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Useful Links

The following is a list of links to sites you may find useful when planning your holiday. Please note ABTA Protection only applies to ABTA members' sites:

DOCUMENTS & HEALTH

Fit For Travel

Detailed health advice regarding specific countries provided by the NHS (Scotland).
www.fitfortravel.scot.nhs.uk

Foreign & Commonwealth Office Travel

Official Foreign Office travel advice based on up-to-the-minute information.
www.fco.gov.uk

The Aviation Health Institute

The world's first independent medical research charity that promotes the health and well-being of passengers worldwide, the site includes advice and a selection of airline accessories for healthy flying.
www.aviation-health.org

Docleaf - Crisis Management Services

Docleaf is a leader in the field of Operational Risk Management including, Crisis Management, Business Continuity Planning and Overseas Health and Safety. We offer brand protection and round the clock response services to businesses and organisations both in the UK and Worldwide.
www.docleaf.com

UK Passport Service

The United Kingdom Passport Service (UKPS) site aims to assist new applicants and existing passport holders by providing information and online facilities for all aspects of application, renewal and amendments of passports for British nationals resident in the UK.
www.ukpa.gov.uk

CURRENCY, TIME & WEATHER

Currency Converter

Find out the latest currency rates and use the online currency converter.
www.timeanddate.com

World Weather

Up-to-date five-day weather forecast.
www.weather.travel-guides.com/worldwideweather.htm

BBC Weather

Online guide to world weather.
www.bbc.co.uk/weather/world

Gatwick Hotels

Hotels around Gatwick Airport.
www.gatwick-hotels-lgw.com

GUIDEBOOKS

World Travel Guide

Comprehensive online guide to countries including information on currency, weather, visas, food and drink, shopping and more.
www.wtg-online.com

Stanfords

The UK's leading specialist retailer of maps and travel books.
www.stanfords.co.uk

Footprint Guides

80 travel guides to destinations in five continents.
www.footprintbooks.com

Lonely Planet Guides

Guidebooks, phrasebooks, maps, gifts and more.
www.lonelyplanet.com

Travelling Light

Hot weather travel clothing for men and women and travel accessories.
www.travellinglight.com

National Map Centre

Maps, atlases, globes, travel guides and more.
www.mapsnmc.co.uk

Whatsonwhen.com

Guide to festivals and events taking place around the world.
www.whatsonwhen.com

RESPONSIBLE TOURISM

Carbon Reponsible

We encourage those who travel with Cox & Kings to offset their carbon emissions via Carbon Responsible. To calculate the cost of offsetting your flight please follow the link below to the Cox & Kings scheme and use the carbon emissions calculator. Cox & Kings offsets all carbon emissions for flights taken by our staff in the course of their work.
www.carbonresponsible.com/coxandkings/

CHARITIES COX & KINGS ARE PLEASED TO SUPPORT

AFRICA

Africat Foundation, Okonjima

The Africat Foundation is a non-profit organisation founded in 1992 to promote large carnivore conservation and animal welfare. The sanctuary in Okonjima houses over 70 cheetahs, 6 lions, 5 leopards and 4 caracals. There is an on-site environmental education centre where local people are educated in environmental issues free of charge. In addition the Foundation's veterinary clinic sees between 40 and 100 carnivores per year.
www.okonjima.com

Langa Development Fund, South Africa

The Langa Development Forum in Cape Town supports a number of development projects in the Langa Township, including the Chris Hani School. We will be happy to arrange visits to township projects as part of the ‘Walk to Freedom’ day tour, available to clients staying in Cape Town.

Contact Details : Tsoga Tourism Information and Environmental Resource Centre. Telephone: +27 21 694 0004

St Emmanuel College - David Dale Shyogwe Trust, Rwanda

Cox & Kings started to operate holidays to Rwanda in 2007. With the country’s troubled history in mind, Louise Stanion, Africa Product Manager, set about finding an appropriate charity to support in Rwanda. By luck, Louise found that her old school, Talbot Heath in Bournemouth, had been linked to a Rwandan school called St Emmanuel College since 2005. The College is located in Hanika, a provincial town southeast of Rwanda’s Capital, Kigali. St Emmanuel College is a boarding school with 1,180 pupils, more than 700 of these pupils are orphans. Talbot Heath has been working to build relationships and create understanding between the teachers and young people in both schools. St Emmanuel College survives on very basic facilities, teaching materials and has only very limited IT access. It is in these areas that any contributions would be well received. The David Dale Shygowe Trust is registered charity that supports the whole of the diocese, including St Emmanuel College.

