With six weeks of summer holidays to fill it can be a struggle as a working parent to find childcare or just to arrange lots of fun to keep your kids occupied. Here’s a great list of Summer holiday activity camps running around Oxfordshire that will keep your kids entertained. Click on the links in red below for further information.
If you’re close to the border you can find holiday camp guides for Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Gloucestershire too.
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Ultimate Camps – activity-based holiday day camps for children aged 4 to 14 years
Every day, children will enjoy a brilliant mix of sports, games and creative activities led by inspiring staff at amazing locations! With great savings if you book early, they offer great value for money. Book by the day or week and you can use childcare vouchers to pay too.
- Wallingford
- Abingdon Athletics Academy
- Oxford West
- Oxford Farmoor (Hill End Outdoor Centre) – Ultimate Survival for 8-14 years
- Headington
- Faringdon
- Oxford – Athletics Academy
Oxfordshire Summer Holiday Kids Clubs
Mini Professionals Dance Academy Summer camp booking is OPEN! Our Summer camp weeks are fantastic, memorable experiences which see students returning to us year after year. We welcome both MPDA and Non MPDA students, and all abilities! It’s the perfect way to stay active and engaged during the Summer holidays.
For our dance camps, students will be split into age groups and will take part in master classes in jazz, contemporary, lyrical, hip-hop, funk, gymnastics, ballet, tap, musical theatre and more! The Musical Theatre camp will be staging a production of the fantastic musical Matilda!
House of Fun Holiday Camp – my boys have been here before and had a great time. They’re family run and have a huge amount of energy and lots of variety from sports to crafts and cooking. The multi-activity camps including cookery, sports and arts & crafts for 5-13 year olds in every school holiday, with sites in Oxford and Abingdon. Children choose all their activities each day, and through a safe, fun environment under the supervision of a fantastic team of friendly and experienced staff, giving children the chance to just be kids.
Calling all budding engineers – ibrick at House of Fun is excited to invite you on an all-new Lego adventure. Action-packed holiday camp days for children aged 7-13 years old, using bespoke ibrick kits to design, build and innovate with mechanised Lego models.
- Cutteslowe (North Oxford)
- Abingdon
- Cumnor (Oxford)
- Didcot
Kid Active Holiday Clubs offer children aged 4-12 a fantastic mix of high and low energy activities. The exciting timetable is delivered over spacious indoor and outdoor areas offering arts and crafts, construction, board games, toys, music, dance, bouncy castle and all the sports.
Oxford Active Camps – children’s multi-activity camps are for children aged from 3 to 14 years and have a wide range of fun activities for kids to enjoy during the school holidays. With venues at top independent schools with outstanding facilities from indoor and outdoor swimming pools to sports playing fields, woodlands and 100’s of acres to explore.
- Summertown, Oxford
- Witney
- Sibford Ferris, near Banbury
- Kennington, Oxford
- West Oxford
Active Adventure focuses on all things outdoors, muddy and wet. Its suitable for those new to bushcraft as well as those who are at home in the woods or on a kayak.
- Summertown, Oxford
- Kingham
- Sibford Ferris, near Banbury
Young Engineers Summer Clubs engage students with fascinating engineering concepts through hands-on activities, including Lego building to demonstrate these ideas. The camps offer a blend of indoor and outdoor activities throughout the day, ensuring a comprehensive and enjoyable learning experience.
- Summertown, Oxford
- Banbury
The Oxford Boat Adventure is a holiday camp with a difference, on the land and on the water. Children experience outdoor life around a secluded lake close to Dorchester-on-Thames in South Oxfordshire. Check out our review
- Dorchester on Thames (near Wallingford)
Cokethorpe’s Camps make full use of the 150-acre parkland grounds to deliver an activities programme across three different age-groups in addition to a Watersports 2 day course. Prices start from £39 per day (8.30am to 5.30pm).
Elite Youth Sports Ofsted registered Multi-Activity Holiday Camps are suitable for boys and girls aged 4-13. They have an exciting programme of Sports and Elite Activities to fulfil the needs of energetic children looking to learn new skills, build confidence and make new friends while having fun!
NOX Gymnastics Camps are designed to be a fun space for children (of all gymnastics abilities!) to learn, play and make new friends through the school holidays. A variety of activities makes every day different, including outdoor playtime, choreography, a variety of different sports activities, team building games, races, arts & crafts activities, and of course plenty of gymnastics!
Oxford United in the Community run football holiday camps throughout the school holidays, offering courses which help inspire youngsters to improve their health and wellbeing, along with their technical ability of playing football.
Mixed and Girls Only fun, social, football holiday camps for children of all abilities aged 5-13
SuperCamps are a leading provider of childcare in the UK, offering holiday camps for children aged 4 to 14 throughout the school holidays. SuperCamps stands out for its out-of-the-ordinary activities and the breadth of options available at Multi-Activity camps means that children will always enjoy a new experience.
