| Gap Years |
| Travel With Care |
Comprehensive range of travel health and travel accessory goods |
| Year Out Group |
Advice on taking a year out - whether young or older |
| Boarding Schools Association |
Advice on all aspects of boarding education including training and gap year placements |
| Student Jobs |
Student part-time jobs |
| Springboard |
For UK students aged 16-18 looking for careers, jobs, education, gap year advice |
| Global Awareness |
Aims to provide knowledge and skills that help make international tourism more sustainable |
| Voluntary Service Overseas |
A leading development charity with almost 2,000 skilled professionals currently working in over 40 countries. |
| gapadvice.org |
Independent advice on gap years for people of all ages. |
| Safety and other advice |
| FCO - Know Before You Go Travel Information |
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Vital information on all aspects of travelling worldwide, including safety, visas, medical and money |
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| HealthLink360 |
HealthLink360 exists to provide medical and psychological care to global workers and their families. This care starts before you leave, continues whilst you are out there, and is there when you return. |
| Safetrek |
Safetrek delivers safety awareness and personal security training for young adults both at home and abroad. Our courses allow young adults to travel, work and live safely whilst overseas and at home, secure in the knowledge that if confronted with a difficult situation they are well prepared to deal with the problem and resolve it successfully. |
| Caroline's Rainbow Foundation |
Top travel safety tips to read, absorb and act upon before going overseas, including special tips for female travellers. |
| The Lucie Blackman Trust |
Overseas travel safety advice, including planning your trip, safety advice for different countries and phrases in several languages to keep you out of trouble. |
| CallUma |
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CallUma offers assistance whenever you need help abroad. In an emergency we provide a phone interpretation service enabling you to communicate in detail with someone whose language you do not speak. Luggage tracking, lost/stolen credit cards, free emergency calls when abroad and document storage facility products enable you to access copies of vital travel documents from any pc internet. A unique repatriation service is also available. |
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| MASTA provide professional Travel Health Advice |
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MASTA provide professional Travel Health Advice directly to the public through their popular online Health Brief and via their network of UK Travel Clinics. MASTA Health Briefs can be created online in a couple of minutes and downloaded instantly |
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| Compares all insurance providers in the UK |
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Travel Insurance Guide - an impartial guide that compares all insurance providers in the UK in one place and advise on types of travel insurance as well as factors that should be considered when looking for a policy. |
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| Mind The Gap Year is a tailor made combination of insurance and services for the Gap Year traveller. It promotes how to stay safe on your Gap Year, how to prepare and obtain Gap Year Travel Insurance |
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Why do you need Gap Year Travel Insurance? The number one reason for travel insurance is to pay for emergency medical expenses if you are sick or injured on your Gap Year abroad, there have been many incidents where people with no insurance have paid thousands of pounds in medical costs and to get them home. The Foreign and Commonwealth Office say they get more referrals for help from Gap Year travellers than any other type due to not being insured, and the help overseas Embassies can give is limited. This help consists of making contact with home and ‘holding your hand’. No monetary help can be offered. There are many other reasons to buy insurance such as loss of luggage and passport, cancelation of your trip, bereavement travel costs and so on. |
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| Schools/Colleges/Universities |
| UCAS |
All you need to know about University entrance |
| Curriculum on Line |
Multimedia resources to support teaching and learning in schools. |
| Teachernet |
Information about teaching and learning: teaching strategy, teaching and learning tips, learning psychology, and links to thousands of resources. |
| Specialist Schools Trust |
The Specialist Schools Trust is the lead body for the Government's specialist schools programme. It seeks to give more young people access to a good secondary education. |
| Support4Learning |
Links to education resources |
| The Good University Guide |
Independent and impartial advice and information on universities |
| Other voluntary organisations |
| Volunteering England |
