One aspect is to help the school with regard to Health, Safety and Child Welfare (HSCW) provision for a trip. This involves helping teachers to feel more confident in seeking the information rather than providing the actual support/advice itself. However a lot of information is contained in the various sections of this website.

Another key aspect is to help remind schools, parents and others of the benefits of running a school trip and why outdoor learning is so important – both for learning outcomes and personal development. Again much of the reasoning for outdoor trips is within this website or reached from this site.

Advice on charging and fundraising may also be useful. Individual pupils do face financial barriers; we can suggest a system of targeted financial support. The LEA will also have its own guidelines. Examples of approaches that different schools have undertaken are on this website, along with suggestions on how to keep the overall costs down…such as using a local site for a day/residential visit and staying for a limited duration.

We can provide advice on choosing an outdoor centre. There are no central web based directories but we provide a list of accredited centres as part of this website.

Many LEA’s will have their own centers and will have done an audit of some of the main providers of outdoor activities in their region. The growing schools website has suggestions for visits.

The British Activity Holiday Association has a web site but this is by no means comprehensive. The YHA, Field Studies Council and Kingswood  all have sites for reference.

The AALA (Adventure Activities Licensing Authority)  has a search facility to check the licensing of providers of adventurous activities. You can search their list of centres within this website or go direct to the list contained on their website.