Note: this is not an exhaustive list of inclusions and exclusions, but indicates the main items.

The programme fee includes the following:

1. Accommodation in twin rooms at a Cambridge University college.
2. Breakfast and dinner at a Cambridge University college.
3. Tuition each morning and afternoon (where applicable)
4. Excursions at weekends to key sites such as London (twice), Dover, Stratford plus local excursions around Cambridge
5. Extra-curricular Activities in the College and around Cambridge e.g. sport, drama
6. Lecture and Workshop series
7. Theatre trips

The programme fee excludes the following:

1. Flight
2. Lunch (students can either visit tea-rooms, cafés and restaurants in Cambridge or eat in the College Dining Hall)
3. Additional excursions or activities in time off such as the cinema
4. Souvenirs, phone calls home etc

Reach Cambridge staff supervise students at all times. Obviously, students are given a certain amount of independence and it is up to them to spend this time wisely. Any actions that are perceived by Reach Cambridge staff to endanger a student will result in the student involved being repatriated. Please see our terms & conditions for further details.

Students have a certain amount of freedom to visit the city at lunchtime and on some evenings. Students are given (a) geographical parameters (b) a deadline for their return to the College (c) instructions that they must remain with at least one other person from the programme at all times when off campus and (d) contact phone numbers for the staff. Curfew every night is at 11pm. Cambridge, being a University town, is a very safe environment.

We issue all students with an emergency contact card that displays all of the relevant telephone numbers. It is compulsory for students leaving the College campus to carry this card.

All our students reside in a Cambridge College and interact with present undergraduates, some of whom are the Supervisors. Students either share a twin room or have an individual room. Breakfast and Dinner are both taken at the College.

The theme of ‘International Social Responsibility’ was chosen to allow our lecturers to speak on subjects that they feel strongly about in their academic field. The series of lectures runs throughout the programme in the evenings.

As well as daily contact with their Supervisors, we arrange ‘University Life’ Workshops with Cambridge undergraduates. These range from the practicalities of making a good application to University to coping with the issues students invariably encounter at University.

Work hard and play hard. Every spare moment, when students are not in class or at meals, our Cambridge Supervisors organize a plethora of activities. Sporting activities are available, both in the college grounds and in the city centre.These include football, rounders, ultimate frisbee, rugby, tennis, volleyball, table tennis and squash.

Reach Cambridge programmes involve experiencing more than just Cambridge and academic life. Every weekend we run excursions to England’s most famous sites: London, Hampton Court Palace and Stratford are a few examples. Students also have the opportunity of a theatre trip to see a Shakespeare play at the famous Globe theatre in London or in Stratford-upon-Avon. In addition, there are several local excursions to heritage sites around Cambridge.

There is one theatre trip each week during the programme and many students consider these a real highlight of the course. Past productions have included: Othello, Macbeth, Henry IV part 1, Anthony & Cleopatra, The Tempest and Romeo & Juliet. In the case of the Cambridge Shakespeare Festival, the play is performed in the grounds of the College, which offers an exciting environment in which to live.

Local Excursions are run on afternoons. A highlight is visiting the Orchard at Grantchester, famous for the number of well-known writers that have spent time there (see http://www.orchard-grantchester.com/). Other highlights include two National Trust properties in the vicinity of Cambridge (see http://www.wimpole.org/ and http://www.angleseyabbey.org/). In addition there are visits to the plethora of Colleges, Museums and Faculties in Cambridge.