Dear Friends and Supporters,

 

Welcome to the September Newsletter! This month, as we move towards the Ski and Snowboard Show in just 2 weeks time, it's an important time to try to raise awareness of Snow-Camp's work in as many ways as possible! With Ed and Chemmy giving us some fantastic interviews this month, with events such as Jump for Snow-Camp, The Everest Challenge 2012 and the Brighton Marathon attracting a lot of interest and with our new Facebook Fanpage www.facebook.com/snowcampcharity and Twitter profile @snowcampinfo growing all the time - it's all going well!

 

You can also win 10 ski show tickets this month - and if you are booking a group or corporate ski holiday for the coming season you can even raise funds for Snow-Camp at the same time now through booking with The Good City Ski Company. An exciting fundraising opportunity for Snow-Camp - read more below!

  

Enjoy this month's update.

 

The Snow-Camp Team

We are already looking forward to meeting up once again with some of the young people who had their first taste of skiing and snowboarding over the summer - but this time on one of our forthcoming Graduate Programmes.

 

The Graduate Programme is the second stage of the Snow-Camp journey, run over 6 weeks at Hemel Snowcentre. It helps young people develop their skiing and snowboarding skills with focused sessions with Hemel instructors - alongside workshops which explore other aspects of the world of snowsports such as working in the ski industry, doing a season, maintaining your equipment and keeping fit for skiing and boarding.

 

The young people who complete the course are awarded an ASDAN Sports and Fitness Award, a nationally recognised accreditation. To watch a 10 minute movie of the full Snow-Camp Journey from the perspective of 5 young people who completed the full programme last year please see:

 

Our Lottery funded work experience programme, Peak Potential, has moved into its next phase - where 20 young people from across London complete placements working with a range of youth projects and ski industry companies...thanks to Hemel Snowcentre, Salomon, North Face, Ellis Brigham, FREEZE festival, Natives, VOS media and others who have offered placements to give our young people this fantastic experience!

 

Read more about Peak Potential

We had a fantastic day at Headcorn Parachute Club for the first ever Jump for Snow-Camp day on the 2nd October 2011. Jumping form over 12,000ft in perfect conditions was an amazing and fairly terrifying experience for our first time skydivers - but everyone said afterwards they had loved the experience and would definitely go again! Thanks to everyone for their fantastic fundraising efforts, reaching a collective target of over £3,500 raised for Snow-Camp. And well done John - top fundraiser and winner of a P and V holiday to any French Ski resort! For that you also get the photo opposite!!

See more photos of the event

Numbers are growing for our fantastic fundraising event the Everest Challenge! Teams from The Ski Club of Great Britain and World Snowboard Guide are now being formed, and promotion of the event by Chemmy Alcott in her Snow-Camp interview (below) has helped boost numbers! We also set up a stand at Norton Rose's office this month, and met lots of keen skiers and boarders from the company, as well a large number from Ernst and Young based nearby - who are now signing up! Great to have them all onboard. There are still places left - but only a limited number - so please do sign up now if you are thinking about it.

 

The Challenge is a unique 2 day charity snowsports event run in the French Alps designed to give you a skiing and boarding experience you will never forget! If you fancy the challenge of skiing or snowboarding a total of 150km across 15 resorts over 2 days, including a night ski session and a night mountain hike - the Everest Challenge is for you!

 

The 2012 Challenge is now confirmed for the 26th - 29th January 2012 in Portes du Soleil, France. Why not get involved as a team or individual! Find out more below.

 

http://snow-camp.org.uk/everestchallenge/

UK no. 1 female skier and Snow-Camp supporter Chemmy Alcott spoke to us this month about her crash in Dec 2010, her hopes for the winter olympics and why she supports the Charity. 'In The Snow' magazine published the article and gave us some excellent coverage, so a big thank you to them too! Read the interview below - and we will save the big Ed Leigh exclusive till next month...!

 

Chemmy talks to Snow-Camp in In The Snow magazine

Once again, we are looking forward to having a stand at the fabulous Ski and Snowboard Show, 19-23rd October at Earls Court. If you would like to come and see us for FREE we have 10 pairs of tickets for weekdays, courtesy of organisers VOS media, to give away. To win, simply log on to our Facebook page, 'Like' the page and add your name to the list! 10 winners will be randomly selected on Friday 7th October. Make sure you come and say hello when you visit! Our stand is UK8. 

 

Enter the competition here at our Facebook Page:  www.facebook.com/snowcampcharity 

The wonderful people at Rude Chalets hosted their annual 'Rudeville' party down at Hemel Snowcentre this month, and kindly donated all the proceeds to support Snow-Camp's work. Close to a £1,000 was raised by their clients and guests, and the evening was a huge success - check out Rude Chalets fantastic website for more info about their awesome chalets and holidays.

Check out the Rude Chalets website

 

Six brave individuals have already signed up to be part of our Brighton Marathon team! Fantastic news! We are looking to put together a team of ten runners so if this is up your street please find out more below... 

 

Find out more about the Brighton Marathon here!

Do you know a company or group that runs a ski trip? The Good City Ski Company can now book pretty much any resort, hotel, flight and package...if your group books a ski trip through us, not only will Snow-Camp get half of the profit, but you will receive a £50 Ellis Brigham voucher to say thanks!

 

For more info on this opportunity please contact Dan on 07930 695384. Or catch us at the Ski Show: The Good City Ski Company, Stand L20.

 

Many thanks in advance to Dez Mighty and Gary Lawson for putting on this fantastic event at the XOYO gallery in Islington to raise funds for Snow-Camp. It is going to be an excellent show and definitely worth visiting if you are in London...To find out more about the Conquering Mountains Photographic Exhibition, check out their Facebook page below.

 

Conquering Mountains Exhibition Facebook Page

Dont forget if you want to book a fantastic ski holiday in January, Snowchateaux are running a charity week for Snow-Camp, donating all proceeds from your stay in their fantastic chalets to support our work. Thanks guys! To find out more see their site below.

 

Check out the Snowchateaux Charity week!

 

• Douglas for ongoing kit sorting out volunteering
• Jane for Ebay support plans
• Parker Lake - for stepping in to represent SC at Rudeville
• Cat at Ski Club - great blogging and team creation work!
• Steve at WSG - for the links with possible partner companies and the WSG team! 
• Sarah Whyte - for PR volunteering on our new project!
• Amie at Yodel - for the Everest Challenge party plans, and planned support through the magazine
• Chris Craggs - for planned apprenticeship opportunities for young people
• Claire, Hannah and all at Norton Rose for the opportunity to have a stand in the lobby!
• All the new Ernst and Young supporters who want to get involved, thanks for your interest!
• Hemel Snowcentre - for their support and a slot at their staff away day
• Josephine for planned GCSC support
• Dominic at In The Snow for the Chemmy interview
 

Please get in touch if you're raising funds for Snow-Camp so we can feature you in the newsletter. And if you would like to get involved with our work we would love to hear from you. Please contact Dan at dan@snow-camp.org.uk or 07930 695384 / 01273 241 383.

That's all for now, thanks as ever for your support and interest.

 

The Snow-Camp Team

T: 01273 241383
E: info@snow-camp.org.uk
Web: www.snow-camp.org.uk
Registered Charity Number: 1101030

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