Camp Glide

What Camp Glide does

Camp Glide Ltd. is a UK-based, founder-owned private childcare provider operating across Surrey, West Sussex, and South London since 2013. The company delivers two core service lines: Holiday Clubs, which are multi-activity day camps offered during Easter, summer, and half-term breaks at £24.90–£44.90 per day; and Before & After School Clubs, which provide wraparound care at £7.15–£16.25 per session across more than 12 school sites. Services are segmented by age with a dedicated MINIs programme for 2–4 year olds aligned to the Early Years Foundation Stage, and by activity preference through Holiday Club 'Pods' (Sports Stars, Soccer School, Free Focus, Action Stations).

The business is built on a partner-school delivery model where Camp Glide staff operate inside host school premises and parents book directly through third-party SaaS platforms, primarily Enrolmy and Magic Booking, with EEQU and Booking Bug used for HAF/Club4 government-funded bookings. Ofsted registration on the Early Years register (URN: EY466533) allows parents to pay using Tax-Free Childcare and childcare vouchers, and is paired with a structured Head Teacher Referral Scheme offering £1,000 to schools that successfully refer new partnerships within 12 months.

Camp Glide's go-to-market is direct-to-consumer, relying on the company website, an email newsletter, Facebook, and word-of-mouth from existing families, supplemented by school recommendations. Customers are fragmented individual households; the most material non-consumer revenue stream is the Holiday Activity and Food (HAF) and Club4 programmes funded by local authorities for means-tested free school meal-eligible children at four venues. Revenue is not publicly disclosed and there are no funding rounds on record, indicating an organically grown, founder-financed operation with 26 employees and active recruitment.

Name

Camp Glide

Legal name

Camp Glide Ltd.

Website

https://campglide.co.uk

Company type

Private

Founded year

2013

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Camp Glide Ltd. is a UK founder-owned childcare provider founded in 2013, delivering Ofsted-registered holiday clubs and before/after school wraparound care at 12+ partner schools across Surrey, West Sussex, and South London for children aged 2 to 11.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Childcare Services

NAICS

Recreational and Vacation Camps (except Campgrounds) (721214)

SIC

Services-Child Day Care Services (8351)

akta.pro primary industry

Multi-Activity Enrichment Camps (Academic + Arts + Sports) (EDAMALAA)

akta.pro secondary industry

Life Skills & SEL Camps (Confidence, Executive Function, Social Skills) (EDAMALAO)

Keywords

• Holiday club childcare
• Wraparound school care
• Multi-activity day camps
• Before after school clubs
• Ofsted registered childcare

Headquarters

HQ city

Reigate

HQ country

United Kingdom

HQ region

Europe

Offices13 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Others

Revenue model

1. Holiday Club Sessions: Per-session fees for multi-activity day camps during school holidays. Parents book individual sessions or multi-day programmes through the online platform.
2. Before & After School Club Sessions: Per-session fees for breakfast and after-school childcare during term time. Flexible booking options including ad hoc and block bookings.
3. Childcare Vouchers and Tax-Free Childcare: Accepts childcare vouchers and tax-free childcare payments from registered parents, expanding payment options and affordability for families.

Pricing tiers

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels3 records

Marketing channels6 records

Core offering

Camp Glide provides school holiday multi-activity day camps (Holiday Clubs) and term-time before and after school wraparound childcare (Breakfast and After School Clubs) for children aged 2-12, delivered on-site at primary and infant schools across Surrey, West Sussex, and South London. Services include themed pods such as Sports Stars, Soccer School, Traditional Camp, and MINIs for nursery-aged children, plus the government-funded HAF/Club4 Holiday Activities and Food programme. Bookings are managed through third-party platforms (Enrolmy, MagicBooking, EEQU) and parents pay per session using card payments, childcare vouchers, or Tax-Free Childcare.

Product overview

Camp Glide is a childcare provider offering two core service lines: Holiday Clubs (multi-activity day camps during school holidays) and Before & After School Clubs (wraparound care during term time). Holiday Clubs feature various Pod programmes including Traditional Camp (Free Focus and Action Stations), Sports Stars, Soccer School, and MINIs for nursery-aged children. Before & After School Clubs include breakfast clubs (Dawn Rangers) and after-school clubs (Dusk Rangers). The company also runs HAF/Club4 programmes funded by local authorities. Services are powered by Enrolmy and MagicBooking platforms for online registration and bookings.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Glide Rangers: Before and after school club brand operating at various school sites
• Hokey Cokey Club
• Dawn Rangers
• Dusk Rangers
• Soccer School
• Glide MINIs

Products and services

• Holiday Clubs

Quantifiable outcome

• Thousands of children welcomed through doors over years of operation
• +2 more outcomes

Named customers5 records

Segments4 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Integration7 records

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• Fit For Sport: UK holiday activity day camps centred on multi-activity and sports-led programming for primary-aged children. Operates an equivalent school-holiday day-camp model with structured activity pods (sports, arts, swimming) analogous to Camp Glide's Sports Stars and Traditional Camp pods.
• Camp Beaumont: Long-established UK holiday activity day camp provider serving 4-14 year olds across multiple venues. Same product (multi-activity school-holiday day camps), overlapping customer (parents seeking wraparound holiday childcare) and booking pattern as Camp Glide.
• Super Camps: UK-headquartered multi-activity holiday day camps for primary school-aged children. Operates a near-identical model to Camp Glide (school venues, multi-activity pods, half-term/Easter/summer programming) and is the most direct competitor on the holiday-club side.
• Premier Education Group: UK provider of school-holiday activity clubs, wraparound care, and PE/sports coaching in primary schools. Combines holiday clubs with term-time wraparound exactly like Camp Glide, serving schools and parents nationwide.
• SCL Education Group: UK provider of breakfast, after-school and holiday activity clubs for primary school children. Directly competes on the same product lines (wraparound + holiday clubs) with comparable venue-by-school delivery model.
• Barracudas Activity Days: UK holiday activity club operator running multi-activity day camps during school holidays at school venues. Closely comparable to Camp Glide in offering, age band (4-14) and venue strategy, making it a near-direct competitor for parents searching holiday childcare.
• Junior Adventures Group (JAG) UK: Operates brands such as Fit For Sport and Happy Holiday Clubs in the UK holiday day camp market. Very similar product-market fit, venue-based model and customer segment (parents and schools), though JAG operates at significantly larger scale.

Broad incumbents

• Bright Horizons Family Solutions: Large global nursery and early-years operator. Not a direct competitor to Camp Glide's holiday-club product, but is the broader-incumbent benchmark for Ofsted-registered childcare at scale — useful peer for regulatory and operational benchmarking.
• Busy Bees Nurseries: UK's largest nursery chain, Ofsted-registered and serving working parents. Does not directly compete on school-holiday day camps but represents the broader incumbent childcare-services category that Camp Glide sits within for Ofsted, voucher and Tax-Free Childcare purposes.

Emerging players

• Active Kids: Boutique UK provider of holiday multi-activity clubs and wraparound care for primary-aged children. Smaller-scale overlap with Camp Glide on product offering and family target, sometimes overlapping regionally in South East England.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

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• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/camp-glide-ltd

Compliance2 records

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles1 record

Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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