Great news – introducing our new partner – Coquet Cottages!

 

We’re thrilled to begin partnering with Coquet Cottages, a Northumberland-based holiday property agency with over 160 holiday homes on their books. Their strap line is ‘Escape the Ordinary’ and for starters we’ve been offered Fern House near Warkworth and Apple Tree Barn near Alnwick. Big thank you to the owner, Lisa! We know our guests will thoroughly appreciate a week’s escape in your two extraordinarily beautiful cottages.

The Principle Trust – Thank you!

Massive thanks to The Principle Trust, another Yorkshire charity, for making their caravan at Blackpool’s Haven Holiday Park available to a lovely family referred to us here at A Bit of a Break! This family desperately needed a break in the school-holidays as time for them is limited. Such amazing generosity showing two charities working together to create a much-appreciated holiday for a family in real need. The sum of the parts is greater than the whole!

Thank you again Principle Trust.  

Property appeal – please can you help?

 

We currently have a waiting list of people who would really appreciate a break away.  One size doesn’t fit all. Be it an apartment, a lodge/caravan, a cottage, or a town house, they’re all appreciated. If you’re lucky enough to own a holiday home and could gift a week to a family living with terminal illness, the benefits are enormous. Thank you. Please read more about how our scheme works on www.abitofabreak.com or contact properties@abitofabreak.com 

 

 

Summer has arrived!

Please click on the link below to read about all that is happening at A Bit of a Break in our summer newsletter.

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Laura’s Bit of a Break

 

 

 

 

Everything came together so well for 29-year-old Laura and her family to enjoy their precious holiday in the Lake District, arranged by the holiday property agency, Heart of the Lakes! Here she is enjoying great scenery, good weather with her loved ones – baby daughter, her husband, and her parents. Here’s what she told us: 

‘We really enjoyed our week away in the Lake District. It was just what we all needed. The location of the cottage was amazing, and you could see Lake Windermere from the terrace. We had the best time here making memories and can’t thank you all enough. It was a break we all needed’ 

Read all about it!

We are very pleased to have been featured in the March edition of Carers’ Resource Newsletter.  We would not be here without the support that we have had from Carers’ Resource and from Chris Wiley in particular.  We continue to work together and to arrange breaks for clients that they refer to us.  Click on the link below to see the article.

Carers Resource Newsletter

Raising funds – #projectlighthouse

Matthew and the Project Lighthouse team are continuing their journey around the coast ticking off lighthouses and raising funds for ABOAB.  They are amazing and we are very grateful.

Here is the 83rd lighthouse that they have visited – Tyne South Pier Lighthouse.  Visit www.projectlighthouse.blog to follow their progress and please donate to support the riders and to fund the breaks away for people living with terminal illness.

 

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year to all our guests, supporters, referrers and property owners!

We send our very best wishes for 2022.

The ABOAB Team x

Season’s greetings!

Autumn 2021 Newsletter

Hot off the press… please click the link below to see our latest newsletter.

 

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