Under 12s

We are passionate about ensuring that everyone feels welcome at Satellites - and that includes the children of our amazing youth leaders and incredible team members! We want Satellites to be an event that is fun and engaging for everyone, no matter their age – and we take the faith development of children really seriously.

That’s why, alongside the main programme, we've developed two kids programmes:

Satellites Kids for 5-11 year olds
Satell-Mites for 1-4 year olds

There are morning sessions (and evening sessions for Satellites Kids) that run just a little bit longer than the main Satellites sessions - so that there's plenty of time for you to drop your children off and get back to your youth groups to engage with them for the whole meeting without being worried about getting back to pick up them up on time. Alongside games, drama, experiments, crafts, sports and maybe even gunge, the kids on site at Satellites will be encouraged to explore what it looks like to put God at the centre of their lives in a way that is suitable and engaging for them, as well as making friends and having a lot of fun along the way!

Although we're sadly not able to provide childcare for under 1's, we'll do our best to make camping with a baby as easy as possible. We'll provide an area for baby bathing each afternoon, electric hook-ups are available to hire on all camping villages and we'll make sure there are quieter spaces across the site for you to access if you and your little one just need a dry, comfortable place for a while. Please let us know if there’s anything else we can do to make the time as comfortable and easy as possible for you and your baby.

You know your youth best! If you think that young people in Year 7 would prefer to access the main sessions and regular programme, then that’s great. You don’t need to do anything different; their wristband will give them access to the main venue. We’ll send something to group leaders in the month before the event asking them to let us know if this is the case so we can gain an accurate number for ratios in our children’s groups.