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Der Landesfeuerwehrverband Hessen e. V., kurz LFV Hessen, mit Sitz in Kassel, ist der Fachverband der hessischen Feuerwehren. Er vertritt als Dachorganisation die Interessen der 32 Kreisfeuerwehrverbände (KFV), die über drei Bezirksfeuerwehrverbände (BFV) organisiert sind. Die beiden Landesgruppen Berufsfeuerwehr (BF) und Werkfeuerwehr (WF) sind ebenso ordentliche Mitglieder mit Stimmrecht. Die Hessische Jugendfeuerwehr (HJF) ist satzungsgemäß Teil des LFV Hessen. Der LFV Hessen ist Mitglied des Deutschen Feuerwehrverbandes (DFV) mit Sitz in Berlin.

Der Landesfeuerwehrverband repräsentiert die hessischen Feuerwehren im Deutschen Feuerwehrverband. Der LFV Hessen ist Herausgeber des LFV-Infodienstes, der halbjährlich erscheint.

Der Verband und seine Mitglieder sind regelmäßig im Hessischen Landtag, in Gremien, Anhörungen und Ausschüssen in Hessen präsent, um die Positionen des hessischen Feuerwehrwesens zu vertreten.

Geschichte
Die ersten Feuerwehrverbände im heutigen Hessen waren die heutigen Bezirksfeuerwehrverbände:
 Bezirksfeuerwehrverband Hessen-Darmstadt, gegründet am 15. September 1867 in Darmstadt
 Nassauischer Feuerwehrverband (NFV), gegründet am 27. Juli 1872 in Wiesbaden
 Kurhessisch-Waldeckscher Feuerwehrverband, gegründet am 25. November 1875 in Hanau

Am 21. April 1954 gründete sich der Landesfeuerwehrverband Hessen vor dem Hintergrund der Bundesländergliederung in der Nachkriegszeit und nach jahrelangen zähen Verhandlungen in Frankfurt am Main. Die erste der Gründung folgende Verbandsversammlung fand am 10. September 1955 in Gießen statt. Der erste Hessische Feuerwehrtag wurde vom 12. bis 13. September 1969 in Bensheim ausgerichtet.

Präsident des Hessischen Landesfeuerwehrverbandes ist seit September 2022 Norbert Fischer.

Ehemalige Präsidenten
 1988 Richard Meister
 1989 bis 1991 Otto Schaaf
 1991 bis 1995 Jürgen Domke
 1996 bis 2022 Ralf Ackermann

Aufgaben
Die Förderung des Feuerschutzes, Arbeitsschutzes, Katastrophen- und Zivilschutzes wird insbesondere verwirklicht durch die Erfüllung folgender Aufgaben:
 die Förderung des Feuerwehrwesens in Hessen,
 die Vertretung der Interessen der Feuerwehren,
 die Pflege der Grundsätze des freiwilligen Brandschutzes, insbesondere durch Informations- und Ausbildungsveranstaltungen,
 die Förderung des Brand- und Katastrophenschutzes, der Allgemeinen Hilfe, des Umweltschutzes und des Rettungsdienstes,
 die Unterstützung und Förderung der sozialen Vorsorge für die Feuerwehrmitglieder,
 die Förderung der gesundheitlichen Vorsorge der Feuerwehrmitglieder von Beginn der Mitgliedschaft bis zum Ausscheiden, besonders durch Präventionsmaßnahmen zusammen mit den Versicherungsträgern,
 die Mitgestaltung der Aus- und Fortbildung der Feuerwehrmitglieder,
 die Durchführung von Öffentlichkeitsarbeit, Brandschutzerziehung und -aufklärung,
 die Zusammenarbeit mit den am Brandschutz interessierten und den verantwortlichen Stellen und Organisationen im In- und Ausland,
 die Betreuung und Förderung der Jugendfeuerwehren im Land Hessen, die in der Hessischen Jugendfeuerwehr organisiert sind,
 die Pflege und Förderung der Feuerwehrmusik in den Hessischen Feuerwehren,
 die Pflege und Förderung der Kindergruppen der Feuerwehren im Land Hessen.

Organe
Die Organe des Landesfeuerwehrverbandes Hessen sind:
 Verbandsversammlung
 Landesfeuerwehrausschuss
 Präsidium

Arbeitsweise
Der Landesfeuerwehrverband Hessen unterhält in Kassel eine Geschäftsstelle mit mehreren hauptamtlichen Mitarbeitern. Jeder Verbandsvorsitzende eines hessischen Kreisfeuerwehrverbandes ist im Landesfeuerwehrausschuss vertreten. Die Vorsitzenden der Bezirksfeuerwehrverbände gehören dem Präsidium an.

Die Positionen des LFV Hessen basieren auf den Ergebnissen der 12 Bereiche innerverbandlicher Facharbeit, deren Erkenntnisse sowohl der politische Verbandsarbeit, als auch der Öffentlichkeit zur Verfügung stehen.

Feuerwehrangehörige
Im Jahr 2016 waren in den mehr als 2.400 Feuerwehren rund 73.600 aktive Feuerwehrangehörige registriert, der Frauenanteil betrug hierbei 12,0 %. Hinzu kamen etwa 1.700 Berufsfeuerwehrleute und 2.200 Werkfeuerwehrleute.

Jugend- und Kinderfeuerwehr
Wesentliches Instrument der Nachwuchsgewinnung sind die Jugendfeuerwehren und die Kinderfeuerwehren (für Kinder ab 6 Jahre). In den rund 2.000 Jugendfeuerwehren sind 25.000 Jungen und Mädchen in der originären Jugendfeuerwehr und 3.400 in der Kinderfeuerwehr aktiv. Interessenvertretung der Jugendfeuerwehren ist die im Jahr 1964 gegründete Hessische Jugendfeuerwehr im Landesfeuerwehrverband Hessen.

Ehrungen
Die Florian-Medaille der Hessischen Jugendfeuerwehr wird seit 1981 in Anerkennung der Verdienste in und um die Jugendarbeit in den Feuerwehren des Landes Hessen von der Hessischen Jugendfeuerwehr im Landesfeuerwehrverband Hessen verliehen.

