Join Barretstown’s new Residential TY Experience in 2022, here on the beautiful 500-acre Barretstown campus. We host 5-day/4-night, all-inclusive residential programmes for TY classes, where the focus is self-development in a fun & unique environment.
Barretstown’s Residential TY Programme is an exciting residential experience which takes place on our amazing 500-acre campus. Our 5 day/4 night programmes (Monday-Friday) run throughout Spring, early Summer and Autumn, with each programme serving a single school only. Our immersive programme gives students the opportunity to make a positive contribution to the charity sector. Helping children and families across Ireland to experience Barretstown’s life changing therapeutic programmes resonates with students and is deeply rewarding and empowering. The programme helps students develop leadership, communication, decision making and problem-solving skills, strengthen existing class bonds through fun team building activities and challenges, and gain insights into the work Barretstown does to support children and families affected by serious illness. While at Barretstown, students will have access to the expertise and knowledge of our amazing team and campus, including our new residential facilities, teaching spaces, outdoor activities, amphitheatre, media studios and gardens. We cater for groups of a minimum of 25 students. Full board is included with accommodation in our state of the art newly built accommodation building ‘Paul’s Hideout’ and meals served in our award winning dining hall, ‘Elizabeth’s Tree House’.
We can cater for school groups of 25 minimum and each 5-day/4-night programme will run from Monday morning until Friday morning. We offer full-board in our new state of the art accommodation building ‘Paul’s Hideout’, dining in our award winning dining hall ‘Elizabeth’s Treehouse and a wealth of knowledge and experience.
Our mission is to facilitate self-education for maturity with the emphasis on personal development including social awareness and increased social competence. Participants will be facilitated in developing leadership skills through workshops on communications, decision making and problem solving.
Fun is the central element to everything we do at Barretstown. Making challenges fun is an integral part of therapeutic recreation. Fun entices participants to attempt more and to continually challenge themselves in a safe and supportive environment.
We are now taking bookings for Autumn 2022 and Spring 2023.
Our residential TY experience is only open to schools rather than individual students. School groups must:
- Be TY students
- Be ready and eager to participate in the programme
- Fundraise to participate in our residential programme
(by fundraising, each student is facilitating another child with serious illness to come and experience the magic of Barretstown)
If you are interested in looking into a group from your school attending, please click on the link below and our TY Experience Coordinator, Ann, will be delighted to answer any questions you may have.
Email us
You can fundraise as a school and also as individual students. The process of fundraising can be as much part of developing social awareness as the TY programme itself.
Make use of online fundraising platforms like JUSTGIVING so that many people can contribute to the one total and funds come directly to Barretstown so it's simple and transparent to use!
Here are some ideas of different ways to safely fundraise as a group and as individuals:
- Sponsored cycle / exercise bike challenges;
- Sponsored runs - 100km in a week
- Online busking or outdoor, socially-distanced buskathon
- Sponsored chores at home - gardening etc.
- sponsored car-wash
- Sponsored Fancydress day in school
- Neighbourhood raffles
- Readathon challenge
- Break-an-obscure-world-record challenge
- Sponsored silences : an hour, a day, a weekend
- Civi's Day in school (students donate to wear their own clothes to school, one day a month)
- dog-walking for neighbours
- Babysitting
- Sponsored cooking family dinner 1 night a week for a month
We have a few more ideas on our Cabin Fever Challenges page; check them out!
- Football / GAA challenges: keepy-uppy challenges, relays etc.
- Stair-climb challenge: certain amount of stair climbs per day for a month
- Make Christmas cards and sell them to raise funds
- Craft sale : make art, auction it off on your online JustGiving page
- Donate your Christmas: instead of presents, ask people to donate to your TY fund
- Donate your birthday: instead of presents, ask people to donate to your TY fund
- Sponsored hair cuts / head shaves
- Christmas Carols singing (get local radio involved?)
There are lots and lots of options; you can do one or do a few. Or come up with your own!
Make use of online fundraising platforms like JUSTGIVING so that many people can contribute to the one total and funds come directly to Barretstown so it's simple and transparent to use!
Read our programme terms and conditions here: 2022 - 2023
