OK so the kids are off and we need to find things to do pronto. Fortunately we live in London and one glance at LondonKidz web site will show how lucky we are. Where else can our kids learn film making or be trained in a musical Grease, try multi-sports, even try to find those real dark knights and we have put together a listings page of many other worthy events . It is truly fantastic the variety and I am going to make sure my kids take advantage of it as soon as we are back from the traditional British sea-side holiday on the Isle of Wight (break out the waterproofs) where we intend to find dinosaur bones (I have promised we will). Our next newsletter is going out on Saturday 26th July so please sign up if you haven't already and we will literally keep you posted.
Thursday, 24 July 2008
Saturday, 5 July 2008
London Mini Games need to sack the PR company
London Mini Games sounds like a first rate idea. An Olympic type competition amongst London's children to encourage and publicise sport in the capital. Not to mention promoting both the immediate participation of our finest in China and the not so immediate but hugely important 2012 games in our own fair city. But who knows anything about it? Maybe my own nearest boroughs Islington and City of London just didn't get it.
Or maybe the organising body was short of a promotional budget. We featured it on LondonKidz and link to the official web site but that's where the trail goes cold. The site then tells you to link to local government sites and the nearest I got to London Youth Games activities on Islington and CoL websites were stories about the tragic knife murder of a teenager and what the Youth Offending Team is up to in COL. Although why they have a team to go around offending Youths is beyond me although can see it being popular with the residents at the Barbican.
Anyway it just seems to me that we are strong on great ideas in London and poor on execution. My eldest millstone did take part in the "mini swimming" he is 10 and his school got a fax asking him to report to get on a coach three days later at 0730 in the morning. He broke down under interrogation the evening after the event and said he'd been somewhere in Kent and had really enjoyed it.
Or maybe the organising body was short of a promotional budget. We featured it on LondonKidz and link to the official web site but that's where the trail goes cold. The site then tells you to link to local government sites and the nearest I got to London Youth Games activities on Islington and CoL websites were stories about the tragic knife murder of a teenager and what the Youth Offending Team is up to in COL. Although why they have a team to go around offending Youths is beyond me although can see it being popular with the residents at the Barbican.
Anyway it just seems to me that we are strong on great ideas in London and poor on execution. My eldest millstone did take part in the "mini swimming" he is 10 and his school got a fax asking him to report to get on a coach three days later at 0730 in the morning. He broke down under interrogation the evening after the event and said he'd been somewhere in Kent and had really enjoyed it.
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