Seit September 2019 gibt es eine Ehrung für Kindergruppenbereuer, welche in den Stufen Bronze, Silber und Gold verliehen wird. Der Besitz der vorherige Stufe ist nicht erforderlich.

Feuerwehrwettbewerbe

Vom Land Hessen werden jährlich Hessische Feuerwehrleistungsübungen auf Kreis-, Bezirks- und Landesebene ausgeschrieben bzw. veranstaltet. Sie beinhalten einen theoretischen Teil (Fragebogenbeantwortung) und einen praktischen Teil (Feuerwehrübung mit Brandbekämpfung und Menschenrettung unter Anwendung von Atemschutz und Digitalfunk).

Einzelne Freiwillige Feuerwehren aus Hessen beteiligen sich auch an Feuerwehrleistungswettbewerben, die vom LFV Hessen organisiert und unterstützt werden. Durch Ausscheidungswettkämpfe auf Landes- und Bundesebene qualifizieren sich immer wieder hessische Mannschaften für die alle vier Jahre stattfindenden Internationalen Feuerwehrwettkämpfe des Weltfeuerwehrverbandes CTIF. Bei den Traditionellen Internationalen Feuerwehrwettbewerben wurde die Freiwillige Feuerwehr Nidderau-Eichen im Juli 1985 in Österreich Weltmeister. Bei den Internationalen Feuerwehrsportwettkämpfen des CTIF im Juli 1993 in Berlin siegte die Freiwillige Feuerwehr Beselich-Obertiefenbach in der Disziplin Löschangriff und wurde Weltmeister, nachdem sie vier Jahre zuvor bei dieser so genannten Feuerwehrolympiade in Warschau/Polen den 3. Platz und die Bronzemedaille errang.

Siehe auch

 Feuerwehr in Hessen
 Deutscher Feuerwehrverband

Literatur

Weblinks
 Landesfeuerwehrverband Hessen e.V.
 Nassauischer Feuerwehrverband
 Kurhessisch-Waldecksche Feuerwehrverband
 Hessisches Ministerium des Innern und für Sport – Feuerwehren in Hessen

Einzelnachweise

Fachverband
Gegründet 1954
Verein (Landesverband)
Verein (Kassel)


