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Little Bandits Boot Camp
Bedford Boot Camps launches Little Bandits
– a brand new assault course and fitness camp for children this summer!
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Saturday 3 July saw the launch of Little Bandits – an exciting children’s summer camp run by the award-winning Bedford Boot Camps. Group outdoor health and fi tness continues to makes a strong comeback after the pandemic, and this latest venture is part of Boot Camps’ drive to deliver high quality physical and mental health support to families in Bedford.
Camille Angol set up her business in 2011 to help men and women achieve fi tness and weight loss goals quicker than ever before. After years spent noticing how well the members’ children took to boot camp-style workouts, she decided to expand her business to create a fi tness camp specially for children aged 7 to 13 during the summer holidays.
“The idea behind the Bandits was to dust off the cobwebs lockdown has left on some of the children,” Camille explains. “We began advertising slowly and realised just how important this could be for children’s mental health. Parents were wanting not only to increase their physical activity levels and strength but to address lost confi dence, increased anxiety and negative conscious body image after lockdown weight gain.”
“This summer, we felt it was time to introduce the children to the Camps as offi cial members. From the start, the Camps have very much been family focused. I’ve loved having the children come along to the main Camps, watch their parents train, take part and be motivated to achieve their health and fi tness goals. Little Bandits felt like a natural next step.”
Little Bandits have full access to a 17-piece outdoor assault course. The obstacles were all made by hand and are the fi rst of their kind to be made available to children in Bedford. They include an impressive 8ft A-frame and 10-bar metal monkey frame, four wooden walls to climb, over and under bars, tyre runs, long cargo crawl, hay bale stack, spider net and a fun 10-metre slip and slide to fi nish.
Sessions are designed to build confi dence and self-belief through teamwork, as well as improving fi tness, strength and mental determination. They include highintensity games, strength exercises, healthy eating talks and culminate in the obstacle course.
Camille says: “As a trainer it’s great to see my clients achieve. Now I’m living it through the little ones. I’d defi nitely encourage Bandits to join the programme and come along regularly so they can see themselves improve and achieve goals they never thought were possible. We’re hoping to fi nish the programme by taking the children to a mud run. Fingers crossed we can make that happen before they head back to school in September!”
Little Bandits train at Jubilee Park every Saturday and some weekdays throughout the summer holidays.
Tickets cost £7 per session per child and are available from
