UK School holidays 2010 - Ideas for kids days out
Here is a list of the proposed UK school holiday dates for UK School children for 2009.
Actual dates may be a week either side at local education authorities discretion.
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Christmas and New Year 09/10: December 19 - January 3
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February (Spring) Half Term: February 13 - 20
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Easter holiday: Friday April 2 - 17
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May (Summer) Half Term: May 30 - June 5
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Summer Holiday: July 24 - September 4
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October (Autumn) Half Term: October 23 - 30
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Christmas and New Year 2010/11: December 18 - January 1
Some ideas of places to visit during the UK school holidays are listed below.
Bournemouth Air Festival 2009 - How to get involved - August 20th - 23rd 2009
HOW TO GET INVOLVED
Alex Carter is the Managing Director of Wilts & Dorset and is the title sponsor of this year’s Festival, “I am thrilled and privileged to once again be backing the biggest free event of its kind in the UK.
With over 750,000 visitors in 2008 we were overwhelmed with the results and I know we will be again this year. The Air Festival raised our business profile both locally and regionally, further strengthening the image and reputation of our ‘More’ brand. What can do to get involved and how you can do it? There are plenty of corporate support opportunities, including:
- Sponsor aircraft appearances and the evening entertainment
- Reward employees or clients with Festival Hospitality
- Offer company services at a discounted rate to help support Air Festival organisers.
How?
As individuals, partnerships or business consortia you can back the aircraft and sponsor key Festival elements. Why not try a host of grass roots communications, marketing and promotional activity?
Easy promotional methods will have a huge impact on spreading the Air Festival word and
include:
- Word of mouth - friends, family, employees and colleagues
- E-marketing - download the logo (below) or add a link to websites, tell subscribers to your enewsletters
- Printed material - leaflets and posters are a great way to let people know what is happening
- Decoration - decorate your premises, local business or shop front with an Air Festival theme.
Even easier, you could…
- Tell your staff about the Air Festival Volunteer to help on the day
- Have bournemouthair.co.uk as your home page
- Upload the latest press release for your website visitors.
Contact details
Corporate Hospitality - Amanda Malone: amanda.malone@bournemouth.gov.uk
Leaflets & posters - James Foster: events@bournemouth.gov.uk
Sponsorship - Jon Weaver: jon.weaver@bournemouth.gov.uk
PR & Marketing - Michelle Roberts: michelle.roberts@bournemouth.gov.uk
Photographer Profile: Joel Meyerowitz
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Joel Meyerowitz is an award-winning photographer whose work has appeared in over 350 exhibitions in museums and galleries around the world. He was born in New York in 1938. He began photographing in 1962.
He is a “street photographer” works works exclusively in colour. His first book, Cape Light, is considered a classic work of colour photography and has sold more than 100,000 copies during its 25-year life.
Joel Meyerowitz spent nine months at Ground Zero. He’d gone to the site five days after 9/11, and was doing what came naturally - raising his camera to his eye - when a policewoman’s fist descended on his shoulder. “She said, ‘No pictures, buddy, this is a crime scene,’” Meyerowitz says. “And immediately, I had this feeling that if there were no pictures being made, there would be no history. I thought, they can’t do that, it’s not right.”
He went to the Museum of the City of New York and proposed a joint project: under the museum’s sponsorship he’d create a public, not-for-profit archive of the site. Armed with an official letter, he went back to Ground Zero and became the only photographer to have full access during rescue and clean-up operations. From this exclusive access he produce the weight photo book Aftermath: World Trade Center Archive
For the next few years, Meyerowitz took photographs on the streets of New York, falling in with another photographer who roamed the streets: Garry Winogrand. “I liked his company, and he liked mine,” Meyerowitz says. The two would stroll down Fifth Avenue, taking pictures of the colorful characters and lives bustling around them. “Walking the streets and being alive to possibilities - those were some of the most wonderful moments of my life,” says Meyerowitz.
Your web travel insurance does not cover business collapse ?
A report in The Guardian suggests that customers with the collapsed travel company XL who attempt to make a claim with their web or conventional travel insurance provider may be refused a payout as business failures are not covered by standard policies.
One company that does provide this type of cover is web based Post Office Travel Insurance
The Association of British Insurers (ABI) warns that some high-end travel insurance deals offer cover against an airline or tour operator going bust, the majority do not.
