TravelAid works very hard to provide university students an overseas volunteering experience which is not prohibitively expensive.
To volunteer with TravelAid, volunteers must be able to pay the following:
(a) £50 fee to cover the cost of a TravelAid t-shirt, a contribution to the costs of training courses and overall administration.
(b) Personal expenses: these include flights, visas, vaccinations, insurance, food and accommodation. In some projects accommodation is provided free of charge by our partner charity; check the project page or contact us for more information. For more information please refer to the 'personal cost project' document. Go to Members area > documents > personal cost project. (Please note this information is being collated and is not currently available. We expect to have it prepared for the beginning of Oxford University Michaelmas term 2011).
Volunteers should note that there are a number of university/college funded grants available for students undertaking voluntary work overseas.