The Youth Centres
Always guided
We will help you in planning the camp from the very beginning. Our skilled and supportive instructors support the group throughout the entire camp, helping you in the development of goals, group cohesion, the youth’s participation, and their relationship with nature. We also provide practical, activity-based tools for the adults of the group.
At the Youth Centres, we organise
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Finland’s most popular school camps
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Confirmation camps and other youth camps
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Nuotta coaching for social empowerment
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International youth exchanges and seminars
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Recreation days, meetings, and events
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Leisure travel for everyone – by choosing Youth Centres, you support important youth work!
Lifelong memories
Youth Centre school camps support the broad-based objectives of basic education. Our programmes are always planned together with the adults accompanying the group, ensuring that the camp forms an educational, goal-oriented, and well-structured whole.
Every programme always includes an educational objective. For example, climbing can be designed to strengthen friendship and cooperation skills by requiring a partner’s or the whole group’s support on the course. Water activities can be used safely to practise group skills in a large canoe or to encourage personal challenge and self-confidence on a paddling trip.
Each year, we receive thousands of pieces of feedback highlighting improved friendship skills, stronger class spirit, and personal growth. We are especially pleased to hear that the experiences gained at our camps continue to have a positive impact well into the participants’ adulthood.
The main goal of the camps is the social empowerment of young people, with a focus on supporting their interaction skills, self-esteem, self-respect, and sense of participation. Guided reflections with the group help the youth internalise what they have learned, recognise their emotions, and evaluate the progress towards their goal.
At the Youth Centres, everyone is treated as equal, and diversity is seen as a strength. The Youth Centres are spaces that are free from any form of discrimination, and the principles of safer spaces are applied throughout.
