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Camp Project Wales is a youth project originally run in Wales by the United Reformed Church (URC) during the 1970s and 1980s, under the banner of FURY (Fellowship of United Reformed Youth), and continued today as a UK charitable trust.〔(Camp Project Wales ) Department of Education〕 Camp Project Wales (known by its participants as 'CPW') had two aims; to provide an activity to challenge its youth who were now over 18 and had reached the limit for formal "URC youth activities", and to provide a holiday for disadvantaged children from Liverpool and the surrounding areas. == History == * 1971 (year needs verification) to 1991 under the United Reformed Church :Camp Project Wales was started in (date needed) by two URC ministers Rev. Keith Nicol〔http://uk.linkedin.com/pub/keith-mcnicol/21/256/460〕 and Rev. Hamish Maclagan, the common link being their service as ministers at Thames Ditton URC.〔http://www.tdurc.org.uk/〕 :During its early years (1971 to 198?) the camp was located in Cynwyd in Wales.〔http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=cynwyd&sll=53.800651,-4.064941&sspn=20.646671,53.701172&ie=UTF8&cd=1&hq=&hnear=Cynwyd,+Corwen,+Clwyd,+United+Kingdom&ll=52.960214,-3.412647&spn=0.00128,0.003278&t=h&z=19〕 :The adjacent River Dee was used to teach kayaking to the participants. * Beyond 1991 as an independent charitable trust :After 1991 Camp Project Wales continued outside of the URC youth activities structure as a charitable organisation〔http://opencharities.org/charities/514288〕 which aims to provide an annual holiday for "young persons who have not attained the age of 16 years in the interests of social welfare and recreation in order that their conditions of life may be improved, such persons having need of such holidays by reason of infirmity, disablement, poverty or social and economic circumstances".〔http://www.help4me.info/service.aspx?serviceid=〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Camp Project Wales」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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