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Camps International
Camps International Ltd is an international Volunteering, volunteer travel operator headquartered in Ringwood, Hampshire, Ringwood, Hampshire UK, Dubai, UAE anAustralia Camps International build permanent volunteer accommodation camps within Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Borneo, Cambodia, Ecuador and Peru. Its products include adventure expeditions, educational school expeditions for UK, UAE and Australian school groups. Camps International was founded in 2002 by Stuart Rees Jones, selling volunteer expeditions to Diani, Kenya, for volunteers to participate in projects related to the local schools. In 2003, Stuart Rees Jones and Simon Englefield set up Camp Kenya Limited, as a branch of Camps International, to help manage the projects based in Diani. Camp Kenya offices are located on Diani Beach. The Camp Kenya headquarters are led by director Simon Englefield. In 2010 they were featured in The Telegraph Gap Year 100 Company Directory. Camps International now employ over 150 local peop ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ringwood, Hampshire
Ringwood is a market town in south-west Hampshire, England, located on the River Avon, close to the New Forest, northeast of Bournemouth and southwest of Southampton. It was founded by the Anglo-Saxons, and has held a weekly market since the Middle Ages. History Ringwood is recorded in a charter of 961, in which King Edgar gave 22 hides of land in ''Rimecuda'' to Abingdon Abbey. The name is also recorded in the 10th century as ''Runcwuda'' and ''Rimucwuda''. The second element ''Wuda'' means a 'wood'; ''Rimuc'' may be derived from ''Rima'' meaning 'border, hence "border wood." The name may refer to Ringwood's position on the fringe of the New Forest, or on the border of Hampshire. William Camden in 1607 gave a much more fanciful derivation, claiming that the original name was Regne-wood, the ''Regni'' being an ancient people of Britain. In the ''Domesday Book'' of 1086, Ringwood (''Rincvede'') had been appropriated by the Crown and all but six hides taken into the New ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