The objective of this post is to implement a simple power calculation algorithm on the ESP32 and test the speedup by executing it in the two cores of the microcontroller.
As we have been covering in previous tutorials, the ESP32 has two Tensilica LX6 cores  which we can use to execute code. At the time of writing, the easiest way to control the execution of code in the different cores of the ESP32 is by using FreeRTOS and assign a task to each CPU, as can be seen in detail in this previous post.
Although in a generic way there are many benefits from having more than one core available to execute code, one of the most important is increasing the performance of our programs. So, although we have already seen how to execute code in the two cores of the ESP32, we haven't yet looked at the performance increase we can get from that.
So, in this tutorial, we are going to design a simple application that is able to calculate a power of the numbers of an array. We will run it in a single core and then we will split the processing by the two cores and check if there is a gain on the execution time. Finally, just for comparison, we will also split the execution between four tasks (two assigned to each core) just to check if there is any speedup for spawning more tasks than cores.
Basically, what we want to check is how much the speed of execution of our program increases when we pass from a single core execution to a dual core execution. So, one of the easiest ways of doing that is by doing the ratio between the execution time of the program running on just one core and running on the two cores of the ESP32 .
We will measure the execution time for each approach using the Arduino micros function, which returns the number of microseconds since the board began running the program .
So, for measuring a execution block of code, we will do something similar to the indicated bellow.
We could have used FreeRTOS xTaskGetTickCount function for a greater precision, but the micros function will be enough for what we want to show and it is a well known Arduino function.
We will start our code by declaring some auxiliary global variables. We are not going to need any include.
Since we are going to compare speedups in different situations, we are going to specify an array with multiple exponents to try. Also, we are going to have a variable with the size of the array, so we can iterate it. We are first going to try small values for the exponent, and then start increasing them a lot.
We are also going to have some variables to store the execution time of the code in the different use cases. We will reuse the execution start and end variables but use a different variable for each use case: one task execution, two tasks execution and four tasks execution. This way, we will store the values for latter comparison.
Then, we will declare a counting semaphore in order to be able to synchronize the setup function (which is running on a FreeRTOS task) with the tasks we are going to launch. Refer to this post for a detailed explanation on how to achieve this type of synchronization.
Note that the xSemaphoreCreateCounting function receives as input the maximum count and the initial count for the semaphore. Since we will have at most 4 tasks to synchronize, its maximum value will be 4.
Finally, we will declare two arrays: one with the initial values (called bigArray) and other to store the results (called resultArray). We will make their sizes big.
We will define the function that will implement our power calculation algorithm, in order to be launched as a task. If you need help for the specifics on how to define a FreeRTOS task, please check this previous tutorial.
The first thing we need to consider is that our function will receive some configuration parameters. Since in some of the use cases we are going to split the execution of the algorithm by various tasks, we need to control the portion of the array that each task will cover.
In order to create only a generic task that can answer to all our use cases, we will pass the indexes of the array that the task will be responsible as a parameter. Also, we are going to pass the exponent, so we now how many multiplications we need to perform. You can check in more detail how to pass an argument to a FreeRTOS task in this previous tutorial.
So, we will first define a structure with these 3 parameters, so we can pass it to our function. You can read more about structs here. Note that this struct is declared outside any function. So, the code can be placed near the global variables declaration.
Since we already have our struct declared, inside the function we will declare a variable of the type of this structure. Then, we will assign the input parameter of the function to this variable. Remember that parameters are passed to FreeRTOS functions as pointer to null (void *) and it is our responsibility to cast it back to the original type.
Note also that we pass to the function a pointer to the original variable and not the actual variable, so we need to use the pointer to access the value. Again, please consult the previous post for a detailed explanation about this procedure.
Now, we will implement the power calculation function. Note that we could have used the Arduino pow function, but I will explain latter why we didn't. So, we will implement the function with a loop where we will multiply a value by itself n times.
We start by declaring a variable to hold the partial product. Then, we will do a for loop to iterate all the elements of the array assigned to the task. Remember that this was our initial objective. Then, for each element, we will calculate its power and in the end we will assign the value to the results array. This ensures that we will use the same data in all our tests and we do not change the original array.
For a cleaner code we could have implemented the pow algorithm in a dedicated function, but I wanted to minimize auxiliar function calls for a more compact code.
Check the code bellow. I left there commented a line of code to calculate the power using the pow function, so you can try it if you want. Note that the speedup results will be considerably different. Also, for accessing an element of a struct variable, we use the name of the variable point (".") the name of the element.
Check the full function code bellow. Note that the end of the code we are increasing the global counting semaphore by one unit. This is being done to ensure synchronization with the setup function, since we will count the execution time from there. Check this previous post on how to synchronize tasks with FreeRTOS semaphores. Also, in the end, we are deleting the task.
We are going to do all the remaining code in the setup function, so our main loop will be empty. We will start by opening a serial connection, to output the results of our tests.
Now, we will initialize our array with some values to apply the calculation. Note that we are not concerned about the content of the array and neither with the actual result, but rather with the execution times. So, we are going to initialize the array with random values just for the sake of showing those functions, since we are not going to print the array that will hold the results.
We are first going to call the randomSeed function, so the random values generated will differ in different executions of the program . As indicated here, if the analog pin is unconnected, it will return a value corresponding to random noise, which is ideal for passing as input of the randomSeed function.
After that, we can simply call the random function, passing as arguments the minimum and maximum values that can be returned . Again, we are doing this just for illustration purposes, since we are not going to print the contents of the arrays.
Now, we are going to define the variables that will be used as arguments to our tasks. Remember the previously declared structure, which will hold the indexes of the array that each task will process and the exponent.
So, the first element of the structure is the starting index, the second is the final index and the third is the exponent. We will declare structures for each use case (one task, two tasks and four tasks) as can be seen in the code bellow. Note that in the last element of the struct we are passing an element of the global array we declared with the exponents. So, as we will see in the final code, we will iterate the whole array, but for now let's keep things simple.
Now, we are going to do the test using a single task. We start by getting the execution time with the micros function. Then, we will use the xTaskCreatePinnedToCore function to create a FreeRTOS task pinned to one of the cores. We will choose core 1.
We are going to pass as parameter the address of the oneTask struct variable, which contains the arguments needed for the function to run. Don't forget the cast to void*.
One very important thing to take in consideration is that we haven't yet analyzed which tasks may have been launched by the Arduino core, and that may influence the execution time. So in order to guarantee that our task will execute with greater priority, we will assign it a value of 20. Remember, higher numbers mean higher execution priority for the FreeRTOS scheduler.
