REGISTRATIONS FOR SORVE 2025 HAVE CLOSED 

Please contact [email protected] if you would like to discuss a late booking (fees subject to 10%). 

 Current availability as follows:

- A & B Group (full time / first half of week)
- C Group (FULL)
- Adults (all week, bed types may be limited)

Sõrve is a Summer Camp held during the first week of January each year, at Point Wolstoncroft Sport and Recreational facility on the Central Coast of New South Wales, Australia. Sõrve has a wide range of indoor and outdoor sporting and Estonian cultural activities organised to ensure a fun-filled week is enjoyed by all.

The Australian / Estonian community has been co-ordinating Sõrve Summer Camp for more than 60 years and has a longstanding tradition of :
  • Providing an opportunity for Australian children with Estonian connections to come together to enrich their cultural knowledge in a friendly and safe environment.
  • Providing our young adults with opportunities to develop youth leadership and mentoring skills that will flow on to the wider Australian / Estonian community.
If you would like more information regarding what Sõrve is about, or anything you have seen on our social media, please contact [email protected]

2024 Kids Disco!

After last year's successful Sõrve Disco, we're bringing the boogie back (note: boogie may have a different meaning to B, C & F groupers ) Join the juhid on Saturday 30th November from 4:30-6:30pm at Eesti Maja (141 Campbell St, Surry Hills) The disco is $15 per child over 2yo and covers their food plus a juice. We'll be holding a raffle and drinks will be available at the bar Please fill out this form to RSVP for catering purposes https://forms.gle/aKdFcnnc3NDvRG3r8

Thank you for sponsoring our tough mudder!
https://www.gofundme.com/f/sorve-2025

2024 Camp Photo

​Sõrve 2025 dates:
​January 5 - 12, 2025 at Point Wolstoncroft, NSW.

2024 Photo Gallery

Aitäh to the supporters of our 2023 fundraising appeal

A team of our Sõrve leaders are taking on the Tough Mudder Challenge on October 28- a series of obstacle and mud runs that will push their physical and mental limits - with the aim of gathering sponsorship that will cover the extra cost of having Sport & Rec instructors at Sõrve 2024.

Sport & Rec instructors are crucial as we can't do many of the sports activities without them. But they are an additional cost which is not covered by fees.

​Sponsor us!

News

We are pleased to announce that The Estonian Cultural Foundation in Australia (ECFA) has agreed provide project funding of the amount of $8,000, for the Estonian Sõrve Children's Camp on 7th to 14th January 2024.

Hans Ots Award
Additionally, $500 will provide financial assistance to children or leaders who are resident in Australia and who, because of excessive cost of travel, financial or other hardship reasons would otherwise not be able to attend the annual children’s summer camp.

Read the announcement on the ECFA website.

​The Estonian President recognises Sõrve Summer Camp as an important place for Estonian kids in Australia to go to.
Sõrve is mentioned at the 1min 45 sec timestamp.

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Sponsors

Sõrve Sõbrad would like to acknowledge the generous and unwavering support of our individual members and the broader Estonian community. We would particularly wish to thank the Estonian Cultural Fund in Australia (ECFA), the Austraalia Eesti Seltside Liit (AESL) and the Estonian Society of Sydney (SES) for their generous on-going annual support of Sõrve.

Austraalia Eesti Seltside Liit (AESL)

Council of Estonian Societies in Australia (AESL) is an umbrella organisation that unites around 20 Estonian organisations all over Australia.

Estonian Cultural Fund in Australia (ECFA)

ECFA facilitates the promotion, and provides funding for projects enhancing Estonian culture, language and heritage across Australia.

The Hans Ots Scholarship

Through the generous support of ECFA, a scholarship is available for interstate and regional children who would like to attend the annual Sõrve Summer camp but find the cost prohibitive.