Year Out Group
If you want to join a project overseas the Year Out Group helps students to select suitable and worthwhile projects. They have compiled a list of questions students can ask of providers of courses and cultural exchanges, volunteering and structured work placements organisations and expeditions to help them decide which one is best suits your aspirations.

Teaching Abroad
Offers foreign travel combined with a worthwhile job teaching conversational English or you can gain experience in medicine, veterinary medicine, conservation, journalism or business. Volunteers needed in China, Ghana, India, Mexico, Mongolia, Nepal, Peru, Romania, Russia, South Africa, Thailand, Togo & Ukraine.

i-To-i
Extraordinary placements - with thorough in-country support - allow you to encounter and join the culture of your chosen country - rather than just observe it. Worthwhile projects include Teaching, Conservation, Media and Medical placements in Australia, Bolivia, China, Costa Rica, Ecuador, Ghana, India, Nepal, Russia, Sri Lanka, Thailand and Uganda. Weekend TEFL courses offered nationwide and online TEFL courses world-wide. Also i-Spy open days throughout the year in London and Leeds.

Travellers Worldwide
Sends volunteers all year round to various countries (China, Ghana, India, Sri Lanka, South Africa, Russia, Nepal, Cuba, Ukraine, etc.) on Conservation (including dolphins, elephants, etc) or Work Experience projects and to teach disadvantaged children Conversational English or subjects like Music, Sport, IT, Drama, Maths, Computing, and more.

Project Trust
If you are between 17 and 19 years old and want an exciting, challenging and fulfilling gap year, Project Trust can send you for a full 12 months to one of 24 countries throughout Africa, Asia, Central and South America, the Near East and the Caribbean. Projects include teaching, environmental and development work, outdoor pursuits centres, journalism, working with the disabled and children's homes.

Trekforce Expeditions
Organise projects in Central America and East Malaysia; concentrating on endangered rainforests and working with local communities. Expeditions last from two to five months. Our longer programmes involve expedition work, teaching in rural communities and learning new languages including Spanish and Malay.

Schools Partnership Worldwide
A development charity recruiting 250 volunteers, aged 18-28 to work in rural communities in Africa and Asia for 4-10 months. Volunteers work in partnership with African and Asian volunteers, raising awareness and changing attitudes to HIV/AIDS and other health, social & environmental issues. Volunteers receive 4 weeks training in country prior to their placement.

Volunteer Services Overseas
VSO tackles disadvantage by equipping people in developing and emerging countries with the skills they need to transform their communities and national economies. It offers a huge range of opportunities in almost all professional walks of life. Throughout the world, education is the key to development, and the teaching professionals currently posted in 36 countries make up nearly 45% of VSO's entire programme.

Lattitude Global Volunteering
Lattitude Global Volunteering (formerly known as GAP) is an independent educational charity founded in 1972, which organises voluntary work overseas in over 30 countries. Lattitude also organises similar exchange voluntary opportunities for overseas nationals in the UK. Currently 1,750 young people are involved annually in Lattitude schemes. Lattitude volunteers work alongside staff in such areas as foreign language assistants, assisting with general activities in schools, caring for the disadvantaged, outdoor education and conservation work.

Guardian Unlimited - Gap Year Travel
A collection of articles covering topics such as how to plan your gap year, where to travel and voluntary work etc.

Community Services Volunteers
CSV is a charity that encourages people to take action in their communities. Everyone has something to offer. Provides full-time, away from home, volunteer placements throughout the UK (and any time of the year) for young people between 16-35, while the Learning Together Programmes are organised by HEIs and give university students the opportunity to volunteer at local schools