Financial Aid information
Scholarship and Work Grant Information
There are several options for financial assistance: Meeting/church scholarship, BYM Camping Program scholarship, and work grants. If you need aid, we ask that you first request a scholarship from your Monthly Meeting or church if you have one, this helps us stretch our funds as far as possible. Most Meetings have camp scholarship programs set up. Money might also be found within your Meeting's religious education budget. Each Meeting handles camp scholarships differently--ask around.
BYM Camping Program Financial Aid is available! Aid of this type is dispersed on the basis of declared need. Financial Aid will be given out until it is all dispersed. We do grant financial aid up until the time camp starts. So for earliest consideration, please apply as soon as you can, but do not hesitate to apply for Aid no matter what the date!!! If you have questions about aid, please call Jane, 717/481-4870.
We grant Financial Aid to families in all types of situations, Quaker or not, with varying degrees of ability to pay. We do not want people to rule out coming to camp because of financial reasons. Please do not hesitate to ask for aid. Please see the link farther down on this page for the form.
Work grants: We provide work grants to help families afford camp. What’s a work grant? Parents, family members or other adults can work at camp as a cook, maintenance or medical person for a week in exchange for a $475 credit toward camp fees. Many parents return year after year along with their children and find the adult community at camp very enriching. Parents or other adults may work at one camp while their child attends another. If you would like to be considered for such a position, indicate it on your child’s application. Parents of a first time camper may NOT work at camp the first week your child is at camp. The exception to this is if your child attends a one week session, you may do a work grant that week. Work grants are not intended for a parent to “keep an eye” on their child at camp. If you wish to do a work grant at Catoctin, only one work grant per family can be assigned. If you need more than one work grant, you can do them at Opequon or Shiloh. All work grant volunteers must consent to a criminal background check in order to be eligible to work/volunteer at camp. Click here to learn more about the criminal background check.
For more information on the work grant experience, please see our Work Grant Handbook available below or call Jane at 717-481-4870.
Click here to download a PDF of the financial aid form.
Click here to download a PDF of the Work Grant Handbook.
Click here to download a PDF of the Criminal Background Check Authorization.
A NOTE ON OUR PROGRAMS:
Our goal is to foster the kind of self-esteem that facilitates spiritual growth. Opportunities for such growth are created in the process of supporting campers through challenging experiences. Success in negotiating rapids or exploring artistic creativity offers a deeper strength from which to accept the challenge and risk of turning inward toward the Light. Typically, a camper goes home a more competent, confident person whose spiritual roots have deepened and whose ties to the broader Quaker community have strengthened.
