Website Links
Supported Charities
We are Macmillan Support
‘Macmillan Cancer Support improves the lives of people affected by cancer. We provide practical, medical, emotional and financial support and push for better cancer care. Cancer affects us all. We can all help. We are Macmillan Cancer Support.
Visit website: www.macmillan.org.uk
Leukaemia Busters
Welcome to Leukaemia Busters, the children's leukaemia research charity. Our mission is to conduct research into and to develop new, improved and safer treatments for leukaemia and related conditions.
Visit website: www.leukaemiabusters.org.uk
The Charity Fairs Association
‘Charity Fairs have proved to be an excellent and popular way of enabling a great deal of money to be raised for charity.’
Visit website: www.charityfairsassociation.co.uk
Shows and Events
The Land Rover Burghley Horse Trials
‘With over 300 trade exhibits to choose from there is plenty for everybody. The famous tented village offers an exciting shopping experience including indoor and outdoor clothing, ideas for the home and garden, a mouth watering food walk and everything for the horse and rider.’
Visit website: www.burghley-horse.co.uk
Badminton Horse Trials
‘Badminton Horse Trials is one of the toughest and most exciting equestrian events - the pinnacle of the world’s 3-Day-Event calendar. As the name suggests horses and riders complete the competition over 3 days, each day consisting of a different discipline or phase.’
Visit website: www.badminton-horse.co.uk
Gatcombe Horse Trials
‘Welcome to the Festival of British Eventing website. This renowned event takes place at Gatcombe Park, spectacular home of the Princess Royal and her family and incorporates the British Open, Intermediate and Novice Championships.’
Visit website: www.gatcombe-horse.co.uk
Castle Howard
‘Castle Howard is one of Britain's finest historic houses and is still home to my family whose forebears conceived, designed, and built it over three centuries ago. In this, the 21st century, the business flourishing on the estate means we are able to preserve, conserve, restore and improve not only the many fine buildings, but also the landscape in which those edifices reside.’
Visit website: www.castlehoward.co.uk
Cheltenham Race Course
‘Cheltenham Racecourse in Gloucestershire holds some of the most prestigious events in the country's sporting calendar, such as the Gold Cup Festival in March, and, is a popular venue for conferences, exhibitions, banqueting, product launches, awards, concerts, weddings and film locations.‘
Visit website: www.cheltenham.co.uk
Italy and Italian Ceramics
Italian Government Tourist Board
Situated in Mediterranean Europe, Italy has land frontiers with France in the north-west, Switzerland and Austria in the north and Slovenia in the north-east.
Visit website: www.italiantourism.com
Italian Culture & History
This link provides an index of websites to a number of popular Italian history and cultures sites
Visit website: http://italian.about.com
Galleria degli Uffizi
Official website for Uffizi in Florence with details of Italian gallery tours.
Visit website: www.polomuseale.firenze.it/uffizi/
That’s Is Italy
An Italian website detailing a number of Italy’s finest artists
Visit website: http://www.thais.it/
Sites of General Interest
National Gallery of Art
As objects for daily use, works of decorative art allow a close insight into cultures of the past. Among its holdings, the National Gallery has an extensive collection of European furniture, tapestries, and ceramics from the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries as well as medieval church vessels.
Visit website: www.nga.gov