Lord Somers Camp & Power House (LSC&PH) runs several popular camps and programs for youth development, community development, life-long learning, and positive aging in Melbourne and Victoria, Australia. In the 12 months before the global pandemic began, they had 1,500 people, from the ages 15 to 80, attend their camps and programs.
LSC&PH was impacted by the start of the unprecedented global health crisis in March, which had forced organizations across the world to cancel or postpone their events. They found themselves in the position of needing to cancel all of their in-person events overnight as government restrictions prevented all in-person gatherings.