...News... http://www.iain.co.uk/fixtures.htm

Congratulations to both James & Elizabeth...

We now have yet another Black Belt on our staff team !

We extend our warmest congratulations to 
our junior team members James & Elizabeth 
who were recently personally graded & assessed 
in Darlington by Tae Kwon Do Mudo's Grand Master 
Kim Yung Ho, who flew over to the UK especially.  

Grand Master Kim, pictured here, is the most senior 
Tae Kwon Do Mudo exponent in the world and holds 
the prestigiousBlack Belt's 9th Dan.  

James was awarded his Second Dan and Elizabeth 
was promoted from Red Belt Black Tag to Black Belt 
First Dan, presented in person by Grand Master Kim.
James and Elizabeth are both members of Sheffield
University's Tae Kwon Do Mudo Club and the Castleton
Tae Kwon Do Club.  Until she gained her Black Belt,
Elizabeth's brother James was the youngest University 
Club Member to hold a Black Belt. Now Elizabeth is the 
youngest ever Black Belt in the club.   James & Elizabeth
expressed thanks to their tutors Master John Gabbard 
and Alan - and to all the kind Black Belts at their training
clubs in Sheffield and in Castleton.



 

Members of the Sheffield University Tae Kwon Do Mudo Club pictured 
with their Black Belt Assessor Grand Master Kim Yung Ho & Kim Sangh Tay

We'd like to send our best wishes and congratulations 
to Claire Lilley & James Lingwood who were married 
in church on 6th June 2008.  Many of you who have
visited Rock Lea will remember Claire worked here 
with us full time where she was a great organiser and 
popular event planner !   Doesn't she look wondeful ?

OUR OUTDOOR CENTRE'S  NEW 
"INTRODUCE A FRIEND SCHEME" 
IS DESIGNED TO REWARD CUSTOMERS 
WHO RECOMMEND US TO THEIR FRIENDS, 
FAMILY AND ASSOCIATES AT WORK.

 

Open Weekend Beginners' Caving Group Safety Briefing at Rock Lea 

Why not try one of our popular open weekends such
as caving weekends for beginners ....or maybe book
an abseiling & roped scrambling weekend  ?
Typically these groups comprise 12 people who 
have come alone or with a friend or partner.
No special gear or experience is needed !

          

If you've been here before - ask about our 
follow up weekends including intermediate 
and advanced skills weekend courses. 


Having fun cimbing up a potholing ladder with safety rope during one 
of our popular Beginners' Open Caving Weekends at Rock Lea. 

OPEN EVENTS FOR INDIVIDUALS & COUPLES 
WANTING REALLY SAFE, RELIABLE & ENJOYABLE 
OUTDOOR EXPERIENCES IN THE ACCESSIBLE 
PEAK DISTRICT NATIONAL PARK !

The dates of Peak Activities popular "open courses " for 2008 
have now been published elsewhere on our website and these 
weekends are open to individuals and couples.   Please click here 
to go to our dates and prices page and grab yourselves some 
bargains !

Group leaders wanting other dates or group deals on the 
weekends or mid week dates of their choice should call 
us on 01433-650345 please to check group prices and 
dates availability.

Adventure Racing Page now open on www.iain.co.uk



A team from Robert Bosch GmbH.


We have often run Adventure Racing events in the past few
years as part of tailored, made to measure events for Charity 
Fund Raising Purposes.   However, for 2008 we have decided 
to widen the scope of these increasingly popular events to 
include two day events with overnight camps and much more.
You can choose to arrange your adventure race in the Peak 
District or in the Wilderkaisergebirge Mountains of the Austrian 
Alps.  

Group Organisers wanting a more challenging and strenuous 
team building event for fairly fit and motivated people may well
find our Adventure Racing possibilities interesting !

Please click here for more details of Adventure Racing organised
by Peak Activities in the Peak District.

Not for the faint hearted !  Combine an orienteering competition, 
a night hike, a high level moorland trek, a kayaking race, problem-
-solving experiences, freefall abseiling experience and a potholing
challenge with an overnight camp and lots more !

Prices on application.

Our massive 13-page 20th Anniversary newsletter is still popular !

