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OUR
HISTORY... |
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1996 |
In
January Richard runs the first Cross Keys Activities for 12
children and 5 staff |
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1997 |
Cross
Keys runs during every school holiday and numbers are rising |
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1998 |
Cross
Keys takes over Mini Minors, a local day camp with a similar
philosophy. Richard's brother Lawrence joins as a Director |
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1999 |
Cross
Keys and Mini Minors run in tandem. The press become interested
in Richard's exciting approach to camps. The brothers take
over Experience UK (XUK), the provider of a day and residential
camp |
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2000 |
All
three camps now share a staff uniform and an integrated office
system |
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2001 |
Record
numbers mean that some weeks are sold out months in advance |
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2002 |
Launch
of Mini Minors Swimming; Our website selected as one of UK's
top children's sites |
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2003 |
Summer
camps extended to a five-week stretch; Launch of our Birthday
Parties service |
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2006 |
We appear
in the Sunday Times as one of the top 10 camps in Britain! |
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2007 |
Launch
of our new overnight XUK London Trip. Huge investment in adventure
activity equipment |
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2008 |
Received
an 'outstanding' grade from OFSTED at our residential camp,
XUK |
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2009 |
Richard
attends a conference and award ceremony to congratulate XUK
on our outstanding OFSTED inspection |
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2009 |
Richard
marries Emma on May 17th |
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2009 |
Our
camps push ahead with technology by adding facebook &
twitter pages as well as a blog site. |
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2009 |
Received
an 'outstanding' grade from OFSTED at our day camp, Mini
Minors. |
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2010 |
Increased
capacity at XUK and introduced the new 'XUK day camp' for
7-13s at Brooklands |
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2010 |
Charlotte
Bernstein is born on 24th March, Emma and Richard's first
child |
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2010 |
Our
first XUK video released. Amazing XUK footage shown on this
page |
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2011 |
Introduced
XUK English, our new summer language school. Also, for the
first year, running a 6-week residential camp |
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2011 |
XUK
runs for 6 weeks for the first time |
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2011 |
Our
first XUK English video released. See all about XUK English
on this
page |
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