‘A good thing for children’: summer camps at risk in UK as costs rise

Campaigners urge government to recognise authentic childhood experience' provided by summer camps, in upcoming youth strategy

In a large country school in the rolling Shropshire hills, a group of young boys sporting hand-drawn moustaches are proudly selling wares at a pine-cone shop they created that morning.

Another group of children have taken a picnic and gone on an adventure into the woods, while others have gone to the swimming pool or to play ballgames on the front lawn.