The ABI said web travel insurance policies were primarily designed to offer cover for medical expenses resulting from accidents or illness abroad, and lost or stolen baggage.
Cover by company bankruptcy was filled by the Civil Aviation Authority’s Air Travel Organisers’ Licensing (Atol) scheme, which offers compensation to holidaymakers who book through tour operators and travel agents. The scheme does not offer payouts to the increasing number of travellers opting to arrange their trips independently.
Customers who check the small print of their policies may discover they are uninsured if their package holiday or flight is cancelled as a result of an airline or holiday firm going bust. Their only option will be to make a claim with their credit card company.
Such claims are excluded on policies from most providers, including Halifax, More Than and Insureandgo and Direct Line.
Direct Line - a popular web travel insurance company, said it would be looking at how it could help customers who had lost out as a result of the XL collapse. The exclusion could catch out many more holidaymakers over the coming months if, as expected, there are further casualties in the airline industry.
No doubt it will also see many more people buying Post Office Travel Insurance just in case their travel companies have the same problems as XL.
Free skiing, free ski tuition, free ski lift passes and free ski equipment hire
FREE Skiing - for one week in January 2009 with the Fresher’s Ski Week.
If you want to have a go at skiing , 2009 is going to be the time to take the plunge with FREE skiing with Freshers Ski Week.
The following tour operators are offering FREE ski hire, clothing hire, lessons and lift passes. This has to equate to at least £300+ per person BUT it’s only available to complete newcomers to the snow
Crystal Ski
Thomson
First Choice
Erna Low
Inghams
Neilson
Airtours
You do have to go on either
17th January 2009
24th January 2009
Choice of 45 resorts in
Andorra, Austria, Canada, Finland, France, Switzerland
You just pay for the cost of the package
Hit the slopes for FREE! The Association of Snow Sports Countries (ASC), in conjunction with some of the UK’s leading tour operators will be offering free skiing to 46 resorts across Andorra, Austria, Canada, France, Finland, Norway and Switzerland.
This offer is ONLY open to over 1,000 genuine first timers, for a period of one week from either the 17th or 24th January 2009.
Participants only have to pay for the standard cost of their package holiday, which can be booked with Airtours, Crystal Ski, Erna Low, First Choice, Inghams, Neilson and Thomson Ski and will be given free tuition, free lift passes and free equipment hire in a bid to attract them to the sport.
So if you have ever felt left out when your friends or work colleagues have returned from the slopes brimming with action packed stories of their fun in the mountains and secretly wished you had learnt earlier now’s your chance to get started.
Go to www.freshersskiweek.com and click through to the web links that lead to the participating resorts in the seven countries taking part so you can decide which of the 46 great resorts appeal to you. Then decide which of the tour operators you want to book with and pick up the phone.
There are over 1,000 holidays on offer, so even if your first choice is not available, tour operators should be able to advise you on an alternative destination.
Every holiday offers good value and will be a great place to learn and to start you off on a skiing future. with the mountains.
They have also teamed up with TK Maxx which sells the UK’s biggest selection of top brand ski and snowboarding clothing and accessories at up to 60% off the RRP. Look out for more details on their website later this month at www.tkmaxx.com and see what you should be wearing on the slopes next January!
For more information on this unusual offer go to www.freshersskiweek.com
Thanks to http://www.hotukdeals.com/item/256206/free-ski-hire-free-lessons-free-lif/ for alerting me to this deal.
UK school holiday dates 2009 - ideas for kids days out.
Here is a list of the proposed UK school holiday dates for UK School children for 2009.
Actual dates may be a week either side at local education authorities discretion.
- February half term – Saturday 14th to Sunday 22nd February 2009
- Easter holidays – Saturday 4th to Sunday 19th April 2009
- Spring bank holiday weekend – Saturday 2nd to Monday 4th May 2009
- May half term – Saturday 23rd to Sunday 31st May 2009
- Summer holidays – Saturday 19th July to Sunday 30th August 2009
- October half term – Saturday 24th October to Sunday 1st November 2009
- Christmas and New Year 09/10 – Saturday 19th December 2009 to Sunday 3rd January 2010
Some ideas of places to visit during the UK school holidays are listed below.
Want to make something special for a loved one?
If your stuck for present ideas and fancy being creative and treating yourself this why not take a hotel break and sign up for a creative pottery painting session. Warner Leisure Hotels are offering the chance to get away for a few days and make something really unique. 
