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A. - We’ve got nearly everything you need…tents to sleep in, cook in, party in, all the sleeping stuff for the youngsters, all the catering kit, and all sorts of bits and pieces. Of course, your volunteers need to bring their own tents and sleeping bags.
- We’ll go through your weekend plans with you, agree a budget, and finance your camp.
- We’ll give you and your volunteers a training and awareness session. This is a big help to you in the area of having an effective team who know their roles, so your weekend unfolds smoothly and stress free. It deals with things like CRB checks too.
- We’ll give you a ‘How-To’ manual with everything in it you need to know, from our hard-and-fast rules to our suggestions, guidance, and experiences. Someone experienced will be there to support you on the weekend.
- We’ll sort out extra help if you need. But the general idea is you put your own weekend together by asking selected members of your family, neighbours, work colleagues or likely people in your local community to join you in the project.

A. No. It’s a holiday, not a school trip. Besides, you get to build your own ‘volunteer team’ to our template until you are satisfied you have all angles covered. And you and your volunteers get trained at one of our awareness days. And if you’re still nervous you can dip into our central volunteer support for confident trained help.

A. Well, it’s like this. If a young person turns up in the country alone and says they are a refugee, and a child, then they remain an ‘unaccompanied asylum seeker’ until they are at least 18. Even then, the Home Office may still take a while to decide whether or not they meet the criteria to be ‘granted refugee status’, and they sort of carry on being an unaccompanied asylum seeker meanwhile. Unaccompanied means there’s no one to look after them like a parent or guardian. But we don’t have much to do with either the bureaucracy or the politics. We sort out the camping weekends, and the referral agencies send the children or young people they want to send.

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A. The way Myriad Adventures camping weekends are organised is that the volunteer structure works for 16 to 24 teenagers. We will support you in this area.