20/06/2022
To all our Lingua Linkers,
After having to cancel our Easter 2020 French Club due to COVID, the uncertain circumstances have meant that we sadly have not been able to run our much loved holiday clubs. Now, 2 years, and what would have been 5 clubs, down the line we find ourselves making a very difficult and emotional decision.
After running Lingua Links Holiday clubs since 2014, welcoming almost 250 children and enthusing them with our love for languages every Easter and Summer, we have decided not to run more Lingua Links holiday clubs.
The success of Lingua Links has always been thanks to the word of mouth recommendations that it has generated; children (and parents!) who have waxed lyrical about their experiences and brought along friends and siblings to join them as they have all had so much fun. The COVID-enforced 2 year break has left us in a situation where most of our lingua linkers have grown up meaning we would be starting from scratch –and we sadly don’t feel able to do this at this current time. COVID has required us to change our tutoring services substantially placing different demands on our time and Danielle (who joined us in 2018) has retrained and is now working as a Teaching Assistant. This means we simply don’t feel that we are able to design and deliver the original and high quality clubs that you know us for whilst tackling the mammoth job of advertising and recruiting new Lingua Linkers and managing our other tutoring and work commitments.
We have had an absolute ball teaching your children, and while this may be an “au revoir” for Lingua links, it is an “à bientôt” for our individual language tutoring companies. We continue to tutor and teach languages through Language Learners North East - French & Spanish Tuition, Cramlington and Oui Talk French Language Tuition . If you don’t already please follow these pages. As the world is now starting to return to normal we are reviewing our tutoring offering and will update the pages with any events and classes we set up. We also offer private 1:1 or small group tutoring for all levels and ages so if you would like your child (or yourself) to continue or begin their Language Learning journey please get in touch!
Thank you so much for all your support and “lending us your children” since 2014. It sounds corny but it genuinely is a privilege to teach and enthuse them about languages. While we are sad to have to come to this decision, we feel it is the right thing to do and are so proud of everything that we have achieved. Our songs, crafts and games will long live in our memories as we hope they will in yours and your children’s.
Merci et au revoir/ à bientôt
Emma, Natalie et Danielle xx
