A High Wycombe charity has ensured a children’s organisation can continue to provide free camping holidays for disadvantaged youngsters this year after donating much-needed tents.

World Challenge, based in Queens Road, sends students on expeditions to far flung corners of the world but has extended a helping hand to a charity much closer to home by donating a vital supply of tents to east London charity CHAOS.

Founded by three school friends, CHAOS (Children’s Holidays and Other Specialities) provides free summer camping holidays for disadvantaged children and aims to teach them life lessons that they would not otherwise have had the chance to experience.

Youngsters on a CHAOS trip get to play team games, take visits to the seaside and go on exploration treks as well as swimming and roller skating.

Since its formation in 1976, the charity has helped improve the lives of over 2000 children, but staff have recently grown concerned over the worsening condition of their tents.

Much of their camping equipment was ‘beyond repair’ and staff worried that the donation-funded organisation would have to replace them at huge cost, potentially limiting the number of children they could accommodate on trips.

World Challenge, which is the global leader in organising life-changing expeditions working with over 15,000 students a year in twenty five countries around the world, decided to provide 64 of their unneeded tents to the much smaller CHAOS, securing them the possibility of summer trips.

Rod Hicks, World Challenge head of logistics, said: “By donating these tents we are able to make sure the charity can still continue to offer kids this experience and afford them the opportunity to have a truly amazing outdoor camping holiday.”

Norman Haynes, CHAOS Communications Officer, said: “Our old tents were beyond repair and this year’s Summer Camps would have been impossible without the generous donation of tents from World Challenge.

“Our commitment was to provide holidays for sixty disadvantaged London children and we met this goal thanks to their help.”

For more information on the work of both World Challenge and CHAOS www.world-challenge.co.uk and www.chaoscharity.org/information.