3-day Sikh Educational Tour Of Europe & Lobby

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The tour departs Bank Holiday Monday 5 May and returning Wednesday 7 May 2008 The tour package includes:

· Return Executive Coach Travel with pick up points in Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Coventry, Derby, Gravesend, Leeds, Leicester and Slough

· Return Eurotunnel crossings to Calais

· 2 nights bed & continental breakfast at a city hotel in the Greater Paris area & Brussels area - all en suite rooms

· City tour of Paris by coach with a River Seine cruise

· Guided city tour of Brussels by coach and on foot

· Guided tour of Ypres to pay tribute to sacrifices by Sikh soldiers

· Visit and Guru Ka Langar at Gurdwara Singh Sabha, Paris and Gurdwara Guru Nanak Sahib, Brussels

· European Parliament visit and participation in Sikh lobby

The cost for this 3-day tour, including executive coach travel, Euro-tunnel crossing, 2-nights hotel accommodation and breakfast, and tours/visits is only £155 per person.

To book the 3-day tour and lobby, subject to availability at the time of booking, please ring Simply Groups Ltd on 01943 605999.. For further information ring Amritpal Singh of the National Sikh Resource centre on 07903 290552 or email sikh_resource_centre@yahoo.co.uk

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

DEAR ADMIN

A STICKY FOR THIS WOULD BE VERY USEFUL

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

The tour departs Bank Holiday Monday 5 May and returning Wednesday 7 May 2008 The tour package includes:

· Return Executive Coach Travel with pick up points in Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Coventry, Derby, Gravesend, Leeds, Leicester and Slough

· Return Eurotunnel crossings to Calais

· 2 nights bed & continental breakfast at a city hotel in the Greater Paris area & Brussels area - all en suite rooms

· City tour of Paris by coach with a River Seine cruise

· Guided city tour of Brussels by coach and on foot

· Guided tour of Ypres to pay tribute to sacrifices by Sikh soldiers

· Visit and Guru Ka Langar at Gurdwara Singh Sabha, Paris and Gurdwara Guru Nanak Sahib, Brussels

· European Parliament visit and participation in Sikh lobby

The cost for this 3-day tour, including executive coach travel, Euro-tunnel crossing, 2-nights hotel accommodation and breakfast, and tours/visits is only £155 per person.

To book the 3-day tour and lobby, subject to availability at the time of booking, please ring Simply Groups Ltd on 01943 605999.. For further information ring Amritpal Singh of the National Sikh Resource centre on 07903 290552 or email sikh_resource_centre@yahoo.co.uk

BUMP

[Nirvair S Khalsa]

Time is getting closer, less than three weeks left.

Maybe a STICKY please Admin?

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Time is getting closer, less than three weeks left.

Maybe a STICKY please Admin?

Dear Admin

STICKY would be very helpful.

3-DAY SIKH EDUCATIONAL TOUR OF EUROPE & LOBBY

IF YOU HAVE NOT YET BOOKED FINAL DAY FOR CONFIRMED BOOKINGS HAS BEEN EXTENDED TO MONDAY 28th APRIL 2008,

Book by ringing Simply Groups Ltd on 01943 605999

The tour departs Bank Holiday Monday 5 May and returning Wednesday 7 May 2008

The tour package includes:

· Return Executive Coach Travel with pick up points in Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Coventry, Derby, Gravesend, Leeds, Leicester and Slough

· Return Eurotunnel crossings to Calais

· 2 nights bed & continental breakfast at a city hotel in the Greater Paris area & Brussels area - all en suite rooms

· City tour of Paris by coach with a River Seine cruise

· Guided city tour of Brussels by coach and on foot

· Guided tour of Ypres to pay tribute to sacrifices by Sikh soldiers

· Visit and Guru Ka Langar at Gurdwara Singh Sabha, Paris and Gurdwara Guru Nanak Sahib, Brussels

· European Parliament visit and participation in Sikh lobby

The cost for this 3-day tour, including executive coach travel, Euro-tunnel crossing, 2-nights hotel accommodation and breakfast, and tours/visits is only £155 per person.

To book the 3-day tour and lobby, subject to availability at the time of booking, please ring Simply Groups Ltd on 01943 605999. For further information ring Amritpal Singh of the National Sikh Resource centre on 07903 290552 or email sikh_resource_centre@yahoo.co.uk

Please forward this message to friends and relatives that will be interested. You may also wish to print copies to put up and distribute at your local Gurdwara.

[JagtarSinghKhalsa]

Sticky please

[Nirvair S Khalsa]

Sticky please

STICKY?

[Nirvair S Khalsa]

Re: 3-day Sikh Educational Tour of Europe & Lobby

NOTE FOR SIKHS IN THE WEST MIDLANDS

Vaheguroo Jee Kaa Khalsa, Vaheguroo Jee Kee Phateh!!!

Sikh Sangathan across the United Kingdom are urged to make their bookings for the Sikh Educational Tour of Europe & Lobby as soon as possible if they have not already done so.

The deadline draws close in less than 24-hours, those who have not yet managed to book their place may do so using the methods listed in quoted details below.

With the last few hours approaching for the deadline, places will be subject to availability at the time of booking.

NOTE FOR SIKHS IN THE WEST MIDLANDS:

The pick up point for Sangat leaving from the West Midlands will be at an appropriate location in Birmingham. Other Sikhs who would like to go from the West Midlands Region, including Birmingham, Coventry (separate pick up point in Coventry), Dudley, Solihull, Stafford, Telford, Walsall, West Bromwich, Willenhall, Wolverhampton and the surrounding areas can PM Dhaas for further information, or book directly by calling 'Simply Groups Ltd' on '01943 605999'. After confirming your place, please email Amritpal Singh on sikh_resource_centre@yahoo.co.uk to let the National Sikh Resource Centre know of your booking and location in the United Kingdom.

