Our Story and #FreeBiscuit obsession
AmeriCamp was founded on the simple belief that you should be able to go to camp and be paid a salary that will allow you to travel the States afterwards.
After launching seven years ago we now sends thousands of participants across the world to work at camp, we now have offices in Scotland, Dublin, Spain, Czech Republic, Hungary and Australia. AmeriCamp also run the hugely successful AmeriCamp Canada, which offers over 19s the chance to take part in the summer camp experience in Canada.
We didn’t stop at Canada, though; AmeriCamp are also the founding sister company of Camp Thailand, Camp Vietnam and Camp Cambodia which collectively send over 2000 people abroad each year to help provide an education to disadvantaged children.
AmeriCamp was a product of the personal experience of its founder Lee McAteer, whom attended summer camp through another company and (after paying more than £800 in fees) found his salary was only $550, meaning he was out of pocket. His co-counsellor was paid $1500 for doing the same job, thus AmeriCamp was born; we have reduced fees to the applicant and ensured a fair wage to our applicants compared to other companies.
But what about the #FreeBiscuits?
We all know nobody can turn down a good ol’ biscuit but the real story goes something like this… one night the founders were sitting around a table discussing the beginnings of an amazing company they would soon call AmeriCamp. As the details of the organisation were being kicked around they cracked open a pack or two of custard creams. This soon sparked a fierce ‘best biscuit’ debate, and so when AmeriCamp was finally born, the founders wanted to share the love of their favourite biscuits with all and so... #FreeBiscuits!
Or for Aussie's, we can chuck in some #FreeTimTams!