Embedded below is a .pdf copy of our 13 page newsletter ( added Aug. 2007 ) for the 
late Summer 2007.  Although the New Year is well under way now if you haven't read 
this newsletter we do hope you enjoy reading it.  Please feel free to copy this .pdf file 
and e-mail it to any friends or colleagues who may be interested in our people & services . 
We know there are clients who use us for training who know nothing about our public
events - whilst peoplke who use us to book weddings at our base in the alps have no 
idea we have loads of corporate customers in the UK who use us for staff development.

There are other news stories below if you scroll right down this web page.

If you can't see the newsletter above download the free Adobe Acrobat Reader plu in or call and ask us to e-mail one over top you.

Carry on Camping :   Union Pub Story  :   Open Course Dates for 2008 :

Older Stories :  Pudsey Bear's Sponsored Abseiling Visit   : Tae Kwon Do Black Belt for James :

        
    CHARITY FUND RAISING EVENTS AT ROCK LEA

       The staff at Rock Lea are committed to raising even more money for worthy 
       charities in 2008. Below are examples of previous charity events we have been 
       involved with planning and running for two registered charities.

     ALZHEIMER'S SOCIETY SPONSORED ABSEILING EVENT...

....

Three plucky ladies Debbie, Debbie and Helen pictured above raised lots of money for 
the Alzheimer's Society during Alzheimers Awareness Week. They'd asked us to arrange  
a sponsored abseiling session with James and Andy ( right ) from Rock Lea Centre.  
Alzheimer’s Awareness Week aimed to reach out and make contact with all those thousands
of carers and people with dementia who need our support and who are not in touch with the 
Alzheimer's Society. Please click on the Alzheimer's Logo ( above ) to and learn more about 
this charity's excellent work. For more information about organising charity events with 
Peak Activities please click here or visit www.iain.co.uk/charity.htm


PUDSEY BEAR ABSEILS IN FOR CHARITY... 

..
    
PUDSEY BEAR DROPS IN TO ROCK LEA TO SUPPORT HIS CHARITY ABSEIL !

      Staff from our clients Castle Estates pictured above at Rock Lea with BBC Children in Need's "Pudsey"
            - all working together on a team project to raise funds for Pudsey's Charity.  If you are interested in working with our
             staff to raise funds for your organisation's chosen good cause please see our special charity fund raising page. 

             We can run charity fund raising events for groups or for individuals.

..

        

OPEN COURSE DATES FOR 2008 ARE BOOKING NOW.
This year we've had lots more bookings for our"Open Events" than we'd expected.

WEEKENDS for INDIVIDUAL ... Click here to see dates and prices of our wide choice 
of weekend events open to the public in 2008. There are some great bargains to be had 
including 2 full days of qualified friendly instruction for under £100 eachin the low season !  
These are our adults events that have often been featured on national radio and TV and 
much higher prices, so grab a bargain while they're still on offer.

       Phone Iain or Caroline on 01433-650345 for details !     
                 

       New events include weekends for youngsters 
       accompanied by their parents.

These events have had great review on BBC & ITV

holiday programmes and in media such as the

Sunday Times Travel Magazine.

 

 

......

BBC Sports Presenter Damion Johnson  abseiling 
with Peak Activities Ltd's staff during one of our
"Breakaway" open weekend featured on Damion's 
BBC2 television's "Breakout" holiday programme.

Congratulations to James on flying solo !

Those of you who have been following his progress in learning to fly will be pleased 
to read that our junior instructor James Jennings (above) very successfully flew solo 
at Caernarfon Air Parc in early August in his favourite Piper Cherokee aircraft G-CGHM 
"Hotel Mike" ( left ) after approx. 11 hours flying tuition from his excellent flying instructor 
Paul.  James now has lots more flying practise hours to do in "Hotel Mike" and 
"Charlie Alpha" ( right ). In July James took two weeks over at Caernarfon and 
passed no less than 6 PPL exams.  These included the JAA  Air Navigation, Air Law,
 Human Factors in Flight Safety, Engine & Power Management Systems plus 
Navigation and "Meteorology" which are all needed to gain a PPL licence.  

James is paying for his lessons by working at Rock Lea doing all sorts of jobs 
including washing helmets and cleaning up minibuses & caving suits and helping 
out as a qualified first aider on events such as our charity abseils.  He is now looking 
around for sponsors and cadetships.

If you would like more information on flying as part of a small group experience in
North Wales ( with more qualified pilots like Kristina who has over 25,000 hours in 
her log book - please click here or call Iain on 01433-650345.







