Volunteers needed!

Make a difference - A national charity is calling for volunteers to accompany groups of visually impaired people on skiing holidays this winter. You have to be a confident and experienced skier and the charity will provide training and support for the volunteers.

Vitalise specialises in a wide variety of volunteer-supported holidays for the visually impaired, from cycling to canoeing trips – it has been organising ski trips for ten years.

A spokesman said: ‘We need keen skiers who want to have a holiday with a real difference and share their passion for the sport with visually impaired people. You don’t have to be an instructor – enthusiasm and character are far more important.’

There are three upcoming destinations in 2010: cross-country skiing in Kandersteg, Switzerland, 23–30 January; downhill skiing in Niederau, Austria, 27 February – 6 March, and cross-country Skiing in Geilo, Norway, 14 – 21 March.

The charity subsidises the trips for the volunteers.

www.vitalise.org.uk

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Lying at the heart of the massive Three Valleys ski area, Méribel is one of the most popular resorts in the Alps. It has 200 lifts and 600km of well groomed pistes and is ideal for intermediates – but like all the big resorts, caters for the less experienced extremely well. Boarders and free skiers have two parks and access to five more in the other Three Valleys resorts. The main village kept a rustic chalet feel during the building boom of the Seventies and many of the traditional buildings have been recently refurbished to the highest standards. The resorts is famous for its high spirited après scene.