The full details of the '3-day Sikh Educational Tour of Europe & Lobby' are quoted below, or available by going to the following link:

http://www.sikhsangat.com/index.php?showto...mp;#entry340410

Thanks!

Vaheguroo Jee Kaa Khalsa, Vaheguroo Jee Kee Phateh!!!

The tour departs Bank Holiday Monday 5 May and returning Wednesday 7 May 2008 The tour package includes:

· Return Executive Coach Travel with pick up points in Birmingham, Bradford, Bristol, Coventry, Derby, Gravesend, Leeds, Leicester and Slough

· Return Eurotunnel crossings to Calais

· 2 nights bed & continental breakfast at a city hotel in the Greater Paris area & Brussels area - all en suite rooms

· City tour of Paris by coach with a River Seine cruise

· Guided city tour of Brussels by coach and on foot

· Guided tour of Ypres to pay tribute to sacrifices by Sikh soldiers

· Visit and Guru Ka Langar at Gurdwara Singh Sabha, Paris and Gurdwara Guru Nanak Sahib, Brussels

· European Parliament visit and participation in Sikh lobby

The cost for this 3-day tour, including executive coach travel, Euro-tunnel crossing, 2-nights hotel accommodation and breakfast, and tours/visits is only £155 per person.

To book the 3-day tour and lobby, subject to availability at the time of booking, please ring Simply Groups Ltd on 01943 605999.. For further information ring Amritpal Singh of the National Sikh Resource centre on 07903 290552 or email sikh_resource_centre@yahoo.co.uk

[Nirvair S Khalsa]

3-DAY SIKH EDUCATIONAL TOUR OF EUROPE AND LOBBY PROVES HUGE SUCCESS

The National Sikh Resource Centre operated by the Sikh Federation (UK) last week organised a 3-Day Sikh Educational Tour of Europe and Lobby. The tour comprised a combination of visits to Gurdwara Singh Sabha, Paris and Gurdwara Guru Nanak Sahib, Brussels, a visit to see the Menin Gate war memorial in Ypres, along with a special exhibition in the In Flanders Fields Museum in Ypres that recognised the contribution of Sikhs. The tour concluded with the Sikh Freedom Lobby in the European Parliament in Brussels on the third day.

The coach load of 55 Sikhs from the UK that took part stayed in bed and breakfast hotel accommodation with ensuite facilities in Paris and Brussels. During the tour the group also had time to take in the sites in Paris with a night tour and river boat cruise on the River Seine. A lot was packed into the three extremely long days and the Sikhs – men, women and children that took part had an excellent time.

The family atmosphere is difficult to explain, but was a unique combination that involved the group doing Rehraas Sahib together at the Gurdwara in Paris and on the next two days in the coach. Doing five Chaupai Sahib Paaths on the way to Ypres and five after leaving Ypres to pay tribute to the Sikhs that sacrificed their lives for the freedoms we enjoy today in Europe. The humour and camaraderie in the Sikhs from Birmingham, Bristol, Derby, Ilford, Leamington, Leicester, Slough, Southall and Southampton would be difficult to repeat.

The demand for the tour increased rapidly to over 100 in the last few days just before the departure showing the numbers could have been much greater if Sikhs had not left it so late to book. Whilst the organisers learnt much from this first endeavour it is clear that many other Sikhs want to take part in similar longer tours, especially given the feedback from the first tour and enquiries to date.

The National Sikh Resource Centre and the Sikh Federation (UK) are planning similar educational/religious ventures in the summer when children will be off from school and students will also be on a break. Several individual branches of the Sikh Federation (UK) have suggested each may be able to organise a coach load making the logistics for pick up and drop off much easier.

Sikhs on the tour greatly appreciated the hospitality shown by Sikhs in Paris and Brussels and donated food for the langar as well as £500 towards the building fund for each of the Gurdwaras. In Paris it was disappointing that only two of the four so-called Sikh leaders in Paris spared the time to meet with Sikhs at Gurdwara Singh Sabha, Paris and upon request no one was prepared to inform the visiting Sangat from the UK the latest position on the dastaar cases. This demonstrated first hand to those that came from the UK that the Sikhs in France are struggling to maintain unity and share information about an issue that extends beyond France.

This was reinforced when only three or four Sikhs from France bothered to turn out to the Sikh lobby two days later at the European Parliament in Brussels. In fact they turned up just before the event was concluding and were unable to share with MEPs their experiences first hand – unlike those from the UK, Belgium, Germany, Netherlands and Greece who provided examples of how Sikhs were facing discrimination in each of their countries.

The response of Sikhs from France was in direct contrast to Sikhs from Belgium who proved once again to be excellent hosts. Sikhs from both Gurdwaras and from all groupings turned out in large numbers showing their continued support for Panthic issues. Large numbers of Sikhs from Germany belonging to or associated with the International Sikh Youth Federation (ISYF) fully supported the lobby with some arriving the day before to be fully prepared. This was in direct contrast to others from Germany that showed again they are more interested in pushing their own groupings than support Panthic issues where the Sikh Federation (UK) given its political contacts is not surprisingly taking the lead. The message to the membership of these organisations in Germany or elsewhere is very clear – they are in danger of being left behind and should question their respective leaders for putting their own personal interests before those of the Panth. The Panthic work led by the Sikh Federation (UK) will continue with or without them.

[Nirvair S Khalsa]

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