Campus is an entirely volunteer-run charity committed to providing annual respite breaks for disadvantaged children, having run summer projects every year since 1967. We work with some of the most vulnerable children in the Liverpool-Merseyside area: children in care, some who have been abused, young carers, and children living in poverty or violent neighbourhoods. These children are referred to us by parents, social workers and other organisations because they desperately need a break from their home lives. For some, it is the one chance they get each year to be a child.
Campus runs two summer projects providing respite breaks for disadvantaged children - Hippocampus and Residential. Hippocampus is a non-residential project where we take children on activities during the day and return them home each evening. This is for children aged 6-13. Our residential project is for children aged 8-13 and children stay overnight for 4 nights. We take children on activities such as swimming, beach, cinema, parks, cycling, theme park as well as lots of crafts and sports. We aim to provide the children with a break from difficult home lives and a chance to just be children.
