Halsbury’s ‘Helping Hands’ school expeditions offer your students the opportunity to experience some form of social responsibility activity on their school trip!

Activities can include visiting a local school to interact with and help teach local children, visiting local charities and partaking in discussions or activities, or volunteer work with a local project or charity.

These activities not only help the locals in your destination but also give your students a focus for the tour that will inspire and motivate them to look at their own lives and actions in a positive and meaningful way.

Read more Read about School Expeditions Trips

School expeditions abroad

Our ‘Helping Hands’ school expeditions are available in India, Thailand and Borneo in Malaysia. Each destination offers unique experiences and opportunities, but all will leave your students with a better understanding of the local culture and the issues facing the people there.

We take sustainability, social responsibility and ethical travel matters seriously. As a family company, we see everyone we work with as an extension of the Halsbury family.

And that means we want to see local communities benefit from our tours as much as the teachers and students that visit them.

By choosing a ‘Helping Hands’ tour for your school expedition experience, you can be sure that your tour will make a positive difference to the communities in the destination you’re visiting.

That’s because we make sure that we work with partners in each of these destinations that have the same ethical outlook as ourselves. In India, we work with partners who source all their literature from a small entrepreneurial business. And all their gifts are sourced from a rural women’s initiative.

And in Southeast Asia, we work with partners who provide educational scholarships for disadvantaged youths to become professional tour guides. They also work with a variety of other initiatives, including one that provides a sustainable future for elephants in tourism.

Why arrange a school expedition?

Give your students the chance to make a difference

Perhaps the most exciting element of a school expedition is the opportunity for your students to make a real difference to the communities that you visit and seeing the effect that that has on your students.

On your school expedition, your students will be able to volunteer with local projects helping local communities or helping to conserve local wildlife. These are experiences that your students will never forget.

They will better understand the difference that they can make to the world and they will also better understand the issues that are being faced on a daily basis in many places around the world.

This may be their first experience of volunteer work but, once they see the difference they’ve made, it probably won’t be their last.

Make meaningful connections

Whether you choose to visit Central or Northern India, Malaysia or Thailand, our ‘Helping Hands’ school expeditions will ensure your students enjoy more meaningful connections with local people and the opportunity to gain a greater understanding of local, cultural, social and environmental issues.

Whether it’s spending time with a local tribe in the Bornean jungle, finding out about their traditional way of life, helping to build a temple school for local children in India, or volunteering at a café run by survivors of acid attacks, your students will meet people with very different backgrounds, history and culture to them.

The connections they make with these people and the satisfaction they experience from helping them, will help them to become open-minded, empathetic adults, who will continue to want to make the world a better place.

Enjoy the trip as much as your students

Originally founded by former teachers, and with many former teachers still among us, we understand the value of school expeditions and how to make them successful.

Your trip will be completely tailor made, to ensure that it meets your specific requirements and learning objectives. And we’ll be on hand throughout the process to answer any questions you have.

In fact, we’ll be with you every step of the way, from now until you return home at the end of your trip. While abroad, you’ll be able to reach us with just one phone call, at any time of the day or night. And, with this comprehensive level of support while you’re away, you’ll be able to relax and enjoy experiencing your school expedition as much as your students.

From £1,700 pp

10 days, 8 nights

Send me a quote

Accreditations graphic

Filter Results

Why choose Halsbury?

Here are just a few reasons why teachers choose Halsbury for educational school trips that inspire.

School trips designed by teachers for teachers

Originally founded by teachers in 1986, we understand the pressures on you as Group Leader and are here to make the process of running your school trip as easy as possible.

Learn more about Halsbury Travel

School trips tailored to your curriculum

We'll design your trip around your specific learning objectives and curriculum, to ensure your school trip is a truly educational experience.

Discover how we’ll tailor your school trip

Health & safety prioritised

As a proud Assured Member of the School Travel Forum, the health and safety of your group is always our priority.

Find out how we ensure your health and safety

Support every step of the way

We'll be with you every step of the way, from your very first enquiry until the moment you return home, including 24-hour support while you’re on your school trip.

Find out about the support we offer

Financially secure school trips

We're ABTA bonded and all our air tours are ATOL protected, so you can be sure that your school trip is financially secure.

Find out more about our accreditations

Rewarding loyalty scheme

You'll earn loyalty points from your very first school trip with Halsbury. These can be used towards a discount on your school trip or a free gift for your school.

Explore our loyalty scheme

Request a quote

The Halsbury Difference

School trips designed by teachers for teachers

Originally founded by teachers in 1986 and with several former teachers in our team, we understand the pressures on you as Group Leader and work hard to relieve them.

Trips tailored to your curriculum and learning objectives

We’ll design your trip around your specific learning objectives and curriculum, to ensure it meets your particular requirements.

Rewarding loyalty scheme

Work together with other teachers in your school to save thousands of pounds on future school trips with our multi-trip loyalty scheme!