Gap Year Homepage
Ready for a rewarding, enriching year out? Use Season Workers to thoroughly research your options. Season Workers is a completely free resource featuring information on destinations and itineraries, as well as a searchable database of paid and voluntary opportunities.
What to do?
As part of your gap year you could participate in a vast range of sports courses: Gap year watersports (BCU training, surfing, diving, sailing etc); Mountain sports (Climbing, MLTB training and cycling); Winter sports (Snowboarding, skiing); And traditional sports (Football, cricket, rugby etc).
There are plenty of specialist gap year tour organisers around. They cover every activity and location you can think of from trekking in the desert to shark spotting in Sydney.
A volunteering gap year can be a fantastic experience that you will remember for the rest of your life, and here’s the ‘but’ – you need to prepare thoroughly to ensure you pick the right activity, and don't disrupt volunteer projects by backing out or leaving early.
Every year, more than 100,000 of us take a gap year or career break. The gap year and even career breaks have become a British institution and an accepted rite of passage. Whatever you’re stage of life, if you are going to travel don’t simply book a ticket – plan it well, consider all the options, and your gap year could be truly incredible.
Latest Gap Year listings
Volunteer Abroad with Roast Jobs
Roast Jobs is a young and vibrant team that supports you throughout your overseas experience, from start to finish. Since 2008, thousands of candidate
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Au pair Program with Roast Jobs
Roast Jobs is a young and vibrant team that supports you throughout your overseas experience, from start to finish. Since 2008, thousands of candidate
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F&B Service & Bar Operations Intern (Accor in United Arab Emirates)
F&B Service & Bar Operations Intern (Accor in Dubai, United Arab Emirates)RMC Asia, representing Accor, is recruiting F&B service & ba
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Gap year companies
Gap Year video channel
Instructor stories - Becoming a ski instructor with EA Ski & Snowboard
Emily our EA Brand Ambassador tells us how she is preparing for her winter season in Niseko
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EA Ski & Snowboard Training
Oyster Worldwide
Alice teaching in Nepal
This is a great example of what volunteers can achieve in lessons when they use their initiative. The work has been generated by cutting up the Oyster brochure and getting the kids to make stories from the pictures.
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Oyster Worldwide
Amazon Animal Shelter
Join NGO Taxi in the Amazon jungle of Peru! You will provide support to an animal rescue and rehabilitation center that works to protect the jungle's endangered wildlife.
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NGO Taxi
Gap year help guide - a look at each category
Choose between the sectors then a gap year type for a more in depth look at what to expect
