Oakley Holidays

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Oakley Holidays is a charitable organisation registered in England. It is run on a voluntary, non-profit basis to provide opportunities for physical, mental, and spiritual development for young people aged between 12 and 18 years old. The aim is to help them to become mature individuals and responsible members of society.

Week-long affordable holidays for up to 75 young people are organised during school Easter and Summer breaks. They are currently held at the facilities of Bilton Grange Preparatory School at Dunchurch, just south of Rugby, Warwickshire. Many of the daily events are centred on competitions and sport; however this does not include 'adventure' activities such as rick-climbing. Some interesting and novel games have evolved over the history of the holidays, and many have been adapted to enable people of different abilities and ages to participate and enjoy the challenge of competition, played in a friendly spirit.

Oakley Holidays traces its roots to a group of young people from St Paul's School, London, who extended their Sunday meetings with a short holiday together in 1919 at Ardingly, Sussex. This became an annual event at various locations. By the 1930s, the orignal group had extended to include young people from all over England. In 1940 they hired Oakley Hall Preparatory School in Cirencester, and it is from this location that the present organisation takes its name.