Join us for a summer camp adventure like no other! Our One-Week Adventure and Two-Week Expedition Summer Camps bring together young-people from the UK and all over the world, to share great adventures in the mountains, around the shore and on the sea in our wild and beautiful corner of the Scottish Highlands – a tradition led by Rebecca Ridgway and her family since 1969.
Our Summer Camps are a chance to make new friends, often from different nations, and to develop and grow as individuals through exciting adventures, expeditions and a survival night on an uninhabited island.
Rebecca and Mark are involved in every camp and we have a small team of young, friendly, professionally qualified instructors. We only run one camp at a time with up to 36 participants.
Thank you, Rebecca, and the whole team for the wonderful two weeks that Sally spent with you in July. She arrived home full of stories of her adventures. She made some great friends and clearly loved every minute outside in the stunning landscape and on the sea. She is really proud of what she found out that she was capable of achieving and seems to have grown enormously in confidence over those two weeks.
James Rodier – Expedition Summer Camp Parent 2025
My son attended Ridgway Adventure in 2022 and 2024 on the two-week expedition camp – he will also be attending in 2025. It has been hugely beneficial to him. After a difficult time with Covid and school he came back from each camp empowered, motivated and very positive. He has made friends from across the world whom he stays in touch with and has visited. I would highly recommend Ridgway Adventure for any young person and can assure parents they will be providing their children with an experience that will stay with them a lifetime.
Mark Walker – Expedition Summer Camp Parent 2022 and 2024
Words cannot express the love I have had for this place for 40 years! For myself, and for my two children, attending Ridgway’s Summer School was a powerfully life-changing experience in a radically positive way. And all in the most wildly beautiful landscape. With highly trained staff, run by the Ridgway family, for whom this has been their unconventional and adventurous way of life for over half a century. I simply cannot recommend it more highly!
Steph Carr – Participant then Expedition Summer Camp Parents 1980’s then 2022 and 2024
Words cannot express how incredibly grateful we are to you. He has returned to us washed clean by the Scottish winds and sea! I have no doubt, that he will look back on his time with you and understand what an incredible turning point it was for him. He had such a great time and talks about it all the time and talks about you and Mark with such respect and admiration. I just wanted you to know, that you really do change lives. Thank you from the bottom of our hearts, you are real people, making a real difference
Joanna Walker – Expedition Summer Camp Parent – 2024
Thank you so much for the wonderful photographs. The big mystery though is what happened to Joseph at camp? We sent a quiet, not particularly communicative boy to you and you sent back a chatty, happy, engaging young man. Who knew two weeks could make such a difference? Thank you so much. I knew he’d love it.
Jennifer Lee – Expedition Summer Camp Parent – 2024
Back from Scotland we are watching the wonderful photos and would like to thank you for that exceptional time Dora had! She came back so happy, wishing the camp could last two more weeks! As the youngest, she always felt safe and had so much fun, the challenges were demanding but feasible, she was really so happy there and everyone was so nice and funny. It’s really something special!
Tamara Zeigler (Germany) – Expedition Summer Camp Parent 2025
Three grand multi-day expeditions into the mountains, on the sea and to Cape Wrath with other motivated young people from the UK and all over the world.
From £1,925 to £1,995 per person
Sea kayak, swim and go fishing on the sheltered sea lochs. Climb a mountain from a wild base camp. Rock climb and abseil and survive together overnight on an uninhabited island.
From £950 per person (6 nights)
When the school opened its doors in July 1969, the first group to walk along the track was a two-week international summer camp for 12-17 year-olds. We have been running summer camps ever since, and continue to have second-generation camp participants – following in the footsteps of their parents before them.
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