After launching the task, we will ask for a unit of the semaphore, ensuring that the setup function will hold until the new task finishes execution. Finally, we will print the execution time.
This is pretty much what we are going to do for the rest of the use cases. The only difference is that we are going to launch more tasks and we are going to try to get more units from the semaphore (as many as the number os tasks launched for that use case).
Check the full source code bellow, which already includes the use cases for running the code with two tasks (one per ESP32 core) and four tasks (two per ESP32 core). Also, at the end of the setup function, it includes the printing of the speedup results for each iteration.
Note that the extra parameter of the Serial.println function indicates the number of decimal places for the floating point number.
To test the code, simply upload with with the Arduino IDE and open the serial monitor. You should get a result similar to figure 1. Naturally, the execution times may vary.
Figure 1 – Output of the speedup testing program.
The results for each exponent are shown in the table bellow, at table 1.
Table 1 – Results of speedup for the exponents defined in the code.
To understand the results, we first need to take in consideration that one cannot fully paralelize the whole program. So, there are always going to be portions of the code that execute in a single core, such as the launching of the tasks or the synchronization mechanisms.
Although we didn't have this use case, many parallelization algorithms also have a part where each partial result is then aggregated sequentially (for example, if we have multiple tasks calculating the max value of their portion of the array and then the parent task calculates the max value between all the partial results).
So, no matter that we do, we theoretically cannot achieve a speedup equal to the number of cores (there are some exceptions in, for example, algorithms that search for a specific value and exit when found, but let's not complicate).
So, the more computation we execute in parallel versus the portion we execute in sequence, the more speedup we will have. And that's precisely what we see in our results. If we start with an exponent of 2, our speedup from one task execution to two tasks is only of 1.2514.
But as we increase the exponent value, the more iterations of the inner most loop we do, and thus more computation we can perform in parallel. Thus, as we increase the exponent, we see an increase of the speedup. For example, with an exponent of 1000, our speedup is 1.9933. Which is a very high value compared to the previous.
So, this means the sequencial part gets diluted and for big exponents the parallelization compensates. Note that we are able to achieve these kind of high values because the algorithm is very simple and easily parallelized. Also, because of the way FreeRTOS handles priorities and task execution context switches, there is not much overhead after the tasks are executing. A normal computer tends to have more context switches between threads, and thus the sequencial overhead is bigger.
Note that we didn't use the pow function to show this progression the the speedup values. The pow function uses floats, meaning its implementation is more computacional intensive. So, we would get much better speedups at lower exponents because the parallel part would be much more relevant than the sequencial one. You can comment our implemented algorithm and use the pow function to compare the results.
Also, it's important to note that launching more tasks than the number of cores doesn't increase the speedup. Indeed, it has the opposite effect. As we can see from the results, the speedup from executing with 4 tasks is always lower from the one by executing with 2 tasks. Indeed, for low exponents, it's actually slower to execute the code with 4 tasks (even though they are split amongst the two cores of the ESP32) than to execute with with a task in a single core.
This is normal because each CPU can only execute a task at a given time and thus launching more tasks than CPUs means more sequencial time to deal with them and more overhead on synchronization points.
Nevertheless, note that this is not always black and white. If the tasks had some kind of yielding point where they would be stopped waiting for something, then having more tasks than cores could be beneficial in order to use the free CPU cycles. Nevertheless, in our case, the CPUs never yield and are always executing, so there is no benefit in launching more than 2 tasks, regarding speedup.
To complement the results, we will look at Amdahl's law. So, we are going to apply some transformations to the speedup formula we were using. The initial formula was that the speedup is equal to the sequencial execution time (we will call it T) divided by the parallel execution time (we will call it T Parallel).
But, as we saw, there is a part of the execution time that is always sequencial and another that may be parallelized. Let's call p the fraction of the program that we can run in parallel. Since it is a fraction, its value will be between 0 and 1.
So, we can represent the sequencial execution time T as the portion that can be executed in parallel (p*T) plus the portion that cannot (1-p)*T.
Since we can only split the parallel part between the cores of our machine, the T Parallel time is similar to the formula above, except that the parallel part appears divided by the number of cores we have available.
So, we now have the speedup written in function of the part that can run in parallel and the number of cores. To finish, let's suppose that we have an infinite amount of cores available to execute (the real use case would be a very large number, but we will analyse the formula mathematically).
So, although speedup increases with the number of resources available for parallelization (the number of cores, in our case), the truth is that the maximum theoretical speedup possible is limited by the non parallel part, which we can't optimize.
This is an interesting conclusion for us to decide when going to parallelization or not. Some times, the algorithms can easily parallelized and we have a tremendous speedup, others the effort needed doesn't justify the gain.
Also, other important thing to keep in mind is that the best sequencial algorithm is not always the best after parallelization. So, sometimes, it's best to use an algorithm that has less performance in sequencial execution, but ends up being much better that the best sequencial one upon parallelization.
With this tutorial, we confirm that the functions available for multi core execution are working well and we can take advantage of them to get performance benefits.
The last more theoretical part had the objective to show that parallelization is not a trivial issue, and one cannot jump right to a parallel approach without a previous analysis and expect a speedup equal to the number of cores available. This rational extends beyond the scope of the ESP32 and applies to parallel computing in general.
So, for those who are going to start with parallel computing using the ESP32 for performance gains, it's a good start to learn some of the more theoretical concepts first.
Finally, note that the code is oriented to showing the results, and thus many optimizations could have been done, such as launching the tasks in a cycle instead of repeating the code or condensate the algorithm in a function.
Also, we were not looking to the results of the execution to confirm that the output array was the same because that was not our main focus. Naturally, going from sequencial to parallel needs a careful implementation of the code and executing a lot of tests to ensure the result is the same.
Recently found this blog. Thanks for the posts! Very well done.
Error appears to happen after jumping in to xTaskCreatePinnedToCore().
Well that's weird, but since the ESP32 is still in the early stages these kind of things tend to happen. I was able to run the code without any problem.
I will try to help but I would like to ask you to also post the error on the github page of the ESP32 support for the Arduino environment. They are probably more familiarized with these kind of dumps and can help us understand the problem.
– You are running the same exact code or changed something?
– For n< 10000, the code works fine, right?
– Is it deterministic or just happens sometimes?
– What is your ESP32 board? I think the ESP32 had a revision, so we may be using different versions of the chip.
I'm not paying much attention to the stack size allocated to each task. You can also try to reduce the number of words allocated on the call to the xTaskCreatePinnedToCore() and check if it helps. In principle this should not be the problem since we are deleting the previous tasks, but we can give it a try.
Also, if someone else runs into this problem and was able to understand the cause, please let us know since I have not been able to reproduce it yet.


