If you’re looking for holiday camps and clubs in the North East there are plenty of fun options to choose from, with 40+ providers below – including popular childcare clubs, forest schools, art, dance and drama camps, and active holiday camps with sports, NERF battles and more!
Look out for discounts for block bookings or early bird offers from some providers, and remember to check if you could be saving on childcare costs for holiday clubs – if you are eligible for the Tax-Free Childcare scheme (or Childcare Vouchers) don’t forget to check if providers are signed up to the scheme.
Details are subject to change, please check directly with organisers for the latest updates. Sessions may be limited to selected holidays and dates, and are subject to availability.
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📌 Gosforth & Whitley Bay
🎫 From £24
Ages 4-12 years
Misitu Forest School [AD]
At Misitu we believe that regular access to woodland and natural environments provides children with inspirational and challenging outdoor learning opportunities.
The activities on offer are varied and child-led including free play and exploration, in addition to den building, using knots, art and crafts with natural materials, gadgets, identification of species and surveys in the woodland, fire-lighting and using tools. Holiday Gang sessions are held 10am-12pm on selected dates in school holidays.
📌 Jesmond Dene, Newcastle
🎫 £10 for a single session, £17 for both sessions.
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Ages 5-16 years
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Multi-Activity Camps
Adventure Valley
📌 Co Durham, DH1 5SG
📅 During most school holidays
⭐ Activity Day Camps with a full schedule of action-packed activities, such as animal feeding and exploring the farm, forest crafts, sports and games, arts and crafts, cooking and more.
🎟️ £45 per day
👉 For more info, visit @AdventureV
Ages 3 – 11 years
The Holiday Club
📌 Gateshead Fell Cricket Club
📅 Easter & summer holidays
⭐ A high quality, fun school holiday activities programme, with a range of activities such as: Archery, Arts & Crafts, Bush Craft, Cooking, Dance, Drama and Sports & Games.
🎟️ £20 per day
👉 For more info, visit @TheHolidayClub
Ages 3 – 12 years
Lamesley Childcare
📌 Lamesley, Gateshead
📅 During most school holidays
⭐ With outings to the cinema, parks, the beach, bowling and a range of special events such as Zorb Football, Zoolab, Multi sports, Kreative Kitchen and Survival Day activities.
🎟️ £22 per day
👉 For more info, visit @LamesleyCC
LK Health & Wellbeing NE
📌 Durham City Cricket Club, DH1 3JU
📅 During most school holidays
⭐ Holidays Club with multi sports, arts & crafts, disco, pool, table football, table tennis and more.
🎟️ £15 per day
👉 For more info, visit @lkhealthandwellbeingNE
Reception to Year 6
The Valley Nursery & Kids Club
📌 Team Valley, Gateshead, NE11 0JU
📅 During most school holidays
⭐ Activities such as a trip to the park, trip to crazy golf, baking cakes, forest school bug hunt, making clay fridge magnets, being creative and just getting messy, with lots of FUN!
🎟️ From £31.95 per day
👉 For more info, visit @thevalleynurseryandkidsclub
Reception to Y6
Acting Up – Theatre School Holiday Workshop
📌 Cardinal Hume School, Gateshead, NE9 6RZ
📅 Easter and summer holidays
⭐ Holiday workshops packed full of singing, dancing and drama, then participate in an end of week Theatre Performance. No previous acting, dancing or singing experience is necessary.
🎟️ £30 per day
👉 For more info, visit @ActingUpActingUp
ART4 – Art Workshop
📌 Whitley Bay, North Tyneside
📅 Feb half term & Easter holidays
⭐ Children have the opportunity to explore their artistic abilities and imaginations through a variety of themed projects, offering a unique and exciting way of working to develop artistic skills and new techniques.
🎟️ £40 per day
👉 For more info, visit @art4creativity1
Key Stage 1 & 2 (Y1-Y6)
Buzz Dance Company – Dance Camp / Musical Theatre Camp
📌 Birtley, DH3 1HQ
📅 During most school holidays
⭐ Children can learn lots of different styles in Dance Camp, such as pop steps, lyrical, theatre and ballet. In Musical Theatre Camp participants take part in acting, dancing and singing workshops lead by industry professionals. Both options give the opportunity to preform in a show at the end of the week.
🎟️ £20 per day
👉 For more info, visit @buzztheatrearts
Ages 6+
Happy Feet Dance – Dance Camp
📌 Windy Nook, Gateshead, NE10 9AJ
📅 During most school holidays
⭐ Dance, fun and games for boys and girls.
🎟️ £15 per day
👉 For more info, visit @happyfeetdancene
Aged reception-Y7
Juno Events – Cheerleading Pop Up Club
📌 Gateshead
📅 Selected dates, usually including Easter & Summer Holidays
⭐ Cheerleading Club Days to learn a cheerleading routine, with the chance to perform at a basketball game at Newcastle Eagles Arena.
👉 For more info, visit @JunoEventsNE
Laing Art Gallery – Art School / Art Academy
📌 Newcastle, NE1 8AG
📅 During most school holidays
⭐ Young people work with a professional arts educator to experiment with a variety of materials to explore and create artwork.
