CESL

CESL (Création Épanouissement Sport et Loisirs) is a French non-profit association, registered under the 1901 law, that has been organising residential holiday camps — colonies de vacances — for children and teenagers aged 4 to 17. The association is based in Paris and runs camps in France, Switzerland, Belgium and Canada across the spring, summer, autumn and winter school holidays. Programmes are led in French by a qualified animation team, with published staffing ratios for every camp, and cover snow sports, water sports, motor sports, multi-activity and discovery themes. CESL holds French tourism licence no. IM091100013 and youth-and-sports accreditation no. 075ORG1451, with financial guarantee provided by Groupama.