Bright World Guardianships First Class guardianship service for overseas students in UK boarding schools • reliable airport transfers Safeguarding your • great host families child in the UK • Relax and Revise courses • 24/7 emergency helpline www.brightworld.co.uk The Bright World Team professional, efficient people who really care Bright World is a caring and very “efficient Guardianship Organisation. It is particularly strong on ensuring that children settle well. Its choice of host families is carried out in a careful and caring way. John Dunstan, Chairman, AEGIS ” meet some of the Bright World Head Office team who will be helping you to take care of your child while they study in the UK Bright World Guardianships Bright World Guardianships Ltd and its sister company, Bright World Education Ltd, were founded in 2000. Our role is to help overseas students to find the right place at a British school, college, or university and then to care for them while they are here as their UK based guardian. James & Lana Claire Taylor Foster Director of Directors Safeguarding & Operations Over the years our team of education specialists has helped hundreds of international students join the British education system and go onto top UK universities to complete their education. If you are sending your son or daughter to a UK boarding school, then you will be asked by the school and the authorities to provide the name of a UK based guardian who is responsible for your child as you are not living in the UK. Parents who do not have a friend or family member who live in the UK often turn to the services of a guardianship organisation such as Bright World Guardianships. As guardians, our vision has always been to create an elite guardian service that far exceeds the expectations of parents and their children. In doing so we have established an excellent reputation among the many UK boarding schools with whom we work. We can offer guardianship to students in many areas of the UK. Unlike many other guardianship organisations, we are fully accredited by AEGIS (Association for the Education and Guardianship of International Students). This means our practises and processes have been thoroughly inspected and audited by this important organisation and we can therefore guarantee that we will act in your child’s best interest at all times. In 2013 we were also proud to be awarded Bronze Partner status by Child Safe International after a rigorous audit of our safeguarding and child protection standards. We are now very close to achieving Silver Partner status due to the improvements we have continued to make in our safeguarding standards since then. where we offer guardianship Scotland We have a Bright World Local Coordinator in each region - your Dollar Academy Fettes College child’s Bright World Buddy. Gordonstoun School Kilgraston School Loretto School Merchiston Castle School Dorset, Bristol, Lancashire St Georges School Casterton School St Leonards School Fife Somerset, Kirkham Grammar Strathallan School and Wiltshire Moorland School Badminton School Rossall School Bishopstrow College Sedbergh School Bournemouth Collegiate Stonyhurst College Bruton School Windermere School Lincolnshire Canford School Leicestershire Chilton Cantelo Abbotsholme School Clayesmore School Ashby School Clifton College Shrophshire, Brook House College Dauntseys School Lincoln Minster School Downside School Birmingham & Loughborough Grammar Godolphin School Warwickshire Mount St Mary’s College Kaplan Bournemouth Adcote School Oakham School King’s College Taunton Bedstone College Ockbrook School Kings Hall School Bromsgrove School Priory Academy LSST King’s School Bruton Chase Academy Ratcliffe College Kingswood School Concord College Repton School Leweston School Ellesmere College Rugby School Millfield Prep School Lucton School St James’ School Millfield School Moreton Hall School Stamford High School Milton Abbey School Oswestry School Trent College Monkton Combe School Shrewsbury School Uppingham School Port Regis School St Dominic’s Priory Prior Park College Tettenhall College Queen’s College, Taunton The Royal Wolverhamton Royal High School Wrekin College Bedford SABIS International School Bilton Grange Prep School Bedford School Sandroyd School The Blue Coat Prep School Bedford School Study Centre Sexeys School Warwick School Princess Helena College Shaftesbury School The Blue Coat Prep School Sherborne Prep School Warwick School Sherborne School for Boys Sherborne School for Girls Sherborne International Devon Sidcot School Blundell’s School Gloucestershire St Mary’s School Calne Kelly College Worcestershire St Mary’s School Kingsley School Bredon School St Swithun’s School Plymouth College Cheltenham College St Mary’s School Shebbear College Cheltenham