General Gap Year Websites
Top Sites
Independent Travellers World - Large UK travel show held around January to March each year. The show usually includes talks, seminars and workshops, many of interest to gappers.
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Best Gap Year - Provides gap year courses, work placements and travel opportunities abroad.
FindaGap.com - An online gap year directory produced by recent gap year students. It provides users with advice and access to a provider database of gap year related products and services including hundreds of gap placements, travel options, backpacking hostels and adventure activities.
Gapwork - A stylish site particularly strong on working in Australia and Europe. Alongside the free online resources, Gapwork sell gap packs designed specifically for working travellers.
The GAP Year - A useful site offered up by two guide book author/editors. Also information on talks.
Go Gap - Read how a student backpacked the world on his gap year. Simon, a British student, backpacked the world and produced Go Gap on his return eight months later. The main thrusts of Go Gap are his gap year, and information for your gap year. Of particular interest is the budget section, giving readers a clear idea of the costs of eight months travelling the world and the Ask Simon pages of tips and recommendations. Though hardly heavy on graphics, Simon has very considerately provided a text only version for those with slow connections; an idea I'm sure he came up with while using internet cafes in Asia. This site is genuinely helpful and easy to use: learn from his gap year experiences and then take your own year out.
Great Gap Years - Planning, keeping safe and working during your gap year.
iGapYear - As expected from the SeasonWorkers team this site offers a wide range of resources and ideas for getting the best from your gap year.
Independent Travellers World - Large UK travel show held around January to March each year. The show usually includes talks, seminars and workshops, many of interest to gappers.
My Year Away - A range of off the shelf but highly personalised web sites primarily for use by students embarking on a year out or gap year, those taking a career break to work overseas or with a long term travel plan, possibly involving voluntary work. This takes the form of a personalised web site complete with a unique domain name, e-mail address and web mail facility plus additional features such as a blog with images, an Image Gallery and archive, and an upload area for your friends and relatives
Oundle School - A Peterborough school's links to gap year info
Peridot Press - Publish the GAP Year Guidebook.
The Site - Started life as a book about gap years and is now a useful website covering a variety of youth subjects including travel.
Springboard - A well established organisation for UK students aged 16 to 18 looking for careers, job vacancies, education or gap year information and advice.
Travel Tree - A website directory that enlightens visitors with opportunities for adventure and educational travel, gap year ideas and career breaks, internships and volunteering opportunities, as well as travel related services such as insurance and transportation assistance.
Utsikt.nu - One of Swedens most popular sites for students who wish to study or work abroad; helping to find the right courses or work programs they wish to take. Their service is free for visitors. The database is impressively large and unique since the search function is very advanced and accurate. In English and Swedish.
Volunteer Africa - Provides details on British organisations that give young people the opportunity to spend time on a voluntary project in Africa.
Volunteer Latin America - A new online service whose mission is to help protect Latin America’s flora and fauna, its biodiversity, and to offer the most cost effective way to become an environmental volunteer in Mexico, Central or South America. VLA connect prospective volunteers with hundreds of environmental voluntary and intern projects in Latin America. Their Volunteer Information Guides provide ecologists, wildlife enthusiasts, explorers, and gap year students with all the information they need to get involved. The majority of projects included in the guides are managed by small organisations. Projects run by large organisations, or those run through agencies, are only included if considered to be either value for money or relevant to a specific request. Also excluded are projects where the volunteer is expected to pay unreasonable registration fees.
The Wander Years - A backpacker site that includes job vacancies and gap year information including news and articles.
The Year Out Group - An association of leading year out organisations offers information and guidance for young people and their parents and advisers.
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