TAG CAMP

Each year a group of children between the ages of 10 - 17 years have the opportunity to have a week away. Any nervousness of this being away from family and carers for the first time is soon forgotten as they become immersed in all the activity and excitement that is TAG Camp.

Over the course of the week, children take on the challenge of outward-bound activities; have a few days out at local centres of interest and have much merriment and laughter in the evenings with organised social sessions.

Each child is allowed to go at their own-pace and there is no pressure for them to take part in anything that they are not comfortable with. All activities are risk-assessed and it is the Group’s policy to have a ratio of 1:1.25 adults per child. All volunteers are CRB checked and full references taken up.

Down the years it has been consistently proven that TAG Camp gives a unique platform for teenagers with arthrogryposis.  It gives them the opportunity to meet others who are ‘like them’, share life-skills and begin to get a deeper understanding of this strange condition that they have.

It is having arthrogryposis that brings them together.

By having this common bond and through being in each other’s company, it is not unsurprising that it leads to the children learning how to be more mobile, more independent and uppermost helps them to become more confident about the future and what awaits them.  

Each year TAG Camp costs just under £10,000.

This enables us to take a group of 15 teenagers to The Duke’s Barn on the Chatsworth Estate in Derbyshire.  Duke’s Barn offers all the facilities that are required to care of even the most severely disabled child and is a safe environment for the children to begin to explore early adulthood.