We deliver:
Through a single point of contact
A tailored package
With full insurance, and enhanced DBS and non-assured STF/LOTC Badge
Including guides, travel and accommodation as a premium service
We want to make your life as easy as possible, while delivering for your pupils a truly memorable and inspiring experience that will enhance their love of and enthusiasm for the history they are being taught.
European tours:
Normandy
A three-day, two-night Tour of Normandy. Led by battlefield guides Dan Hill, and Rocky Salmon, this tour will focus on the D Day landings and the Battle of Normandy from June to August 1944.
Sites included are:
- Pegasus Bridge
- Merville Battery
- Sword Beach
- Juno Beach
- Longues-sur-Mer Battery
- Omaha Beach
- Omaha cemetery
- La Cambe German cemetery
- Operation Goodwood
- Villers-Bocage
- The Falaise pocket and Memorial de Montormel Museum
All meals are provided.
Accommodation: The staff and guides will all be in single rooms with ensuite bathrooms, and the students are in multiple dorms with ensuite bathrooms. Towels, bedding and all meals are provided.
Berlin
A three-day, two-night Tour of Berlin. Led by battlefield guides Dan Hill, and Rocky Salmon, this tour will focus on the military history of Germany 1870-1945 and The Cold War.
Sites included are:
- Brandenburg Gate
- Holocaust Memorial
- Hitler’s Bunker
- Bebelplatz
- Topography of Terror Museum
- Saschenhausen Concentration Camp
- Grunewald Station
- Olympic Stadium
- Reichstag dome visit
- Berlin Wall
- Checkpoint Charlie
All meals are provided.
Accommodation: The staff and guides will all be in single rooms with ensuite bathrooms, and the students are in multiple dorms with ensuite bathrooms. Towels, bedding and all meals are provided.
Ypres & Somme
A three-day, two-night Battlefield Tour of the Somme and Ypres. Led by battlefield guides Dan Hill, and Steve Chambers, this tour will focus on the two major British engagements of the Great War at Passchendaele 1917 and the Somme in 1916 with a specific focus on the involvement of the local residents in those battles.
Sites included are:
- Lijssenthoek Military Cemetery,
- Hill 60,
- Vancouver Corner & Herts Regt Memorial,
- Essex Farm,
- Passchendaele Memorial Museum
- Tyne Cot
- The Last Post Ceremony at the Menin Gate.
- Sunken Lane at Beaumont Hamel,
- Newfoundland Memorial Park,
- Ulster Tower,
- Lochnagar Crater,
- Thiepval Memorial.
- Vimy Ridge
- French memorial at Notre Dame De Lorette
All meals are provided.
Accommodation: The staff and guides will all be in single rooms with ensuite bathrooms, and the students are in multiple dorms with ensuite bathrooms. Towels, bedding and all meals are provided.
UK Tours:
Battle of Hastings
Battle of Bosworth
Battle of Britain
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Safeguarding Policy
Safeguarding: the action taken to promote the welfare of children and vulnerable adults, and protect them from harm, maltreatment, and abuse.
In any safeguarding incident it is likely that CBT guides will not be acting alone and that they are unlikely to be the lead agency dealing with the matter. For example, we always work closely on our tours with schools and the guides are never alone with the children without a teacher present.
At Classic Battlefield Tours, we take the safety of young people very seriously and it is our top priority. James Stewart-Smith, our Managing Director takes overall responsibility for our arrangements for Safeguarding. Any concerns about a child or young person on a trip would be reported to JSS and the teacher in charge immediately.
All our staff are DBS checked and have undergone basic safeguarding and First Aid training.
All our coach drivers have been DBS checked and we have undergone the New Coach Training together with the Accommodation Training and are up to date with all the audits and procedures required.
We, the management, tour guides, coach drivers, administration staff etc, are all committed to:
- Taking the interests and well-being of young people into account, in all our considerations and activities.
- Respecting the wishes, rights and feelings of the young people on our tours.
- Taking all reasonable practicable steps to protect them from neglect, physical, sexual and emotional abuse.
- Promoting the welfare of young people and their protection within a position of trust.
We ensure all our staff, tour guides, coach drivers etc.
- Set a good example for others to follow
- Treat everyone with dignity and respect
- Treat everyone equally – do not show favouritism
- Remember you have been placed in a position of trust – do not abuse this
- Report all allegations, suspicions and concerns immediately
- Remember that someone might misinterpret your behaviour/actions
- Respect a young person’s right to personal privacy
- Act within appropriate boundaries, even in difficult circumstances
- Encourage an open and transparent culture, where people can challenge inappropriate attitudes or behaviours
- Plan activities that involve more than one other person being present, or at least within sight and hearing of others
- Are never alone or speak alone with a young person
- Do not make any physical contact with a young person at all
- Do not enter a young person’s room under any circumstances
- Do not trivialise abuse or let it go unreported
- Do not join in physical contact games with young people
- Do not overstep the boundaries between yourself and young people by engaging in friendships or sexual relationships
- Do not swear or use inappropriate, suggestive or threatening language, whether verbal, written or online
- Do not rely on your reputation or position to protect you
If a young person tells us they are being abused, we follow this format –
Allow them to speak without interruption, and accept what they say
Be understanding and reassuring – we do not give our opinion
We tell them we must pass the information immediately on to their school/college etc
We write careful notes detailing time, date and exactly what was said for forwarding to the appropriate person e.g. School Safeguarding lead on the trip
LOTC non-assured member
July 2023
James Stewart-Smith, Managing Director, Classic Battlefield Tours