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If you cancel more than six weeks before the start of your holiday you will forfeit your booking deposit. Between six weeks and two weeks, you will be charged 50% of the total cost of your holiday, less the booking deposit. If you cancel less than 2 weeks before your holiday, then you will be charged for the full cost of your holiday.
If you book online, you will be immediately directed to a PayPal website where you will be instructed to pay a 25% Booking Deposit via Debit or Credit card or yusing your own Paypal account, whatever you prefer. This will secure your booking. You can pay by credit or debit card or via your PayPay account, if you have one. Atternatively we can take credit or debit card payment over the phone.
Please note that your rental is not guaranteed until we receive your Booking Deposit.
You will be sent an e-mail reminder to pay the remaining balance 6 weeks before your holiday is due to start. Follow the link on this e-mail to pay Please make payment at this point otherwise your booking will be cancelled and you will lose your deposit. Don't hesitate to contact us if you are unable to make immediate payment.
Only if you are purchasing a Gift Voucher or make the booking less than six weeks before the start of your holiday, otherwise you just pay a 25% deposit.
There are no limits on how long you can rent one of our vans for. For bookings longer than 3 weeks please contact us for a tailored quote.
When you arrive to pick up the van we will hold a security deposit of £800 on a credit/debit card via paypal authorisation. Once this has been done you will be sent an email with attachment showing this transaction. Your money will not be removed from your account, only held there until safe return of your van. Upon the return of the vehicle to us at the agreed time, in the condition it was let, relatively clean and with a full tank of fuel, this authorisation will be voided. No charges will occur from this authorisation. We also accept cash for the security deposit if you don't have a card.
We do not expect you to thoroughly clean your van, but please clear out any and all rubbish, wipe down the interior surfaces and sweep the floor before you hand it back to us. We will charge £50 for any excessive cleaning that we need to undertake.
We will make a charge of £10, in addition to the fuel costs, for refuelling if you fail to return your van with a full tank.
The cost of any material damage will be directly deducted from the security deposit. Refer to our terms and conditions for details.
We will need to see all driver's licences for the named driver(s) insured on your van, this includes your card part and the code you now have to obtain from www.viewdrivingrecord.service.gov.uk/driving-record/licence-number to allow us to check your driving history online. If you don't have a photocard licence we will need to see a passport. We will also require 2 utility bills or other official letters (not more than 3 months old, these can be print-outs or can be saved from your online account and emailed over within the week prior to your hire) including the hirers name and address as proof of where you live. All ID must be registered to your current address. We will take copies of both the licence documents and bills/letters. All ID will be destroyed/deleted upon safe return of the vehicle.
Without these documents we will be unable to release the vehicle.
Please note on the Booking Form if you are planning on travelling abroad and we'll calculate the additional insurance and AA costs for you.
By the way, for a small extra cost you can take a any van to the Rupublic of Ireland.
Yes, you are allowed to drive 150 miles per night of your hire, averaged out over the duration of your rental period, ie, 450 miles for a 3 night hire. You will be charged 40 pence per mile for every mile that you are over this limit. If not paid by cash on return this will be taken from your security deposit.
The campers are fully equipped with most of what you will need (crockery, cutlery, cooking utensils, etc.) Unless you rent it as an extra from us, you will need to bring your own bedding (sleeping bags work well as they are neater to store), pillows and towels, extra blankets in cold weather.
If you have hired an awning from us and intend to use it for sleeping in you will need to bring sleeping mats with you or you can hire blow-up mattresses from us. We do recommend that you travel light - the less you take with you, the more space the camper can give you! Remember to bring with you all paperwork as described in the 'Will I need ID to pick up the van?' section above.
We don't hire bikes, however, there are several options for bike hire within easy reach of us. Just ask and we will guide you based on your itinerary. We do rent out bike racks, however, at an additional cost. The bike rack for Oscar & Oliver will accommodate up to 3 bikes, Heathers can take 4 bikes.
Unfortunately we can not under any circumstances hire to anyone below the age of 23 due to insurance limitations.
- Oscar seats 5: 2 in the front and 3 children in the back.
- Oliver seats 4: 2 in the front and 2 in the back.
- Heather seats 5: 3 in the front and 2 in the back.
All our vans will sleep 3 adults OR 2 adults & 2 children in the van. Additional people could be accomodated in the tent awnings which can be hired as extras, or you can bring your own tent.
Our Campervans are the same as driving any modern car, but a little bigger perhaps. As with driving any new vehicle, just take your time getting to know your van, then once you're settled in you can relax and enjoy the ride!
All our Campervans take Diesel.
The stoves are butane gas fuelled. Each camper is supplied with an installed gas bottle and a spare - this is included within the hire charge. We endeavor to ensure there is adequate gas supply for the length of your trip, but if you should run out please replace the bottle at a petrol station, camping shop or Calor Gas centre and we will reimburse you the cost on your return.
We would advise that you book your campsites in advance during the peak season and school holidays, particularly if you would electric hook-up which will enable you to use all the camper facilities to their full advantage. Take a look at our useful Links page for campsite suggestions and campsite directories.
We allow pets in Oscar & Heather (up to a maximum of 2). Please note pets do incur an additional cleaning charge of £25.
Sorry, we do not allow smoking inside any of our vans.
Most of what you need to know is listed here in the FAQs. However, you can find the fine print on our Terms and Conditions page.
You could decide to take out Collision and Damage Waiver option which will reduce the standard insurance excess from £300 to £0. This will cost an additional £20 per day. We cannot offer an Collision and Damage waiver for 23-24 year olds or anyone over 75.
Similarly if you have a higher excess applied due to any endorsements or licence restrictions, then an additional CDW is not available to you.
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Our camper vans are ideal for holidaying with children, embodying the freedom of the open road and a sense of adventure. However, we also understand how important it is to keep children safe and comfortable.
Our vans are fitted with modern 3 point seat belts that will accommodate most rear facing and forward facing car seats. However, because of the low backed back seat in Daisy, backless booster seats are not recommended for use in her. We cannot guarantee that all child seats will fit.
Please contact us if you have any questions or would like to use one of our forward facing child seats free of charge.


