ELIGIBILITY & ENROLMENT DETAILS

Family enrolments are for families of up to a maximum of six people (minimum 2 people).

Camps are currently open to young people between the ages of 7-13 years.

Additional young people, and other siblings, outside of this age range are welcome to attend with their family, but, to ensure the safety of all attending, we cannot provide for them in our activities programs between 9.00am-4.00pm each day. There are lots of great things for you to do with them before or after your camp. Please look through suggested activities for your family under the location you are applying for.

Depending on the needs of the Child’s individual plan, we work on a carer ratio between 1:1, 1:3 & 1:5 for young people with special needs who are taking part in our daily activities. Behaviour challenges and communication needs will be discussed in your intake interview. If a camper is unable to participate in a particular activity, alternative arrange may be made.

We welcome undiagnosed young people in our camping program, however, at least one young person in your family must be formally diagnosed. Young people with special needs (diagnosed or undiagnosed) cannot take part in the Siblings’ Program.

As part of our Camp Enrolment process you will be asked to provide proof of diagnosis as well as proof of NDIS funding eligibility. During our camp intake process you will be asked for other medical details for all of the young people attending as part of your family.

All adults and children 16+ attending camps will be required to be double vaccinated to attend camp, until further notice, unless they have a State Government defined medical exemption. Families will also be required to adhere to any localised State based Health Orders.

PLEASE CONFIRM ALL FUNDING BEFORE STARTING AN ENROLMENT PROCESS.  

The process for application to attend a camp is as follows:

Stage 1 > Contact Life Skills & Adventures indicating your desire to attend a camp.
Stage 2 > Life Skills and Adventures will provisionally allocate camp dates to family.
Stage 3 > We will arrange a time to conduct an intake interview with the primary contact for your family. As part of the enrolment process, you will be required to provide proof of diagnosis/diagnoses, and select your preferred camp dates/locations.
Stage 4 > You will be asked at this stage to pay a $99 Enrolment Fee. This is a security deposit fee that will be refunded to you after your child attends the camp.  This Fee is an out-of-pocket cost and cannot be billed to the NDIS. We offer a payment plan if a one-off payment is not possible.
Stage 5 > Life Skills & Adventures will issue an invoice for payment.
Stage 6 > Life Skills & Adventures issues a Camp Agreement.

A Camp Agreement will not be released until Stages 1-5 are completed. Camp Agreements are released on a first in, best dressed basis. The Enrolment Fee is fully refundable as long as your child attends the camp. All other fees listed in the Camp Agreement are refundable until 10 clear business days before camp. In the event that Life Skills & Adventures has to postpone your camp due to unforeseen circumstances, your family will be offered alternative camp dates.

In the event that a family wishes to postpone or book alternative camp dates after a Camp Agreement has been signed (Stage 6) a $50 administrative fee will be charged. In the event that a family has to postpone or cancel, ten clear business days’ written notice will be required. All fees associated with postponements/cancellations made within 10 clear business days of the camp are non-refundable. Our cancellation terms are balanced to share the risk between our business and families. We support this by running a standby list so usually there are families who can step in on late notice. We will always endeavour to fill late cancellation spots from our standby list but we cannot guarantee this.

If you have NDIS and/or Carer funding in place your Enrolment Fee should be your only out-of-pocket expense. If you don’t have NDIS and/or Carer funding you are welcome to pay those costs as out-of-pocket expenses to attend our camps. If this cost is out of reach for you, you may be eligible for our Special Funding Assistance Program.  

We accept enrolments from overseas with all costs being paid as out-of-pocket expenses.