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Volunteering England’s Volunteer Management Portal acts as a gateway to the world of volunteer management with links to over a thousand resources and information on support, training and development opportunities for people managing volunteers. |
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| Volunteering Wales |
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The website has been improved to make it easier to find just the right volunteering opportunity you are looking for! A Google map has been introduced to give you a better idea of what is available in the area you want to volunteer - whether near to where you live or work. |
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| National Youth Agency |
'to advance youth work, to promote young people's personal and social development and their voice, influence and place in society' |
| NCVO |
'NCVO works with and for the voluntary sector in England by providing information, advice and support and by representing the views of the sector to government and policy-makers.' |
| Royal Geographical Society |
'The UK's learned Society for Geography and geographers.' |
| Directory for Social Change |
Information and training for the voluntary sector. |
| Duke of Edinburgh's Award |
Provides for young people an enjoyable, challenging and rewarding programme of personal development. |
| do-It |
Search the database for UK volunteering opportunities. |
| Media |
| BBC One Life |
Advice site providing impartial and practical advice to 15-24 year olds |
| Radio 2 |
Essential information for students |
| Young People Now |
The magazine for everyone working with young people. |
| Times Educational Supplement |
'The world's leading education newspaper.' |
| Say goodbye to boredom this summer!This is the ultimate competition for 16 and 17 year olds. Create the most fantastic, brilliant, amazingly incredible day out and we could make it a reality. |
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We've got 5 'Ultimate Days', worth up to £2,000, to be won for you and up to 3 friends. Simply send us a video or photo that shows your 'Ultimate Day'. Be as wild and wacky as you like, but bear in mind your experience must take place in the UK and be legal, realistic and alcohol-free! You can't be boring and just spend your day buying clothes or computer games - it has to be something you can do. That way it'll end up being something you'll remember for the rest of your life. We'll pick 5 winners from a shortlist of the most voted for videos - so make sure your mates go online to vote for you! |
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| Other |
| Department for Education and Skills |
The DfES promotes volunteering and aims to increase Voluntary and Community Sector activity |
| Fun Raising |
Fund raising techniques. |
| Volunteering Holiday Survey |
This academic research is about volunteering holidays aiming to find out what you want to experience or have experienced. Please contribute to this worthwhile study |
| Essential Travel |
Travel insurance provided by Essential Travel including single trip, annual multi trip, ski and gap year insurance. |
| Count me in calendar |
A listing of UK and international awareness and fundraising campaigns. |
| Abbey Solutions |
Specializes in not-for-profit support to all charities. |
| gofindit4me |
A UK-based search engine. |
| Flashbooking |
Find and book online cheap hostels and budget hotels all over the world |
| Choose Action |
The Choose Action Alliance is a collaborative partnership between four UK-based youth volunteer organisations:Changemakers, Youth Action Network, WWV & Youthnet. Choose Action harnesses the synergy of four dynamic youth organisations to develop the infrastructure of the youth sector & young people involving organisations, and to influence policy makers so that young people are at the heart of all they do. |
| Luxury Volunteering (Voluntourism) trips: eco-adventures blending sightseeing with a taste of volunteering |
Luxury Volunteering (Voluntourism) trips: eco-adventures blending sightseeing with a taste of volunteering |
| Careers |
| CareerCompanion |
Reviews of careers related websites |
| Prospects |
The UK's official graduate careers website. |
| National Council for Work Experience |
'Promoting, supporting and developing quality work experience for the benefits of students, organisations and the economy.' |
| Charity Jobs |
CharityJobs is a popular website for charity jobs in the UK. |
| Charity People |
Specialises in a wide range of temporary and permanent jobs including a dedicated fundraising team within the charity/not-for-profit sector. |
| Voluntary Sector Jobs |
All types of UK Charity Jobs, Housing Jobs and many other not for profit organisations in the sector. |
| Student Part Time Jobs |
To find student part-time jobs and student links |
| Interview Tips |
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Job interview tips, skills and advice for successful interviewing. |
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| Retirement |
| U3A - The University of the 3rd Age |
The U3A's main purpose is to encourage lifelong learning for those no longer in full time gainful employment. |
| SAGA |
'The provision of high quality, value-for-money services for people 50 and over.' |
