Protected: June 1978
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June 1979
Free camping in exchange for Pony Trekking deal!
We negotiated with Mike and Meg Oliver of the Cefn Coch Inn. They allowed us to camp with our groups on one of their fields. We could also have free use of the toilet block on their caravan site in exchange for all of our customers paying to use their pony trekking facilities. We attracted various school groups and we sat on boards, balanced on blocks, at trestle tables for our meals.
Protected: 1980
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1981
Youth Outdoors changes it's name to Red Ridge and becomes a limited company.
On 27th August 1981 we became a limited company called Red Ridge Holidays Ltd. I had charged a friend with finding a new name for our business. After 3 months we sat chatting and decided that if we could not find a name we would have to call it after something locally. Perhaps take something like ‘Cefn Coch’ and translate it I said without thinking. Our very limited Welsh was sufficient to have us understand that ‘Cefn Coch’ translated as ‘Red Ridge’. That’s it we both shouted, in unison. The two ‘rs’ gave us alliteration, ‘Ridge’ sounded appropriate for an outdoor centre, so ‘Red Ridge Centre’ it became. We built just a toilet block at Plas Y Drain using the plans that Mike Oliver had used for his toilet block at the caravan site. We gradually increased the electricity supply, which had only been sufficient for an old cottage, up to the 3 phase connection we have today. Initial quotes for this were in access of ￡12,000 and kept reducing until Manweb offered us the connection for ￡640.00. We accepted and signed instantly!
1982 – 1983
1st year for Bnei Brith & Michelin Tyre Company
Kitchen and dining room were in a large marquee
Groups slept 8 in each tent on relatively comfortable thick yellow plastic mattresses.