Enriching lives through Experiential Travel
For over 40 years, our specialist educational travel brands have made it their mission to deliver the most diverse and extraordinary range of educational travel experiences on the planet.
We’ve successfully launched over 45,000 school trips and seen more than 1.5 million students travel throughout 100 countries. And while 2020 was a year which brought these life enriching experiences to a grinding halt, it also reminded us of their immeasurable value. Since then, we’ve taken time to think about how we can deliver the very best in educational travel in a post-lockdown world.
Some things remain the same; the importance of our teams of specialists, creating trips to deliver the very best outcomes for students. And of course, making every step as easy as possible for the educators. And some things have changed; so we’ve developed financial assurances for COVID related refunds and further strengthened our health and safety protocols, bringing peace of mind should society become grounded again.
Find out more about Experience Education over the next few pages, and how we can create extraordinary experiences for you and your students.
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WHAT We Offer
Extraordinary Experiences
We recognise that these trips are often amongst the first that young people undertake without family, and so our mission is to deliver truly life enriching experiences that will stay with them forever.
Peace of Mind
We are committed to providing the most secure financial and physical safety assurances available, as demonstrated by our legacy of accreditations, awards and positive customer reviews.
Freedom of Choice
We understand the many varied needs and budgets of educators and students when developing trips, and so we offer the widest range of educational travel options and itineraries available under the one roof.
Sustainability
We are committed to the important journey of travelling in such a way that ensures a brighter future for both people and planet.
WE CAN CREATE UNIQUE ITINERARIES TO OVER 1,000 DESTINATIONS ACROSS
5 CONTINENTS
GIVING YOU Peace of Mind
We know that schools, colleges and clubs are desperate to restart educational travel, with an understandable focus on the financial and personal safety assurances of the travel company they choose.
We strongly believe that the future of school travel depends on travel organisations increasing their focus and commitment to these areas, and so have made it our mission to lead the industry in providing these reassurances to our school communities.
All our Experience Education brands have a long history of holding nationally recognised safety accreditations, and alongside the 2000+ in-country safety audits carried out each year, we do everything we can to ensure our travellers are safeguarded in the very best ways possible.
And since 2020, we as an organisation, have refunded as many as 20,000 families across the UK due to COVID-19 cancellations. In addition, we have the financial stability of being part of Travelopia, one of the world’s largest collection of travel brands.
SKI TRIPS
SPORTS TOURS
CURRICULUM TOURS
Choose from the widest range of educational trips across 5 categories of travel.
Experience Curriculum
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Travelbound is the experiential travel specialist that oversee our Curriculum Tours.
With more than 30 years experience, Travelbound are the industry leaders in high quality, subject-led tours for schools, universities, colleges and clubs.
With bespoke itineraries to incredible worldwide destinations, and our exclusive Château du Molay in Normandy, we tailor every tour to meet your specific educational and cultural requirements.
Whether it’s a history trip to New York & Washington, introducing art & design students to Paris, or organising orchestra and choir performance tours in Italy, every detail will be taken care of to create a truly tailormade, inspiring learning experience.
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Curriculum
50+ EDUCATIONAL THEMES TO CHOOSE FROM
160+ TAILOR MADE TOURS
A wonderful service from a very professional and customer friendly organisation. All services were great, the trip achieved the educational aims and students had a great time. Thank you! UCB
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findoutmore@myworldchallenge.com weareworldchallenge.com World Challenge is the experiential travel specialist that oversee our School Expeditions.
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Our Expeditions have been refined over 30 years of student travel, with an emphasis on developing tomorrow’s leaders through international cultural immersion.
Our team of expert leaders boast some of the highest accreditations possible in the fields of physical and mental development, with on-the ground (and often remote) community partnerships in over 40+ countries around the world.
With a focus on leadership, learning service (often through sustainability and regeneration initiatives) health and wellbeing, students walk away from these experiences with an enriched view of self and a new found confidence to take on the world.
Expeditions
150,000+ STUDENTS TRAVELLED SINCE 1986
40+ COUNTRIES ON OFFER
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Experience Ski
Skibound are the experiential travel specialists that oversee our School Ski Trips.
Skibound is the leading provider of snowsport trips to schools and colleges in the UK, with over 35 years’ experience of running trips to the finest resorts in Europe and North America.
Our dedicated team offer the highest level of planning and advice, with in-depth resort knowledge and long standing partnerships to find and deliver the perfect ski trip for your group.
As passionate skiers ourselves. our aim is to ensure every student and teacher returns home with a sense of accomplishment, an enriched view of self and a love of skiing that will last a lifetime.
