326: The end of Ski Sunday, Europe’s Indoor Snow Centres & Ski Club of Great Britain

Today we discuss the BBC’s cancellation of ‘Ski Sunday’, find out SnowWorld’s network of European indoor snow centres and discover more about one of the important institutions of UK skiing: the Ski Club of Great Britain.

Host Iain Martin was joined in the studio by Katy Ellis, General Manager at the Ski Club of Great Britain and Wim Hubrechtson, CEO of SnowWorld, and down the line by Chemmy Alcott and Freddy, Zak and Luca Carrick-Smith.

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Les 2 Alpes sponsors The Ski Podcast, which means this winter we will be finding out more about the resort’s long seven-month ski season, the great activities on offer there in summer, and some of the people who live and work there and make Les 2 Alpes such a fantastic destination.
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SHOW NOTES

Les 2 Alpes is going to be title sponsor of The Ski Podcast this winter (0:30)
Iain and Katy were at the industry event ‘Ski Launch’ (1:30)
The BBC announced that they are not renewing ‘Ski Sunday’ (6:15)
Chemmy Alcott spoke with Iain about how she found out and her plans are now (7:45)
The Ski Podcast sponsors Zak, Freddy and Luca Carrick Smith (13:30)
They recently scored a unique family clean sweep at the NZ National Champs (13:45)
Zak Carrick Smith will be at the London Snow Show this year (15:45)
Secure your free tickets for the London Snow Show here (16:00)
Use this link ‘SSLSATPOD100OFF‘ for free Saturday entry to the London Snow Show
Use this link ‘SSLSUNPOD100OFF‘ for free Sunday entry to the London Snow Show
Iain founded Natives in 1999 (18:30)
Katy’s first job after ski seasons was with the Ski Club (19:30)
She then moved on to Ski Solutions (21:00)
Katy became ‘Head of Holidays’ at the Ski Club in 2022 (22:00)
This year in 2026, she became General Manager (23:00)
The Ski Club’s Freshtracks programme covers over 60 resorts (23:30)
Ski Club reps (25:00)
In Episode 212, Lou Cameron Hall shared her experience of doing the reps course (28:30)
SnowWorld operates in 11 sites across 5 countries (33:00)
There are 2.2m Dutch and Belgian skiers (36:00)
Laadgraaf is 650m long (39:30)
The Snow Centre merged with SnowWorld (39:00)
The SnowWorld slopes are very popular with race teams in summer (40:30)
SnowWorld’s sustainability goals (42:15)
EV slope groomers (45:00)

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