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About Halsbury Work Experience

The Halsbury team

Halsbury Work Experience is the new name of Acorn Educational Exchanges, same company, same quality, same people – just a new name.
Halsbury Work Experience is a trading name of Halsbury Travel Ltd, a leading ABTA/ATOL bonded specialist School Tour Operator. Halsbury Travel was established in 1986 and has been highly successful in providing excellent service to schools for :

Our senior management team includes a number of former senior teachers and school managers as well as linguists and graduates who between them speak 6 different European languages.

Our permanent staff at our Head Offices in Nottingham and Regional Representatives, based around the country, are available to help and advise students, teachers and parents as necessary throughout the week during office hours from Monday-Friday and emergency and out of hours numbers are given on our answer phone service should you wish or need to contact us outside these hours.

Our Work Experience programme has been running since 1992. We have taken many thousands of students on successful work experience trips each year to France, Germany, Spain and Italy.

We very much hope that we will have the chance of taking you or students from your school or college, on one of our European Work Experience trips in the near future.

Our bonds

Halsbury Travel is a member of ABTA (Association of British Travel Agents) which is dedicated to raising standards of quality, safety, service and financial security. You can be sure that when you book with Halsbury Travel all your arrangements will be in the best possible hands. You are protected financially by our ABTA bond.
Visit www.abta.com for more info.

Halsbury Travel proud member of ATOL For your complete peace of mind the air tours and flights arranged by Halsbury Travel are ATOL protected by the Civil Aviation Authority. Our ATOL number is ATOL 5079. Protection extends primarily to customers who book and pay in the United Kingdom. Visit www.atol.org.uk if you want to know more.


Halsbury Travel Ltd. Registered No. 2002208



School trips and group tours

Halsbury Travel Ltd have more than 20 years experience in arranging school trips to Europe and worldwide, including a wide range of subjects and ski tours. Trips are arrange for schools, college, universities and are tailor made to each group, ensuring a great personal experience for everyone. France, German and Spain are amongst the most popular destinations, but interest is also growing in tours to long haul destinations like New York, China, Japan and Russia.

In addition to school travel Halsbury also provide trips for other groups like sports tours, photography tours, shopping and spa weekends and much more. Please visit the Halsbury website for more information about school trips, ski trips and group travel.



Health and safety policy

The Directors of Halsbury Educational Exchanges regard safety as paramount and must take precedence over all other objectives. They have assumed responsibility for the development and implementation of the Safety Management System to ensure that all reasonable measures are taken so that clients are assured of a high level of safety throughout all of its tour programmes.

Risk assessment
If you are going abroad with a school group and worried about completing the risk assessments for your school, you can get more advice on our parent web site, where you can also download stf’s “Demystifying risk assessments” guide.