Aston Villa Summer Camp, Bromsgrove, England

Half of each day belongs to football. Coaches from the Aston Villa Foundation run nine half-days of training and educational workshops over the two weeks, tailored for enjoyment, skills development and an understanding of tactical team work. Workshops cover careers and pathways in sport, football analysis, nutrition, teamwork, managing emotions, and stress and worries, with delivery and content adjusted to the age group and maturity of the players. The camp is open to boys and girls alike, from beginners with no experience to those who have been playing for a while. The other half of the day is the child's choice: English lessons, offered at Intensive and Advanced levels and taught by specialist teachers, or the multi-activity programme of sports, arts and cultural activities that the school's International Summer Camps follow.

The fee covers teaching and all school-based activities, the football programme with Aston Villa Foundation coaches, an Aston Villa shirt and bag, full board in a school boarding house, a laundry service once a week, four full-day excursions each fortnight, free wi-fi, and transport to and from Birmingham International and London Heathrow airports at specified times. Optional half-day excursions and an airport transfer outside the core hours are charged separately.

Students live in the Bromsgrove School boarding houses, which are modern and comfortable, with extensive wi-fi and common areas for relaxing at the end of the day. All rooms are ensuite, with single, twin and multi-bed rooms; rooms are allocated depending on numbers, and older students generally have priority for the single rooms. Boarding staff live alongside the students.

Three meals a day are included, with snacks and packed lunches on excursion days. All food is prepared on site in the school's modern kitchens by its own catering team and taken in the dining hall, where there is a wide choice at every meal.

On the days and half-days away from football the camp follows the same programme as the school's International Summer Camps: sports such as table tennis, badminton, basketball and volleyball, science and STEM, art and craft, performing arts, cookery and swimming. Four full-day excursions each fortnight go to places such as Alton Towers, Drayton Manor, Shakespeare's Stratford, Warwick Castle, Oxford and London; optional half-day trips are offered for an extra charge.

The camp uses the whole of Bromsgrove School: a secure walled campus of 100 acres with coded entry and exit gates and a manned gatehouse where visitors sign in, its own sports pitches and indoor facilities. All staff are DBS police checked.

Bromsgrove is a traditional co-educational boarding school that runs its own Easter and summer camps, so the camp has free use of the school's facilities and staff. A child trains with coaches from a Premier League club's foundation, keeps up English or tries a new activity in the other half of the day, and lives on campus with students from many countries. Bromsgrove sits 30 minutes from Birmingham and its international airport and 1 hour 40 minutes from London Heathrow.