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Family Holiday Association.

This page will be updated with news of your support for the Family Holiday Association throughout 2008

2006 First Choice Sailing Regatta Video

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Latest News - 5 June 2006

First Choice
Airways passengers and cabin crew provide a further £20k!

First Choice Airways cabin crew and passengers have long supported the Family Holiday Association and earlier this week Chris Browne, Managing Director of the airline, together with Jason Martins, cabin crew manager, handed over yet another cheque this time for £20,000 to John McDonald, the charity's director. 

The FHA would like to thank First Choice on behalf of the thousands of children and parents who have been helped enjoy a holiday because of the generosity of their passengers and hard work of their staff.

  Latest News - May 2006

First Choice gives £10,000 to the FHA

Peter Long, CEO of First Choice, produced a cheque for £10,000 at a recent function where the Family Holiday Association was the benefiting charity.  The dinner at the Savoy was the annual Hall of Fame dinner which normally raises in excess of £10,000 for charity.  The First Choice cheque was in addition to the donations being collected from the diners. 

John McDonald, Director of the Family Holiday Association, said "First Choice has been an excellent supporter of the charity for many years.  I was delighted to accept the £10,000 corporate cheque but Peter also presented the charity with a personal cheque for £1,000 - providing a total of £11,000 which will be going towards a specific project in the east end of London that will help help disadvantaged children and their families access holidays in conjunction with the children's primary school."

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Peter Long visited the school in July and met with head teacher Karen Glenister and talked with a number of her pupils.  Peter was very impressed with the work being done at the school in one of London's poorer areas but was shocked to learn that some pupils had never left the borough and never seen the river Thames far less been able to enjoy a holiday away from home.  "This holiday project can only produce benefits for the children, their parents and the school" said Peter.

 

 

First Choice runners gear up for London Marathon  
 

On Tuesday 4th April, four of the First Choice runners, Marc, Mark, Robert and

Paul, did a 'fun run' around the local industrial area in Crawley raising a little

over £170 for the FHA in just one hour.  The First Choice Team of 18 runners consists of 14 working in the Crawley and Gatwick area, 2 based at our offices in Port Solent, 1 based in Manchester and 1 in France.

 

In return for receiving a Golden Bond place, each team member must raise a minimum of £1000 for the FHA. Anyone wishing to sponsor the team can do so

by going to: www.justgiving.com/firstchoice or posting it to First Choice House, London Road, Crawley, RH19 9GX for the attention of Stella Downey - any cheques made payable to the Family Holiday Association please.

 

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First Choice Sailing Regatta raises £11,000!

Twenty one teams from throughout the travel industry took part in the First Choice sailing regatta this week and raised over £11,000 for the work of the Family Holiday Association.  Two days sailing in the Solent was enjoyed by everyone and despite the calm sea and lack of strong winds every race was exciting.

Nigel Jenkins, MD of First Choice's Sunsail, thanked everyone for taking part and hoped to see all the teams back to next year's event.

Base poster and cabin crew leaflet now available

Please feel free to download and print a copy of the new poster and leaflet. 

Click here to download Poster and Leaflet.

Hard copies are also available by contacting info@fhaonline.org.uk

Click on the image or links above to open the document online or right click and select "Save As" to save the document locally. To read pdf (portable document file) files you will need to have Acrobat Reader.  This is easy and safe to install.

Just click here and follow the instructions.
 

First Choice staff hand over a cheque for £25,600 to FHA Director, John McDonald, as a result of their in-flight collections over the summer of 2004.  Friday 11 March 2005

Over the past few years you have raised in excess of £300,000 and helped over 3,000 children and their families get a much needed break.  The collections you make on all your in-bound flights make a real difference to families for whom even a day at the sea side is beyond their means.

NEW IN-FLIGHT COLLECTION BAGS FOR 2005
All cabin crew have been provided with specially produced plastic coin-collecting bags.  The bag will ease the coin collection and the depositing of collections at your base. 

Please remember that 50p in every pound collected will help a disadvantaged family take a holiday.  The remaining 50p is given for your local base charity.  Gatwick are currently collecting for Breast Cancer Campaign in addition to the FHA.

Contact info@fhaonline.org.uk if your base requires further supplies of the collection bags.