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skibound.co.uk
35+ YEARS OF ORGANISING
SCHOOL SKI TRIPS
100+ DESTINATIONS ACROSS EUROPE & NORTH AMERICA
I never hesitate to book with SkiBound, simply because I know that they consistently deliver an authentic and complete package that represents the best value on offer.
Ralph Allen School
Experience Activity Centres
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JCA are the experiential travel specialists that oversee our domestic Activity Centre-based Tours.
JCA have been providing school groups with adventure-based, outdoor learning for over 25 years.
With an emphasis on enjoyment, education, and building self-confidence our UK activity centres offer a choice of one-day visits and multi-night residentials, as well as netball and football tournament weekends.
Uniquely, your action-packed, curriculum linked itinerary will be overseen by a dedicated JCA instructor. They are with you throughout, getting to know your students and ensuring every individual has the confidence and opportunity to get involved, nurture new skills and have an incredible time.
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Activity Centres
1 DAY OR MULTI-DAY
ACTIVITY TRIPS
600 K + STUDENTS
VISITED SINCE 1994
The JCA staff were exceptional, making the trip a wonderful experience for our year 7’s, giving them a relaxed and fun atmosphere for them to bond as a year group.
Marshfield Special School
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Sport
12,000+ SUCCESSFUL SPORTS TOURS SINCE 1974
This was a 5 star experience for us from the quality of hockey and netball played to the hospitality and range of cultural experiences. By far the best tour I have been on in my tour experience.
Stamford Endowed School
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masterclasstours.co.uk MasterClass are the travel specialists that oversee our Sports Events and Festivals.
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For nearly 30 years, MasterClass have been delivering events across UK and Europe to over 3,000 students a year. From high calibre coaching sessions to tournaments and even local fixtures, we have the expertise to create a truly exceptional sports festival experience.
Whether it’s netball in Spain, football in Holland or one of our many other events, our MasterClass team will be on-site throughout to make sure everything runs smoothly.
In fact, every aspect of a MasterClass event is designed for total peace of mind and to create memories that will remain long into the future.
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Sport
3000+ STUDENTS
TRAVELLING EACH YEAR
TAILOR MADE MATCH UPS
All the staff are so welcoming, accommodating and helpful with any issues or concerns. The whole tour party had a fantastic time, and asked when they could go again!
The Marist School, Ascot
Sustainability
We believe in the many incredible, life-changing impacts of experiential travel and stand committed to ensuring a brighter future for both people and planet.
Our brands work across the following 5 key action areas:
WELFARE
Our trips meet a high ethical benchmark with regards to child and animal welfare. From curated Child Protection forums across the world to signing the Wildlife-Friendly travel pledge in partnership with World Animal Protection - we’re dedicated to protecting the most vulnerable members of our society.
CARBON
We’re adapting the way we operate and run our trips to reduce our carbon footprint. Currently, 20% of our international trips are climate positive, with emissions mitigated through gold standard certified initiatives. Our aim is to increase this percentage incrementally with each day, week, month (and year) that passes.
PLASTIC
We are well on our way to achieving a total ban of single use plastics on our trips. We have begun limiting plastics through initiatives such as the Travellers Against Plastic pledge, already culling over 100,000 plastic bottles from our travellers each year.
EDUCATION
We empower our travellers to better understand their impact on people and planet through the use of our newly introduced online Learning Management System, with informative pre-departure tips on how to make responsible choices while travelling.
WORKPLACES
We’re minimising the impact of our offices and workplaces on the environment through use of recycling, paperless documentation, energy efficiency protocols and an introduction of green energy usage wherever possible.
100,000+ PLASTIC BOTTLES REDUCED EACH YEAR. 20% OF TRIPS CLIMATE POSITIVE. WORLD ANIMAL PROTECTION PLEDGE.
For over 40 years, Experience Education has been the UK’s leading experiential travel provider for schools. Our specialist brands and activity centres are trusted by over 3,000 British schools. We operate trips across five distinct travel categories: curriculum tours; expeditions; ski trips; sports tours; and residentials at our UK activity centres.
SKI TRIPS WITH
Boasting over 80 resorts and 177 accommodation options stretching across Europe and North America plus 3 exclusive French Clubhotels, SkiBound are the number one choice in snowsports for UK schools. skibound.co.uk
CURRICULUM TOURS WITH
Remember your first school trip? With Travelbound, learning outside the classroom is taken to new heights. From Normandy to New York, elevate your curriculum learning with subject-specific itineraries tailored to your school. travelbound.co.uk
Get in touch with our passionate team of experts to plan your school’s next adventure.
