Tours for Schools, Clubs, Youth Organisations and Groups

In The Footsteps® has been arranging tours for Schools, Clubs, Youth Organisations and Groups for over sixteen years. In that time we have led groups from diverse backgrounds, different ages, and different nationalities. We build our group tours with three key aims: understanding what happened, experiencing the battle through the eyes of those who were there, and time to experience the culture of the country visited.

The best way to arrange a tour for your School, Club, Youth Organisation or Group

With so many companies offering battlefield tours it’s difficult to pick the one that’s best for you.

We have created our larger guide-led group tours around a number of key aims:

First and foremost we want our guests to return home with a real understanding of the conflict or the battle that we have explored together. At each site, we visit we will set the scene and explain what happened, where and why, in a clear and succinct way. We won’t confuse you with complicated ‘military speak’ or bore you with confusing detail you’ll never remember!
Secondly, we will ensure that you experience the battles through the eyes of the soldiers who fought there. As well as the histories of what happened, we draw extensively on contemporary accounts and soldiers’ letters home. We also use the poetry and art of the time to help tell the stories. We want to put you there – in the footsteps – of the men and women involved, sharing their thoughts and emotions, and listening to their own words.
And thirdly, it’s not just about the battlefields. We know that each tour is a holiday as well as a learning experience so we ensure that guests have time to experience some of the cultures of the countries they will be visiting in a convivial and relaxed way.

How do we do this?

Our itineraries are designed to put the battles in the context of the wider conflict. The individual places we stop at, and the order in which we stop at them, are selected for their importance in the key phases of the battle or campaign. At each site you will be told in a clear and concise way why the particular site is important and what happened there.

We also attach great importance to our guides. An excellent guide is, in our opinion, the key to the guest's enjoyment of the tour experience. The ‘In the Footsteps’ guides who will lead you through the stories of each battle are all professionals. Each is selected for the depth of their knowledge, their enthusiasm and their ability to tell the story in an entertaining and engaging way. Most are members of the prestigious Guild of Battlefield Guides.

When selecting hotels, we choose them not only for their convenience for the sites but also for their ambience – some are actually on the battlefields. We also organise meals for the group in places selected for their relevance to the tour. It is extremely evocative to take dinner looking out over the Cloth Hall in Ypres or have lunch in the cellars where the ‘Wipers Times’ was printed!

And finally, we learn! Every tour is different and even though we may be visiting the same places each time we never assume we know it all. We encourage guests to contribute their own family stories if they would like to and we can visit particular family graves close to the tour routes and organise individual acts of remembrance.

When we get back, there’s always that next piece of research we need to do to answer that question from a guest that stumped us at the time!

The itineraries here are only a guide and can be altered to suit what you want to achieve and your budget. We are flexible on dates and the type of accommodation used subject to availability.

Past Tours

We have put together tours for a variety of organisations including:

Why Travel With In The Footsteps®

In The Footsteps Tours Limited have 20 years’ experience in designing and providing top quality tours to destinations across the United Kingdom, Europe, and many other destinations around the world. Our award-winning service is second to none and our team of historians and guides are recognised for their excellence. On an In The Footsteps® tour you can be sure that your enjoyment and satisfaction are guaranteed.

We operate a full booking, planning and design service.

Our office is open 24 hours a day whilst the tour is operating.

Combined Employers and Public Liability Insurance (a copy can be supplied upon request).

In The Footsteps Tours Limited activities are bound by the Package Travel and Linked Arrangements Regulations 2018 and all monies paid to us are held in a Travel Trust Association holding account. Our tours are ATOL protected where a flight is included within your package and covered by the TTA's Standalone Safe Seat Plan Guarantee if your packages does not include a flight.

All the flights and flight-inclusive holidays supplied by In The Footsteps Tours Limited are financially protected by the ATOL scheme.

When you pay you will be supplied with an ATOL Certificate. Please ask for it and check to ensure that everything you booked (flights, hotels and other services) is listed on it. Please see our booking conditions for further information or for more information about financial protection and the ATOL Certificate go to www.caa.co.uk.

All packages that do not include a flight within them are protected by the TTA's Standalone Safe Seat Plan Guarantee.

Here’s how it works. The TTA set up a Trust Account on our behalf, where all your monies are held in trust and only used to pay for your holiday. This means that, if In The Footsteps Tours Limited became insolvent, the TTA will make sure that your holiday continues as planned, or that you are fully reimbursed. For more information visit The Travel Network Group.

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Ross-on-Wye
Herefordshire
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United Kingdom
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