Please read the information below very carefully before signing up.

• Come join us this summer in our Children and Young People (7 - 14 years) Summer Camp.

• We promote a basic and simple approach to problem-solving.

• Learn or improve your Arabic language skills - The Comprehensive Language (provided by Discover Arabic).

• Principles of Unity

• Memorise key Quranic verses.

• Improve your self-control skills.

• Creative activities (memory games, board games, puzzles, LEGO, book club).

• Outdoor activities (walks in our peace garden, stretching exercises, breathing exercises).

• Explore the on-site allotments and learn some gardening skills (there will be sessions on specific days guided by an experienced gardener).

• Silence, Reflection & Recentering.

• Develop your imagination, focus and refine your mind.

• Weekly workshops hosted by professional guests.

• Participate in the weekly "Swap Club" to exchange toys/items with other children/young people.

• Various workshops run by our professional guests.

The above activities are based on age and ability.

What is this about:

This is a summer camp for children and young people to learn Arabic, get active and practise self-control through reasoning and intelligence.

Who is it for:

Children (P3 - S1) 10:00 - 14:30

When:

The camp will run for 3 weeks during the summer holiday, Monday to Friday.

You can also mix and match days to suit your circumstances. Just specify what days you want the child to attend, and we will accommodate your request (provided there’s a space).

Time: From 10:00 - 14:30

Week nr 1: From 6th of July until 10th of July.

Week nr 2: From 13th of July until 17th of July.

Week nr 3: From 20th of July until 24th of July.

Where:

Bridgend Inspiring Growth

41 Old Dalkeith Road

Edinburgh

EH16 4TE

The venue is suitable for children's activities, there’s a limited parking space on site, and driving into the centre’s parking space for drop-in/pick-up shouldn’t be an issue. If you want to park your vehicle for a longer period, then the nearest car park is at Cameron Toll Shopping Centre, which is within walking distance from the venue.

Lunch, snack and other items:

Please bring your own lunch

Please aim to provide a healthy and wholesome meal, avoid junk food and sugary/fizzy drinks (please ensure the child’s name is written on the lunch box)

Please also provide a named water bottle

Please provide a sun hat and suncream, or apply suncream at home on sunny days.

During lunch time, we will discuss:

How to make informed choices about the food we eat.

Ethics of eating responsibly and how to avoid food waste.

The effect of consuming a pure and wholesome diet on physical and mental health.

Table manners.

If your child/young person has any food requirements/allergies or any swallowing difficulties, it’s very important to mention this in the application form.

Fee:

£40 per week per person or £8 per day.

Offer: £110 for 3 weeks

You can book as many weeks as you want (provided there’s a space).

Discounts:

The rate is already heavily subsidised; however, we also offer 10% sibling discount.

If you have any difficulty in paying the fee, please let us know - there are ways we can seek help with this, no child should miss out on this camp due to money, and we are very discreet if asked for help. 

You can also pay the fee in two instalments if that works better for you. Please let us know if you would like to pay in instalments.

What’s included:

• Learning materials and welcome pack

• Arabic language (for beginners and improvers) and Quran recitation.

• Interactive activities

• Group discussions and presentations

• Daily stretch, movements and breathing exercises

• Spend productive time outdoors

• Daily reflection + recentering exercise

• Safe and nurturing environment for children and young people

Booking:

1-If you have any questions that you want to clarify before signing up, please contact us.

2-Please go through the information on this page very carefully and complete the 

following registration form by clicking on the link below:

https://forms.gle/SW7FJRfNbYFQuP3c7 

Here’s what will happen next:

Within four days, you will receive an acknowledgement email along with an invoice (based on the dates you've selected).

Within three days after you complete the payment, you will receive the final confirmation and a checklist for essential items for your child to begin the camp, full instructions about the venue and timetable of the hosted workshops. Please note that in order to secure a place, you need to complete the payment and receive a confirmation from us.

Please note that in order to secure a place, you need to complete the payment and receive a confirmation from us.

Health and safety:

Please mention any specific details that we need to know about your child’s health (physical and mental health), including any mobility issues or restrictions. Please note that if the child suffers from a medical condition that requires the administration of any form of medication or requires special medical attention/care, we are unable to admit them into this summer club, as unfortunately, staff are not trained to deliver this level of care.

Please note that upon arrival for the 1st class, you will be given a consent form to allow us to provide first aid to your child should this be required, and also in the event of an emergency, to provide emergency medical care by ambulance/hospital staff. Efforts will be made to contact the parent/carer immediately in this case. Priority will be given to provide 1st aid if this is required. We require you to sign the consent form.