Bright Sparks Science Camps – science holiday activities are designed to entertain primary school aged children during the school holidays. Join in for a jam packed holiday camp full of science tricks, messy experiments, fun games and science crafts.
Join The North Wall in North Oxford this summer with creative workshops from performing monologues to exploring character.
The North Wall lead playful, energetic, and inclusive workshops with a strong commitment to having fun! Find out about performing monologues for 12 to 17 year olds or exploring character for 8 to 11 year olds.
The Wychwood Inspires Summer School offers a range of creative, academic and sporting opportunities for young people aged 10-18 during July and August 2024. Your child does not need to be currently attending Wychwood School to take part in any of the programmes.
The Hedgehog Club holiday club Summer Holiday Activity Daysare tailored for 5 to 12 year olds. Enjoy a day of outdoor challenges and games including den building, fire lighting, cooking and of course toasting marshmallows on the fire.
Jane Brooks intensive 5 day swimming courses Jane Brooks Swim offers intensive swimming courses during the school holidays designed to help children make rapid progress. I can give this one a personal recommendation with my kids have been and it really giving them such a boost in confidence and skills.
Woodstock Gymnastics Club Holiday Camps allow children to try new activities, make friends and develop their gymnastics skills using a wide range of apparatus. Suitable from ages 4+
Cygnets Art School run two holiday workshops per day during the Summer Holiday spread between Abingdon and Didcot, so you can choose to attend one, several, or all of them! Abingdon classes are on Tuesdays, Wednesdays and Thursdays whilst Didcot classes are on Fridays.
The theme for our Summer Holiday 2024 is ‘Across The World’. Each project covers a new, exciting subject or technique spanning five countries of the world taking in watercolor, gouache, clay modelling and lino printing!
Bramblers Forest School make time to play outside, learn about the plants and wildlife we see, and enjoy being a part of the natural world all around us. This summer holiday they are offering a selection of morning summer camps including Yoga led by a specialist teacher.
Vicky’s Holiday Club (near Witney) – wider range of activities including arts, crafts and sports.
Rainbow Bicester preschool offer Easter holiday clubs for children aged 3 to 11 years.
Woodcote Pre-School (Woodcote) – Easter holiday club.
Get Active (Didcot) – fun-filled holiday camps with friendly support and encouragement to a child so that they can enjoy up to 9 activities per day.
Artworks Holiday Classes (Oxford) – held in a huge, bright and spacious room at St Mary’s and St Johns Primary School, in a huge big room, aspiring artists will really enjoy. My eldest loved printmaking and we have his picture framed at home.
Jamie Cassidy Soccer School (Bicester) – Boys, girls and all abilities are welcome to learn new skills and techniques at these popular school holiday football holiday clubs in Bicester.
Premier Tennis Camps – For children age 5 – 15
- Abingdon
- Oxford
Peapods Nursery School (Henley) runs a Holiday club for the Henley on Thames/Peppard area, during the Summer, Easter & Christmas holidays and all half term breaks, for children aged 1 – 8 years old.
Just For Kids Company (Bicester) – musical theatre holiday camps
Serious4Sport – (Grove) children’s Sports Camps with a whole range of sports and activities
Next Thing Education (Oxford) – holiday tech camps allow children to gain technical skills from a young age enabling them to shape the future.
Imperium Sports (Kidlington) offer a wide range of physical activities and sport throughout the day as well as a crafts and games.
Junior Adventures Group – multi activity camps with a mix of sports, activities and creative sessions
- Thame
- Oxford
- Abingdon
- Benson
Star Hot Shots holiday camps are fun, energetic, creative and challenging enough to develop every child’s skills without overwhelming the less confident ones.
- Henley
- Goring Heath
Springbox Gym Club (Henley) – general gymnastics and fun camp for non members and have fun, games & colouring while learning gymnastics
Longridge Activity Camps (near Marlow) – activity days are for young people between the ages of 8 and 12.
WR Sports – multi activity camps and gymnastic workshops
- Oxford
- Abingdon
- Watlington
Ridgeway Adventures Activity Days (South Oxfordshire, not far from Moulsford) a fun and engaging holiday club for 11 to 15 year olds.
TA Sport Stars aim to make every child’s experience on camp the best it could possibly be!
- Faringdon
- Wantage
- Shrivenham
Atlas Camp‘s (Brize Norton) multi-activity kids camps offer fun-filled school holiday childcare to children aged 4-14
Just Camps (Banbury) run fun based activity camps during every school holidays for children from 4-12 years
North Oxford Lawn Tennis Club (Oxford) holiday camps camps teach both technical and tactical aspects of the game, all at an age appropriate level.
