We engage inner-city young people through skiing and snowboarding to provide life skills training, nationally recognised qualifications and work experience to increase their motivations and aspirations, enabling them to gain employment in the snowsports industry and beyond.

Our Programme Journey

Motivating young people to fully engage is the key to successful youth work and the young people we work with are traditionally hard to engage.

We have found that snowsports are incredibly attractive to inner-city young people, despite being out-of-reach for many.

The opportunity to participate in snowsports acts as the tool with which we can effectively engage young people and maintain a positive involvement with them.

This is achieved through our Programme Journey, which takes place at artificial and indoor snowsports centres in the UK.

Snow-Camp’s programmes run from July-June each year. All young people must start at the beginning on First Tracks and have no prior snowsports experience.

• First Tracks

Providing young people with their first experience of snowsports combined with life-skills sessions over two action packed days.

• Graduate

Enabling young people to further develop their snowsports skills over 6 weekends. Young people attend life skills sessions and work towards an ASDAN certificate in Sports and Fitness.

• Excel:

Supporting young people who wish to pursue a career in the snowsports industry and achieve a Level 1 Instructor qualification. Young people train for 10 weeks, which includes a 1 week Apprenticeship

Employment for 1 year at Snow-Camp, which includes snowsports industry work placements, an NVQ in Activity Leadership or SQL in Sports Coaching and a BASI Level 1 Instructor Qualification.

• Youth Forum: 

Volunteering and training opportunities for young people who have attended First Tracks, Graduate or Excel.

• Uplift: 

Uplift is our mental wellbeing programme, which runs alongside our core snowsports programmes. During Graduate, Excel, Apprenticeships and Youth Forum, young people take part in group workshops and have access to 1-1 counselling sessions.