CAMPERS

Amplify is a six-day creative arts camp for young people aged school year 11 to 25 years, from across Aotearoa New Zealand, Fiji, Tonga and Samoa.

Amplify 2026 kicks off with registration from 2pm on Tuesday 13 January and ends after lunch on Sunday 18 January. Transport is provided from the airport.

You are responsible for arranging and covering the cost of your own travel to Amplify. Please do not book your flights until you receive an email confirming your place at Amplify.

To ensure you can participate fully, please plan your flights as follows:
• Arrive by: 1:00pm on 13 January
• Depart no earlier than: 3:30pm on 18 January

Registration Fees:
• Earlybird: $260 (available until 1 November)
• Full price: $285 (from 1 November onwards)

Applications open on 1 October and close on 1 December.

THE HEART

There are three main purposes for Amplify.

Creativity: To encourage and equip young people in the creative arts and help them to discover how to use these skills in their corps and community.

Relationship: To help build positive connections between young people across our territory.

Discipleship: To strengthen and develop young people in their discipleship journeys.

THE WHAT

Across the six days, you’ll spend time learning in your chosen creative fields, exploring your giftings and how you can use these to build the Church as well as positively impact your community.

We’ll also spend time together in small groups each day, as well as free time, meals, camp-wide activities, church services, activities in our café and the Amplify Festival.

AMPLIFY FESTIVAL

This year, the Amplify Festival will be a crossover between Acoustic Night and Festival night — think food trucks, a stage, displays, and more, all in a relaxed, chill format! It’s a chance to express your creativity, give something a go on stage, or showcase your artistic flair through stalls and displays. It’s a celebration of who we are — get ready!

PARTNERSHIP

Amplify is all about community – we are better together!

We have an experienced team of around 40 staff that are there to journey with you – they do an exceptional job of caring, praying, chatting, learning and having fun with us all!

If you have any questions, check out the FAQ!

  • This is called an application form for safety – everyone attending camp needs to ‘apply’ so a corps officer/centre manager can let us know they are happy for you and your young people to attend.

  • You are welcome to come on your own from your local Salvation Army – we also welcome local youth leaders to attend in the sole role of caring for their group of young people.

    You will get to indicate if you are a camper or a leader on the application form.

    With so many leaders around, it is not a requirement that your corps sends a leader with you BUT each young person at camp will be allocated an adult that is their Ampli-friend or ‘go-to’ person – an adult onsite that will check in with you and pastorally care for you across the week as needed.

  • Each young person at camp will be allocated an adult that is their Ampli-friend or ‘go-to’ person – an adult onsite that will check in with you and pastorally care for you across the week as needed.

    If your local leader isn’t attending, we’ll let you know your Ampli-friend in your delegate letter (this will be a Next Gen Team member, a staff member or another youth leader).

    There will also be a wellbeing team onsite available to support you, as well as older camper dorm monitors in the accommodation spaces to make sure we’re all doing okay.

  • We want to have a fun and safe week together!

    Please let us know if you are coming to camp with particular needs that we might need to look out for so we can make this the best experience possible for you.

*All camper applications will need to be approved by your local corps/centre before you are fully registered for camp.