 1 Adult to 1 Child, so that a father’s time is not split between multiple brothers. For son's aged 6-12 years old.

This camp has been running for over 10 years and will be led by Hendrik Espach and his team of diligent volunteers, partnering with Sportily.

Starting at 1pm on Friday 3rd June through to 4pm on Sunday 5th June.

Any questions please email hello@sportily.org.uk 

Our framework for this is our seven spaces model; CONNECT, EAT, EXPLORE, ENCOUNTEER, SERVE, CONTRIBUTE, GROW. Across all our locations we seek to inhabit these spaces throughout our programme.

Just last week there was a great example of our SERVE space in action in Beacon; for the session that week we partnered with the Parish Council to decorate the Pavillion building as a way to serve the community.

In addition to the decorating, Nathan facilitated a space for the young people to take time to wander around the space looking at different pieces of art stuck to the walls. The young people wrote on post-it notes to describe how the pictures made them feel.

Elsewhere we spent time CONNECTing around a campfire, and EATing toasted marshmellows and corn on the cob, whilst EXPLOREing the kind of things that Jesus may have done around a campfire with his friends and family.

We are a place for you to try different sports, make new friends and explore what life is all about. So at TRAC we’ll #Giveitago with raft building, pedalo boats, archery, zip lining, sport, drama, art, wide games, fitness fun and more! We’ll even have our own ‘house band’. 

We believe that being more active, like the Christian faith, can change your life forever. So we’ll hang out, chat, eat, explore the Christian faith, ask questions about Jesus and discover new things.

We’re here to get you moving and show you that things are a lot more fun when we’re kicking, diving, riding, rolling, running and jumping around together.

All activities, meals, accommodation (tents and cabins) and fun is provided for the full 5 days. Any questions please email hello@sportily.org.uk 

TRAC is open to everyone in school years 6-12 and takes place from Mon 8 – Fri 12 August 2022.