After 7 Summers of working at the camps, Sonia starts working Full Time in the office
The History of XUK Holiday Camps
Esatblished in 1996, Richard and his team have been running quality day and residential camps for nearly 30 years! Scroll below for the history archives to see what has happened in the years gone by…
Our History
2023
2022
XUK Residential camps all move to Dauntsey’s School in Wiltshire
2020/21
Covid-19 strikes! For the first time in over 20 years XUK are unable to run the residential camps!
2018
XUK Activity moves to Abberley Hall School.
2016
XUK Excel is launched. XKeys Ltd is now running 3 residential camps
2015
Mini Minors received another ‘outstanding’ grade from OFSTED
2011
Our first XUK English video released.
2011
XUK runs for 6 weeks for the first time
2011
Introduced XUK English, our new summer language school. Also, for the first year, running a 6-week residential camp
2010
Our first XUK video released.
2010
Increased capacity at XUK and introduced the new ‘XUK day camp’ for 7-13s at Brooklands
2009
Received an ‘outstanding’ grade from OFSTED at our day camp, Mini Minors.
2009
Our camps push ahead with technology by adding facebook & twitter pages as well as a blog site.
2009
Richard marries Emma on May 17th
2009
Richard attends a conference and award ceremony to congratulate XUK on our outstanding OFSTED inspection
2008
Received an ‘outstanding’ grade from OFSTED at our residential camp, XUK
2007
Launch of our new overnight XUK London Trip. Huge investment in adventure activity equipment
2006
We appear in the Sunday Times as one of the top 10 camps in Britain!
2003
Summer camps extended to a five-week stretch; Launch of our Birthday Parties service
2002
Launch of Mini Minors Swimming; Our website selected as one of UK’s top children’s sites
2001
Record numbers mean that some weeks are sold out months in advance
2000
All three camps now share a staff uniform and an integrated office system
1999
Cross Keys and Mini Minors run in tandem. The press become interested in Richard’s exciting approach to camps.
The brothers take over Experience UK (XUK), the provider of a day and residential camp
1998
Cross Keys takes over Mini Minors, a local day camp with a similar philosophy. Richard’s brother Lawrence joins as a Director
1997
Cross Keys runs during every school holiday and numbers are rising
1996
In January Richard runs the first Cross Keys Activities for 12 children and 5 staff
