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Last week I meet a lovely young lady who asked if I new someone who could help them for a new programme.

So this is the mail she's sent me. If anyone knows of anyone who fits the bill please send me a PM and I'll forward you her number. The programe idea sounds really interesting.

Hi Andrew,

We met at the Snow and Ski show when i approached you looking for families for a Channel 4 programme. You menationed that you may be able to put me in touch with people.

To tell you a little more, I am working on a new series for Channel 4 which is all about family ‘gap years’. The programmes will explore the growing phenomenon of parents who put ‘normal’ life on the backburner to venture off into the wider world and experience something extraordinary with their children. Whether it’s whole families volunteering in a remote village in Peru for 1 month or an attempt by parents to make their children experience different cultures around the globe in 10 months; this series aims to document these various but inspirational family journeys. My hope was that there might be a family who could be taking a winter sports angel to this kind of project.

We want to concentrate on families where at least one of the children is aged 16 or under. Also, the series is as much about the united family experience as it is about the family travelling. The families we follow could potentially be doing anything as long as it stands up as alternative to and from everyday modern British life.

We are in the process of trying to make as many people aware of this series as possible and I thought you may have contact with families who are plannig such a trip and am simply trying to get the information out there so families can get in touch with us if they are interested.

Our hope is that the programmes will inspire more parents thinking about this kind of trip to actually take the plunge and get involved around the world. We also want to highlight the positives of this kind of experience has on a family unit, it would also be an excellent promotional tool for yourselves.

We would not plan to be with the family the entire time but would provide them with a camera to record the events with us dropping in at certain key points along the way. Each family would be left with a unique travel-log of their journey .

I am interested in talking to anyone who feels they could be involved in someway and are of course keen to hear about any families that are planning a family adventure. Looking at your website it seems that you offer some excellent programmes and I was wondering if you were aware of any families who were planning to do such a trip?

Please do feel free to give me a call (numbers below) or drop me a line with any questions.

Hope to hear from you soon

Kind regards,

Naomi

A snowHead

Well, the person's real but it's just a made up name, see?

Is there anywhere that you can 'hire' children for a season?

You need to Login to know who's really who.

Let's see, Channel 4 have already produced 'Shameless'( I'd love to see them on a ski holiday)

What is this programme called ? 'Feckless' ?

Anyway, snowHeads is much more fun if you do.

Michelle, I will get a haircut and have a shave, I reckon I could pull off 15.... rolling eyes

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The problem with production companies/film makers is they seem to just LOVE failure so the smallest family domestic argument over burnt toast gets turned into a marriage busting cliff hanger - I'm taking another gap with my family soon but no way would I let these guys film us doing it in case I ruined the film by enjoying it and not arguing with Mrs F (ok thats unlikely)

Frosty, I'd share your concern. It wouldn't make good telly if you all just had an ordinary sort of good time. wink

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