🎟️ From £25 per day
👉 For more info, visit @laingartgallery
Ages 7-10 years & 11-16 years
Marron Theatre Arts – Dance Camp
📌 Blaydon, Gateshead, NE21 5AJ
📅 Easter holidays
⭐ Themed days with dance, fun, songs and stories.
🎟️ From £25 per day
👉 For more info, visit @marrontheatrearts
Newcastle Theatre Royal – Theatre Summer School
📌 Newcastle, NE1 6BR
📅 Summer holidays
⭐ Summer School in which participants develop a theatre performance over the course of 5 days, before hitting the main stage to perform.
🎟️ From £140 for 5 day course
👉 For more info, visit @NewcastleTheatreRoyal
Ages 5–17 years
Nice Swan Academy – Dance & Drama Camp
📌 Marley Hill, Gateshead, NE16 5DW
📅 During most school holidays
⭐ Free ‘Brighten the Day’ Holiday Camps with singing, dancing, drama activities, arts, crafts, sports, cooking and games. Includes a healthy, nutritious lunch each day.
🎟️ Free, limited spaces available (places primarily allocated to children attending Gateshead schools and benefiting from Free School Meals, with a quota of spaces available for other children once this allocation has been met)
👉 For more info, visit @niceswanacad
Age 5-14
Razzamataz – Theatre Summer School
📌 Newcastle: Newcastle College Performance Academy, NE4 7SA
📌 Durham: The Sjøvoll Centre, Pity Me, DH1 5BZ
📅 Summer holidays
⭐ A week of fun, dance, music and drama, together with learning about theatre skills, prop making and more, with a short performance on the final day for parents/guardians, family and friends.
🎟️ From £30 per full day
👉 For more info, visit @Razzamataztheatreschools
Morning sessions available for ages 4-8 years, all day sessions for 8-18 years
Sylvia Dobson School of Dance – Dance Camp
📌 Rowlands Gill, Gateshead, NE39 2PD
📅 During most school holidays
⭐ Holiday camps with dance, gymnastics, party games, cooking and crafts.
🎟️ From £25 per day
👉 For more info, visit @sylvia.dobsondance
6-11 years
Turpentyne – Fine Art Classes
📌 Whitley Bay and Gosforth Studios
📅 During most school holidays
⭐ Art Workshops with a choice of week long half day courses, guiding students through a variety of art projects whilst learning about master artists and trying out techniques such as printmaking, painting, pastels and collage.
🎟️ From £140 for 5 x 1/2 days
👉 For more info, visit @turpentyne
Ages 6+
Blackfriars Restaurant – Cookery Club
📌 Newcastle, NE1 4XN
📅 During most school holidays
⭐ Little Monks Cookery Club making cooking fun, allowing kids to go at their own pace making delicious and nutritious dishes. Moving on to the more challenging Smart Cookies Club, building on from the basics and developing culinary skills and confidence.
🎟️ From £75 per day
👉 For more info, visit @BlackfriarsRestaurant
Ages 7-10 & 11-17 years
Conkers Life – Forest School
📌 Rowlands Gill, Gateshead, NE39 1ND
📅 During most school holidays
⭐ Activities getting back to nature, such as pond dipping, bug hunts, earth art, campfires, songs and games, adventures and more!
🎟️ £80 for 2 days
👉 For more info, visit @conkerslife
Recommended from Year 1+ upwards, or reception age children already familiar with Conkers site
Discovery Museum – Summer Science Club
📌 Newcastle, NE1 4JA
📅 Summer holidays
⭐ Participants can work with professional science educators to take part in a series of exciting experiments, such as chemistry experiments, robotics, circuits and more.
🎟️ From £150 for 5 day course
👉 👉 For more info, visit @newcastlediscovery
From 8+ years
Forest Adventurers – Forest school
📌 Blaydon, Gateshead, NE21 4LU
📅 Most school holidays from April – Oct
⭐ Children can experience nature, think creatively and problem solve, with opportunities to build dens, cook over a campfire, use tools, experience hammocks and tree swings, hill roll, take part in outdoor crafts and more.
🎟️ From £32 per day
👉 👉 For more info, visit @forestadventurers.co.uk
Reception to 15 years old
Stomping Grounds – Forest School
📌 Dukes Hagg Wood, Prudhoe, NE42 5PA
📅 During most school holidays
⭐ Holiday Club where children can explore the outdoors, manage their own risks, lead their own discovery and build relationships with their peers, with outdoor adventures such as fire lighting, whittling, games, crafts, foraging, navigating and more.
🎟️ £35 per day
👉 For more info, visit @forestschoolnortheast
Ages 5-14
Active Future Gateshead – Fortnite Camp
📌 Cardinal Hume School, Gateshead, NE9 6RZ
📅 During most school holidays
⭐ Recreating the video game to get children off their screens, running around, making friends and having a great time. Includes playing favourite Fortnite games, using props to build bases and lots of Fortnite dancing!
