20 Best Summer Camps in Glasgow

School holidays are a precious time to spend with your little ones but children also want to have fun. It’s time to start looking for the best summer camps in Glasgow. Summer camps play a significant role in your kid’s life—and if you used to go to holiday camps as a child, you know this. Besides providing fun and exciting activities to engage your children, summer camps help nurture your child’s abilities, develop other vital skills and most importantly, helps them make lifelong memories and new friends.

Below is a list of the best summer camps in Glasgow:
1. ISSOS International Summer School (June 29 – August 13)
Our campuses at St Andrews, Cambridge and Yale provide our students with inspirational surroundings for the 3-week summer adventure of a lifetime, focusing on safety, wellbeing, personal development and a unique international experience.

St Andrews is where it all began for ISSOS. Our home in Scotland offers our summer school students a safe but bustling town to explore and gives them the chance to experience life at Scotland’s top university. With 3 beaches, medieval cobbled streets and world-class golf courses it’s no wonder that our St Andrews summer programme has remained so popular with our students.

Ages: 13 to 18 years

2. Camp Indy, International Summer Camp (July 20 – August 08)
Camp Indy provides a mixture of fun and exciting electives, small group activities, and large events to keep campers engaged all through the day for kids aged 5-14 years. Participants get the opportunity to create a personalized schedule at camp Indy by choosing two electives to specialize in per week. Activities offered include football, art, dance, color competitions, performing arts, sports, campfires, talent shows, and creative superstar.

Ages: 7 to 17 years

3. Kids Summer Holidays Computing Camp (July 1 – August 9)
Our popular Kids Summer Holidays Computing Camp Glasgow is coming back between 1st1st July and 15th August
This time we will be running Kids Summer Holidays Computing Camp Glasgow Monday to Wednesday 10 am to 3pm, with a lot more enhanced features of Computer Games Development this year. Kids Summer Holidays Computing Camp Glasgow – will provide the seperate classes for age Age 9 to 14 and 6 to 9.

Does your child want to learn to make their own games? How about learn how their console games are made? This is all available during our Games Development Boot Camp this Summer! At our Kids Summer Holidays Computing Camp Glasgow, they will learn about Game Development and about various Game Engines.

4. King’s Camp, Glasgow (June 30 – July 14)
Our Multi Active programme is designed to get children active, having fun and learning together throughout the week participating in sports and active games. A typical summer camp day includes sports and activity sessions, time to socialise and team challenges.

Since 1991, we’ve strived to create the best summer camps and sports camp experiences for children. From the moment they arrive on camp to the last activities of the day, our brilliant Red Tops are committed to ensuring every Kings Camper is engaged, active, having fun and learning together. Parents can rest assured that this impressive venue is a safe and secure space for children to play and get active, having passed our thorough risk assessment.

Ages: 5 to 16 years

5. The Outward Bound Summer Camp (June 30 – August 15)
Outward bound summer camps provide exciting and engaging activities to allow kids to realize their full potential while equipping them with vital life skills. Campers are allowed to select a specific program that best suits them from skills for life awards—which equips participants with the skills required to join college, university, apprenticeship among others, or ultimate expeditions for budding explorers, among others. The program is suitable for kids aged 11-19 years.

6. SSC Summer Camps 2025 (July 19 – Aug 2)

The SSC’s Summer Camp 2025 for ages 11 to 18 years old is ready to book! The cost for 1 week is £365 and the cost for 2 weeks is £630. Prices are inclusive of all food and activities at camp.You can choose to book one of our buses from the locations posted below. The cost of a bus ticket is £30 per journey. If you have any queries about transport please contact us at [email protected] you book a place at camp you can choose to pay the full amount or you can pay a deposit of £50 to secure your place. Payment in full will be due a minimum of 14 days before camp so if you are booking late please pay in full. We accept credit or debit cards.

• Ages: 11 to 18 Years
• Fees: £690

7. Spider Hockey Summer Camps 2025 (June 30th – July 25th)
2025 is our 16th year and we are very proud of how we have adapted, evolved and developed to consistently work towards bringing the very best hockey camp experience. So, in 2025 we are bringing it all together for our 2nd coaching camp instalment in 2025. This Camp is for players from beginner level to intermediate levels bringing our skill builder and game changer camps together. In our themed Camps players will train in appropriate groups based on age , stage, peer groups and ability. This Camp has a big focus on building individual skills, introducing and developing game play in tournaments, in both small sided and larger game formats. Hockey sticks can be provided if required. The perfect environment to develop your skills and build your game play to get up to the next level

• Ages: 15 -17
• Cost: £190

8. Summer Boot Camp for Kids (July 1st – August 15th)
Our popular Summer Boot Camp for Kids Glasgow is coming back between 1st1st July and 15th August This time we will be running our Summer Boot Camp for kids Glasgow Monday to Friday 9am to 4pm, with a lot more enhanced features of Robot Coding, Computer Games Development.Does your child want to learn to make their own games? How about learn how their console games are made? This is all available during our Games Development Boot Camp this Summer! At our Summer Boot Camp for Kids Glasgow, they will learn about Game Development and about various Game Engines.

• Ages: 6 to 9
• Cost: £190

9.Holiday Camps | Golf It! Glasgow (June 30 -Aug 8)

Get into GolfIt! Summer Camp. A three day introductory camp to cover the basics of golf, from putting to full swings, and also important rules and golf course etiquette.

Cost: £80

10. Glasgow Rangers Summer Camp (August 18th – August 22nd)

Our Glasgow Rangers Summer Camp is back again in 2025! In association with our Scottish partners this summer camp will be ran by Academy Coaches from Glasgow Rangers FC of the Scottish Premier League. Coaches from Scotland’s most successful club are back in Calgary for another camp in partnership with Calgary Rangers Soccer Club. This is a fantastic opportunity for children of all abilities to get involved in a week of football drills, skills, and lots of fun!

• Cost: £80
• Ages: 6 – 17 Years

11. Animation Summer Camp at Sparks Film School (August 18th – August 22nd)
The camp covers practical, hands-on instruction in stop motion and 2D animation techniques, as well as the opportunity for the young creatives to develop their own animated story. Participants are in small groups with similar ages:

• Studio 2/3 – ages 7-11 (usually going into primary 4-7)
• Studio 4 – ages 11-14 (usually going into primary 7 to secondary 3)

We start and intersperse each day with games and breaks to ensure campers have a chance to make new friends along the way. We welcome diverse learning styles and young people are welcome to come on their own or come with a friend–we always make sure everyone is included and can take part. Get in touch if you want to discuss your child’s unique needs.

Ages: 7 – 14 Years

12. Vivace Theatre Summer School (June 30 – July 28)
This summer we want to help create some very special memories. We are delighted to be offering not 1 but 2 exciting musical theatre camps. Inspired by two uplifting musicals, we have an ambitious and entertaining summer ahead.

For experienced performers, there will be plenty of challenges and for those new to the stage, lots and lots of wonderful opportunities to learn about performing. So prepare to act, sing, dance, meet new friends and put on a magical show in just 5 days!

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