Website: www.talbotheath.org.uk - click on the tab Africa Partner School

To donate: www.justgiving.com/ddst/supportus

DEC Southern Africa Crisis Appeal

The chronic food shortages in the southern Africa region have hit crisis point. The poorest and most vulnerable, particularly women and children, have been severely affected. They have little or no food and have no seeds to plant new crops. The Disasters Emergency Committee unites 13 of Britain's leading aid agencies including Save the Children, Oxfam, and Christian Aid - appealing for cash from the public and Government to buy food and medical supplies.
www.dec.org.uk

Link Ethiopia

Link Ethiopia has been working with schools in Ethiopia for over 10 year. Their belief is that education is the best way to help people out of poverty, and to this end they support schools around the country. As well as direct fundraising, the core of their work is building relationships and creating understanding between young people by linking schools in the UK with schools in Ethiopia. Schools are encouraged to commit to a project lasting 2 or 3 years, and the projects are never one sided, with children and teachers communicating with their counterparts to learn about each other. Vital resources for schools such as clean drinking water, proper sanitation and classroom equipment are just a few of the projects being funded by UK partner schools and Link Ethiopia.
www.linkethiopia.org

Save the Rhino Trust, Namibia

In the mid 1980s the World’s last remaining population of desert-adapted rhino, located in Namibia’s remote Damaraland province was facing extinction. Rhino numbers were reduced to approximately 30 animals. Save the Rhino Trust (SRT) was set up by concerned individuals, to work with government and local leaders to preserve the future of rhino in communal lands. SRT actively conducts, promotes and supports community conservation. Benefits received through tourism go to the local population. Today, due to their emphasis on working with village elders, community conservancy members, government officials and tourist concession holders, there is greatly increased local employment and rhino numbers have increased to between 100-200 animals, the largest population of wild black rhino outside a National Park.
www.davidshepherd.org/projects_namibia_save_the_rhino/srt.shtml

INDIA

Magic Bus, Mumbai

The charity Magic Bus was set up by former Cox & Kings employee Mathew Spacie in January 1999 with the goal of giving street children an opportunity to develop through learning more about themselves and their environment. To this end the charity organises various activities including sports and outdoor recreation. The children benefit from the change of environment and the input of highly trained mentors. Magic Bus helped almost 3,500 marginalised children in 2002 and hopes to expand its programme further n the coming years.
www.magicbusindia.org

Jaisalmer in Jeopardy

Jaisalmer in Jeopardy (JiJ) is a British-registered charity, established in 1996 by writer Sue Carpenter, to raise international awareness and funds to protect and preserve the city's heritage. JiJ operates in collaboration with INTACH (Indian National Trust for Art and Cultural Heritage), the Jaisalmer Heritage Trust and World Monuments Fund, USA.
www.jaisalmer-in-jeopardy.org

Disability and Development Partners (DDP)

DDP helps disabled people - especially those who have suffered loss of limbs or use of limbs. Working with local partner organisations, DDP develops and promotes affordable and accessible rehabilitation services, using mobility aids and appliances such as the low cost Jaipur limb, which has been in use in India for over 30 years, and light weight plastic callipers for children suffering the effects of polio. Disabled people are often from the poorest section of the population and only 2% of disabled children in developing countries are in formal schooling. The charity promotes economic and social programmes and the rights of disabled people as well as raising awareness about disability, poverty and development issues and the causes and prevention of disability. DDP's new programme in rural Karnataka, South India, will help disabled and other poor children in 69 villages to receive a quality education.
www.ddpweb.org

Travel Operators for Tigers (TOFT)

Cox & Kings is delighted to be a member of the Travel Operators for Tigers (TOFT) initiative. The organisation has drawn up a code of conduct, which aims to put pressure on ground handlers, lodges and camps to act responsibly with regard to tiger conservation. In our 2005 brochure, we provide details of a £5 per person per night charge that our clients who stay in a tiger sanctuary can pay. We then forward a regular cheque to a fund jointly managed by the Global Tiger Patrol and the Environmental Investigation Agency. In addition to this, donations can be made directly.
www.toftiger.org

CHINA & THE FAR EAST

The Christina Noble Children's Foundation

The Christina Noble Children's Foundation is an International Partnership of people dedicated to serving children in need of emergency and long-term medical care, nutritional rehabilitation, educational opportunities, vocational training, job placement and the protection of children at risk of economic and sexual exploitation. The Foundation supports projects for homeless and the poorest of children in both Vietnam and Mongolia.
www.cncf.org