Here at our outdoor activities & training centre in Hathersage 
we're looking forward to another busy Winter Season. 

Right now's an ideal time for you to be talking to Caroline in our 
bookings office if you want to book events for individuals or groups 
of people for 2008. 

We are offering past customers and new clients some very good 
deals for return trips in 2008.

Check out dates of our 2008 open weekends.

and now a camping joke :

 

 

" Doctor, Doctor, can you help me ?

Sometimes I think I've turned into a Teepee

and at other times I feel like I'm a Wigwam."

 

Doctor : " I think you've probably become two tents !"

 

( Our apologies, but part of www.iain.co.uk's recycling policy

is to re-use Iain's old jokes as much as possible...Webmaster )

CAMPING OUT in superb surroundings

cuts costs & can broaden your horizons...

 

 

 

There are several excellent quiet camping sites adjacent to

our centre in Hathersage which welcome QUIET well behaved
groups and individuals and families. Camp site fees at local sites
vary. Typically camping site fees are around £5 per night per person
plus about £1 per car parking fee and the fees are not included in
our equipment hire charges.

 

 

Camping out is great shared experience if you have all your own

modern high tec gear. We have often been asked if we can we hire

gear to our customers who haven't got their own camping kit.

That's why we have launched our camping kit hire service.

Scroll down for more details & prices of our new "Total Hire"

camping gear hire service for our training clients and for people

pre-booking our outdoor pursuits and instruction services.

 

 

It hasn't escaped some of customers' notice that with our new

camping hire facilities - plus our fleet of minibuses and trailers

we now have an increased capability to run tented sites at tried

and trusted camping grounds in North Wales, the Lake District,

Pembrokeshire, Scotland and, of course, in Tyrol in Austria.

 

We are now welcoming serious enquiries from past customers

interested in adventure trips with our staff to places farther

afield such as Norway and Austria . How about a low budget

week of walking and camping in the Alps for your next team

building event ? Camping out on a glacier might make a change

from staying in a big hotel ...and you're unlikely to run out of ice

for those cold beers !

 

All the camping sites we use in Hathersage and farther afield

offer good facilities including piping hot showers and clean

washing facilities and WC's. At some sites in and around

Hathersage you can't see anything around you other than

trees and fields...not a single house in sight !

 

 

 

Our "Total Hire" camping equipment hire package has

been introduced in response to requests from private groups

and corporate parties who want to camp out under the stars

for a change !

 

THE "TOTAL HIRE" PACKAGE OF KIT  : - 

  ..

* New, stable, storm proof 3-Person Dome Tents...
* Warm sleeping bags - Choice of either 2 or 4-season bags...
* Sleeping bag liners ( n.b. the use of these is compulsory in our bags)...
* Insulating foam sleeping mats...
* LED Head torches ( it is dark on some camping sites at night ! )
* Fire Buckets, Camp First Aid Kit and Fire Warning* Notice/s.
   
     ...plus the time of some of our staff to show you how to erect 
        and help you dismantle your tents to minimise problems.

 

Costs... hire of dome tent, sleeping bag, bag liners, headlamp, sleeping mat, etc.

Please note hire prices per person vary according to stay duration and size of your party. Site fees extra.

 

"Total Hire" Package UK £'s per person / stay	1 night hire	<2 nights	3 nights hire	4 nights hire
Party of up to 6 people	phone	£30 flat rate	£40	£41 ( under£20 each/day ! )
Party of up to 7<12 people	phone	£35-00	£39-00	£40-00
Party of up to 13<24 people	phone	£39-00	£45-00	£46-00
Party of up to 25<48 people	phone	£45-00	£49-00	£50-00

Any size of party staying for more than 4 nights :

£1 per person per each extra night for 5th, 6th, night.etc. n.b. Custom,ers must be booking our instruction services for these prices to aspply.

 

 

............

 

These hire prices are ONLY for our pre-booked customers who have arranged to buy

instructional facilities from us for each day during their stay - such as rock climbing or

caving or OMD Management development training.

 

 

 

 

These are same the tents and sleeping bags we use in the Alps

- so you can rest assured they're reliable and comfortable items

of kit which are very carefully stored and maintained.

 

After each hire the centre's staff have to spend a lot of time

laundering, cleaning, checking, drying and repacking camping gear

after it has been used, so you'll see our prices reflect this workload .

