Camp Quality UK Recruits England International Rugby Player

It was announced today that England and Gloucester Rugby's George Chuter has become an ambassador of Camp Quality UK, the children's cancer charity.

This follows the recent announcement of another England rugby player, Russell Earnshaw, also becoming an ambassador for the charity.

Chuter played in all seven of England’s Rugby World Cup 2007 matches, starting the pool matches against Samoa and Tonga and coming on as a replacement for Mark Regan in five others.

Chuter, who now plays for Leicester Tigers, was excited by the move, saying: "I'm delighted to strengthen the charity's links with the sporting community by becoming an ambassador for Camp Quality UK. I look forward to spreading the word about the fantastic work that the charity does and others will also support the charity in any way they can."

Marc Lawn, Chairman of Camp Quality, said: "We are delighted to welcome George as an ambassador for the charity and are honoured by his support. By expanding the charity's link with the sporting community in the UK, we hope to continue to grow in size and benefit of those families and children who need our help most."

Roger Durrans and friends continue to support Camp Quality UK

We have recently received yet another donation from Roger Durrans, his friends and business partners, to assist us to continue providing holidays. This is further to Le Premier Tree Viewing event in December 2007. The tree viewing event hosted by Romy Liversidge and Roger Durrans proved to be a great success raising £700 for Camp Quality UK.

What started out as a simple Christmas party proved to be so popular that they decided to use the opportunity to present Camp Quality UK to their guests. They would like to thank all of their friends who helped out on the night as well as their guests for their generosity and donations to Camp Quality UK.

Camp Quality UK also would like to thank the aforementioned friends and family for all their time, effort and generosity!

Announcing a new weekend camp for October 2008!

Centre Parcs Sherwood Forest, Nottingham

24th - 27th October 2008

12-15 year olds

Centre Parcs is going to play host to the 2nd weekend camp this year! It is going to be a weekend of fun, laughter and adventure. A chance for the young people to make friends and create memories. Albeit a short space of time, we hope that the young people's confidence will grow, they will gain some valuble peer skills and just be free to be them!

If you are a parent of a child who would like to come on one of our holidays, please apply here!

Camp Quality UK Recruits England International Rugby Player

Camp Quality UK has struck gold by signing Ex-England international rugby player Russell Earnshaw as one of the charity's ambassadors.

Earnshaw, who has had a successful top flight and international rugby career with Bath, Worcester and Rotherham - as well as representing England at 7's - will become a face of the charity and much needed sporting link for the charity.

Earnshaw also confirmed that he has donated a prize of him coaching a rugby team for a day for charity. The prize will be auctioned off at a prestigious event in London during December.

Earnshaw, who now coaches the Birmingham and Solihull Bees, and the England 7's side, was excited by the move, saying: “Camp Quality provides excellent support for children with life threatening illnesses. They do some amazing work and provide some extremely valuable support for children with terminal illnesses and the family and friends affected by these illnesses. I am delighted to become apart of this and am looking forward to helping them raise their profile over the coming years.”

Marc Lawn, Chairman of Camp Quality, was elated by the move, saying: “Russell is a consummate professional who is an inspiration to many people. It is a real honour having him on board. I am sure with his support we will be able to drive against our vision of expanding the reach of Camp Quality in the UK, benefiting those families and children who need our help most.”

Camp Quality UK loses a friend

It is with sadness that we announce that former Chair for Camp Quality UK, Gwyn Rowe, collapsed on Tuesday 26 August 2008 and passed away soon afterwards.

Gwyn, alongside Marianne, dedicated countless amounts of his time and energy to Camp Quality UK over many many years, bringing the charity through to the 21st century. Gwyn's legacy lives on through all the children with cancer who have in the past, and will in future, enjoy a holiday of a lifetime at our camps.

Gwyn's funeral will take place at Sutton Church on Saturday September 6th at 11.00 a.m. At the request of the family, any donations received, in lieu of flowers, are to go towards the International Youth Forum (IYF) fund.

Our thoughts are with Marianne and their two sons, Wayne and Andrew, at this sad and difficult time.

Shenanigans in Chamonix

So Chamonix was an amazing week, but definitely one of those 'holidays' where you need a holiday to recover from the previous one!

One of the things that Camp Quality UK is trying to do is to make more use of Social Media and Web 2.0 (this blog being one example) and it just so happened that the fact that one of the young people was an aspiring film maker really helped!

So Murray (or Mr. Spielberg as we affectionately took to calling him) has produced this rather stunning documentary. At 14 years old he's certainly in the running for the youngest ever film director to win an Oscar!

The documentary runs to about 35 minutes in 4 parts, so enjoy watching it and joining in the fun. If you fancy donating to the charity so that we can take more young people with cancer away on these amazing holidays, then you can do so here.

Chamonix 2008 - Part 1/4




Chamonix 2008 - Part 2/4




Chamonix 2008 - Part 3/4




Chamonix 2008 - Part 4/4

Companion Alex raises money for Camp Quality UK!

Experienced companion, Alex Cornish, is embarking on a phenomenal challenge to raise money for Camp Quality UK's future holidays.

Alex, a fourth year medical student at the Hull-York Medical School, will be not only running a marathon, but will be doing it up a mountain, in the OMM Mountain Challenge!

Following all the cakes and sweets at our New Barn camp, Alex has started training in ernest.

We would like to thank Alex for all the effort and training he'll be putting in over the next few months. If you'd like to support Alex, please visit his JustGiving page.