Venues

Both of the venues, Malvern College, and the Queens College Taunton offer outstanding facilities, including beautiful boarding houses, safe and secure sites, great food and catering and also easy to access from many directions. 

The Malvern Camps, often fall inline with other events on site, which makes for a great 'buzz' around the campus. 

Off-pitch activities include swimming, dodgeball, quizzes, movie nights and more. 

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Prizes

We award prizes each day for top campers, along with prizes at the end of the camps for overall outstanding players. We also have the team prizes for collective activities throughout the time with us. 

All players will also get a Free T-hirt and goodies. 

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FAQs

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1. Where do children stay?

We have a variety of venues, including, Bath, Malvern and Taunton. At all venues children will stay on site, in boarding houses. These boarding houses/accommodation are secure, with either key-codes or swipe cards which staff have access to only. 

2. Sleeping/Rooms

We have access to single, double and dorms with multiple beds. So if siblings/friends want to share or larger groups want to form a dorm that is fine, and also for older players single rooms are available. I take a lot of care and time to organise this with the guidance of parents. 

We also separate older and younger players in different sections or floors.

3. Lights Off, Rules and behaviour

Within house and as a whole we expect players to be polite, adhere to the rules and respect staff. Whilst we want all players to have the most fun - for which they will there need to be some guidelines and expectations. 

Lights off, typically 09.30, slightly later for the older players. 

Phones - We expect players to bring phones to communicate with parents, but we expect these to used in periods of down-time predominantly. We reserve the right to confiscate phones if they are being used in the wrong and inappropriate manor. Lights off - phones away absolutely. 

Poor behaviour, disruption, repeat 'offences' - whilst unlikely to happen we adopt a 3 strikes rule, this simply means if we have to remind and repeat players of their actions that cause disruption, we will have no option but to call home explain and come up with a solution to put a stop to it.

4. Food

All food is provided, depending on the location it can vary, - but hot lunches and evening meals is expected, with continual and hot breakfasts provided too.

5. Downtime

Evening activities take up most of the off-pitch time, such as: Cinema night, Quizzes, swimming, ice-breakers and so forth. There will be some opportunities for down-time, which is normally after hockey, before evening meals and just after, before activities start at around 19.30.

6. Coaches

Coaches are hand-picked from our large pool, and many are Teachers, full-time coaches, high-level players and Parents. They all have an enhanced DBS and safeguarding training. The safeguarding lead is Myself (Matt Fairburn).

7. International Players

We will have top Great Britain players, and other World-Class Players with us, such as Lily Owsley, Ollie Willars and players representing clubs in the Domestic Top leagues. 

8. Hockey

Expect 4-6 hours of hockey each day, with players in their Talent and Performance Groups. (There is flexibility for movement up and down).

9. Duke of Edinburgh 

If older players would like to use the camp as a part of the DofE - this is fine, we have three players in 2023 complete this via our skills camps. 

10. Day option

If you live locally to the venues we would love you just for the day option if you would like.