For the 2025 Half term and summer holiday camps, we have limited spaces left, to book your child / children, please contact us via the contact form below, stating which days or weeks you are interested in booking

2025 MAY HALF TERM CAMP

• Week 1 - Tuesday 27th - Friday 30th May ,

2025 SUMMER HOLIDAY CAMP  (WEEK 1 - 5) 

• Week 1 - Monday - Friday - (28th July - 1st Aug)

• Week 2 - Monday - Friday - (4th Aug - 8th Aug)

• Week 3 - Monday - Friday - (11th Aug - 15th Aug)

• Week 4 - Monday - Friday - (18th Aug - 22nd Aug)

• Week 5 - Monday - Friday - (24th Aug - 30th Aug) / 30th August 2025 is performance Day (Family and friends are invited)

OUTDOOR COOKING 

Food, Fire, and Fun All in One

Class Experience

Join us for this ongoing cooking and baking weekly club to learn how to create tasty meals and treats to share with your family and friends. We will alternate savoury and sweet dishes weekly to give learners an opportunity to use a variety of ingredients, equipment and techniques. Recipes can be adapted for vegetarians / Vegans

We will start class with a couple of minutes of introductions, making sure that everyone knows each other's names. We will then check that we have the correct ingredients and equipment, and have clean hands and a clean work surface. We will go through the recipe step by step, so that all learners can follow along. Ingredients will need to be measured before class, to leave learners enough time for each step. By the end of class, learners will know how to follow and complete the recipe. Please be aware, recipes may not always be completed in the 60 minute live class session. Sometimes the food will need additional heating or cooling time, or decoration steps will need to be finished.

Ingredient and kitchen equipment will be available at each session, for online students the lists will be posted online around a week before each class. We will email learners who sign-up after this time as they will not be able to see the prior classroom posts, please allow 24 hours after signing-up for the ingredient and kitchen equipment email to reach you.

Why we Offer Outdoor Cooking ?

Vinse Active Outdoor cooking is very popular with Kids, youth and Adults. Other than roasting marshmallows or hot dogs on a stick, most kids usually have their meals prepared for them by adults rather than getting hands-on experience themselves. Outdoor cooking combines adventuresome elements — fire, knives, sharp skewers, hot pots, etc. — in a controlled environment to keep kids safe while learning valuable life skills, allowing them to step outside their comfort zones in the midst of enjoying time with their friends.

Vinse Active outdoor cooking for Kids, youth and Adult learn a number of valuable life skills, including:

• Food preparation and nutrition

• Following directions and recipes

• Hands-on, practical cooking with limited equipment or supplies

• How to build, light, manage, and put out a fire

• Science (different types of heat) and math (measuring and cutting)

• Confidence to try something new

• Problem-solving and understanding consequences (improperly threaded food can fall off the skewers and into the coals; improperly wrapped dinners can leak or burn)

• Leave-no-trace camping (picking up trash and debris, leaving the site as it was)

• Being in the outdoors with no high-tech or screens to distract them

• The ability to cook a variety of foods in different outdoor or “grid-down” situations, such as for backyard barbecues and camping trips, as well as during power outages or other survival situations

• Skills Needed by Outdoor Cooking Leaders

In addition to the outdoor cooking skills you will learn, you will also learn skills:

• Basic First aid

• Sanitation, food safety and food handlers

• Cooking experience and understanding of basic cooking terms

• Knowledge of the equipment to be used

• Fire building, coal management, clean-up, and leave-no-trace principles

• Ability to problem-solve and improvise when things don’t work out