🎟️ £20, sibling discount available
👉 For more info, visit @activefutureTFP
Ages 6-12
Active Future Gateshead – PE and Multi Activity Camp
📌 Harton Academy, South Shields, NE34 6DL
📅 During most school holidays
⭐ Children choose from playing NERF Wars, Dodgeball, basketball Soft Tip Archery or Futsal, along with a chill out area consisting of Table Football, Air Hockey, Pool, Lego, Den Building, Arts and Crafts & more.
🎟️ £20, siblings £15
👉 For more info, visit @activefutureTFP
Ages 5-12
Adventure Sunderland – Adventure Days
📌 Roker, Sunderland
📅 During most school holidays
⭐ Get the kids exploring the outdoors, having fun and making new friends, with a mix of water and land activities such as paddle boarding, archery and more.
🎟️ £30 per day
👉 For more info, visit @Adventure Sunderland
Ages 8-15 years
AE Sports Coaching – Sports Camp
📌 Venues across the Seaham & County Durham area
📅 During most school holidays
⭐ Holiday camps with many activities for children to choose from, such as football, dodgeball, adventure games and arts and crafts.
🎟️ £15 per day, 10% sibling discount
👉 For more info, visit @AESportsCoaching
Ages 4 – 12 years
B GR8 Football Coaching – Football Camp
📌 Great Park Community Centre, Newcastle, NE13 9BD
📅 School holidays from Feb-Aug
⭐ Football Camps offer a week of FUN football related activities, including Football Training, Football related games, Competitions and Prizes.
🎟️ £10 per day
👉 For more info, visit @BGR8footballcoaching
Ages 5-12
Blue Flames – Multi-Sport Camp
📌 Newcastle, NE12 9SF
📅 During most school holidays
⭐ Multi-Sports Camps with a wide variety of sports and activities.
🎟️ £20 per day
👉 For more info, visit @BlueFlames
Ages 5-12
Dauntless Gymnastics – Gymnastics Camps
📌 Blaydon, NE21 5NJ
📅 During most school holidays
⭐ Gymnastics Camps with workshops developing key skills and freestyle fun.
🎟️ £25 per day / £15 half day
👉 For more info, visit @dauntlessgymnastics
Elite Netball Academy – Netball Performance Camps
📌 County Durham
📅 During most school holidays
⭐ Performance Camps led by the elite team and guest international/superleague players, to help take your netball to the next level while you train, have fun and make friends.
🎟️ £40 per day
👉 For more info, visit @elitenetballacademy
Ages 10/11 – 16 years
Gateshead Football Club Foundation – Football Camp
📌 Gateshead International Stadium
📅 During most school holidays
⭐ Football Camps delivered by professionals and special guests.
🎟️ From: Free
👉 For more info, visit @GheadFoundation
Ages 7-12
Grass Roots UK – Sports Activity Week
📌 Venues across the North East
📅 Easter & Summer holidays
⭐ Various sports, such as football, cricket, gymnastics, rounders, tennis, hockey etc and fun activities such as water games/fights, crash mat tournaments and tug of war competitions.
🎟️ From £45 for 4 days
👉 For more info, visit @GrassRootsUk
Reception to Year 6
Ne Children’s Parties – Fortnite Inspired NERF Camp
📌 Various venues, including South Shields, North Shields & Durham
📅 During most school holidays
⭐ Fortnite-themed activities, such as favourite games from Fortnite, building bases, 24 giant inflatable obstacles including 2 Tanks, and 60+ NERF guns of various types.
🎟️ £20
👉 For more info, visit @nenerfgunparties
Ages 5-12
Newcastle Falcons – Rugby Coaching Camp
📌 Kingston Park Stadium, Consett RFC
📅 During most school holidays
⭐ For boys and girls of all abilities, designed to help improve rugby skills, techniques, game awareness and more whilst having fun with friends.
🎟️ £25 per day
👉 For more info, visit @newcastle.falcons
Ages 6-14
Newcastle United Foundation – Football Holiday Course
📌 Gosforth, Consett & Alnwick
📅 During most school holidays
⭐ Play, learn and make friends on the football pitch. Open to girls and boys of all abilities.
🎟️ £15 per day
👉 For more info, visit @NewcastleUnitedFoundation
Ages 5-12
Raven Valley Gym Club
📌 Gateshead, NE11 9DJ
📅 During most school holidays
⭐ Gymnastic Camps with gymnastics, crafts and games.
🎟️ £25 per day
👉 For more info, visit @RavenValleyGymclub
Age 4+
Sport NE – Sports Based Activity Camps
📌 Dame Allan’s Junior School, Newcastle, NE2 4NG
📅 During most school holidays
⭐ Offering the chance to learn new skills, try new activities, build confidence and make friends, with a mixture of high action sporting activities, arts and crafts, free-play and team building activities.
🎟️ From £40
👉 For more info, visit @SportNEteam
Ages 3-13 years
Sports Camps NE – Activity Camps
📌 Venues in Newcastle & Northumberland
📅 During most school holidays
⭐ Children can meet new friends, have fun and experience a range of sports and fun games, such as dodgeball, basketball, football, team games, lego, movies, arts/crafts, benchball, parachute, treasure hunts, dance and more.
🎟️ From £10-£17.50 per day
👉 For more info, visit @CAMPSNE
Year 1 – Year 6
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