The kit is more expensive per person per night to hire for a very

short stay than it is to stay for, say, three or four or more nights...

since there's just as much cleaning and drying involved at the end

of a one night stay as there is at the end of a week long stay.

 

 

Clients are expected to treat all our equipment with care.

A credit card "damage deposit "may be requested to cover us

against the cost of any unreasonable kit losses, damage, or

cleaning bills. Any thefts or losses will also be charged for

(new for old ) - as our kit is not insured whilst it is in your
possession. Clients are advised to make sure they have their
own personal insurance in place to cover them against losses
when they are camping.

 



 

Rock Lea's staff can also arrange to rent extra specialist camping 
equipment to large groups - including big propane heaters, large 
frame tents, camping chairs, a mobile fully equipped caravan, a gas 
barbecue, event control room and a variety of group shelters & 
marquees.  An extra charge may be made for extra facilities, for 
the time required to pre-erect or take down tents for large groups, 
hire of group cooking gear, etc.

We offer our instruction clients a complete hire service 
which supplies everything you & your colleagues and
friends need for a safe enjoyable night camping.

Near to Hathersage and in the Hope Valley we have on offer a

number of great local camping sites ( public sites and private

camping locations ) for groups big or small. Most of these have

hot showers and good WC toilets & washing facilities. We have

enough hire tents and sleeping kit now for groups large or small.

Please note the camping out option is not suitable for noisy or
very boisterous groups - since local camping sites' managers

will ask your whole party to leave very unceremoniously if any

member makes problems for other campers on the same site.

Some sites are very strict about not playing music at any time

- and not being noisy in the early morning or in the evenings.

( We're really not joking about this point by the way ! )

 

The new hire service was launched in May 2006 and has

already proven to be quite successful. One teething problem

is that ALL group leaders need to appreciate that public camping

site managers welcome large groups but ( not unreasonably )

they do expect all of their guests to be quiet at night..and one

group has already been evicted from a camp site because

of excess noise late at night after a very late night session

in a local inn ! Two of the party evicted were directors of a

well known UK manufacturing company who were thrown

off a site for disturbing other campers who were in bed trying

to sleep. That night the directors got to find out how just

comfortable their BMW cars' seats were to sleep in !

Please be warned that camping using our hire kit is lots

of fun but is only really a practical option for well-behaved

quiet groups !!!

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For group leaders you can now stay locally at a very low

price per person and you can let us sort out all the cleaning

up, laundering and drying of kit prior to storage - which is

always a time consuming nightmare ! We reckon each group

organiser will save at least two man-days of cleaning and

folding up and packing up of kit if they use this service for,

say, a party of 12 to 20 people...and you also save on the cost

of buying and then storing expensive items of camping gear.

Customers who are booking training or activities with us should

please call Caroline or Iain on 01433-650345 for more information

about hire of camping equipment.

 

 

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SOME OLDER NEWS STORIES from PEAK ACTIVITIES are below :

 

 

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  UNION PUBS MANAGERS' VISIT

  

A very jolly party of managers from The Union Pub Company 
pictured having a very good time at our base in Hathersage 
Rock Lea recently. They were out enjoying an "Away Day"  team
building event including  easy caving and orienteering with our 
instructors Caroline, John and Andy.  This year Peak Activities Ltd. 
have welcomed more groups than ever before enjoying the excellent 
weather for such informal and enjoyable opportunities to relax and chill 
out together in a fun-filled way.

RELIABLE, TOP QUALITY EVENTS for QUALITY CONSCIOUS CLIENTS.....

Group Organisers considering events based in the Peak District
National Park and who want the BEST rather than second best 
should please call us today on 01433-650345 to discuss their 
specific needs and requirements.  If you would like to organise a 
safe, reliable low cost, fun-filled away day for your own private group 
we'll be pleased to hear from you.   Individuals should look our open 
fixtures listed on our special "deals" page.  This details events 
( mainly weekends ) which we hold for individuals and couples.

CONGRATULATIONS ON YOUR ACHIEVEMENT JAMES !

Over the weekend of November 12th & 13th Rock Lea's
junior staff member James Jennings was successfully 
assessed in Darlington for his Black Belt in Tae Kwon Do.  



