New and Soon
Your summary of what’s new and a sneak preview of what’s to come for EVOLVE Advice’s schools community.
Everything we do is designed to support our schools to confidently deliver safe and memorable educational visits. It’s based on our core commitments to provide:
Fast, in context, competent advice on all aspects of educational visits.
High-quality training to equip you with the skills and knowledge you need.
Useful resources developed for, and with, EVCs to help you day-to-day.
Read on to catch up on new services, resources and opportunities over the last few months.
New since January 2025
(If you’re impatient to know what’s coming next, you can jump straight to ‘what’s coming soon’ click here!)
IOSH accreditation; EVC Revalidation
EVCs training with EVOLVE Advice can now choose to become IOSH Accredited EVCs by taking an optional additional assessment once they’ve completed their EVC Training. Find out more.
We introduced more frequent EVC Revalidation courses for EVCs who have already completed their initial EVC Training. These courses are shorter (3 hours) and include more opportunities to reflect and apply the learning to your own experience. Learn more.
Provider checklist; HQOL poster
A new checklist for EVCs and Visit Leaders to help identify a competent training provider that is suitable for your setting. Part of our Tools for Schools to support EVCs and Visit Leaders in their role. View checklists.
Download a free poster summarising the 10 outcomes of high-quality outdoor learning from the recently published High Quality Outdoor Learning guidance (IOL, 2025). Download here.
A new edition of The EVC Magazine is now available, themed around safety and safeguarding it’s full of practical advice from EVOLVE Advice and a wealth of guest contributors. Read online here.
Would £500 help your educational visits?
We launched this year’s Get Out! Grant at the end of April. Apply before 30 June for one of our twelve £500 grants to support your educational visits. Apply now.
We’ve got more exciting things in store for you, here’s a sneak peak…
We’re developing a practical toolkit to help you embed the STAGED approach to risk management on educational visits.
We’re working with experts in outdoor learning to create a progression map of educational visits and how they support the high-quality learning outcomes.
We’re relaunching our Educational Visits Community for EVOLVE Advice clients. It will include useful resources; direct access to our advisers and to eva! our proprietary AI-powered assistant; opportunities to network and share good practice, a forum for discussion; and exclusive offers from providers for you and for your visits.
We’re recruiting for a new adviser to join the team in September.
We’re planning to run face-to-face EVC training from our new training space in Northamptonshire.
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