If you are interested in bringing a group to Arvon, please first ring Caron May, our education coordinator, to discuss your requirements. Her email address is youngpeople@arvonfoundation.org and her telephone number is 01422 843714.

After you have made a provisional booking, the specific Centre Directors will contact you to discuss all the details of the writing genre you would like as the focus of the week, suggest appropriate writers to tutor on the course and answer any practical concerns you may have.

Your chosen Arvon centre will issue a contract and request a deposit which should both be returned as soon as possible to the centre. We cannot book writers to work with you until we receive these.

The centre will also ask you for details of specific, individual requirements (dietary, access needs) and help you arrange all the practical details for your visit.

Before you bring your group we strongly encourage you to check with teachers in other subject areas that they do not object to students’ absence for the course. Some students have been unable to attend in the past because teachers were concerned about the loss of in-school coursework/class time. These teachers hadn’t been given sufficient notice about the absence.

All practical matters relating to your visit should be discussed and arranged with the Centre Directors. Contracts and guidelines for the specific centre will be issued after you make your booking.

If you have any queries which cannot be answered either by Caron or the centre, please contact our London office on 020 7931 7611.