Holidays and days out

Jackie

This is Jackie. Jackie lives at a Voyage service in Maidenhead and she recently went on a very special holiday, a weekend of Strictly Come Dancing, held in Berkshire. Read on to hear Jackie's exciting report.

Keith

Keith lives at a Voyage service in Baskingstoke. Back in June Keith decided that to fulfil his 'first time' achievement, he would ride a steam train. Read on to hear an account of Keith's exciting day.

Paul

This is Paul. Paul lives at a Voyage service in Berkshire and would like to share with you a report on his day trip to Loddon Brewery, which he visited earlier this year.

Harriet

Harriet, who lives in one of Voyage's services in Devon, went on holiday in February to Disneyland, Paris. Harriet had a fantastic holiday and would like to tell you all about it.

Mark

Meet Mark. He lives in a Voyage service in Basingstoke. One of Mark's personal goals in life was to take a day trip to London, which he managed to achieve in March of this year.

John

Voyage southern division are currently running the initiative of 'For the first time...' which encourages our services users to achieve things that they have never done before, and also hep them to overcome their fears and axieties in the process. John, who lives in one of our Birmingham services, would like to tell you about how he achieved his ambition of going on a journey by rail for the first time.

Eve

Eve, who has also been taking part in the 'For the first time...' initiative, would like to share with you her achievement of visiting a theme park for the first time. She even went on some of the rides!

Cyril

Cyril, who resides at a Voyage service in Wolverhampton, would like to share with you his experience of going in a cable car for the very first time. Cyril is extremely proud of this achievement, and quite rightly too considering he is scared of heights!

Philip

This is Philip. He was the first service user to move in to Voyage's new service in Bloxwich. The staff took Philip and his friend Natasha bowling, which they found very exciting and would now like to tell you about their night.

Jon

Jon moved into one of our services in the South West in September 2006. Jon has written to us to tell us how he is settling in. Read John's letter...

Danny

Danny, introduced below, would like to share with you a report on his trip to Stirling Castle.

Adrian

Adrian, a regular contributor to our monthly Kite newsletter, would like to share with you his exciting speed dating experience. Read on to find out how he got on at the event.

Simon

Simon, who resides at one of our sevices in the West Midlands, has also been taking part in the 'For the first time...' initiative. Back in October, Simon went to see a Royal Navy Coastguard helicopter for the first time and would like to share his experience with you.