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Our long serving members will know that A.C.T has a holiday caravan at Dawlish Warren in beautiful sunny Devon by the sea. However, these notes are primarily to advise new members of its existence. The caravan is available for all A.C.T members to hire at very advantageous rates. The caravan is situated only 3 minutes from the nearest doctor’s surgery possibly no other practice has seen so many children with trachy’s. The beach is only 10 minutes walk from the caravan.

The caravan is on the Welcome Holiday Park. The site has excellent facilities including a great clubhouse a cocktail lounge and a cafe’. There is a smashing indoor swimming complex for all the family to enjoy. You will need to buy a weekly pass from the reception to use these facilities, but it’s money well spent especially from next season as you will be able to buy a combined clubhouse and pool ticket for £4 (adults) and £3 (child) There are local shops and Gerald’s supermarket, just 2 to3 minutes walk from the caravan with a wider selection a few minutes drive away in Dawlish town centre . If you’ve no car don’t worry there are frequent buses to Dawlish, Exeter and Torquay.

The caravan has a radiator in each room except the WC; the lounge has a coal effect fire. The caravan is connected to mains services for electricity, water & sewage etc. It is fully equipped with all the usual accessories, pots, pans, crockery cutlery, a fridge/freezer a full size cooker and a microwave plus a Colour TV with, Video & DVD and Stereo Sound System, and all included in your booking fee.

There are 3 bedrooms, which sleep 6 people and there is a fold-away bed in the lounge. Please confirm with ME when booking if there is more than 6 in your party; a list will be provided of the bedding and towels etc that you should take with you when you book. Bedding not supplied by ACT may be hired from the site if you don’t want to take your own bedding. A ramp has been installed for those with wheelchairs and pushchairs but I must stress that the door openings are not wide enough for a full sized wheelchair.

NEW MEMBERS. If you fancy a week at the caravan during the summer you must ring me during the first week in January, leave it any later and you may be out of luck. Please note! bookings will not be taken before the official start date of 5th.January 2009. During the summer high season, we generally give priority to those families whose child still has a `trachy` in situ, over those whose child has been decannulated. Nevertheless, there are a lot of children out there with a `trachy`, so its first come first served. During the high season you can only have one week due to demand, all bookings are as follows: ARRIVE SATURDAY AT 2PM leave the following SATURDAY AT 10AM.

There are occasions when I have late cancellations, so I am happy to keep peoples details on my back up list. I sometimes get left with some vacancies for late April and early May also September and the beginning of October, not a good time for school age children, but I can assure you Devon can be particularly pleasant for a break in the early spring.

Mary Pearson
Chairperson and ACT Caravan Co-ordinator

FOR BOOKINGS PLEASE TELELPHONE
01245 351702

CARAVAN HOLIDAY BOOKINGS DETAILS FOR 2009

Next seasons Caravan bookings can be made from 5th January 2009. Please remember that all school holiday weeks are reserved for children who have an existing tracheostomy.

Regretfully I am forced to change the way in which deposit payments are to be made. In the future, your booking contract will be sent out immediately, the holding deposits together with the signed contract must now be returned within 14 days. I will telephone you to make absolutely sure you have received your contract and that none have gone astray in the post. If I do not receive your deposit and contract within the stated 14 day period, that week can then be offered to another family.

It has become necessary to do this, because some members do not send deposits back, I end up having to telephone them only to be told that they don’t want to go anymore. This is INCONSIDERATE, at the very least they should have had the decency to let me know in time to offer that week to another family.

Those of you who have visited the Caravan before will notice that from the 2008 season the cable Film Channel will no longer be available. However you will have access to the normal Channels 1 to 5 plus Sky News, Sky sport and Film 4. There is a selection of Video’s in the cupboard and I suggest you take two or three DVD’s with you. If there is anyone out there who might have some unwanted children’s DVD’s to donate to the caravan, I would be very grateful.

GOOD NEWS!
THE CLUB AND POOL TICKETS HAVE BEEN COMBINED AND THE PRICES REDUCED

Weekly passes for an Adult are now £4.00
Children’s are now £3.00
A three day weekend pass will be £2.00

CARAVAN
LETTING RATES 2009

Our tariffs have not increased since 2007 but unfortuneately due to a variety of increases in the charges that we incur in running the caravan, we have had to make some adjustments to the tariffs. WE have made evry effort to keep any increases to a minimum and feel that our prices still offer exceptional value to our members.

ACT Caravan Tariffs 2009

4th. April to 18th. April --------------------------------£150 per week
19th. April to 23rd. May-------------------------------£100 per week
24th. may to 30th. May -------------------------------£190 per week
31st. May to 13th. June ------------------------------£150 per week
14th. June to 27th. June -----------------------------£ 200 per week
28th. June to 11th. July ------------------------------ £ 250 per week
12th. July to 29th. August --------------------------- £ 300 per week
30th. August to 5th. September -------------------£ 200 per week
6th. September to 12th. September -------------£ 150 per week
13th. September to end of season ---------------£100 per week

PLEASE NOTE

Bookings are from Saturday to Saturday, commencing from 2pm. on the first day and vacating by 10am. on the final day of your holiday.

Please contact MARY PEARSON about caravan bookings and enquiries on 01245 351702 or write to 26 Pembroke Place, Chelmsford, Essex CM1 4AT

For more information about the site where the Caravan is located go to:

www.welcomefamily.co.uk