Day Camps – Holiday Activities for Children (8 to 16 years)
Based at the Downe Activity Centre near Biggin Hill, Day Camps provides local kids with an amazing variety of exciting outdoor sports and activities including high ropes, den building, archery, craft, crate climbing, zip wires, push ball, rock climbing and grass sledging to name just a few.
Camp is open during Easter, June Half Term and Summer holidays. Our FlexiCamp allows parents to use Day Camps on a daily basis, whilst our Extended Day facility provides additional childcare between 8am and 6pm daily. We even have a network of local buses bringing kids to the centre daily (Summer Camp only).
Our prices are as follows:
FlexiCamp (6th – 16th April, 1st to 4th June, 23rd to 27th Aug) – £25/£30*
Summer Camp (26th July – 20th Aug) – £130
Watersports Camp (26th July – 20th Aug) – £180
Riding Camp (26th July – 20th Aug) – £180
Transport Service – £30 per week**
Extended Day – £30 per week**
* Discount price of £25 per day when booked in advance
** Transport/Extended Day free with bookings made before 4th June 2010.
To book, call us today on 01959 542642 or email us at daycamps@live.co.uk Further information and our brochure download can be found on our website at www.daycamps.org.uk
Many thanks,
Miles
With the exception of last summer, Zippo’s Circus has come to Sidcup every year since 1994. It’s a great favourite with audiences, and is welcomed and supported by the local public. The Circus will perform at Sidcup Place from May 6th to 11th.
One of the most popular features of the circus is its animal performers. They include horses, ponies, and budgies — extremely domestic and extremely uncontroversial participants.
Like all traditional circuses, Zippo’s advertises by placing posters in the windows of local shops, where shop-owners give their permission. An animal rights group is proudly boasting on its website that its activists have misled shopkeepers in Sidcup into removing these posters. They reveal their method; they state that shops were ‘visited by “a guy from the circus” who informed them that sadly the shows had to be postponed so the posters were now out of date and new ones would be delivered soon’.
While the activists are obviously lying to the shopkeepers, there’s no attempt at pretence on their website about what they’re up to. The use of the highlighted phrase ‘a guy from the circus’ is a clear admission of a very crude subterfuge. Whatever the activists’ agenda may be, it doesn’t include being truthful.
Zippo’s Circus follows a strict ethical code in caring for its animals. They are kept, trained, and transported in line with a code developed in cooperation with the respected charity World Horse Welfare (formerly the International League for the Protection of Horses). The circus’s state-of-the-art portable stabling was designed and built after positive discussions with the Born Free organisation. The circus is regularly inspected by specialist veterinarians; some of their comments can be read on Zippo’s website at http://www.zipposcircus.co.uk/ecode.html
Zippo’s Circus informs local people in Sidcup and in Bexley that it has not been and will not be cancelled or postponed; and that the claims made by the activist fanatics are clearly and certifiably untrue.
Tickets for the circus can be bought via www.zippos.co.uk , by ringing 0871 210 2100, or at the ticket office on site from 10am to 8pm each day from Wednesday 5th May.
I can provide images and further information.
Kind regards.
Chris