Animals Asia Foundation

The Animals Asia Foundation is an animal welfare charity based in Hong Kong, working in partnership with the Chinese Government to put an end to the bear farms which see over 7000 ‘Moon Bears’ incarcerated in small cages and milked daily, through open holes in their abdomen, for their bile which is used in Chinese medicine. In July 2000 Animals Asia signed a landmark agreement with the Chinese authorities to rescue 500 suffering and endangered Moon Bears from the worst bile farms in Sichuan province and work towards ending the barbaric practice of bear farming. Today, the China Bear Rescue has seen freedom for over 138 previously farmed Moon Bears at the Sanctuary in Chengdu, China, and the Sanctuary are pioneering an education programme across China to demonstrate why bear farming is cruel.
www.animalsasia.org

LATIN AMERICA

The Galapagos Conservation Trust

The Galapagos Conservation Trust (GCT) is a UK registered charity set up in 1995 to raise funds for, and awareness of, the conservation needs of the Galapagos Islands. GCT is a part of an international Friends of Galapagos network that aims to conserve the ecosystems and biological diversity of the Galapagos archipelago.
www.gct.org

The Anita Goulden Trust, Peru

The Anita Goulden Trust was set up in 1987 to administrate donations made by people inspired by Anita Goulden, who dedicated most of her life to the plight of the homeless and orphaned children of Piura, Peru. Anita Goulden fed, clothed and housed an assorted troop of abandoned children from 1958 until she died in 2001. In 1960 she founded the only free school in Piura where children receive an education along with other underprivileged children from the surrounding area. Today the charity continues to look after abandoned children.
www.anitagoulden.org

New Life Mexico

New Life Mexico (NLM) is a charity that supports children and young people in Mexico who have been physically, sexually or emotionally abused. Stopping children living and working the streets is essential. NLM is actively involved in assisting two local ‘prevention projects’; Kids At Risk’ currently assists over 200 children with education and sustainable lifestyle programmes and ‘Working Children’ offers support and practical encouragement to over 250 children from the age of 7 upwards. Additionally, NLM has instigated and managed the raising of funds to re-furbish the whole Street Children Re-Habilitation Center and many children are now attending external schools or being provided with one-to-one teaching, none of which would be possible without the generous financial support given through NLM.
www.newlifemexico.com

EASTERN EUROPE

The Forget-Me-Not Foundation

The Forget-me-not Foundation is a British charity in Romania, which was set up to help orphans with special needs. The foundation provides a private “family” home for five children and was opened in September 2002, after taking the children into permanent custody from the Romanian social services. The children at the home were abandoned by their parents at birth or when very young. Some have congenital mental disabilities, while some have behavioural problems, as a result of previous abuse or neglect. The home is staffed 24 hours a day by six nurses, a cook and manager, who are all specially trained at working with children with learning difficulties. The children also attend a special needs day centre, which offers physiotherapy, speech and sensory therapy. All donations made to the Forget-me-not foundation will help with the day-to-day running costs of the home, as well as the specialist treatment needed by the children.
www.fmn.home.ro

Pheonix: A Project to Save the Siberian Tiger

In 1993 Siberian tiger numbers had crashed to as low as 100 because of poaching for tiger body parts and a decrease in habitat and prey species. Today, as a result of the hard work carried out by project Phoenix, a very successful anti-poaching and education initiative in the Russian Far East, numbers have crept back up to between 400-500.
www.phoenix.vl.ru/about.htm

The Chernobyl Relief Foundation in the UK for Ukrainian Children

This charity was set up in 1995 to provide essential medical, material and social support for children in the Ukraine who have been affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster which took place in April 1986. Unfortunately the catastrophe didn’t just affect the people living in the area at the time. Many of the children who managed to survive Chernobyl now have children of their own who have also been touched by the disaster and born with handicaps and chronic diseases. The Chernobyl Relief Foundation in the UK uses its funds to provide humanitarian aid, including medical equipment, food and clothing to hospitals and institutions which care for Chernobyl children. It also organises cross-cultural exchanges between children in England and Wales, with children affected by the disaster in the Ukraine.
www.childrenofchornobyl.org

TOURIST OFFICES and ASSOCIATIONS

Association of National Tourist Offices in the UK

Links to National Tourist Offices worldwide.
www.antor.com

Latin American Travel Association (LATA)

Trade Association of tourist boards, tour operators, hotels, wholesalers, media, airlines and overseas members dedicated to promoting tourism in Latin America.
www.lata.org

African Travel and Tourism Association (ATTA)

Trade association of tourist boards, tour operators, hotels, wholesalers, media airlines and overseas members dedicated to promoting tourism in Africa.
www.atta.co.uk