Master Kim presents James with his Black Belt, First Dan

James has been studying and training for over 5 years 
under the expert tuition of Master John Gabbard ( 6th Dan). 
James was thrilled that the highly respected Master Kim 
( 9th Dan ) travelled over from France to run a training
seminar and the assessment sessions and put James 
and 10 other aspirant Black Belts through their paces.  

It is hoped James' sister who is already a Red Belt Black 
Tag will be ready to take her Black Belt soon. She will be 
the next member of our team to earn their Black Belt.



Master Kim (centre) James & Master John Gabbard.

Now that James has been awarded his Black Belt he will 
be able to assist in teaching Tae Kwon Do in his club under 
the supervision of much more experienced Black Belts. 
James' local club trains in Castleton two nights a week 
- and he also trains at the University of Sheffield with the 
University's Tae Kwon Do Society. 

When he was a Red Belt James won a silver medal at 
the UK Tae Kwon Do Championships held at Sheffield 
University's Octagon centre last year.

Tae Kwon Do is a wonderful way of keeping supple and fit 
and is a tried and proven way of building self confidence &
self-discipline.  Adults can start Tae Kwon Do at any age.
Everyone at Rock Lea congratulates James on his excellent
achievement in so short a time and hopes he'll inspire more
people to take up this sport.

One of the other members of our team who holds a Black Belt
is Dean Peck - who is a keen Karate enthusiast.

NEW - MOVIE CLIPS INTRODUCED TO WEBSITE 

Click here to see a short movie clip with commentary... 
( it's a 5 megabyte file - sorry ! ...suitable for broadband users only ).
                             P......

NEW GROUP OFFERS ON OUR NEW WEB SITE FROM OUR SPORTS DIVISION...

The New Year saw the launch of a new web site at www.peak-activities.co.uk
with special offers listed there for people who have brought groups of
people here before. See http://www.peak-activities.co.uk/g_offers.html

This web site is under development with Eclipse but is expected to have 
lots of cine films and interesting movies and lots more when it's developed.

......

NEW Fun Mixed Ability Corporate Challenges...

..

New for this year we're offering to visiting 
groups some exciting new mixed-ability trailquests 
involving ligh hearted physical and mental challenges.

If you are up to the challenge & want to book something 
that's a bit different, sporty and packed with fun for all ages 
& all abilities -  then please call us on 01433-650345 for 
more details.

Everybody's a winner but there's champagne & chocolates 
all round for the winning team too !

 Poles travel all the way over 
 to Rock Lea for a weekend 
 of exciting activities with us !

Lucasz, Ewa, Tom, Stephen, Neil and Hania get ready to go caving with Andy.


People often travel a very long way to enjoy our activities and 
events in the Peak National Park but by anybody's standards flying 
in from Garwolin near Warsaw for the weekend to visit Peak Activities 
Ltd's base in Hathersage is a pretty impressive journey !   

Pictured above are procurement experts from Avon Cosmetics
 - three of whom travelled all the way from their new manufacturing 
plant in Poland just for a fun filled 3-day weekend of informal team 
building with their UK colleagues from Northampton.   The party 
enjoyed some abseiling and orienteering and some scrambling 
and some pretty impressive pub games and some serious 
socialising !  This jolly group stayed in a traditional local inn 
on the edge of Hathersage sharing the delights of top quality 
Peak District food and hospitality.   The visitors also entertained 
us  with their excellent guitar, accordian & concertina music.

.......
A man destined for higher things...Lucasz scored 9.8 
for this abseil attempt  AND we now know he can sing 
perfectly all of the verses to "Auld Langs Syne" too  !

Click here to see some kind endorsements from
Tom and other team leaders from Avon who have 
been here over the years.

Because the weather was fairly changeable during
their three days we were glad Tom trusted our tutors 
to pick out activities on the day that would best make 
the most of the team's time out here with us.

The other kind of walking where 
we supply the Poles for you is our 
new Nordic Walking activity option !

Peak Activities' director TONY KENDALL receives another 
award at the House of Commons for his work setting up & 
running an inclusive Cub Pack in inner city Leicester...

..
Tony working in our caving lamp store.


Our busy Director Tony Kendall is the co-Founder of a Cub Scout  Pack held on a 
Saturday so Muslim children  can be included and attend has just received another 
prestigious award "Investors in the Community Award" held at a ceremony at 
the House of Commons recently. Tony's pack is part of the 12th/74th group in 
Mere Road, Leicester, was set up to help replace failing youth clubs in the inner 
city of Leicester a couple of years ago. They wanted to help provide the youngsters 
of the Highfields area with something worthwhile to do. 

