| Baden-Powell High Adventure Camp (BPHAC) is a traditional Scout camp with a difference - it offers a combination of an excellent merit badge program and a fully-fledged high adventure program. In addition, it offers an extensive first year camper program, known as ACE (Accelerated Camping Experience). |
| The camp itself is at Hesley Wood Scout Activity Centre, the British Scout Association’s South Yorkshire County Scout Camp. The camp is easy to find, being just minutes away from Britain’s main highway, the M1. The location of the site allows us to offer a full range of activities – from climbing to water-skiing to gorge walking – and provides access to thousands of acres of open moorland as well as to one of Europe’s largest shopping malls. Hesley Wood provides BPHAC with a range of facilities including an indoor rifle range, climbing tower and obstacle course. Each campsite is in a wooded location with an altar fire and nearby water point. |
| BPHAC is a patrol cooking camp, allowing Scouts to hone and improve their outdoor skills while at camp. Each unit or patrol prepares its own meals using food from the camp’s central commissary. Meals can either be cooked over open fires or on stoves. The camp fee does cover all foodstuffs and site rentals but, just in case you wish to spice up the menu, there is a large supermarket within walking distance of the camp. |
| Over the coming months, we will select and train a staff who will offer you and your unit the best possible summer camp experience. Most of our staff are well experienced and return year after year to work at camp. Eagle Scouts number heavily amongst our staff, from Instructors to the Camp Director. In 2007, Eagle Scouts comprised half of our staff. Our two lead directors, both Eagle Scouts and Vigil Honor Members of the Order of the Arrow, have over thirty-five years of summer camp experience between them. We take great pride in developing and training a camp staff that will provide your entire unit with the best possible summer camp experience. |