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Here are some other sites concerned with free time and how it is used

Active sport

Arts & crafts

Learning in your free time

Volunteering

Travel and holidays

Local information on free time possibilities

Other (Government, academic, professional, other advice etc)

Overseas (mainly professional and academic)

Active sport

English Sports Council  www.english.sports.gov.uk/  0207 273 1500 

The English Sports Council has a good listing of sports governing bodies, regional sports councils and other  sports bodies with web sites.

Arts & crafts

Arts Council of Great Britain* www.artscouncil.org.uk/  

0207 333 0100
Craft Market  www.c-a-b.co.uk/craftmarket/page3.htm 
Crafts Council  www.craftscouncil.org.uk/

The Arts Council has a good listing of other arts related web sites.

Learning in your free time

BBC Online - Education  www.bbc.co.uk/education/ 
BUBL - Further Education Colleges  www.bubl.ac.uk/uk/fe/index.html
Campaign for Learning  www.campaign-for-learning.org.uk/  
City & Guilds  www.city-and-guilds.co.uk/
Learndirect  www.learndirect.co.uk/  0800 100900
Lifelong Learning  www.lifelonglearning.dfee.gov.uk/ 
National Grid for Learning  www.ngfl.gov.uk/
National Institute for Adult Continuing Education www.niace.org.uk/
National Open College Network  www.nocn.ac.uk/ 
Open University  www.open.ac.uk/

Tutor Hunt  www.tutorhunt.com 
UK Departments of Continuing and/or Adult Education  www.ex.ac.uk/~PRFChani/ACE/UK_CE_Depts.html 

Volunteering

Community Service Volunteers  www.csv.org.uk 

CSV has an annual Make a Difference Day, the UK's largest day of community action, on the last Saturday in October.  For information on how to get involved, go to www.csv.org.uk and click on the MADD logo.

National Association of Councils for Voluntary Service  www.nacvs.org.uk/
National Association of Volunteer Bureaux  www.navb.org.uk
National Centre for Volunteering  www.volunteering.org.uk/
National Council for Voluntary Organisations*  www.ncvo-vol.org.uk/  
TimeBank   www.bbc.co.uk/education/timebank/

* NCVO has a very full list of voluntary organisations with web sites.

Travel and holidays

British Tourist Authority - Visit Britain  www.visitbritain.com/ 
Association of Independent Tour Operators  www.aito.co.uk/

Details of many learning holidays are given in the Time to Learn directories -access on www.timetolearn.org.uk or via City and Guilds of London Institute www.city-and-guilds.co.uk  0207 294 2850

Local information on free time possibilities

Some specialist organisations cover free time possibilities in Greater London and the South East.  They include:

Online Leisure  www.online-leisure.com/

For other local data consult the web sites of the relevant county or district councils, and/or one of the general regional directory sites such as: 

This is Britain www.thisisbritain.co.uk      
UKVillages www.UKVillages.co.uk/   
yourtown-today  www.yourtown-today.com/  

Other (Government, academic, professional, other advice etc)

Department of Culture, Media and Sport  www.culture.gov.uk/ 

Institute of Leisure and Amenity Management  www.ilam.co.uk/ 

Leisure Studies Association www.leisure-studies-association.info/LSAWEB/index.html 

Altis, the guide to internet resources in hospitality, leisure, sport and tourism www.altis.ac.uk 

Leisure Industries Research Centre  www.shu.ac.uk/schools/lfm/lfmcent/lirc/ 
The Site (advice for youth)  www.thesite.org 

Overseas (mainly professional and academic)

World Leisure and Recreation Association  www.worldleisure.org 
Academy of Leisure Sciences  www.eas.ualberta.ca/elj/als/als1.html
American Association of Leisure and Recreation  www.aahperd.org/aalr/  
European Leisure and Recreation Association  www.worldleisure.org/regionalorg.html  
Leisure Information Network  www.lin.ca/htdocs/  
Leisure Studies  www.gu.edu.au/school/lst/services/lswp/  
Therapeutic Recreation Directory  www.recreationtherapy.com/ 

If you know of other web sites with useful general information on leisure and free time, please e-mail us the details.

LeisureVision has pages on almost 100 different ways of using free time.  They show you what the activity is, what you need to do it, how to get started, and where to find out more.  Click on index A-Z to go directly to the list of individual activities.

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