Cactus in Toronto, Canada at the Go Abroad Fair

Posted by admin under Cactus Languages Abroad, Cactus TEFL, Language Courses New York, News

Last weekend we had a successful show in Vancouver, Canada at the Go Abroad Fair we go to talk to so many new friends in our first show in Canada. Then on Sunday we packed the show down and hit the road to the other side of Canada to talk to more new faces in [...]

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Tags: 2008, canada, event, go abroad fair, language show, santiago de chile, toronto, vancouver

Cactus TEFL Open Evening Success in London

Posted by Sarah under Cactus TEFL, News

Laura Harrison, Cactus TEFL Advisor, reports back from our Cactus TEFL Open Evening in London
The third of our 2008 Open Evenings was held at the Guardian newsrooms in Farringdon on the 13th June and was, by all accounts, a resounding success.
Over 75 people came along to find out more about how to realise their TEFL [...]

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Tags: efl, guardian, open evening, suzanne furstner scholarship, tefl, vietnam

Looking back at Cactus over the last few months

Posted by Sarah under Cactus Languages Abroad, Cactus TEFL, Language Courses UK, Learning a language, News

Germaine Broadbent looks back at Cactus during Brighton Festival Fringe 2008
So the Cactus events at Brighton Festival Fringe 2008 came to a close with one magnificent party to celebrate langauges and travel at the Western Front!
Highlights included Alex’s wonderful skills at prize-giving…never has a bottle of Vin Rouge been so bigged up!

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Tags: brighton festival, chailey, evening language course, hove park school, language learning, tefl

Cactus Language Success at Brighton Festival Fringe!

Posted by Sarah under Cactus Languages Abroad, Cactus Staff Opinion, Learning a language, News

Alex Wolfson reports back on our Cactus Language Evening in conjunction with Brighton Festival Fringe
I’m sitting at my desk with my hands shaking slightly and a slight pain in my temple after all the San Miguel I ended up drinking last night, but do not feel at all guilty about this because it was all down to the [...]

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Tags: brighton festival, language learning, mariachi, mexico

Cactus Cake Takes The Biscuit

Posted by richard under News

The team at Cactus has a certain reputation for celebrating whatever event they can possibly justify to themselves is worth opening a bottle for. Birthdays stand out though, and usually see an amount of bubbling alcoholic liquid - be it Koelnsh, Cava or Kronenburg - combined with sickly M&S buns, biscuits and crisps.
Not, however, in [...]

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New York Marathon raises £633 for the Suzanne Furstner Foundation

Posted by Sarah under Cactus TEFL, Language Courses New York, News

Friend of Cactus, Claire Dillon, runs the New York Marathon for the Suzanne Furstner Foundation

On 4th November 2007 Claire Dillon, a close friend of Cactus, ran the New York marathon in a fantastic 5 hours and 17 mins, in support of the Suzanne Furstner Foundation. Suzanne was a much-loved friend and colleague at Cactus who we tragically lost in [...]

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Tags: cactus tefl, language courses new york, marathon, new york, rich ambler, suzanne furstner foundation

Cactus goes stateside with new office in New York City

Posted by cactuslanguage under Cactus Languages Abroad, News

Publication: Language Travel Magazine, Date: December 2007
A news article about the company’s expansion into New York also appeared in Language Travel Magazine, one of the key industry trade titles. The article included a quote from Richard Ambler, Cactus’s NY MD, about the move: “This feels like the right time to go to New York. We [...]

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Tags: language travel magazine, new york, rich ambler

What I wish I’d know when I started…

Posted by cactuslanguage under Cactus Tailormade, News, Press Release

Publications: Business XL, Date: Dec 07/Jan 08

Business XL is a key trade magazine which aims to help CEOs and owner managers to grow their companies faster. The magazine’s editor, Marc Barber, interviewed Rich for a profile article to discuss the company’s history and key business decisions that Rich has made over the years. [...]

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Tags: business xl, new york, rich ambler, richard bradford