About us

• There are five rooms of four and a room for a counselor in each of the houses.
• The campsite is designed for versatile activities for children and it can be used year-round. 
• The resort is located in the peaceful lakeside nature of Akkijärvi. 
• There is a cafeteria building and versatile spaces for both outdoor and indoor activities located in the area.
• A sauna and a pier are located by the lake.
• We can accommodate up to 80 children in four different houses.

• The camp activities will be done in age groups or with the entire camp.
• The campsite is a natural environment to learn and practice social skills.
• All campers are treated as equals.
• We take different beliefs and special needs into account.
• The campers will be encouraged to be independent and to take responsibility according to their age.
• The rules are made together in order to create a sense of safety and to prevent bullying.
• Bullying is not acceptable and conflicts will be resolved with an adult.
• Possible difficulties in school won’t prevent a successful camp experience.

• All the employees are bound to secrecy.
• Our professional and motivated counselors guarantee quality camp activities.
• The camp leaders and counselors are adults and employed by us.
• The camp counselors are mostly students in education and social studies, or work in the field.
• The camp counselors have experience of working with children.
• We train all our employees.
• Our professional and experienced hostess and her team is in charge of food and cleaning.
• The same counselors work with the children for the whole duration of the camp.

Our camp fees are supported by the Ministry of Social Affairs and Health and we allocate the supported camps in accordance to the camp applications. The application form needs to be filled completely or we cannot grant the ”vacation support” (lomatuki). Without the support, the cost of the camp is doubled. You can apply for the support more than once.

In the process of granting the support to the camp fee, we will score each application according to social, health or financial grounds provided in the application. The camper needs to have a Finnish address, we can not grant the support for families living abroad. Nationality or state of citizenship does not pose an issue though. We also cannot grant the support to children or youth living in a professionally run facility, the family needs to be a private household. In the case that we can not grant the support due to the information provided in the camp application, we will contact the family in question for any additional information.

We have a dedicated applying time frame for each camp and we will fill the places according to the scoring of the applications. In the case there are still open spots at camp once the application time frame closes (like there usually is) we will fill the remaining places in the order of when the applications are – or were – submitted. You can register to the camp directly without applying for the supported camp fee, but please do pay mind that the cost of the camp will be higher in that case. 

We handle all the information provided to us with care and safe GDPR policies. The camp staff working with the children are only provided with information essential for taking care of the child during camp, and to assure their health and safety. Every camper is most warmly welcome and special to our camp staff. Proper information about any medications, allergies and behavior regarding the child make sure that we can take care of the child according to their needs as they concentrate on our high quality camp activities. We will, for example, know how to invite and lure the more shy children to participate in the activities slowly over time. 

The due date to any camp invoice is set to three weeks before the starting day of the camp. We send the invoices well before the start of the camp attached with a camp letter. All possible transportation fees are added to the camp fee in the invoice. It is possible to move the due date of the invoice if it is essential due to the family’s financial situation. The camp fee can also be paid in installments, but to do so the guardian of the camper needs to contact our office. If the camp application is submitted to Lasten Kesä less than three weeks before the start of the camp, the invoice needs to be paid before the camp starts if any other agreements haven’t been made.

Unpaid invoices result in two reminders to either the guardian’s email or as a postage to the provided address. After the two reminders we transfer the still unpaid invoices to a third party collection agency. The child can attend the next camp, when the latest camp’s fees have been fully paid.

If the cancellation happens in less than 7 days before the camp starts we will charge the full camp fee, unless the camper has a medical certificate for the illness/injury causing the cancellation. If the camp has to be discontinued and the camper is sent home due to an illness, we will not return the camp fee, but it is possible to apply for a refund from your own insurance company.

If the camp is discontinued due to a issue with the child’s behaviour, we are not obligated to return the camp fee. In these cases the guardian is responsible for transporting the camper back home. In the case that the whole camp needs to be discontinued for all participants, we will refund the camp fees in full or in accordance to the camp days and the agreed installments.  

In Helsinki August 20th 2018

Lasten Kesä ry

Addition March 23rd 2020:

If there is a need to cancel camps due to instructions from state officials, for example in a case of an epidemic, we will refund all camp fees in full.