I was at UK flight training (Rainbow Air) in Long Beach on Friday because my brother was trying to find out about converting his FAA licenses and ratings that he is currently training for at the school where I work. The impression that I got from their addmissions director was you pay alot for a course that included alot of crap you could do with out such as return flights and vip membership to an FBO or somthing. Even though we only wanted to find out about converting the FAA instrument we were told this was not possible and the best thing for him (my brother) to do was switch schools and enroll in their $90,000+ ATPL course. I got a very used car salesman feel from it. Check out welshpool in wales
http://www.poolavia.enta.net/school.htm they charge 1,125 pounds for the IMC. If that is all you want to do it would probably work out cheaper for you.