Spend a week building tech, making friends and exploring life’s big questions
LiveWires is a week-long residential camp for 12–17s where technology, community and Christian faith come together. You’ll spend the week building techy projects — coding, electronics, music production, video and more — using tools and techniques professionals actually use.
There’s space to form genuine lifelong friendships, take on ridiculous challenges, and explore life’s bigger questions alongside people who take faith seriously. No experience required. Most people arrive alone and leave already planning how to come back.
Build real projects using the same tools and techniques used by professionals.
You’ll work alongside other people learning and building too. Whether you’re completely new or already into tech, we’ll help you take things further. And yes, you’ll take your projects home afterwards!
We’ll spend time exploring the Bible together through short talks, conversations and prayer.
Whether you’ve got loads of questions, strong beliefs, or no church background at all, LiveWires is a safe space to think, ask and explore.
LiveWires isn’t just screens and soldering.
Every afternoon we take a break from the tech: swim in the pool, play games, hang out with friends or just collapse on a sofa for a bit.
Evenings are packed with ridiculous games, dorm challenges and time with your dorm group. There’s also a full day out during the week.
Take a look at a normal LiveWires day »
Whether you’re into coding, robotics, music, video, design or electronics, there’s something here for you.
We’ll teach you everything you need, and you’ll come away with something cool to show off!
The tech was really fun, but the spiritual stuff was inspiring.
It’s been an amazing week and I’ve grown loads.
The worst part was leaving, because LiveWires is the best.
I’m going to miss all the leaders and young people sooo much.
Can I come back as a leader?
LiveWires takes place at a boarding school in Salisbury, where we turn classrooms, workshops and dorms into a temporary home for a week of building projects, making friends and exploring faith together.
Young people sleep in dorms, usually with 4 to 6 people per room, and all activities are run by our trained volunteer team. Friends are made quickly and can last long after the camp is over.
Technical activities happen in classrooms and workshop spaces throughout the site, while larger events take place in the school hall and dining hall. There’s also plenty of space to relax, play games, chat with friends or escape from debugging for a while.
The site is easy to reach by car, and we can also arrange collection from Salisbury train or coach stations. Arrival time is late afternoon, but if you get there early Salisbury city centre has plenty to explore.
LiveWires is run by a team of about 30 volunteers, headed up by Joel & David.
Joel is an electronics engineer and musician. During LiveWires you’ll probably find him playing an instrument, fixing cables or helping somebody debug a project they were certain was working 5 minutes ago…
He lives in York with his wife Eliza and an alarming number of instruments.
David is a software engineer helping to make the internet safer through AI. During LiveWires, you can expect to find him either playing or teaching a game.
He lives in Birmingham with his wife Rosie. When he is not at a computer, he spends most of his remaining time cooking or rehearsing for his next amateur theatre production.
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LiveWires bookings are managed by Scripture Union. SU have been running summer holidays for over a hundred years, and LiveWires has been around since the 80s!
Quesitons? We’d love to help! Email the team at livewires@scriptureunion.org.uk, or give them a call on 020 3397 1111.