I live about 5mins away from one of the UK's best gliding sites and am keen to give it a try.
I dropped them a mail, explained my background of both powered and TMG flying and expressed an interest to do some sort of intense course to be able to progress as quickly as possible to solo.
The response I got back was if I'm quite honest rather rude and went something along the lines of "you should be so lucky, you'll be expected to turn up early, push and pull gliders all day long and if your very lucky you might get chance for a flight at the end of the day."
Needless to say I've not been to see them, especially when I have 2 Group A aircraft I can jump in and fly whenever I like and I'd be rather miffed to spend a whole day on the ground without a flight...
I do however realise this is the way of things with the Gliding world but spare time for me is very rare and I have to be efficient with it.
Alas it seems in this day and age you can be either time or cash rich but rarely both.....!