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We have been a host family with Host UK for the past four years, occasionally hosting foreign students over weekends. We have spent a very enjoyable Christmas and Easter weekend with students from China. Host UK is a cultural exchange programme for students from overseas who would like to immerse themselves in British culture by staying with a host family for a weekend. Christmas, New Year and Easter are particularly popular times and the organisation is very short of families this year to host the many students who are lookign for families. If you are interested in hosting, kindly get in touch with Host UK. The regional coordinator is Monica and her E-mail is: [email protected]


http://www.hostuk.org.uk/


Here is an article about the organisation http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/higher/host-uk-is-helping-foreign-students-combat-the-loneliness-of-the-christmas-holidays-8340815.html


I am also happy to answer any questions about our own experience as a host family.

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