Snow-Camp Charity: Turning Young Lives Around With Snowsports

Who We Support

Snow-Camp Charity work with inner-city young people, aged 13-21, in London, Scotland, North West and the Midlands.

We work directly with youth projects and youth service providers to ensure that we are working with those who are most in need of our support to prevent and turn young people’s minds away from negative behaviour.

Our Programme Journey

Motivating young people to fully engage is the key to successful youth work and the young people we work with are traditionally hard to engage. We have found that snowsports are incredibly attractive to inner-city young people, despite being out-of-reach for many. The opportunity to participate in snowsports acts as the tool with which we can effectively engage young people and maintain a positive involvement with them. This is achieved through our Programme Journey, which takes place at artificial and indoor snowsports centres in the UK.

Snow-Camp’s programmes run from July-June each year. All young people must start at the beginning on First Tracks and have no prior snowsports experience.

First Tracks

Providing young people with their first experience of snowsports combined with life-skills sessions over two action packed days.

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Graduate

Enabling young people to further develop their snowsports skills over 6 weekends. Young people attend life skills sessions and work towards an ASDAN certificate in Sports and Fitness.

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Excel

Supporting young people who wish to pursue a career in the snowsports industry and achieve a Level 1 Instructor qualification. Young people train for 10 weeks, which includes a 1 week residential trip.

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Apprenticeship

Employment for 1 year at Snow-Camp, which includes snowsports industry work placements, an NVQ in Activity Leadership or SQL in Sports Coaching and a BASI Level 1 Instructor Qualification.

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Youth Forum

Volunteering and training opportunities for young people who have attended First Tracks, Graduate or Excel.

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Uplift

Uplift is our mental wellbeing programme, which runs alongside our core snowsports programmes. During Graduate, Excel, Apprenticeships and Youth Forum, young people take part in group workshops and have access to 1-1 counselling sessions.

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Where We Work?

London
Scotland
Midlands
North West

Snow-Camp London

Our London programmes take place at the Snow Centre in Hemel Hempstead. For more information please contact our Programme Director, Gavin Hanmer.

gavin@snow-camp.org.uk 01273 241383 / 07739 346111

Snow-Camp Scotland

Our Scotland programmes take place at Snow Factor and Bearsden Ski and Board Club in Glasgow. For more information please contact our Programme Manager, Laura McIntyre.

laura@snow-camp.org.uk 07714 754476

Snow-Camp Midlands

Our Midlands programmes take place at the SnowDome in Tamworth. For more information please contact our Programme Manager, Chris Walsh.

chris@snow-camp.org.uk 07719 329732

Snow-Camp North West

Our North West programmes take place at the Chill Factore in Manchester. For more information please contact our Programme Manager, Morv Bett.

morv@snow-camp.org.uk 07857 694953

Our Impact

Snow-Camp Charity have a big impact on young people across the country. At the end of our last programme year we found that:

0% GAINED ONE OR MORE NATIONALLY RECOGNISED QUALIFICATIONS

0% SAID THEY NOW FEEL MORE CONFIDENT AND ABLE TO TAKE ON NEW CHALLENGES

0% HAVE NOW GONE ON TO EMPLOYMENT, TRAINING OR FURTHER EDUCATION

0% GAINED A SNOWSPORTS INSTRUCTOR QUALIFICATION

0% OF YOUTH WORKERS SAID THAT THEIR YOUNG PEOPLE'S BEHAVIOUR AND ATTITUDES HAD IMPROVED

0 youth clubs referred young people on to our programmes

0 youth volunteers and apprentices worked with us to make sure that our programmes met the needs of our young people

0 youth volunteer hours were carried out on our programmes

Case Studies

When we first met Tomas he was homeless, anxious and he struggled to communicate to those around him. Tomas has had to overcome many challenges in his young life to reach the positive path he now finds himself on.

When Will became a victim of knife crime his fear of being attacked again crushed his motivation. Snow-Camp gave Will someone to turn to and something to focus on.