Useful Links
Gap Years
| 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 or 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, which since its founding in 1958 has placed over 42,000 volunteers in over 140 developing countries. |
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gapadvice.org
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Independent advice on gap years for people of all ages. |
Safety and other advice
| FCO - Know Before You Go Travel Information |
Vital information on all aspects of travelling worldwide, including safety, visas, medical and money. |
HealthLink360
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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
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Top travel safety tips to read, absorb and act upon before going overseas, including special tips for female travellers.
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The Lucie Blackman Trust
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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 |
Call Uma 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 with internet. A unique repatriation service is also available.
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| DisabledTravelers.com |
A US citizen's Guide to Travel Safety Abroad. Also useful information on current travel warnings, travel alerts, security and general safety tips. |
| 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. |
| Travel Insurance Guide |
An impartial guide that compares all insurance providers in the UK in one place and advises on types of travel insurance as well as factors that should be considered when looking for a policy. |
| Mind The Gap Year |
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, cancellation of your trip, bereavement travel costs and so on. |
Schools/Colleges/Universities
| UCAS |
All you need to know about University entrance. |
| 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. |
| Franklin Virtual Schools |
High School Diploma Online. Earn a high school diploma online easily from Franklin Virtual Schools. |
Other voluntary organisations
| Volunteering England |
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. |
| Volunteering Wales |
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. |
| 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
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'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. |
| The 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
Other
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Department for Education
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The DfE promotes volunteering and aims to increase Voluntary and Community Sector activity. |
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Essential Travel
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Travel insurance provided by Essential Travel including single trip, annual multi trip, ski and gap year insurance. |
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Year Ahead
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A listing of UK and international awareness and fundraising campaigns. |
| Abbey Solutions |
Specializes in not-for-profit support to all charities. |
| Flashbooking |
Find and book online cheap hostels and budget hotels all over the world. |
Choose Action
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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. |
| Cheap Flights |
If you’re considering taking a gap year or embarking yourself in a volunteer project it can be worth checking for good deals in airline tickets to your desired destination. |
| Luxury Volunteering (Voluntourism) |
Eco-adventures blending sightseeing with a taste of volunteering.
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Careers
| CareerCompanion |
Reviews of careers related websites. |
| The Graduate Recruitment Bureau |
The Graduate Recruitment Bureau is a niche recruitment agency specialising in placing graduates into graduate jobs. GRB has a team of consultants who will inform graduates about relevant graduate vacancies, offer industry advice and guide them through their applications to get the graduate career they deserve. |
| 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 jobs in the 'third sector' in the UK. |
Charity People
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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
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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. |
| TES Growing Ambitions |
TES Growing Ambitions provides information and advice for teachers and careers professionals to help channel the aspirations of young people. At a time when the delivery of careers advice in schools is changing, this platform will be a dedicated portal to help teachers and careers professionals to support young people’s learning about jobs, careers and the world of work. |
| Interview Tips |
Job interview tips, skills and advice for successful interviewing. |
Retirement
| 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.' |
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