Why attend this summer camp:

• Come and meet like-minded people and form long-lasting relationships.

• Leave your multimedia devices behind and come out to the real world to interact with people and create real and authentic relationships.

• Learn essential self-control skills, resilience, reflection, recentering, emotional intelligence and integrity.

• Improve your cognitive function, memory and problem-solving ability.

• Maintain a stable physical/mental health and well-being during the summer holiday.

• Learn or improve your Arabic language skills - The Conveying Language (Arabic - the language of the Quran).

• Opportunity to volunteer with us in the future.

• Do something meaningful this summer.

• A safe and nurturing place to leave your children if you’re working this summer and don’t have any childcare arrangement.

We will learn essential skills of self-control via reasoning and understand why the connection with the Divine is the key to a contented life.

These activities will be age-appropriate.

Drop off and pick up arrangements:

An adult must drop off the child and pick them up. You will be asked to sign the register when dropping off and picking up the child.

About us:

The camp is led by Dr Tarek Alshalati, who's a Shrink as well.

The instructor comes from a medical background. Tarek has previously worked in the NHS for 12 years as a medical doctor, initially in general medicine and then psychiatry. He’s worked with adults and children, particularly in the area of eating disorders and conditions like OCD, Autism, personality disorders, ADHD and psychosis.

He previously taught Arabic on a part-time basis for 5 years at the Centre of Modern Languages at the University of Latvia in Riga.

He currently only teaches Arabic on a part-time basis in addition to his clinical work and research in Integrative Lifestyle Medicine, which is based on an integrative model between modern science and ancient wisdom, combining spirituality and science together.

He holds an Ofqual professional postgraduate diploma in Practical Spirituality and Wellness from the Crossfields Institute in the UK, and he’s a fully qualified Spiritual Coach.

The instructor is PVG registered, first aid trained and insured to deliver this course.

We’re:

-Qualified.

-Fully insured.

-PVG checked.

-First aid trained (paediatric first aid).

The premises are equipped with first aid equipment, including an AED on site.

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Our world has changed very rapidly over the last few decades and continues to do so. We’re surrounded by stressors, temptation, danger, obligations and never-ending tasks. This fast-paced lifestyle is having its toll on people’s health, including children and young people, both physically and psychologically.

We invite children and young people to come join us in a relaxed and nurturing environment and learn the basics of self-control through reasoning and intelligence in practice.

Learn the value of connecting with something bigger than you.

Why moderation, modesty and integrity are essential for a fulfilled life.

How to appreciate what you have and strive to make the right choices through reasoning and intelligence to protect yourself from harm and pain.

Learn to develop resilience and control emotions through practical activities.

Learn how to keep yourself focused and centred to achieve your purpose and goals.

Learn about the LEAN principle (Low Emission Activity for Nature).

Learn about zero waste lifestyle, sustainability and how to share resources with others.

Learn about the values of giving, sharing and community.

Learn how to slow down, talk less, focus your attention inward and work on yourself to grow.

Develop a daily recentering and grounding routine from an early age based on the Quran.

Everyone is welcome, it’s an inclusive, safe and nonjudgmental environment. These are universal skills that are based on the unifying principle of Wholeness, Purity and Harmony.

We encourage gradual and gentle self-discovery through reasoning, analytical thinking and growth, not through conventions, inherited traditions or pressure.

The focus is to develop analytical and critical thinking, slow down, balance and resynchronise the right and left sides of the brain, control emotions and get the mind and body to operate together in harmony and peace - not against each other, but together.

We will work to strengthen the connection with the right side of the brain (the imaginative/creative/intuitive side) in children and young people through exercises that nourish abstract thinking, imagination, figurative language, art/craft, writing, reading and creative skills.

The Arabic language:

Arabic is the language of the Quran - The most recited and most memorised intact Holy book of all time.

Arabic is the only reliable key to independently decode the Quran, verify interpretations and minimise the possibility of following conflicting opinions from translations, inherited local traditions and myths.

Arabic, the Conveying Language, is inherently poetic, abstract, figurative, eloquent and non-literal.

The Arabic language is not just another language to learn; it’s an art and an expanding ocean of words and metaphors.

The Arabic language is extremley adaptable and coherent, this is because it uses multiple morphemes (words' building blocks) to create words (like a puzzle/lego) rather than 'one-piece words', and it's entirely based on roots system, whereby every root carries a meaning (which is usually an abstract idea) and out of this idea we generate words that are called derivatives. 

Learning Arabic in this way creates associations between ideas and meanings that are grouped together in a logical way. This helps the learner to create links between ideas and their related words. 

