Kingswood Closure Announcement Support
The closure of Kingswood venues and company administration is very sad, not only for Kingswood and its excellent staff team, but also for the school groups who will be affected and who may now miss out on their booked trips this year.
We are a fully bonded school tour operator with extensive school trip experience working to impeccable standards, providing an all-inclusive approach to school residential visits.
We work with delivery partners across the UK to offer a range of school residentials and adventure activity programmes, delivered by some of the most experienced providers in the UK.
If you have a school trip booked at any of the following centres during 2025, we’d be delighted to talk to you to see if we can find you an alternative residential visit.
- Colomendy, North Wales
- Dukeswood House, Northumberland
- Green Park, Buckinghamshire
- Peak Venture, South Yorkshire
- Ryde, Isle of Wight
- Staffordshire, near Wolverhampton
- West Runton, Norfolk
We provide an all-inclusive approach to UK school visits offering a package that includes your return coach travel, accommodation, meals and activities. As well as providing packages during the popular spring / summer periods, we also specialise in delivering our trips during the less expensive low-season times of year – October to March.
Please feel free to make contact with us to see if we can help with finding you an alternative residential visit for 2025.
Email: School.travel@firstbus.co.uk
Call: 0203 467 2002
Welcome
First Education & School Travel (FEST) is part of First Bus UK, one of Britain's largest surface passenger transport operators.
We are a highly experienced team specialising in school trip packages, educational travel and outdoor adventure. We are an official school tour operator working to current package travel regulations. We are also members of The Council for Learning Outside the Classroom.
What we do
We work in formal partnership with a range of providers across over 100 venues around the UK to offer the best choice of sites and activities, all working to LOtC guidelines.
Choose any of our venues and visit all year round, taking advantage of November to April period when there is greater availability and considerably lower costs.
In addition, we are a bonded travel company, each deposit payment you make to us is held in trust until your trip has been delivered - thus meaning your money is always safe.
We offer an all-inclusive service - bringing together each aspect of your trip to make sure you get exactly what you want from your experience. We provide coach or rail travel, accommodation, meals and exciting activities or attractions.
Our USP's
We offer a UK wide range of affordable, high quality, fully packaged school trips.
Our school trip packages are delivered all year round
Low season special prices are available
All packages include travel - accommodation - meals and activities
UK wide service
Content delivered to all key stage levels
We work only with high quality, trusted and accredited partner providers
Simply make contact with us with your preferred dates, size of group and preferred destination and we will provide an ALL-INCLUSIVE package price for you.