Media Coverage
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The importance of family wellbeing to society In his speech to the Family Holiday Association's Patrons' Dinner, Mr Justice Coleridge said: 'I am drawing attention to the endless game of "musical relationships", or "pass the partner", in which such a significant portion of the population is engaged.
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Speakers from across Europe promote social tourism in Scottish Parliament With a quarter of a million families in Scotland wanting but unable to afford a break away from home the issue of social tourism took centre stage in Edinburgh on Wednesday 25 March.
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Community Channel documentary highlights work of the Family Holiday Association The use of of audio, video, photography and the web by the charity is showcased by a new documentary produced and aired by the Community Channel, a cable and satellite channel specifically aimed at the charity sector.
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and you can listen in. On Monday morning 29 September, Richard Reynolds (pictured left), of BBC Radio York, broadcast the views of a local York family on their one week break at the seaside. Richard then spoke to John McDonald, Director of the Family Holiday Association.
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A selection of media coverage following Patrick's death in January 2008 Patrick's death was covered in a number of newspapers both national and local. His death also resulted in an Early Day Motion in Parliament. Here you can see his obituaries in the The Times and The Guardian and read the EDM signed by 43 MPs.
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A first for the charity as a family's holiday is featured on the popular website Watch and listen as a family's holiday is featured on the Guardian's website with an audio slide show.
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Libby Purves writes a very moving article in The Times Family holidays are indispensable. They are the stuff of life, they should go on as long as possible, and their blemishes do not matter.
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Jenni Murray interviews a Rotherham mum Listen to an interview with Kim Keeling a mum whose family is due to go on a Family Holiday Association funded holiday this summer and to hear Jenni Murray lead the discussion that followed.
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Libby Purves write in The Times Disadvantaged families need the fun of a week away as much as help to buy a washing machine
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Liza Ramrayka writes in The Guardian Britain lags behind mainland Europe in helping families on low incomes to afford holidays, new research released today shows.
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Alison Rice visits a family enjoying a break in a caravan in Skegness There's an art to skipping along a beach holding an ice cream. Seven-year-old Frances Creamer tackles it with aplomb. And she can skip along the shore without falling in the sea. But then, as her mother Sarah points out, she's been skipping all week.
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Liza Ramrayka writes on the charity's latest research paper The Society section in the Guardian newspaper carried a report on research the Family Holiday Association commissioned from the Policy Research Bureau
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