Staying at Nidd Hall Hotel you will have the chance to create some beautifully decorated cups, dishes and mementoes. You will find pottery painting and decoration will be much easier than you expected when you are under the watchful eye of their skilled and patient tutor Leah. You will go away with a personalised Christmas gift that will be unique, it might be hard to give it away though.
Over two sessions of two hours Leah will guide you through the process of decorating pottery giving you the choice of items to paint using different methods.
Lunch will be taken in the terraced tea room.
Your finished pottery will be taken away to fire and glaze and returned in a neatly boxed by Thursday night.
Creating, firing and decorating ceramics is one of the most rewarding of crafts
The two sessions will still leave you plenty of opportunity to enjoy the other facilities at the hotel, or to take trips to some of the many nearby places of interest. To find out more look at Festive Pottery Painting.
The next course is November 10th 2008
or to check out a full list of other Creative Hotel Breaks
FREE Bahamas Cruise UK residents Only
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The cruise includes:
* Onboard Meals,
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Ships dazzle artist but can’t be seen by enemy.
Painted in Oil on canvas by Edward Wadsworth the picture
“Dazzle-ships in Drydock at Liverpool” is 304cm x 243 cm
Lieutenant-Commander Norman Wilkinson a British marine painter came up with the idea of painting battle ships with huge zig-zag lines and broad diagonals in “dazzle” camouflage pattern. The contrasting colour stripes broke up the lines of the ships making it difficult for enemy submarines to work out course, speed and sometimes even the number of vessels.
Additional “bow waves” reduced the apparent waterline length to further confuse observers. Edward Wadsworth was commisioned to manage the camouflaging of more than 2000 ships. It is also reported that his honeymoon consisted of a trip round all the UK dockyard.
Picture courtesy of http://cybermuse.gallery.ca/
Free Insurance against Airline Collapse YOU BET!
A lot has been written recently about failing airlines. As I write this the radio news is discussing the ailing Air Italia. Perhaps less well known is the fact that many travel insurance policies do not protect against business failure of the airline. The industry jargon for this is Scheduled Airline Failure Insurance (SAFI).
I had intended writing an informative article detailing insurance companies that cover airline collapse, BUT, in the process of research I stumbled upon a slightly less orthadox approx . Sometime lateral thinking can reap rewards. I am not alone in having an annual travel policy with a big travel insurance company that does not cover business failure. When its due for renewal I will compare insurance policy and pick a more comprehensive one.
However in the meantime I am going to break with tradition and hedge my bets, effectively insuring myself.
Heres how you can do it to.
Paddy Power, a big UK gambling company, is currently offering online betting odds on the collapse of airlines. Paddy Power are also currently offering a free £10 bet for new customers.
I reckon all you need to do is check the odds Paddy Power is offering on the collapse of the airline you have flights booked with. Just type airline in the search box on the main page to find the latest odds, or look under Novelty Bets, Current Affairs.
Divide the cost of your flghts by the odds on the next airline to go bust offered by Paddy Power and place a bet for that amount.
Paddy Power are currently offering a free £10 bet for new customers
For example: if you have a flight with Wizz Air that cost £140, the current odds of collapse is 14 to 1, you would need to bet £10 to “WIN” £140 in the event of the airline being the next to go bust.
What do you think ?
The current odds offered are :
FlyGlobespan 3 - 1
Aer Arann 33 - 1
Czech Airlines 66 - 1
Spanair 4 - 1
JetBlue 33 - 1
BMI 66 - 1
Air Berlin 7 - 1
Clickair 33 - 1
Aer Lingus 66 - 1
Finnair 10 - 1
Vueling Airlines 33 - 1
Qantas 80 - 1
SkyEurope 12 - 1
Bmibaby 40 - 1
easyJet 100 - 1
Wizz Air 14 - 1
Jetstar 40 - 1
BA 100 - 1
Thomas Cook Airlines 16 - 1
LOT 40 - 1
Virgin Atlantic 100 - 1
Jet2 18 - 1
Aeroflot 40 - 1
Air France 100 - 1
Sterling 18 - 1
Flybe 50 - 1
Ryanair 100 - 1
Thomsonfly/First Choice 20 - 1
Monarch 50 - 1
Lufthansa 100 - 1
United Airlines 25 - 1
Air One 50 - 1
Vatican Airlines 500 - 1
Scandinavian airlines 28 - 1
Germanwings 50 - 1
Malev 33 - 1
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