Ladies College Stonar School St John’s International Dean Close School Taunton International Stover School Gloucestershire College Tockington Manor Trinity School Hatherop Castle School The Park School West Buckland School Kingham Hill School Warminster School Malvern College Wells Cathedral School Wales Malvern St James Wellington Academy Cardiff Sixth Form College Rendcomb College Wellington School Christ College, Brecon Westonbirt School Haberdashers Monmouth Wycliffe College School for Girls Warminster School Llandovery College Wells Cathedral School Monmouth School for Boys Wellington Academy York Berkshire, Oxford, London, Cambridge, Norfolk, Ackworth School Buckinghamshire Surrey,Hertfordshire Suffolk , Essex Ampleforth College Abingdon School ACS Cobham Abbey School Ashville College Bearwood College Aldenham School Alexanders College Aysgarth School Bloxham School Aldro School Barnadiston Hall Bootham School Bradfield College Berkhamsted School Beeston Hall Catteral Hall Burford School Bishops Stortford College Brandeston Hall Fulneck School Cherwell College Box Hill School CCSS Fyling Hall School Cothill House School Brambeltye School CATS College Giggleswick School D’overbroecks Caterham School Culford School Harrogate Ladies College Downe House Charterhouse Finborough School Pocklington School Elstree School City of London Freemens Framlingham College Queen Ethelburga’s Eton College Dulwich College Gresham’s School Queen Margaret’s Godstowe Preparatory Epsom College Hethersett Old Hall School Rishworth School Headington School Frensham Heights Ipswich School St Olave’s School Heathfield School Haileybury Kimbolton School St Peter’s School Kingham Hill School Harrow School King’s School Ely The Mount School Leighton Park School Hurtwood House Langley School The Read School Licensed Victuallers King Edward’s Witley New Eccles Hall Woodhouse Grove Newbury Hall Mill Hill School Riddlesworth Hall Padworth College Priors Field School Royal Hospital School Pangbourne College Purcell School St Felix School Papplewick School Queenswood School St Joseph’s College Queen Anne’s School Royal Alexandra and Albert St Mary’s School, Cambridge Royal Grammar School Royal Masonic School The Leys School Rye St Antony Royal Russell School Woodbridge School Shiplake College Royal School Haslemere Wymondham College St Edward’s School Royal School, Hampstead Brentwood School St Georges School St Margaret’s School Bushey Chigwell School St Swithun’s School Stanborough School Felsted School Sunningdale School St Catherine’s School Friends School The Oratory School St John’s Leatherhead New Hall School Wellington College St Teresa’s School Wycombe Abbey School St Christopher School St Edmunds College St Francis’ College St George VA School TASIS Tring Park Westminster School Whitgift School Woldingham School Kent Ashford School Beechwood Sacred Heart Benenden School Bethany School West Sussex Cobham Hall School Christ Hospital Dover College Cottesmore School Earlscliffe College Farlington School Farringtons School Great Ballard School Kent College; Pembury Handcross Park School East Sussex King’s School Rochester Hurstpierpoint College Ashdown House King’s School Canterbury Lancing College Battle Abbey School Kent College; Canterbury Lavant House School Bede’s Sevenoaks School Seaford College Brambletye School St Edmunds School Slindon College Brighton College St Lawrence College St Andrew’s School Burgess Hill School St Leonards Mayfield Vinehall School Moira House School Sutton Valence Windlesham House Eastbourne College Tonbridge School Worth School Roedean School a team of professionals at our Head Office The Head Office team is based in Sussex and is responsible for the organisation of the guardianship programme and offers parents and agents a ‘one-stop-shop’ for all matters relating to the programme. You will be allocated with a dedicated Guardianship Care Manager as soon as you enrol who will look after you throughout the year. The support you will receive includes: your own guardianship care manager PRE ARRIVAL AFTER ARRIVAL • Processing your initial application, and informing the As soon as the academic year is under way, your Guardianship school that we will be guardian to satisfy visa criteria if Care Manager will be busy organising for all the events that required. will take place during the year and will contact you about: • Provision of visa support documentation if required. • Host family arrangements for exeats and half terms • Liaising with you on term dates and your host family • Day to day problems that may arise when you need a requirements. If a family is required you will be allocated representative to act for you with the school. one to closely match your requirements. • Travel arrangements during holiday