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Young people's weekend
The Young People's Weekend was started in 1992, when we decided to take a small party of children with CMT to Centre Parcs in Sherwood Forest for the weekend. A grant was forthcoming from BBC Children in Need and a small number of children with CMT, together with a friend or sibling if they wanted, spent a fantastic weekend meeting other kids with CMT.
Since then, we've tried to do a similar weekend every other year to start with and every year for the last 3 years. We've been to Butlins at Skegness; the Bendrigg Trust Centre in Kendal, Cumbria; and latterly the Calvert Trust Centre on the shores of Bassenthwaite Lake, near Keswick in the Lake District.
Latterly, the focus has been more on activity weekends - allowing kids of between 11 and 18 the chance to experience rock climbing, abseiling, zip wire, archery, canoeing and other equally scary pursuits! Both the Calvert Trust Centres and The Bendrigg Trust are centres specifically catering to disabled clients, so they have specialist knowledge and training to ensure that the weekends are a complete success.
There are lots of pictures of the 2008, 2009, 2010 and 2011 on Flickr - links are below so if it's your thing - why not come along!
Photos from the event in 2008
photos from 2011 coming very soon!
2012 EVENTS
Due to a specific donation for a water-borne activity received during 2011, we are having an EXTRA event in 2012 - an amazing day trip, from Southampton on the Jubilee Sailing Trust's three masted schooner, Tenacious.
Find out some more details here http://www.jst.org.uk/events/tnsds17.aspx?t=voyages
The cost to you is just £25 and there are 12 places only for kids with CMT.
YOU MUST BOOK BY THE END OF JANUARY in order to grab a spot on this amazing trip of a lifetime.
We do appreciate if you live too far away to get to the boat by 8.30am, you might need to travel the day before. Please contact us, because there may be funds available to pay for a night's stay in a motel beforehand.
Here is your booking form and Medical Consent form - we cannot accept a booking without the medical consent form.
PLEASE NOTE FOR ALL OF OUR EVENTS, IF YOU BOOK, WE WILL EXPECT YOU TO TURN UP! If you don't, we reserve the right to charge you the full cost of the event - which is £99 for the Sailing Trip, and over £300 for the Weekends.
BENDRIGG LODGE
October 2012 - date 26th-29th October. Book now for the usual fun and mayhem! Ages 12 to 21 only please!
Booking forms are here:
Please return BOTH forms to validate your booking - no consent form, no go!!
If you want further information, you can find our info sheet here
or email Karin Rodgers - karin@cmtuk.org.uk
