Girl Scouts of Spar & Spindle Council: Adult Girl Scouts

Camp

Runels

Overnight

Camp

Pelham, NH

General Information

Camp Runels is a six-week girls' residential camp on 300 acres of forest and a mile of waterfront on Little Island Pond in Southern New Hampshire run by the Girl Scouts of Spar and Spindle Council. The camp is about an hour from Boston and two hours from the White Mountains. The camp has approximately 130 campers ages 7-16 per week.

The Girl Scouts is the world's pre-eminent organization committed to girls. Our camps are nurturing environments that help girls build life skills as they experience fun, adventure, and friendships while learning and camping together.

Who We Are

Founded in 1930, Runels has a history of bringing the outdoor experience to a diverse population of girls. We take pride in the quality of our staff and our commitment to girl planning. In addition to choosing their programs before coming to camp, girls at camp are offered the opportunity to plan all camps, special events, and their daily activities.

A day at Camp Runels, is planned by the girls. During the day the girls participate in 2 hours of specialty program in the morning. The rest of the day is flexible programming designed by the girls. We have frequent all camp programs and special camp events during the week.

We foster girl independence and girls sleep 6 to a tent, yurt, or tentalo. Counselors live adjacent to the girls. A ratio of 6 campers to 1 counselor is typical. Counselors are responsible for the conduct of the girls in the unit and working and living with the girls to ensure a great session is had by all. Counselors must be fun-loving, patient and genuinely concerned for the welfare and development of young people.

Camp Runels is Not:
* A great place to party every night.
* A dorm.
* A summer vacation.

Camp Runels is known for the maturity, quality and the caring attitude of its counselors. We are proud that many of our staff returns year after year. All of our staff are selected entirely on the basis of their ability to effectively relate to children.

The entire counselor staff, both new and old, attend Pre-camp training, a week-long orientation before the beginning of camp. Pre-camp training is a time for staff members to get to know each other and build the team for summer. It also gives staff members a chance to orient themselves to the site. There usually are sessions around camp operations, safety and emergency procedures, program area orientation, working with kids skills, Girl Scout history and philosophy, and plenty of time to learn songs, games, and outdoor skills.

A bond that binds the entire Runels staff is an unrelenting commitment to help each girl enjoy every day of her summer at camp, and belief.

Come Join Us

If you are interested, please fill out the on-line application thoroughly and return it as soon as possible. We check references closely, so please make sure all statements in your application are truthful and that all phone numbers and addresses are up-to-date. Please provide day-time numbers as well as night-time numbers. We will be in touch with you soon after receiving your application. If you have any questions regarding camp, feel free to look through the rest of the web site.

We look forward to hearing from you soon.

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