About

Bury Active (formally Breakaway Active) was founded in 2004 by Kevin Bury to offer support holidays to young (and young at heart) adults with learning difficulties. Kevin began his career some 50 years ago now, in a day centre for people with learning disabilities.

He has always had a strong interest in sport, including substantial involvement in the Mini-Olympics project nationwide. He went on to manage a variety of day centres, and residential establishments, concluding his Local Government career as a Community Support Manager. Needless to say he brings with him a wealth of knowledge and qualifications in his field.

Since the outset, Kevin has been able to realise his dreams (now alongside Annika and Stacy), offering disabled people holidays which truly reflect the extent of their abilities and aspirations. His holidays are ideal for customers aged between about 17 and 45 who are looking for a lively, activity-based holiday (although it has to be said nobody would ever be excluded on the basis of age only!). All Active holidays are suitable for holiday-makers who can join in with the listed sports and activities.

We see ourselves as an extension of our holidaymakers. We’re there to support them, be family, friends and entertainers whilst obviously providing a fun, safe environment!

We encourage independence and we recognise these holidays will really compliment life skills that they’re already learning daily, such as managing money, personal care, social skills and so much more that we of course are always there to support them with.

Everyone leaves our holidays with new friends and as an added personal touch, at the end of each holiday we send a selection of photos to keep as memories. There they can show you all they got up to on their holiday along with a brief dairy.

We like to emphasise that we meet every holiday maker before they attend our holidays. This is in the best interest of the holidaymaker and us, as they can then be familiar with who they are holidaying with. At this point we can also recommend not only the destination but perhaps the group that would be going to best suit your idea of a perfect holiday.

We are also one of the only supported holiday companies that still offer Half Board holidays. Although some are All Inclusive, for the most part we have kept our holidays full of choice – we do not just stay on the resorts we book, and we have a lot of variety of food and activities as a result. We do not want to be limited on our trips!

One thing B Active can promise you is that we’re not looking to be the biggest in this industry or have offices nationwide. We are genuinely interested in being the best which often means staying small, family run and humble. There are no designated office hours and we’re always speaking with our holidaymakers too. There are a host of benefits when you focus on remaining small and personable, and our main source of marketing is word of mouth.

If you would like any further information whatsoever about us, our company, or the holidays please do get in touch.