KAMP can provide you with all your kitchen assistants (skilled and unskilled), maintenance staff, drivers, laundry assistants, cleaning personnel (both domestic and ‘dirty’ work), chambermaids, security/nightwatchperson, admin staff and so on.

We provide ancillary staff through KAMP (Kitchen and Maintenance Program), under the sponsorship of the YMCA’s Summer Work/Travel J-1 program. All applicants to KAMP must be over 18, full-time students and have completed at least one full year in college.

This is the 33rd year of KAMP and we can honestly say that this program changed the face of American camping by being the first to offer quality service personnel for areas which had previously been a problem for directors. Participants for KAMP are mainly recruited in the UK but we also work with an agency in Russia. As with Summer Camp USA, applicants are individually matched with camps according to their background, skills and experience and in accordance with the needs of the camp.

Returners on KAMP

BUNAC welcomes returners and offers a great value package for anyone wishing to return to camp as support staff. They can return through BUNAC regardless of whether or not they originally came with BUNAC, but they must have previously held a J-1 support visa and be currently a full-time student to be eligible.

As with returning counselors, they have the option to make their own flight arrangements and there is zero billing to your camp. For further information, call: 1-800-462-8622.