This process, combined with the learner's mother language in the long term, can potentially create very helpful neurosynaptic links (brain cell connections) and, as a result, enhance neuroplasticity, which is the brain's amazing lifelong ability to continuously rewire itself, a process that is crucial for resilience.

We discourage the use of generic interpretations/translations of the Quran without the ability to independently refer back to the original text in Arabic as it’s simply not possible to interpret the Quran accurately into other languages without distorting the meaning, that’s because the Arabic language is built on a completely different principle, therefore the focus will be on acquiring the Arabic language first to allow the person to study the Quran independently in the future without intermediaries, this requires efforts and dedication, however it’s achievable with determination.

This summer club will continue to run on Saturdays every week starting from August 2026 onwards.

The club is located in a community centre in the South of Edinburgh with access to an enclosed outdoor space that is specially designed for children and young people. There's also a cafe, gardening facilities and other activities that are regularly run by the centre.

Terms and conditions:

We reserve the right to change or cancel the above programme, venue, days and times as deemed suitable by Intactness Ltd team (due to lack of minimum number of delegates, inability to secure an appropriate venue or inability to secure a trainer due to unforeseen event of illness or difficult personal circumstances). Applicants will be notified about any changes in due course, and a full refund will be issued.

Cancellation policy:

If you cancel within 14 days of entering into a contract with us (“Cooling-off Period”), you will be entitled to a full refund. 

If the course has not started within the 14-day Cooling-off Period, we will refund you the full amount of the programme fees within 7 days of receiving your cancellation request.

If the programme has begun during the 14-day Cooling-off Period, we will refund you the amount of the course fees less the fees that we incurred for delivering the course during the period before receiving your cancellation request. We will process the refund within 7 days of receiving the cancellation request.

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Shrink and Discover Arabic are trading names for Intactness Ltd, a company registered in Scotland, company registration number: SC771077

Address: Third Floor, 3 Hill Street, Edinburgh, Scotland, EH2 3JP

For more info about us please visit our websites or contact us:

www.discoverarabic.co.uk/shrinkcamp

Phone number: 07770270918

info@discoverarabic.co.uk 

We are registered with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) to process and store personal data under the UK General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR)

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Translation of key information into Arabic:

بعون اللَّه للسنة الثالثة نقدم لك نادي الحُنَفاء الصيفي ٢٠٢٦ في مدينة إدنبره.

.النادي الصيفي للأطفال واليافعين في مدينة إدنبره، اسكتلندا

يتضمن البرنامج نشاطات تفاعلية، نشاطات رياضية، لغة عربية، أخلاق و تربية، التحكم وضبط النفس، التحكم بالمشاعر، الاستقامة والأمانة والإعتدال، تنمية القدرة علی التَفَكُّر وأخذ وقت لمراجعة النفس، كيفية الصلاة و الإلتزام بِملّة إبراهيم عليه السلام و الفطرة السليمة.

.أيضاً تنمية روح الإبداع و الفن عند الأطفال و اليافعين

.(يبدأ النادي الصيفي من ٦ تموز (يوليو) لغاية  ٢٤ تمّوز (يوليو

٥ أيام في الأسبوع (من الإثنين إلى الجمعة)، من الساعة ١٠:٠٠ إلى الساعة ١٤:٣٠

المسؤولين عن البرنامج

:الدكتور طارق الشالاتي 

يعمل حاليًا في مجال الطب التكاملي، وعمل في الماضي في القطاع الصحي الوطني في بريطانيا في الطب الداخلي ومن ثم الطب النفسي مع البالغين واليافعين

طارق حاليًا يُدَرِّس اللغة العربية لغير الناطقين بها وقد عمل في هذا المجال لسنوات عديدة

.بالإضافة إلى طاقم من المتطوعين

النادي الصيفي سيكون في مركز مجتمعي في جنوب مدينة أدنبره، الرجاء الإطلاع على النشرة الإعلانية المرفقة للمزيد من المعلومات

.الرسوم: ٤٠£ في الأسبوع، أو  ٨£ في اليوم

هناك عرض أيضًا: ١١٠£ للدورة الكاملة (٣ أسابيع)

.المركز المجتمعي مُجَهَّز بكافة وسائل الأمان و الإسعافات الأولية

.المسؤول عن النادي مؤهل للعمل في هذا المجال

.هناك تخفيض على الرسوم إذا كان هناك عائق لدفع الرسوم الكاملة

ويمكن الأعفاء من الرسوم بشكل كامل للوافدين/اللاجئين الجدد في أسكتلندا.

الكادر بأكمله لديه تصريح للعمل مع الأطفال والمستضعفين (PVG).