Outdoor learning offers a valuable opportunity to enrich education, promote personal growth, and connect children and young people with the natural world. The recently updated 'High Quality Outdoor Learning 2025' guide provides a framework for teachers, school leaders, and outdoor practitioners aiming to implement or enhance outdoor learning in their settings.
Read MoreNew educational visits guidance from OEAP sets out what you need to do if you want to invite external participants on your school trips. This may be students who are no-longer (or not yet) enrolled, or participants from other organisations.
Read MoreImportant guidance for DofE expeditions, including what to do when using an Approved Activity Provider (AAP). Updated OEAP National Guidance. Read our summary of the guidance and its changes.
Read MoreISO 31031:2024 provides guidance on managing risks associated with youth and school trips. It covers risk management strategies for both domestic and international travel, focusing on ensuring the safety and well-being of children and young adults. The standard is designed to assist organisations in planning, executing, and evaluating trips with a structured approach to risk assessment, safeguarding, and emergency response.
Read MoreEVOLVE Advice has announced the 2024 recipients of its annual Get Out! Grant, providing £500 each to twelve schools in England and Wales to help fund enriching educational visits. The grant will help to bridge a growing funding gap, which has left schools and families struggling to meet the costs of educational visits.
Read MoreApply for one of twelve Get Out Grants from EVOLVE Advice to support educational visits. Open to schools in England and Wales. Find out more about eligibility and closing dates.
Read MoreHow confident are you about managing allergies on your educational visits? Are you doing all you can to support inclusion for children and young people with allergies to join your day trips and residentials? Join our adviser Andy Smith, and Sarah Knight, Founder of The Allergy Team, for this interactive Q&A webinar.
Read MoreThe National Educational Visits Conference returns to London on 13 June 2024 with a fantastic programme of workshops fully focused on EVCs and individuals with responsibility for educational visits.
Read MoreAdvice on how to prevent and manage medical emergencies on educational visits. This article includes lessons learned from the coroner’s report into a fatality on an overseas visit.
Read MoreInnovative new learning and development opportunities for EVCs, heads and governors led by experienced Educational Visits Advisers.
Read MorePreparation, preparation, preparation! The start of the new term is a good time to revisit your educational visits planning and make sure you and your team are ready for the next batch of visits. Use this handy checklist to check your data compliance, training and CPD, and visit planning.
Read MoreWhat a year it’s been! Join us in reflecting on a great year for educational visits as we share a snapshot of how EVOLVE Advice supported you to deliver safe and memorable educational visits in 2023.
Read MoreIntroducing The EVC Register. The first single, online register of EVCs. Demonstrate your commitment to CPD, help promote high standards in EVC training. Join thousands of other EVCs in celebrating the role of the EVC.
Read MoreThe latest edition of The EVC Magazine has landed. This issue takes a closer look at inclusion on educational visits, along with advice for EVCs on planning inclusive visits using the STAGED approach and managing allergies on educational visits.
Read MoreThis World Mental Health Day, we summarise guidance for schools on Mental Health and educational visits.
Read MoreWe want to celebrate the amazing visits that schools provide for children and young people. Share your photos and videos (with permissions of course) for upload to the Educational Visits Gallery and for a chance to be included in the EVC Magazine too!
Read MoreJoin our friendly team! We’re recruiting for a Client Support Assistant to help us deliver excellent client support to our schools, Trusts and Local Authorities.
Read MoreJake Wiid, of EVOLVE Advice offers advice on the use of tracking devices on educational visits. What do schools and settings need to consider when deciding their policy on tracking devices?
Read MoreRead our blog on AI in educational visits. What are the current opportunities and where might AI support schools in taking learning outside the classroom in future?
Read MoreEight schools have each been awarded a £250 Eco Trip Grant from EVOLVE Advice, to support environmentally friendly educational visits. Find out more as well as tips for reducing your impact on school trips.
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