24 Best Summer Camps in Edinburgh

7. Accessea Holiday Camps 2025 (26th June – 20th Aug)

Our inclusive holiday camps provide a fun, enriching experience designed to engage and inspire your children. We aim to create the perfect blend of fun, learning, and social interaction, offering opportunities for your child to explore new activities, uncover hidden talents, and embark on exciting adventures.

With a wide range of activities available, we’ll keep your child active, entertained, and engaged throughout the holidays. From physical activities and sports to mentally stimulating challenges, our camps are crafted to ensure your child not only has a great time but also enhances their overall well-being.

We believe our camps are more than just a fun break—they’re an investment in your child’s growth, confidence, and independence. They’ll come home with unforgettable memories, new friendships, and a sense of achievement.

Fees: £399

8. Summer Outdoor Club 2025 – Dynamic Earth (July 7 – Aug 1)

It’s back! Join the Dynamic Earth team for a packed programme of outdoor discovery and adventure this summer with our Summer Outdoor Club in Edinburgh. Become the next generation of planet protectors and global guardians through our week long programme of games, activities, experiments and so much more in the iconic setting of Holyrood Park.

Each day will be themed around a different topic in Earth and environmental science and sustainability with a range of different activities designed to appeal to children aged between 7-12

9. Action4Youth – Summer Camp (July 28th – August 22nd)

Make new friends, develop life skills, experience independent living, cook for your team and you can use all of this for your DofE Gold Award residential requirement! Stay in our festival style camping village and take part in a programme that will develop your life skills, whilst challenging yourself with a range of adventure and learning activities! These range from paddle boarding, climbing and caving to practical first aid, leadership skills and budgeting.

• Ages: 16-17 Year Old
• Fees: £399/per person

10. UK Robotics Summer School, Edinburgh (June 2 – 6)

Welcome to the UK Robotics Summer School web pages. We are organising a Summer School to take place from 2 to 6 June 2025 in the beautiful city of Edinburgh.  Organised by the Edinburgh Centre for Robotics (Edinburgh and Heriot-Watt University) and the National Robotarium, The event is supported by the CDT D2AIR, The Edinburgh Centre for Robotics and the UK-RAS network.

Overview: This is a 5 day Summer School from June 2-6 2025, aimed at developing learning, engagement and knowledge exchange within the field of robotics. This school will offer a combination of lectures, tutorials, and industry presentations, focusing on cutting-edge topics in robotics.

What to expect?

• Expert-led lectures, tutorials, and industry talks on the latest advancements
• Hands-on experience with state-of-the-art robotics technology
• Insights into reasoning, control, collaboration, and learning, bioinspired robotics, generative AI for robotics, human robot interactions
• Discussions on ethics, validation, and inclusivity in robotics and AI
• Networking opportunities with fellow students, academics, and industry leaders
• Refreshments, lunch, and a special Summer School dinner included!

11. Edinburgh Steiner School – Summer Camps (August 4 – 15)

Our internationally-recognized curriculum, practiced in over 2,000 Kindergartens in some 80 countries, on every habitable continent, considered the first seven years of a child’s life as deeply important. The rhythmical aspect of the kindergarten differs from most other early years settings and here is why.

Steiner philosophy behind ‘rhythm’ is not a routine or schedule but to integrate the child’s need for in-breaths and out-breaths – time for quiet absorption (painting) followed by time for moving and expansion such a free play. So, a time to create and a time to release. This is enhanced by the rhythm of the week where a certain activity marks the difference in days of the week, which are unchanged, such as soup-making Mondays and bonfire Fridays. Children know what will be coming next which builds a sense of security in the adults and environment around them.

• Ages: 3 to 6 Years Old
• Fees: £150 per child per week

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

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].

When 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.

We also have other discounts available: The refer a friend discount gives you and your friend £30 off your booking.

Our sibling discount offers £50 per week discount for each additional family member that books for camp.

Our booking system doesn’t currently support using more than one discount code at a time – to use more than one discount please email [email protected] and we’ll be happy to give you a unique code to apply to your camp booking for multiple discounts.

• Ages: 11 to 18 years old
• Fees: £365 – £630

13. Eden Watersports – Kids & Teens Holiday Camps (30 June – 22 August )

Looking for some entertainment during the school holidays and weekends. We have a wide variety of courses available for those aged 8 and upwards. Our adult courses continue throughout, and we have fun days out for the whole family (including under-8s).

We also offer an Out-of-Hours Club during the Summer Holidays for those who need it, allowing children to be dropped off at 09.00 and picked up at 5.00 on any given day of activity. Cost is £5.00

Ages: 8 to 16  years old

Fees: £359

14. Newbattle Abby Summer Camp (20 June – 20 August)

Newbattle Abbey College is one of Scotland’s smallest colleges, offering study programs for students and language schools in Scotland for the holidays and short-term programs for the weekend, as well as adults who decide to return to school. The college has the ability to provide full board, various types of boarding and daytime programs. Newbattle Abbey creates a supportive environment, provides a convenient place to study, offers adults of all ages the opportunity to enjoy high-quality instruction in a historic place. Most students of academic programs over 18 years old are adults who return to education.

The college is located on 125 acres of beautiful parks and ancient forests near Edinburgh. The historic 16th-century building and tranquil location make Newbattle a unique place to study and plan for the future.

• Ages: 8 to 17  years old
• Fees: from 1150.00 £ / week

15. Edinburgh Zoo – Summer School (June 30 – August 1)

During Summer School, children discover amazing animals and cultures from around the world and connect with nature. All this learning happens through a range of fun activities such as zoo trails, games, arts and crafts, animal handling, building enrichment devices and much more! For Summer School there are four classes:

• P2–3
• P4–6
• P7/S1
• S2–4

Please note that our age brackets are different from previous years for 2025.

Children should be booked into the school year group that they are entering after the summer. Make sure you book the correct age group as any incorrectly booked places will be refunded.

The programme runs from Monday to Friday, 9am to 3:30pm with early drop off available from 8:30am. After-School Club is available to book for £35 for the week – this runs until 5:30pm and you can collect earlier if preferred.

• Ages: 12-17  years old
• Fees: £225

16. Edinburgh Hockey Club Summer Camp (30 June – 4 July)

We’re excited to announce that registration is OPEN for our Edinburgh Hockey Club Summer Camp from Monday 30 June – Friday 4 July 2025 at Meggetland!

We would love to see you all back at our Summer Camp to support our club fundraiser and offer you the opportunity to have fun playing hockey with your friends, meet new people, and be coached by some of the coolest coaches who play and coach at our amazing club.

Our U8-U10 coaches are our super-keen and super-skilled EHC 1st XI players who will be dedicated to making this the BEST camp for our future hockey stars!

Our U12-U17 Coaches are experienced players and club coaches who will ensure this group gets the stretch they need but also have loads of fun in between!

Ages: 8-17  years old

17. Camp Cooper International Summer Camp (July 6 – August 8)

Camp Cooper is the best spot to spend the summer holiday, located in the countryside and woodlands—a one-hour drive from Edinburgh; it provides tons of activities which include forest exploration, sports, swimming, and arts. The programs offered at camp cooper aim to nurture each child to be their best self in a safe, fun and exciting environment. Activities provided are categorized into three which include electives, cabin activities and all special camp events to ensure that your kids participate in activities they are passionate about or interested in. The program is suitable for kids aged 7-17 years.

Ages: 7 to 17 years