Camp Drewe is a charity-run coastal camp on five acres of heathland between Seven Mile Beach and Lake Ainsworth — where schools, churches, families and community groups come to learn, rest and belong.
Lennox Head coastline
Official website notice: campdrewe.com.au is the official website of Northern Rivers Conference Centre (ABN 90 262 010 918), the registered Australian charity that owns and operates Camp Drewe at 117 Camp Drewe Road, Lennox Head NSW 2478. "Camp Drewe" is the long-standing community name for our camp and conference centre.
Northern Rivers Conference Centre exists to give children, young people, families and community groups an affordable place to camp, learn and belong — so that cost is never the reason a child misses camp.
We are a registered Australian charity. Every dollar that comes through our gate goes back into keeping camp accessible for the schools, churches and community groups who have called this coastline their own for over fifty years.
Every program runs at charity rates, with catering, a campfire circle and the beach a short walk away.
Canoeing, surf awareness, coastal ecology and team challenges — a curriculum-friendly week students never forget.
Worship weekends, youth rallies and retreats with a chapel, a campfire circle and catering that feels like home.
Weekends and week-long programs where teenagers step up, pitch in and discover what they're capable of.
Reunions, craft retreats, training camps and gatherings of every kind — if your group needs a place, it's probably this one.
Five acres of banksia and heath, 200 metres from the sand of Seven Mile Beach and 600 metres from the tea-tree waters of Lake Ainsworth. The bush does half the teaching here — tides, tannin-stained freshwater, and sky that goes on forever.
Sunset over the heath
School classes on their first night away from home. Church youth finding their voice. Families, craft groups, sporting clubs and charities who need room to breathe. Children, teenagers, parents and grandparents — camp is for everyone.
Community on the sand
We are a registered charity, not a business. Since 1971 this place has been run so that cost is never the reason a child misses camp. That is still the measure of every decision our board makes.
The campfire circle
You arrive as a group. You leave as a community.
An old Camp Drewe saying
Tell us your rough dates and numbers — we'll help you shape a camp your people will talk about for years. Charity rates apply for schools, churches and not-for-profits.