October 2022 round-up!
Summer camp may be over for the year, but that doesn’t mean everything’s gone quiet! Here’s what’s been going on at Derby Kids’ Camp over recent months – and how you can get involved this year…
DKC 2022 memories
Our team of comms officers have been busy editing the thousands of photos and videos that were taken during camp this summer. We’re in the process of loading them all onto the website – you can view the latest ones below!
AGM & Reunion
It was wonderful to see so many volunteers and supporters at our AGM and Reunion back in September! We were glad to be able to thank everyone for their efforts in getting DKC back up and running in 2022.
Our new committee for 2022/23 were voted in and are already hard at work on plans to celebrate our 50th anniversary (more on that later!) and make DKC even better next year.
We’ve got more to celebrate from DKC 2022 with our volunteering long service awards. We wanted to make them a bit special this year and include them in one of our anniversary events. We’ll let you know when they’re being presented!
An evening at Gaia…
DKC trustees and camp leader teams were invited to a special evening hosted by Cosy under the Gaia installation at Derby Cathedral.
Cosy founders Pete and Amanda Ellse are two of our patrons and have been supporting us for many years – as DKC volunteers, through the Cosy Foundation and behind the scenes as we worked towards relaunching camp this year. We’ve also had amazing support from the wider Cosy Direct team, with 25 of their staff volunteering with us in 2022 – helping with Camp Build, as summer camp volunteers and running activities during camp.
The Gaia event was a wonderful celebration of Cosy’s Queens’ Award for Enterprise, highlighting their work in sustainability and the incredible support they’ve given to DKC over the years, as well as showcasing work they’re doing with other local charities.
DKC joins Marketing Derby
Cosy have funded our first year of membership as a Marketing Derby Bondholder, part of a community of around 350 businesses and charities across the city. We’re really excited to get involved and exhibited at Marketing Derby’s Spotlight event earlier this month. It’s a fabulous opportunity for us to get better known in the Derby business community and what better year to start than our 50th?! A big thank you to Cosy for supporting us with the membership!
Fundraising talks…
Our Fundraising Officer Rachel visited Alvaston WI group to give a presentation on Derby Kids’ Camp and the impact that their fundraising has had. Members of the group have been supporting us for a number of years – raising money to fund holidays and donating childrens pants and socks for us to give to children who needed them during the summer. We really appreciate the ongoing support and word of mouth that’s helping us to become better known in the area.
Do you know a group who’d like to fundraise for us? Please drop us an email!
Guess who’s 50 years old?!
We’ve mentioned it a few times, and at our AGM we officially launched our 50th anniversary celebrations! We’re planning a number of events throughout the year – watch this space!
Want to run Derby 10k?
We’ve love to get 50 DKC runners over the starting line for Derby 10k in our 50th year! We’re discussing a team entry with the organisers – if you’d like to be part of it, please email hannah@derbykidscamp.co.uk to give us an idea of numbers.
Way back when…
We’re looking back over 50 years of summer camps, and would love to hear your memories of DKC over the years! We know longer-serving volunteers may also have photos of past summers on camp, and we’d love it if you could share these with us – we’re hoping to put together an exhibitions of DKC memories in the spring.
Click to email us below, or you can send any photos to hannah@derbykidscamp.co.uk (WeTransfer is helpful if you have a lot!)
We’re off to the swamp…
We’d like to say a great big thank you to Good Companions Musical Theatre company. At the end of last year they donated tickets so that some of the children we support could go and watch Annie. There’s nothing quite like live theatre and the kids all had an amazing time!
GCMT are continuing their support for us with bucket collections at their upcoming shows. Their upcoming production is ‘Shrek’ which a number of DKC volunteers are starring in! Wishing them all the best for the show (break a leg!) and a massive thank you for your support!
