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NATIONAL MEDIA & PRESS COVERAGE From 1981 right up to the present, Peak Activities Ltd's products & services have often been featured extensively in many national and international newspapers and in the HRD and Trade Press. We have also had great reviews on numerous national & international television and radio travel and on HRD training documentary programmes on BBC and ITV television. This page features some samples of the rave reviews and kind comments we have received in the UK press and media such as television and radio.
| Click for Press Coverage of our
Sports Events | Click for
article from Sunday Times on our Caving Weekends |
|Click to see Sunday Times Travel Peak
District Multi Activity Multisports Weekend Review |
| Click for Press Comments of our Training
Events | | Click for Press Coverage
of our Team Development Events |
Distinguished travel writers & journalists have often joined in during
our popular sports and serious training events incognito and their
resulting rave reviews have included no less than four lengthy
illustrated articles in the 'Sunday Times' Travel Section (1982-present).
Many other enthisiastic features have been published in media including
the "The Independent", 'Sunday Telegraph', Daily Mail & many other UK
media and trade press.
Please click here to see a recent article by Steve Bleach of the Sunday Times Travel Magazine who tried out and then highly recommended our popular beginners' caving weekends. Steve was voted UK Travel Writer of the Year just after he was here. Click here for details and dates and prices of our popular open sports courses.
- ... senior members of the
- travel trade have had some
- very nice things to say about us !
We had a fabulous full page editorial on the back page of the Sunday Times Travel Section
written by Michael Woods on 21st Feb 88. This featured our popular multisports weekends
designed for complete beginners with no prior experience... Click for full details.Unusually we had a two page rave review in the "Western Australian" after their Travel Editor
was here on holiday with his wife. One of our staff on holiday in Perth WA got the shock of his
life when on his first day in Freemantle he saw himself in the local paper's Travel Magazine !We've been featured all around the world thanks to Singapore Airlines' House Magazine !
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TRADE PRESS COVERAGE OF OUR PEAK ACTIVITIES LTD's SERVICE
The success of our training events for companies such as Rover, Bosch, Northern Foods, Powergen and Volkswagon hasn't gone unpublished either. We have often had glowing write up in the in-house magazines and in professional trade journals such as Lucas Life, Bosch People, Northern Foods News, Singapore Airlines' "Outlook", Managing, YHA's Triangle, Management Today, Management Development, and many other media.
Recently our short team building courses we were featured and illustrated in April's "Edge" - the Magazine of the Institute for Leadership & Management's which seeks to promote best practise in developing and driving Leadership and Management Skills. The ILM is part of the City & Guilds Group......
An article on Team Building at Rock Lea by senior Land Rover Discovery & Defender Production Managers Other articles on our Training & Development Courses tailored for companies have appeared in media such as "Training Today" and "Management Development" and "Personnel Today". Trade and staff publications such as "Bosch News" , "Lucas Life" and "Land Rover Today" and many other media have frequently written up courses which have been particularly successful and costg effective. Companies such as e.on and EDF have published extensive articles on the courses we have run from them. For excample we were especially pleased by an EDF article singing the praises of one of our bespoke first aid courses which our MD designed to develop leadership skills for Power Station personnel. That article is published elsewhere on our website ( click here to go there ). Specialist articles on topics such as tailored events for families have appeared in national media recently such as the Sunday Telegraph. Click here to see a copy.
Group organisers who want a tailored event can visit Rock Lea for pre-trip planning meetings. They are welcome to browse the many press cuttings and kind clients' comments that we have on file here. We're proud of our long and successful track record of looking after the people who trust us to look after them. Pre-trip planning meetings are a great way to make sure group events go right first time ! Phone us on 01433-650345 to discuss any specific requirements you may have in mind.
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Caroline filming with Ian Wright with the BBC.
NATIONAL TELEVISION COVERAGE ON TRAINING & HOLIDAY PROGRAMMES... Peak Activities have experienced considerable national & international television coverage since we started filming in 1981...with many broadcasters & celebrities ( such as Ian Wright, Damion Johnson, Matt Dickinson and Alex Lester ) having been out with us filming and taking part in sports and training activities for various BBC1, BBC2, Yorkshire Television, NBC, and ITV television features on our caving, abseiling, watersports, mountain biking and rock climbing activities. Our more sophisticated management training and team building events for companies have also been highly acclaimed and featured in several television documentaries that have been made at Rock Lea with Peak Activities staff.BBC Sports Presenter Damion Johnson filming biking, canoeing and abseiling with us for BBC1 tv' s "Edit Five" Programme. Click here for pictures and more details of tv & radio coverage of Peak Activities Ltd' services.
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RADIO COVERAGE has included several live broadcasts for BBC Radio Four including the Radio Four Breakaway and Today programmes and Live and Recorded programmes for Alex Lester on BBC Radio Two and for Radio 5 Live. There have been numerous features involving local radio stations too. Prospective clients visiting Rock Lea for pre-trip planning meetings are welcome to ask to see screenings of samples of some of the many broadcasted films and documentaries we have here as reference copies.
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Tel. 01433-650345...
- MAIN INDEX...
- The wide range of sports & team building activities on offer
- Training & Development Services from our CIPD qualified consultants
- Alphabetical Index...
- Corporate clients list...
- Samples of thank you e-mails and letters from delighted customers
- Unsolicited kind endorsements from some our delighted customers...
- NEWS from Peak Activities Ltd.
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....Peak Activities Limited, Rock Lea, Station Road, Hathersage, Hope Valley, S32 1DD, The Peak National Park, England. Copyright Map
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