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Working towards a better world
The IT Volunteeer Awards showcase the talents and achievements of volunteers that have made a real difference to their chosen charities. John Riley takes a look at the winners
The 2006 IT Volunteer Awards are part of the third anniversary celebrations for IT4Communities, the organisation that provides an infrastructure for effective IT volunteering.
Since its launch in November 2002, IT4Communities - set up by the Information Technologists, a City of London livery company, with the support of Computer Weekly - has registered almost 4,000 IT professional volunteers and more than 1,600 charities needing IT help. I
n the past three years IT professionals have donated more than £2m of their time to help local charities and communities through IT4Communities,
Guest speaker Tom Ilube, former CIO of online bank Egg and currently CEO of ID verification start-up company Garlik, does a considerable amount of volunteering.
Speaking at the awards, Ilube said, "It is often the people who are extremely busy who carve out time from their busy schedules to volunteer and give something back. The world runs your diary, but when you volunteer you are in control."
When examining the entries, judges were looking at the time commitment volunteers gave to their projects, and the volunteer's reliability and technical competence. They also looked at the volunteer's communication skills, particularly their effectiveness at explaining technical issues to the charity staff, as well as the sustainability of the project.
The judges also considered it important that the volunteer provided charity staff with the skills to keep things going once the project had been completed.
Volunteers come from a variety of different backgrounds and make a real difference. Many of the volunteers in the IT4Communities awards benefited from their experience - it helped their careers or broadened their experience in a way that was beneficial for their careers.
Stephen Henden, volunteer with Dulwich Picture Gallery, won the Best IT Volunteer Award. Henden introduced a new ticketing and event management system, a new membership database, a credit card handling process, and trained staff in their use.
"Without Stephen's time and project management skills, the project could not have been implemented," said a senior gallery official.
The Best Accessible IT Volunteering Project Award was won by Edward Jung, volunteer at the National Phobics Society. The project took 30 months of volunteer time.
Jung developed a robust website for the society which was very well received by the membership. The site includes a secure area that enables people with anxiety disorders to communicate with one another in a safe environment.
Panikos Panayi, volunteer at Halton Citizens Advice Bureau, won the award for Best IT Volunteering Project - Impact on Organisations. For this award, the key issue is impact the project must have made a real difference to the way in which the charity functions.
Panayi developed a web-based online referral system for the bureau which enables shortcuts through the "first come first served" system to help urgent cases or particularly disadvantaged people who would otherwise have missed out on services.
IT and telecoms manager at Global Investments Group, Panayi saw an article about IT4Communities in Computer Weekly four years ago, and now spends 10 to 15 hours a week in his spare time working with the bureau.
"It sounds a lot but it was not because the bureau manager knew what he wanted - he would give me a flow chart design and I would implement it. My work with Halton CAB helps my day job too," he said. "The IT industry needs to raise its profile and get involved in the community," Panayi added.
The Best IT Volunteering Project - Innovation Award was won by Brent Longborough, a volunteer for Age Concern. Longborough designed an accessible and simple to use virtual in/out system to track staff whereabouts.
The system is quick to use and it enables Age Concern Exeter to present a more professional and accessible face. The system has also helped the charity improve service.
Longborough has been in the IT industry nearly 40 years. He started his career with British Airways, working on the Boadicea airlines reservation system in 1967, then spent 20 years with IBM, mainly in Brazil, before coming back to the UK as a contractor.
He gravitated to volunteering his skills to charities to get practical real life experience of implementing web technology.
"I came from a Iron Age mainframe background - that was good, but I was also interested in the web and modern IT, but could only get involved in it as an amateur. Volunteering offered me the opportunity to work in this area as a professional. I have probably gained more from volunteering than Age Concern."
The Best Charity for Volunteering Award was won by Usable Websites, selected by volunteer Maria Hubbert. Usable Websites was set up in 2006 to help UK charities develop accessible online presences.
The charity supported its IT professional volunteer Maria Hubbert in various ways, including making her feel a valued part of the team and supporting her professional development.
Among the other finalists, Paul Campbell is a volunteer for No Limits young peoples' charity and is a second year computer science undergraduate at Manchester University. It was here that a lecturer put him in touch with IT4Communities.
Campbell has been working voluntarily two to three hours a week over several months for the Southampton-based charity.
Vicki Orba, database manager of No Limits, said: "We had a clear need for a complex information database. We had been using the old one to death and knew what new system we wanted to have, but doing it on our own was intimidating. Paul has been able to communicate and translate our needs into results."
Finalist for the Best IT Volunteering Project - Innovation Award, IT manager Beth Dodd developed an electronic Christmas card system for employees at Yorkshire Water to raise money for WaterAid, a water industry charity which aims to provide clean water and sanitation to 17 of the world's poorest countries.
It is a fun, innovative way of helping the charity generate more than £1,000 a year, and Dodd hopes to scale the system to include other festivals such as Divali and also extend it to other water companies.
Dodd manages 13 senior IT professionals, and has been at Yorkshire Water for seven years. She used to raise money for WaterAid by selling paper Christmas cards. "I thought that there must be an easier way to sell Christmas cards," she said.
"We put the Christmas cards onto our company-wide Lotus e-mail system. People have to pledge a sum of money and then they can send as many e-Christmas cards as they want to. The cards are not only being used for greetings, they are also being used for recognition, with, for example, managers using these e-cards to say thank you."
Dodd added that the time she saved by not selling physical cards freed her up to help organise a charity ball that raised £80,000.
2006 volunteer awards winners and finalists
Best IT Volunteer
Winner: Stephen Henden, volunteer for Dulwich Picture Gallery
Finalist: Lenna Cumberbatch, volunteer for Galop
Finalist: Irene Waller, volunteer for Eastlea Community Centre
Best Accessible IT Volunteering Project
Winner: Edward Jung, volunteer for the National Phobics Society
Finalist: Stella Bernadi, volunteer for the Fibromyalgia Support Group for Surrey and Sussex
Best IT Volunteering Project - Impact on Organisations
Winner: Panikos Panayi, volunteer for Halton Citizens Advice Bureau
Finalist: Daniel Guth, volunteer for Dhiverse
Finalist: Joe McNulty, volunteer for Bromsgrove & Redditch Advocacy Group
Best IT Volunteering Project - Innovation
Winner: Brent Longborough, Age Concern
Finalist: Beth Dodd, volunteer for WaterAid
Best Charity for Volunteering
Winner: Usable Websites, entered by volunteer Maria Hubbert
Finalist: No Limits (Southampton), entered by volunteer Paul Campbell
Advice for volunteers: how to get it right
Do not over-promise
Keep it simple at first
Ensure all parties have agreed the project definition
Check that the charity's management is committed to the project
For complex projects the management role should be located within the charity
Ensure that the project is sustainable without you
Cover potential risks and liabilities
Define from the start when the project will end, and when any reviews will occur
Spread the good news
Do it again
Source: IT4Communities
What is it4Communities?
IT4Communities is an organisation that brings together IT professionals that want to volunteer their skills and charities that need help with IT.
