The YWCA Summer Camp Program provides quality, affordable childcare in a safe, engaging, and nurturing environment for students on break for the academic year. Give your child an enriching summer full of new friends, skills, interests, challenges, and most importantly, fun!
This summer, ALL students in our Summer Camp program will receive FREE SWIM LESSONS, thanks to the generous support of the Cape Fear Memorial Foundation.
We are proud to offer Summer Camp programs at the following locations:
YWCA Main Campus
2815 S. College Road
YWCA at Wesley
Wesley Memorial United Methodist Church, 1401 South College Road
The program is offered to children ages 5 to 12 and is open Monday-Friday from 7:00 am to 6:00 pm throughout the summer break. The program is a 3 star fully licensed program by the North Carolina Division of Child Development.
Download 2020 Summer Camp Application
Please bring the completed application, along with up to date immunization records and a copy of your child’s current physical. Membership, registration, and activity fee are due at the time of sign up.
| Annual YWCA Membership: | $25- $55 |
| Registration Fee: (Due upon enrollment and billed annually each August.) | $30 for first child, $20 for each additional child |
| Summer Camp Activity Fee: | $30 per child |
| Full Day Weekly Rate, 4-5 days: | $130 per week / child |
| Full Day Daily Rate, 1-3 days: | $32 per day / child |
Program Information
- FREE SWIM LESSONS
- Weekly themes & activities
- Swimming in the YWCA Pool
- Playtime on the YWCA’s shaded, 3-acre playground
- Trips to local parks – including the Splash Pad!
- One Love Tennis
- Weekly trips to the movies for all ages
- Cultural enrichment with “What’s Wrong With Different?”
- Visits to local art & history museums
- Rollerskating
- Pizza Friday – every Friday for lunch
- & more!
New Hanover County DSS Child Care vouchers are accepted.
Students are split into 5 different groups based on their school grade level:
- Kindergarten: Journeyers
- First Grade: Discoverers
- Second Grade: Adventurers
- Third Grade: Explorers
- Fourth Grade: Navigators
- Fifth Grade + : Voyagers
For more information, contact:
Senior Early Education & Youth Enrichment Director
E: childcare@ywca-lowercapefear.org P: 910-799-6820