The national charity is one of the largest providers of school trips in the UK but has seen a 99 per cent drop in visits. In 2020/21, just over 4,000 students visited its heritage sites, down from its normal annual figures of 340,000.
English Heritage cares for more than 400 historic buildings, monuments and sites including prehistoric sites, medieval castles, Roman forts, and even a Cold War bunker.
The charity offers schools free self-led trips to its sites as well as expert-led paid-for “discovery visits” to 27 sites. Among the discovery visits are a number of SEND-appropriate trips such as meeting the working donkeys at Carisbrooke Castle on the Isle of Wight and sensory activities at Portchester Castle in Hampshire.
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