School Visits

The Great British School Trip: powered by Hyundai

Join English Heritage on the Great British School Trip!

We are proud to be partnering with Hyundai to support The Great British School Trip, giving 25,000 young people access to exciting and inspiring educational experiences across the UK.

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What is the Great British School Trip?

The Great British School Trip, powered by Hyundai, is offering a selection of free school trips and travel bursaries to reduce costs for schools, helping 25,000 young people access inspirational school trips. You can access:

  • bursaries to help the schools most in need fund their trips, including booking fees and travel costs
  • resources and administrative document templates to support teachers in their bid to get young people back on trips

The scheme links directly to the National Curriculum in the UK and, in partnership with several site partners including English Heritage, removes barriers to accessing inspirational experiences and provides carefully curated content to bring school trips to life.

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How does it work?

Schools have the opportunity to apply to The Great British School Trip for a bursary for travel costs, or to cover the cost of a Discovery Visit workshop.

Applications for funding are managed directly by The Great British School Trip, so make sure you've sent your application to them. If you are successful, you will be given a code to book a Discovery Visit workshop free of charge.

Help with travel costs

You can get help with the cost of travel for your school trip. For more information on how to apply for a travel bursary visit The Great British School Trip website.

Get help with travel costs

Help with Discovery Visit workshop costs

We’re excited to be able to offer some help to schools to cover the cost of a Discovery Visit workshop. For more information and how to apply visit The Great British School Trip website.

Get help with Discovery Visit workshop costs

How to book your visit

Once you have visited The Great British School Trip site to choose your trip and apply for funding, come back to our education bookings page and make a booking enquiry for the site you wish to visit.

Please quote GBST in the learning objectives field when booking online, along with further details on what your learning objectives are for the visit. If making a booking by phone or email please make sure you quote GBST.

If you’ve been successful in securing funding for one of our Discovery Visit workshops, you would have been given a code to provide at the point of booking. To redeem this code please go online as above, make a booking enquiry for the site you wish to visit and enter this code, along with your learning objectives for the visit.

Book your visit

Frequently asked questions

If you've got any questions, we'd be more than happy to help. See if they've been answered below:

Book A School Visit

  • Book online

    Make an enquiry or amend your existing education visit booking using our online form and booking portal. Please note, your visit request is only confirmed once you receive a booking confirmaton email.

  • By Email

    Email us bookeducation@english-heritage.org.uk

  • By Phone

    Bookings are best made online, but if you'd prefer to speak to a member of the team, please call 0370 333 0606

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