Children's Holiday Sports and Activity Camps
Children's Holiday Camps
Our 2026 camps are now live!
Sport and activity camps for children
Our holiday camps at the University of Kent Canterbury campus offer an exciting and active childcare solution for the Easter and summer school holidays.
Designed for children aged 5 to 13, our school holiday camps provide structured daily sports, games, and enrichment activities in a safe, supportive environment.
Every session is led by experienced, fully DBS-checked staff, ensuring high-quality supervision and peace of mind for parents seeking trusted holiday childcare in Canterbury.
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“Both my children love EasterZone and SummerZone camps. The staff are always very caring and create a lovely, friendly, and safe atmosphere. Coaches have looked after my child with autism kindly and thoughtfully.”
SummerZone Camp survey feedback, 2025
EasterZone 2026
7 to 10 April
Our EasterZone holiday camp provides a varied daily timetable* of activities including mini golf, dodgeball, football, and much more, all delivered by a team of experienced and enthusiastic staff.
Each day of the camp starts at 9am (drop off from 8.30am) and finishes at 3pm, with the option of late pick-up from 3pm to 5pm.
EasterZone will take place from Tuesday 7 to Friday 10 April.
*Timetables are subject to change.
EasterZone 2026 pricing and booking
You can book any day or combination of days that you like for our EasterZone camp. Booking all four days of EasterZone will automatically apply a discount.
Standard pricing
- One day: £40 per child
- Full week (Four days): £130 per child
- Late Club* £13.50 per day per child
University of Kent staff discount
Grab an exclusive 15% discount as a University of Kent staff member - email SportsDevelopment@kent.ac.uk to receive the code to use at checkout.
*Late Club (3pm to 5pm)
Our late pick-up option includes fun and engaging activities tailored to the location, such as table tennis, table football, new age kurling, bowls, speed stacks, twister, board games, and creative drawing.
Holiday Camps 2026
Our highly popular Children's Holiday Camps is coming back to The Pavilion, University of Kent with another round of fantastic sports, games, and activities to keep your children entertained! 2026 camp dates are:
- EasterZone: 7 to 10 April
- SummerZone week one: 10 to 14 August
- SummerZone week two: 17 to 21 August
Grab a discount!
Get 15% off your booking with our Early Bird discount!
SummerZone
Book your child's place before 1 July 2026 and get 15% off your booking with our discount code SZ26EARLYBIRD15
- Early Bird day price: £34.00
- Early Bird full week price: £148.75
- Early Bird Late Club day price: £11.48
Holiday Camps 2026
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Frequently Asked Questions
Our holiday camps are based at The Pavilion on the University of Kent's Canterbury campus. See the Canterbury campus map and directions for reaching The Pavilion.
Camp address:
The Pavilion, University of Kent, Canterbury, Kent CT2 7SR
Our multi-sports and activity camps take place across our three artificial pitches and our four court indoor tennis centre.
Unfortunately, we do not offer childcare vouchers, but if you are a University of Kent staff member you are entitled to a 15% discount. Email sportsdevelopment@kent.ac.uk to request a code.
We do not currently offer a sibling discount.
We are not OFSTED registered but we pride ourselves on being a camp of a high professional standard. Safeguarding and our children’s wellbeing is our number one priority.
Yes. During each day of camp there will be two small breaks and a lunch break for children to eat should they wish. Please provide your children with a packed lunch.
We are a nut free camp, so please do not pack any nuts or nut products.
We have an amazing four court Indoor Tennis Centre which provides enough space for us to continue camp indoors out of the rain or heat.
We offer a wide range of sports and activities, including: minigolf, Street Dance, football, cricket, tennis and many others. Once the camp timetable is finalised, this will be available to view on our website.
A major benefit of our multi-sports camp is that children get to try a wide range of activities and sports across the week. If a certain sport isn’t their favourite, then they only do said sport once or twice over the entire week. Our experienced coaches are able to cater sessions for all abilities and interests and the sessions are focused around fun/social games and activities as opposed to in depth technical/tactical sessions.
If you wish to change any or all the days you have booked with us, you must notify us immediately. We cannot guarantee a space for the date you wish to move to. If a space has been made available for you and you do not show up, you may still be charged for this service. This will be at the discretion of Kent Sport.
Kent Sport EasterZone and SummerZone camps operate a tiered refund policy; -
- You have the right to a full refund if you decide to cancel within 48 hours of completing your booking.
- If you cancel your booking more than 31 days before the start of camp, we will offer a 75% refund.
- If you cancel your booking between 7 and 31 days before the start of camp, we will offer a 50% refund.
- If you cancel your booking within 7 days of the start of the camp, then no refunds will be offered. Kent Sport will, however, offer a credit for an alternative day or future camp.
Children under the age of 16 can now create a Pay to Play account to use sports facilities at Kent Sport outside of our Holiday Camps. This Pay to Play account can only be created with parent or guardian consent at the Sports Centre or The Pavilion receptions. All under 16's must be accompanied by a parent or guardian throughout their booking. Under 16s will pay £4.50 per booking.
For any questions not listed above, please contact our Sports Development team via email SportsDevelopment@kent.ac.uk or by calling 01227 824 549.
Children's Holiday Camp privacy notice
Personal data, including health data, supplied by you the parent/guardian on this application form will be used for the purposes of the sports camp. The information supplied by you will be accessed by the camp leader (email sportsdevelopment@kent.ac.uk), health and safety lead and authorised sports camp staff coaches where deemed appropriate. Without this data and your consent, as collected in the application form, Kent Sport are unable to accept any persons onto our sports camp due to Health and Safety.
Your data will also be used to inform you of future Kent Sport promotions and activities, if you have agreed to this on the application form. You can request access to the information held by emailing dataprotection@kent.ac.uk
Kent Sport treats all information gathered with the strictest respect and confidentiality. Information provided to us will only be used for the purposes intended and not disclosed to any third parties unless required to do so by law. All personal information is processed under Data Protection Law.
Further information regarding Data Protection at Kent can be found on our website (www.kent.ac.uk/infocompliance).
Children's Holiday Camp terms and conditions
- Our holiday camps are governed by the Kent Sport Safeguarding Policy, Equal Opportunities Policy and the Participants Behaviour Policy (please contact sportsdevelopment@kent.ac.uk if you require a copy).
- Refunds will only be issued on the basis of illness or injury and this must be communicated to the team in advance of attendance. On the day cancellation will be taken on a case-by-case basis.
- Late pickups must be booked in advance.
- Participants are expected to wear appropriate sports clothing, trainers and also have with them suitable rain coats in case of inclement weather.
- All bookings will receive email confirmation.