Montage of activities at last year's summer camps

  • When: 17 to 24 August 2025

  • Who: 14 to 17 years

  • Location: Dearne Valley, Denaby Main, Conisbrough, South Yorkshire, DN12 4EA

  • Cost: £200 per participant

  • Closing date: Friday 16 May

Join us this August for our 2025 Summer Camp on the theme of Empowerment! Create memories and build new friendships that last a lifetime.

With our action packed, eight-day itinerary, you will take part in lots of new and life changing experiences that will develop key skills such as communication, teamwork and problem-solving, as well as increasing your independence and resilience.

During the day, not only will you take on some thrill-seeking fun such as raft building, crate stacking and the zipwire, but you will also be participating in conservation work, contributing to the sustainability of the local environment. In 2022, our participants planted wildflowers in the VICTA Wildflower Meadow and built bat boxes for the Dearne Valley site; we returned in 2023 to build bird boxes and make natural art from foraged materials. Last year, we even supported a local volunteering organisation to help clear an overgrown woodland.

In the evenings, there will be campfires, games and the opportunity to listen and network with some VICTA young adults who have gone on to have success in sport, business and many other fields.

All of this personal development, including leaving the camp with a Leadership Award and Arts Award, will significantly boost your CV and future employability.

Here’s what last year’s campers had to say:

  • “Just an amazing experience would definitely recommend volunteers and VICTA staff are very welcoming.”
  • “I had an amazing time at VICTA Camp and I enjoyed meeting so many different people. The VICTA Staff were wonderful and I am very grateful to them for helping make it such a wonderful experience. I can’t wait to come next year!!”

Why apply?

  • A great opportunity to meet other people your age with a vision impairment
  • Grow in confidence
  • Earn yourself a Leadership Award and an Arts Award!
  • Get started or continue with your VICTA Vault profile
  • Challenge yourself to try something different
  • Increase your mobility and independence skills
  • Gain all of this while having a fun trip in a supportive, encouraging environment

Who can apply?

Applicants must be:

  • Registered or registrable blind or partially sighted
  • At least 14 years old on 17 August 2025
  • Aged 17 or under on 24 August 2025
  • Physically, socially and emotionally able to take part independently in a group setting with peers of a similar age
  • Able to communicate their needs independently
  • Able to maintain their own personal hygiene
  • Able to take medication independently (if applicable)

Apply for the 14 to 17 Summer Camp 2025

Note for applicants completing this form After completion, if you have successfully submitted the form, you should receive a successful submission message. If you do not it may be because you have not completed a required field. After your form has successfully gone through you will also receive notification via email. If you do not receive an email please contact the office on 01908 240 831 as there may have been a problem with your application.

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Independence skills

Please indicate your level of independence in the following areas by selecting your response and giving details if the assistance is required.
In order to ensure that activities are adequately staffed we need full and accurate information about all participants. Please note we reserve the right to refuse admission to the activity or ask a participant to leave the activity if the information given proves inaccurate or the conduct of the participant reaches an unacceptable level.

General information

The overall theme of this activity is about having fun, but we would like you to gain confidence and develop life skills through a programme of leisure, cultural and social activities. To help us plan our activities and staffing levels please describe your ability in the following areas:

Eye condition

If this is the first VICTA activity that you are applying for, please note that applicants must be registered sight impaired or severely sight impaired, or be able to provide proof that they are registerable. Any information or documents supplied must include the applicant’s name, date of birth and visual acuity.
Supporting documentation
If the applicant is registered, please include a copy of one of the following registration documents: - Certificate of Visual Impairment (CVI) - Blind Registration Card issued by local authority If the applicant is not registered, please provide: - a letter from an ophthalmologist confirming visual acuity. Please note, applications cannot be processed without these documents.

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Declaration, privacy and consent

To be signed by the applicant or a responsible person.
a. I agree to take part in VICTA's activity and have read all the information sent to me.
b. I acknowledge the need to behave responsibly at all times during the activity.
c. I confirm that this form has been completed accurately and I undertake to update VICTA's organisers should any information contained on the form or personal circumstances change.
d. In the event of an emergency/accident, I consent to emergency medical treatment, which may include the use of anaesthetics.
e. By signing this form I consent to VICTA using the information supplied for the purpose of administering the named event. All the information will be treated in the strictest of confidence and made available only to those staff working with the participant. We may need to share your details with third-party suppliers in relation to this activity. Contact information will be retained and used for marketing of other relevant services.
f. I give consent for VICTA to carry out the following in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulations as supplemented by the Data Protection Act 2018 and related laws and to store my personal information on VICTA's database and/or any other suitable system.

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