Persons associated with the Christian Brothers helped to spread the concept of these camps to other states of Australia and overseas.
The first Edmund Rice Camp in Tasmania took place in January 1985,[2] and the first beyond Australian shores was held near Dunedin, New Zealand in May 1991.
In countries where the movement is tiny or quite informal, the whole impetus for the running of these children's camps is in the hands of individual Christian Brothers and Edmund Rice Volunteers and has no independent legal status.
'Edmund Rice Camps' in Tanzania and Kenya, where the Christian Brothers are highly active, are two examples.
Five Irish camps (namely those in Dublin, Kilkenny, Waterford, Newry and Omagh) co-operate on a national level through a National Executive Committee working closely with the Christian Brothers, the Cork "Edmund Rice Action Camps" are run under the auspices of the Presentation Brothers, the other congregation founded by Edmund Rice.