Tribe’s Summer of Fun Enthuses Hundreds
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Thursday 13th August 2015

Over the last couple of weeks, Tribe has welcomed back almost 550 of their members from an inspiring summer of fun. Several weeks of inspiration and amazing activities for school years 3-12 have been delivered on a larger scale than ever. Tribe’s Summer of Fun included Israel Tour, Tribe Days Out, four summer camps and Tribe leadership camp.

Tribe summer kicked off with Israel Tour for pupils in Year 11. During their month in Israel, the group took part in many exciting activities such as donkey-riding, snorkelling and rappelling. They also participated in fantastic social action programmes, hikes and visited many places that inspired them in their Judaism and their love of Israel. To read their blog click here and to view their photo gallery click here.

Closer to home Tribe organised exhilarating Days Out for children in school years 3-6 to Bounce, Danson Water Park, Diggerland and Go Ape. To see some of their jumping, splashing and digging antics click here.

Camps Gad and Zev for children in Years 5 and 6 took place in Alton while participants from Years 7-10 made the trip to Belgium for camps Barak and Kerach. Camps Gad and Zev had a fantastic time participating in amazing activities such as a treasure hunt, supper-quiz and a murder mystery. Meanwhile in Belgium, camps Barak and Kerach took part in many exciting programmes such as a wide game and a day-long colour war activity which culminated in a concert. One of the highlights was being joined at camp by Chief Rabbi Mirvis who held a special Q & A session for participants.

Despite long delays at Calais, many rabbis from participants’ home US communities visited camp to help out and to strengthen the local community connection.

Tribe also ran a Tribe Leadership Camp (TLC) for those in Year 12, where they spent a week learning how to be fantastic madrichim (leaders) before actually taking a camp themselves the following week. These future leaders of UK Jewry excelled at camp and will continue to play active roles in their local communities on their return.

View the Tribe camps photo gallery here.

David Collins, US Young People and Young Families Director, said: “This Summer with Tribe has been bigger and better than ever. Everyone involved has had a fantastic time, and it’s largely down to the hard work of all the amazing volunteers and camp leaders. Tribe will be working closely with our US communities to build valuable, long-term, local relationships with the participants who attended these camps now that they have returned home in order to ensure a bright future for our communities.”