The pack is run by Tony and Alam Navsa and Bill Trewick. A Scout Leader 
of many years standing, Tony said the group was mixed and set up to run on 
Saturdays rather than mid week to enable kids of all faiths to take part.  Tony, 
who holds both the Scouts Medal of Merit and the Silver Acorn Awards said 
"This highlights the fact that Scouts welcome members of all faiths, colours 
and nationalities. We wanted our group to be as inclusive as possible."

Peak Activities Ltd's Company Directors Tony, Caroline and Iain 
have always been keen to help people of all ages, nationalities and 
creeds get out and about and enjoy the Great Outdoors.  We have 
recently been working on a new range of activities for people of all 
ages and levels of fitnesses to enjoy activities with us in the Peak 
District ..and we now have a range of new activities which can be 
enjoyed by folks in wheelchairs and other people with limited mobility
... including some new "wheelchair friendly" mixed fitness, radio 
controlled orienteering sessions, caving trips, kite flying, treasure 
hunts, trail quests, quizzes & lots more.

..........

New dates for Rock Lea's "OPEN EVENTS" ( events for individuals ) are now available.
Subject to availability we have some very good offers and deals for people making late 
bookings. Contact us on 01433-650345 for more details or see www.iain.co.uk/deals.htm

    OTHER NEWS HEADLINES

UK STAFF TRY OUT OUR NEW AUSTRIAN OPERATION FOR THEMSELVES
SUNDAY TIMES TRAVEL EDITOR SINGS OUR PRAISES (AGAIN ) !
POOLSIDE MAYHEM ! OUR TAILORED FIRST AID COURSES GET THE THUMBS UP FROM ELECTRICITY DE FRANCE

BBC1 TV CREW & IAN WRIGHT FILM & BROADCAST AT ROCK LEA.

SEASONAL OFFERS - ALL ENCOMPASSING ORIENTEERING SESSIONS ! 
LIABILITY INSURANCE PREMIUMS SKY-ROCKET & CAUSE PRICE INCREASES !
UK ASSOCIATES UNIFORMS ON THE TELLY !
SEASONAL TREASURE HUNTS FOR MIXED ABILITY GROUPS.

Ian Wright with Caroline during filming at our base in Hathersage - Rock Lea Centre.

N
W  +  E
S

N. E. W. S.  STORIES  FROM ALL AROUND THE COMPASS !

" Ein Prosit ein Prosit - der Gemutlichkeit ! "



BLUE SKY STAFF DISCUSSIONS IN TYROL...

Numerous directors, staff and volunteers and family members 
recently flew out to Salzberg and enjoyed a fabulous residential 
discussing and trying out some of our new products and
experiencing first hand the delights of the Wilderkaisergebirge....
our new "home from home".  It was tough out there slaving over
all those new concepts but somebody had to do it !  We also
took the opportunity whilst we were there in such glorious
weather to start making our new promotional video. 

Pictured above are tutors John T., Tony Kendall, Caroline, Iain,
Steve Charles and Elizabeth. Although she's our youngest 
apprentice ski instructor, Elizabeth is now skiing down 
black runs and leaving all the rest of us behind !   

....Pete Brookes

Caroline, our Finance Director, over in our new base in Ellmau enjoying the scenery & apres ski.
We will be publishing fairly soon some new itineries involving skiing, snow shoe walking (above ) 
and lots more in the fabulous mountain of Tirol !  

DELEGATES' PRAISE ON THE SUCCESS OF PEAK ACTIVITIES LTD's
BESPOKE RESCUE TRAINING TAILORED FOR EDF ( Electricitee de France ).



Some very favourable feedback notes on the success of the decision making 
& leadership and teamwork training events Iain's team arranged for the Health 
& Safety experts at Cottam Power Station were published a while ago by EDF.  
One of their reports is reproduced in full below as two .jpg's below in the hope 
it may be of interest to anybody interested in the effectiveness of carefully 
designed and planned outdoor training exercises with Peak Activities Ltd's 
Development Training experts.

PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED  STORIES AT FOOT OF THIS PAGE : -

Tony now holds both the Medal of Merit & Silver Acorn.
Training Case Study - TXU's CEO's Team & Management Development Event
 Heart of England Tourist Board's Chief Exec's Residential Team Build with Peak Activities Ltd.

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MORE NEWS  BBC TV films at Rock Lea again...

BBC Television Presenter & former England international 
footballer Ian Wright pictured with our centre's director 
Caroline during a BBC tv film shoot for first of Ian's series of
top Saturday evening BBC1 television show "I'D DO ANYTHING ". 
This filming asignment  was a special three day contract featuring our 
 popular potholing & caving underground treasure hunt & challenge activities.

NEWS   +    NEWS   +    NEWS   +    NEWS

..........

This latest of a series of successful filming projects with the BBC involved a large film crew working very closely in local 
caves with our senior instructors Caroline, John Thomas, Andy McLean and Iain Jennings.  Peak Activities Ltd senior 
associates were all responsible for selection of suitable filming locations and the Health & Safety of the crew working in 
various tricky situations to get unusual points of view shots.

Caroline and Andy also had special responsibility for looking after a rather nervous first-time novice lady who was 
undertaking the special trail quest we'd been asked to design underground in parts of England's deepest pothole.  
The programme was screened at 6-00 pm Saturday April  26th on BBC1 television and part of the filming was shown 
again a week later when the successful participant flew across to te USA to meet world champion boxer Mohammed Ali.

Training and sports activities at Rock Lea have often been featured in the press and on a large number of television
and radio programmes. Peak Activities Ltd welcomes enquiries from commercial film crews wanting professional 
help with safety assurance and filming in confined and difficult access areas.  Click here for more information.

 Click here to go back up to the top of this NEWS page.


SUNDAY TIMES' TRAVEL MAGAZINE'S
TRAVEL WRITER STEVE BLEACH ENJOYS 
AN ADVENTUROUS TRIP DOWN ENGLAND'S 
DEEPEST CAVE WITH PEAK ACTIVITIES' 
EXPERT INSTRUCTORS.

MEDIA COVERAGE NEWS

...

We have recently enjoyed another rave review in the Travel Section 
of the Sunday Times from their travel specialist Steve Bleach..who 
was out here enjoying one of our very popular "friendly-face"
introductory caving weekends last month. 

The people who read Steve's excellent article all agreed that his 
writing had really captured the spirit  of one of our popular "Friendly Face" 
weekends. These events are open to any member of the public aged 18 and 
over and are held monthly at our Hathersage base.  

In his article Steve's imagination  seemed particularly taken with all the geology 
he'd learned about whilst he was here working alongside our enthusiastic leaders.
Click here please for lots more details of these weekends (including prices
and dates of our open events ) and to read  Steve's very kind article including 
Steve's his comments on the fun of  feeling like a piece of meat in a rock sandwich !tl
aary enjoyr.
To see lots of other kind press and media comments, including previous
editorials about our caving and otrher outdoor activities in the Telegraph and 
Sunday Times and other media please click here.

Click here to see details of other television and radio features on our events.

We are always willing to offer facilities for press visits to bone fide reporters and journalists.
Travel media writers should please contact our press and publicity officer via 01433-650345.

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NEWS of our new Treasure Hunts

Our tailored treasure Hunts are ideal for all ages, shapes and sizes and fitnesses !

 

 

NEWS Seasonal Treasure Hunts

 

Peak Activities Ltd are now running a wide range of fun-filled inter-team treasure hunt challenges

designed to make the best of the seasonal weather. Some of the various options on offer include : -

 

 

VILLAGE BASED TREASURE HUNTS USING MINIBUSES IN THE HOPE VALLEY.

MOUNTAIN BIKE TREASURE HUNT AROUND THE DERWENT VALLEY.

HELICOPTER BASED TREASURE HUNTS AROUND THE PEAK DISTRICT & NORTH WALES

Watersports based treasure hunt.

BAKEWELL TOWN CENTRE TREASURE HUNT - A scenic busy town with lots of shops and cafes.

SCENIC "CITY CENTRE" TREASURE HUNTS IN YORK (afloat), LONDON & CHESTER.

SPECIAL ATTRACTION-BASED TREASURE HUNTS (e.g. around a popular railway museum,

or around a major aircraft museum, etc. Our brand new zoo based treasure hunts are

also available again now.

 

Helicopter based treasure hunts....using real helicopters. Also gliding (small groups).