Acting as a clearing house and a source of advice to both volunteers and charities, IT4Communities has brought a much needed structure to the process of volunteering, and several hundred projects have been successfully completed .
In 2005 IT4Communities joined up with four other charities to form the ICT Hub. The initiative received £400,000 funding from the Home Office to support the effective use of IT across the voluntary sector.
The ICT Hub members are: IT4Communities, the National Council for Voluntary Organisations, the National Association for Voluntary and Community Action, AbilityNet and the London Advice Services Alliance.
IT4Communities is especially active with smaller local and community charities.
More information on volunteering:
www.it4communities.org.uk
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Ricciardo: I'm very happy and didn't forget to do the shoey
It was a bittersweet day for Renault at the 2020 Emilia Romagna Grand Prix, with Daniel Ricciardo claiming a well-deserved third place, the second podium in a row for the Australian while his teammate Esteban Ocon suffered a DNF due to a transmission problem.
Watched all weekend by soon to return double F1 World Champion Fernando Alonso, the team is now third in the championship standings with a car that is now top of the midpack, only bettered by the all-conquering Mercs and the one-man-show Red Bull.
The Spaniard, who replaces Ricciardo in the team for next year, will no doubt be enjoying what he is seeing in the yellow and black pit garage.
Daniel summed up his afternoon at Imola, after downing a shoey on the podium with race winner Lewis Hamilton, "Two podiums in three races! I'm very happy and I didn't forget to do the 'shoey' this time around!
"We were pretty settled in fifth but then Max triggered the safety car. It was the right thing to stay out, especially after Perez pitted. It is pretty difficult to overtake here and it was worth the risk today: it paid off. It's a shame about Esteban as the car was strong today.
"The result here means we get into third in the Championship, which is what the team is aiming for. I'm super happy to come away from Imola with a great podium: big thanks for everyone at the team. No second tattoo this time round though, I think Cyril's suffered enough!"
The Renault team boss Cyril Abiteboul reported, "Our strategy team made the bold decision not to stop again, assuming that we had enough life and pace to contain the threat from behind. It was very brave, but it paid off thanks to a fantastic drive from Daniel.
"With his engineers, he managed to keep the exact tyre temperature required during the long safety car and then managed an amazing last few laps to get to the end and give us another podium."
Before that he had words for luckless Ocon, "I'd like to start by apologising to Esteban as it was another retirement due to a technical issue. He was not far off yesterday and had a decent start to be in the mix despite the early stop to remove the tear-off from his ducts. He then suffered from an issue that caused some trouble with his gearbox and he had to retire."
Esteban added, "It was a tough weekend overall, with a succession of bad luck this weekend. We had a few issues this afternoon. We had a tear-off in the brake duct, which meant that we pitted early to take it off and then we had a gearbox problem.
"Nonetheless I'm very happy for the team today for this podium again, well done to Daniel. This is very positive for the team, we are coming strong and it bodes well for the rest of the season and months to come.
"We are third in the championship now; we knew this is what we are fighting for so it's good to be ending the weekend like this," added the French driver.
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Home India News General News WATCH: "Was planning my next race when I was lying on my boat," says globe-circumnavigator Commander Abhilash Tomy whose incredible resilience overcame the storm that broke his boat and his back
WATCH: "Was Planning My Next Race When I Was Lying On My Boat," Says Globe-circumnavigator Commander Abhilash Tomy Whose Incredible Resilience Overcame The Storm That Broke His Boat And His Back
Written By Apoorva Rao | Mumbai | Published: January 26, 2019 12:31 IST
Showing indomitable spirit Commander Abhilash Tomy KC who braved and survived storm while participating in the Golden Globe Race in 2018 has said that he thinking of his next race after a storm wrecked his boat during the Golden Globe Race event in 2018
Tomy spoke to Republic TV's Editor-In-Chief Arnab Goswami about his experience during the shipwreck during which he survived 14 high waves 130 kmph for 70 hours
Showing indomitable spirit Commander Abhilash Tomy KC who braved and survived storm while participating in the Golden Globe Race in 2018 has said that he thinking of his next race after a storm wrecked his boat during the Golden Globe Race event in 2018.
Tomy spoke to Republic TV's Editor-In-Chief Arnab Goswami about his experience during the shipwreck during which he survived 14 high waves 130 kmph for 70 hours. The incident led to a back injury.
"I was planning my next race when I was lying on my boat," he said when answering a call from Rini Simon, who is India's top broadcaster,
He spoke about several things including his motivation during the incident and the Indian Navy.
#ProudToBeIndian | I had been dreaming of flying, sailing since a child. I am really thankful to Navy for this opportunity, and to the people who prayed for me: Commander Abhilash Tomy pic.twitter.com/F7z9SHZtwL
— Republic (@republic) January 26, 2019
On what kept him going on during the 2018 incident -
"The kind of support I got after I was lying injured in the middle of nowhere, it was really overwhelming. I trusted the sea and I was confident that I would be rescued no matter what and had faith in the ability of the Indian Navy. The Navy prepared me very well for such a situation. I was crippled in a place 6,000 km away from India what kept me going was naval training and also that you should never lose the will to survive," he said.
On wanting to be back in the sea after the incident -
"When I get into a storm like the one which broke my back and boat that's when it is paisa vasool for me. I get anxious when I get there but once I get I look forward to such challenges," he said.
On not feeling alone when stuck for three days in the sea -
"You are alone physically when you are at sea. But it is the country which pushes you forward. The country will be a better place if more people go to sea. The kind of support when I am on land, the kind of resource one gets to do what I want at the sea," he said.
Feel grateful be a part of being in the Navy -
"I have been dreaming about working for the navy and wearing the Whites since I was a kid. I am really thankful to Navy for this opportunity, and to the people who prayed for me," he said.
#ProudToBeIndian | You are alone physically when you are at sea. But it is the country which pushes you forward. The country will be a better place if more people go to sea: Commander Abhilash Tomy pic.twitter.com/6qyeXHxCfO
About Abhilash Tomy:
A pilot in the Indian Navy, he has had the advantage, just as French sailing legend Eric Tabarly did, of spending much of his career sailing for his country.
Commander Tomy has covered 52,000 miles under sail while in the Navy including a solo non-stop circumnavigation from Mumbai and back in 2012-13. He has also represented India in the 2011 Cape Town to Rio Race, the Spanish Copa del Rey Race in 2014 and the Korea Cup for two years in succession.
He has been awarded the Tenzing Norgay National Adventure Award, the Kirti Chakra for valour and courageous action and Mac Gregor medal.
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John Willmott – Chair
John Willmott has hockey in his blood as he has been attending hockey matches for most weeks of his life since his birth and has regularly attended many festivals at home and abroad. He still plays veterans hockey for Southgate and summer hockey for Pistons. He has been President of both and has been a Chairman of several businesses over the years. He is a Trustee of Sportsaid's Eastern Region and a recently retired Chair of a prep school.
