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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 |
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. This is held at Brookland School in North london |
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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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