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At the Family Festival we where asked if you could buy The Quotes music, the band advise me that you can find their music on iTunes or through myspace www.myspace.com/thequotes

Steve is best known for being a keen member of Longridge Canoe Club.  However when paddling allows, Steve Backshall is also the naturalist who reaches parts of the world others just can’t reach. He’s travelled to over 100 countries around the world making first ascents of remote jungle mountains or descending into hidden sinkholes in search of new species, climbing the world’s highest peaks or completing some of the world’s most demanding endurance races. Steve has continued to push back the boundaries of exploration whilst capturing it all on camera or in words.

His BBC natural history series ‘Deadly 60’ is being shown around the world, and is about to enter its third series. Whilst making the series, he has danced with thresher, tiger, bull and white sharks, come into contact with rattlesnakes, king cobras, mambas and giant pythons, and discovered such oddities as ghost bats, mantis shrimps, alligator snapping turtles and Humboldt Squid. In 2009, the series was nominated for two BAFTAS; best children’s presenter and best children’s factual series.

We are delighted that Steve will opening this event and our amazing Training Centre and hope you will join us on Monday to make the day even more wonderful.

You can buy tickets for both the music afternoon and activities here by following this link.

Please put the date in your diary and come along, we are really hoping to raise enough money from this event to complete our Training Centre and won't do that without your help.

If you have suggestions on bands, entertainments, can donate an auction prize, can help on the day or have a suggestion for a stall or entertainment then please contact our Operations Director, Jim Hughes - jim.hughes@longridge-uk.org

If you think your business would like to sponsor this (or another event) or would like to chat about Longridge's future development and fundraising plans and how you can support our efforts to expand and develop the centre so that we can truly provide inspirational opportunities to all young people, then contact our Center Director, Amanda Foister, amanda.foister@longridge-uk.org

Longridge is your resource, it exists to serve it's community and we can't do that without our communities support, so please help either by visiting the centre, attending our events, donating your money or by giving us some of your time.

See you soon.

Our thanks to all those very lovely pirates at 'fst The Group' for organising the day and for all those that supported it.  It all edges us even closer to achieving our 13m Team Swing - we now have £13,000 towards it, so only £12,000 to go.  We hope to be involved again next year and introduce some suitably pirate activities for all ages here too!

To see what it was like follow this link to the Maidenhead Advertiser's video site:

http://www.maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk/news/article-11346-video-a-pirate-s-life-for-me/

Friday 29^th May has been designated Marlow Pirate Day 2009 in an effort to raise funds to pay for a new 13m Team Swing at Longridge Outdoor Activity Centre, which for the past 50 years has provided a range of water sports and land based activities for young people of all abilities.

The High Street will be awash with a motley crew of fearsome swashbuckling sea dogs sporting an assortment of bandanas, gold ear-rings, eye patches, baggy trousers and maybe even the odd parrot and wooden leg.

The Ship in West Street will be holding an All-Day Pirate Party where grog can be washed down with special-recipe “pirate burgers”, the profits from entry will go to the centre. 

Teams from Longridge will be out in force all day collecting money and with many local stores and businesses taking part it promises to be a fun-packed day.

“We are very grateful that so many local businesses and offices have entered into the spirit of the occasion by agreeing to dress up as pirates, all in the name of charity.” (Amanda Foister, Longridge Activity Centre)

This is a family festival, offering opportunities to try out all our activities either free or for a nominal charge. Kayaking, canoeing, bell boating, dragon boating, rowing, leap of faith, climbing will all be on offer.

You will be able to book your choice of activities on arrival at Longridge. We will also have a range of refreshments, craft stalls and a bar.  Doors open at 11am and the day’s activities will finish at 6pm.

To find out more about the event contact our Events Manager, Sarah Folley on sarah.folley@longridge-uk.org