John is married with five children and lives in Hungerford, Berkshire. He is from the fifth generation of a family run construction and property company and sat on the National Council of the Chartered Institute of Building. In addition and following his involvement as the Stadium Director for the 1986 Hockey World Cup in London, he became an artificial turf pitch consultant. This was then followed by working as a volunteer at the 1988 Olympic Games in Seoul for GB Hockey and the British Olympic Association. He has worked on many of the elite hockey installations throughout the UK and for a variety of school and university sports facilities including making many grant aid applications. John was also appointed for the 2012 London Olympics hockey training facility at Chigwell which was replicated at Riverbank.
Mike Smith – Curator and Trustee
Mike Smith is a 'Baby Boomer' who learned his hockey from the cradle thanks to his hockey enthusiast father who learned his hockey at school in India. He played his first club match at the age of 12 and continued for over fifty years, also taking on administrative roles at club, county and national levels, taking in outdoor, indoor, umpiring and coaching, becoming one of the first Hockey Assocation (HA) coaches in the early 1970s.
In founding specialist hockey company Mercian in 1974, Mike's involvement in hockey became even greater. Shortly after, by marrying hockey player Judy and producing two hockey-playing sons, a total hockey family was created. The birth of Mercian enabled the collection of hockey material of all kinds – maybe the start of The Hockey Museum (THM)?
Involvement in the London World Cup of 1986 saw the first display of hockey memorabilia and planted the seeds of what was to come. In June 1992, with the impending National Hockey Stadium at Milton Keynes, Mike and David Wareham were asked by Phil Appleyard, the then HA President, to become joint honorary curators of The Hockey Museum based at the new stadium. A few 'ups and downs' ensued, but in 2011, with Mike retired from Mercian, an offer of a home from Woking Borough Council saw the re-birth of the dream of a dedicated museum for hockey and Mike became one of THM's founder Trustees. The rest, as they say, is history, but that is what THM is all about.
Katie Dodd – England Hockey-nominated Trustee (& former Chair)
Katie Dodd is a graduate of both Edinburgh and London Universities, gaining a doctorate in Plant Pathology in 1975. She worked for the Metropolitan Police Service for 27 years, taking early retirement in 2007 and held a variety of senior management posts and project leads in the strategy, IT and organisational change areas of the Service.
In the world of hockey, Katie gained honours representing England in the late seventies and early eighties in both indoor and outdoor forms of the game where she captained the Indoor team to a bronze medal in the European Indoor Championships. She was also heavily involved in club, county, regional and national administration and coaching. More recently she served for many years as a Non-Executive Director on the Board of England Hockey and has volunteered at many hockey events including the 2012 Olympics. Katie is one of THM's founder Trustees and has chaired the Board of Trustees since 2011.
Philip Kimberley – Trustee (& former Interim Chair)
Philip Kimberley comes to THM with a wealth of experience following a successful business career including twenty years' senior international leadership (Chair/CE) experience in a 'blue chip' multinational company. Chairman of England Hockey from 2002 to 2015, where he led a complete rebuild of the organisation to a position where it is now recognised as one of the best run governing bodies in British sport. Under his stewardship, the organisation set on the road to its highest ever participation figures and was awarded the right to host numerous major events including the 2018 Women's World Cup. He has also served on other boards, notably UK Sport, Sports Coach UK as well as UK Sport's anti-doping project board. He has been recognised for his considerable contributions to sport being awarded the Community Sport and Recreation Emeritus Award in 2015 and an OBE in the 2017 Queen's Birthday Honours. Philip is also a member and Trustee of Gerrards Cross Hockey Club.
Mike Barford – Treasurer and Trustee
Mike Barford graduated from Cambridge University in 1971 with a degree in Mathematics. After 3 years teaching at Christ's Hospital (CH), he trained as a Chartered Accountant, becoming a partner in 1985 in Deloitte, where he co-founded the Forensic Services Department, specialising in providing expert accounting advice to clients involved in disputes. After retiring in 2003, he was for many years Treasurer of the Surrey Cricket Board and a Trustee of Eastbourne College Inc., and is currently Treasurer of a Charitable Foundation which supports pupils at CH and Treasurer of the University Hockey Match Organising Committee. Mike played hockey for Cambridge University, Sussex and Richmond, of which he is a former 1st XI captain and club President. He also played cricket for Cambridge University, and retains an active role in several cricket clubs. Since 2006, he has led the volunteer team in the CH Museum, where he is Honorary Curator.
David Wareham – Trustee
David Wareham was born in Woking and has lived in the local area all his life. A Chartered Surveyor, he was, for more than 30 years, the Senior Partner of a local firm, Pearce and Company.
David has been heavily involved in the administration of sport at local, regional and national level, and is an honorary life member of Woking Hockey Club, Middlesex Hockey Umpires Association and Southern Counties Hockey Umpiring Association. With Mike Smith, he is joint founder Curator of The Hockey Museum having been appointed by Phil Appleyard in June 1992, after serving as Philatelic Co-ordinator for the Men's 1986 World Cup, held in London. David is also a Trustee of The Hockey Youth Trust, which helps schools and clubs at grass roots levels throughout England, as well as four other local Charities. He still regularly umpires hockey for Woking Vets in the Wessex Masters 'Supervets' League.
Imogen Gibbon – Trustee
Imogen Gibbon graduated from the University of St Andrews with an MA (Hons) in Art History, subsequently gained an MSc in Archive Administration from Aberystwyth University. From 1997 until 2002 she was Curator of Historic Photographs and Ship Plans at the National Maritime Museum Greenwich before moving on to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in 2002 to became Senior Curator of the Reference Section. In 2013, she took up her current role of Chief Curator and Deputy Director of the Scottish National Portrait Gallery where she has been responsible for initiating and delivering many successful exhibitions.
Imogen says she is thrilled to have been appointed as one of the new Trustees for The Hockey Museum. She added "the development of THM Collection – both the objects and archives – is pivotal to achieving the objective of placing the Museum at the centre of the heritage of hockey in the UK and internationally. I look forward to bringing my twenty-plus years of professional museum and gallery experience to assisting with the development and exhibition of the Collection which by 2020 will be the world's leading hockey museum and archive". She is also very much looking forward to her first 'back to hockey' session as part of her role as a THM Trustee.
Lucy Newcombe – Trustee
After completing an Aerosystems Engineering degree at Salford University, Lucy Newcombe joined the Royal Air Force (RAF) and was commissioned as a junior officer. Rapid promotion provided multiple opportunities in a variety of roles over 17 years. She has been involved with and led and managed teams in many environments including 4 operational tours in the war zones of Kosovo, Iraq and Afghanistan. She has completed an intensive 11-month Masters Course covering strategic management, leadership, international politics and affairs and campaign planning. She also found time to get involved in RAF and Combined Services hockey over a 10-year period, holding posts of Vice Chair, Secretary and Head Coach.
Since leaving the RAF, Lucy spent 18 months walking solo around the coast of Great Britain. Lucy is also a former International hockey player playing for England in the mid 1990s. She is now a qualified Level 2 hockey coach and ski instructor but is also actively involved in a variety of other sports including running, swimming, cycling and walking.
Mike Joyce – International Hockey Federation-nominated Trustee
Mike Joyce bio here.
Ian Wilson – England Hockey-nominated Trustee
Ian Wilson is the Trustee appointed by England Hockey. He has been their Finance and Administration Director since 2004 and has been involved with the Museum since its earliest days. He is also a Trustee of Hockey Futures and Chairman of his Club, so he brings a range of hockey experience to the Museum.
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