Animal Welfare

Magdalen Farm Residential Environmental Centre Dorset offers a unique 132-acre organic landscape where students can connect with nature through hands-on farming, river dipping, and woodland adventures. The site provides high-quality, flexible accommodation and delicious home-cooked meals made with fresh ingredients sourced directly from their own kitchen gardens. Their experienced teaching staff design bespoke programs that build student confidence, resilience, and teamwork through immersive outdoor learning. Additionally, the farm is highly inclusive, offering specialized facilities and activities tailored to support children with special educational needs (SEN)

Located on the scenic border of Dorset and Somerset, the Magdalen Farm Environmental Centre offers immersive, hands-on day trips across its 132 acres of organic farmland and diverse nature reserves. These visits allow students and groups to engage directly with sustainable agriculture through activities like feeding farm animals, harvesting organic vegetables, and learning about the journey of food from soil to plate. The centre provides a wide array of curriculum-linked programs, ranging from "Survival in the Wild" bushcraft sessions to scientific "river dipping" studies where participants can wade into the shallow River Axe to examine local biodiversity. Sustainability is woven into every experience, often culminating in eco-cooking sessions using outdoor cob ovens and fresh ingredients gathered directly from the sprawling kitchen gardens. Furthermore, Magdalen Farm is widely recognized for its inclusive environment, offering SEN-friendly facilities and specialized staff to ensure that learners of all abilities can safely explore and connect with the natural world.

New Forest Wildlife Park Southampton is located in the New Forest National Park, your educational group and school trip students will enrich their learning and understanding of  Europe’s largest collection of otters, owls, deer, badgers, lynx, mink, polecats, foxes, Scottish wildcats, pine martens, wild boar & many more species of indigenous wildlife.

Beetle Bank Open Farm York provide school and educational students with many onsite activities to learn all about animal welfare and  the daily running of the various animals on the working farm. other topics covered include conservation, wildlife projects. Resources and hands on enrichment experiences for all ages. We welcome small schools to educatioal youth groups

Staunton Country Park in Hampshire offers a wide range of funny and exciting outdoor and indoor experiences for school trips. With a rare breeds farm, the south coast's largest ornamental glasshouses, beautiful gardens and 1,000 acres of country park to explore there's something for every pupil to discover. At Staunton Farm students can feed farm animals, enjoy outdoor and indoor play areas, making this place a perfect venue and reward trip for school and educational group experiences.

Crocodiles of the World are the UK’s only crocodile zoo, with its largest crocodile collection and one of the best collections in Europe they provide excellent workshops for school trips and educational groups.

At Godstone Farm Surrey, students have the chance to interact with over 500 animals and enjoy the extensive outdoor play areas. This is the perfect school trip destination for educational groups studying the environment or any animal-based topic. Goldstone Farm offers a selection of talks for EYFS, KS1 and KS2 these are designed to sit within the curriculum and support your class.

Tours can be tailored to the curriculum about a range of topics surrounding primate welfare & conservation. Enjoy enrichment days where groups can help make items used in the enclosures and learn about the importance of primate care and stimulation.

The Web Adventure Park York in North Yorkshire is a fantastic attraction for all school ages whatever the weather is, with a huge indoor and outdoor play centre.  From climbing and park area, children's ride-on to animals, rides, your students will never get bored on a fantastic day trip to Web Adventure Park.

The Hive Environmental Centre Essex provides students of all ages with environmental education interlinked to the National Curriculum to support classroom-based learning through practical real-word outdoor experiences in nature, science and climate change. At The Hive our environmental education offer aligns with the National Curriculum and supports classroom-based learning for all Key stages through practical real-word experiences. 

As one of the most unique zoo’s in the UK, we have an amazing wildlife ‘classroom’ to help bring the curriculum to life. Since we are a zoo, we can cater for sessions not only on biology, but also business studies, physics, chemistry and tourism.

Butser Ancient Farm Hampshire is a world leading museum for experimental archaeology education, bringing the past to life through hands on reconstructions of prehistoric, Romano-British, Anglo-Saxon structures, through immersive, practical activities for students. Your students will experience four hands-on activities of your choice, tailored to suit the period of history your school groups are currently studying and run in and around the historic setting of our buildings

Whitehouse Farm Centre Park Visits and Wow Fun Days  provides a wide range of curriculum-linked programs, where students of all abilities and ages can safely explore and connect with the natural world. School trips to Whitehouse are enriching, educational and exciting.

Woburn Safari Park Bedfordshire offers exciting educational enrichment day trips for students of all ages, with over 1000 wild animals in over 300 acres of beautiful parkland you’ll get an unparalleled close encounter with some of the world’s most magnificent & endangered animals. Woburn offers indoor and outdoor workshops for all ages from pre-school to undergraduate students with all sessions linked to the national curriculum.

Fairytale Farms provides Primary School Students with an outdoor learning wonderland experience, where they can enjoy magical fairytales, farm animals, adventure play, waterplay, activity panels, sensory garden and so much more!

School trips to Hastings Aquarium are an incredible underwater journey for all your pupils. Hastings Aquarium welcomes schools and groups of all shapes and sizes making school day trips fun and exciting. There is also an optional guided tour by our knowledgeable and friendly zoo team aimed at primary school aged children, teaching them more about fish and our oceans.