Scalextric and Flight Simulator based treasure hunts.

Treasure Hunt around one of the largest shopping malls in Europe. Retail therapy & madness combined !

Treasure Hunt around York City Centre and York National Railway Museum.

 

 

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Come and enjoy visiting the lovely Peak National Park.

 

 

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Peak Activities Associate Frank Kent loads up a load of bikes for a party from Orange

enjoying a mountain bike treasure hunt around the scenic Hope Valley. Mountain biking

from our popular base in Hathersage is a great activity for all ages and fitnesses and

allows you to set your own pace and have fund working together as a team.

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NEWS ABOUT OUR ASSOCIATES & DIRECTORS

 

ANOTHER TOP AWARD

FOR OUR DIRECTOR TONY !

 

Congratulations to Peak Activities' senior director Tony Kendall for his recently being awarded the prestigious "SILVER ACORN" Medal by the Chief Scout. Tony received his medal at a ceremony at Windor Castle's

St. George's Chapel. The Silver Acorn is the second highest honour awarded by the scout movement.

This is a further international award in addition to Tony's existing "MEDAL OF MERIT" and is a very well deserved accolade for all the work Tony has put in over the years to boost safety for Scouts and others using the outdoors for personal development and education. Here Tony (left) wearing his Yellow Medal Ribbon is being congratulated by his District Commisioner on his return to his own scout troop in inner city Leicester.

 

 

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NEWS

 

ACCOMMODATION NEWS

 

 

BELOW IS NEWS OF A GREAT PLACE TO STAY WHILST YOU'RE OUT WITH US !

 

 

LUXURY FOUR STAR HOTEL AVAILABLE

TO GROUP CLIENTS AT REDUCED RATES

Marriott Pool

After a £4 million modernisation, rebuilding and refurbishment project, the former 
Swallow Hotel just across the hill on the edge of Sheffield is now owned by
Whitbread and is trading as as a Marriott Hotel. This is proving very popular with 
our customers running training courses with us... and to add to their delight 
we've recently managed to negotiate some very attractive exclusive deals for 
groups staying there as part of packages organised by Peak Activities Ltd. 
Click here to see more photos and for further information.

TXU's Andrew Oldham from West Burton  (pictured back row second from left
on image taken above at Ipswich Town FC) recently stayed here on a training 
event we organised for his own team of management accountants and they
were delighted with the new facilities at the Marriott.

We've inspected this new hotel in great detail and the overwhelming impression
we have is that whilst the Swallow was excellent, the Marriott hotel is even better yet !
It is anticipated we'll be seeing many groups staying there over the next few months.
There are some great deals to be had there at present through our Seasonal Team 
Build Packages.  These deals are for people booking through us rather than their 
own agencies.

Call Iain on 07771-855105 for more details.

Marriott Dining Room

Just imagine ! You can now enjoy muddy caving
with us and be back in your executive suite at the 
Marriott Hotel within 15 mins. of  leaving Rock Lea 
in one of our minibuses.  You can combine "roughing 
it" with being smooth and sophisticated !

The Marriott Hotel. ).....

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The activities we are offering groups over the coming  months include : -

Treasure Hunts ; Caving & Mine Exploration, Cycling, Abseiling,
Gliding, Centre Based Problem Solving Tasks, High Ropes Course

Team Challenges ; Helicopter Flying ; Led-walks

Sailing, Rock Climbing Windsurfing, Canoeing and Rafting

and lots more !

 

Nearly all our usual activities for groups are now

possible once more and can still be booked with

Peak Activities with 100% certainty in spite of

the current foot & mouth problems elsewhere...

 

 

 

PLEASE PHONE US ON 01433-650345 OR 0771-855105 IF YOU WANT

TO BOOK SOMETHING FOR A GROUP AND IF YOU WANT TO TALK

THROUGH WHAT WOULD BE BEST FOR YOUR PARTY'S MOOD,

BUDGET, FITNESSES AND PREFERENCES.


 

 

 

 

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Rock Lea, Station Road, Hathersage, Hope Valley,

Peak District National Park, Derbyshire, United Kingdom, S32 1DD.

 

Tel. 07771-855105

Fax. 01433-650342

 

 

This is one of numerous pages on our websites http://www.iain.co.uk

& http://www.peakactivities.co.uk & www.peakactivities.com