GO!Trip to Big Pit & Abergavenny

International@CampusLife welcomes you to join us on our trip to Big Pit & Abergavenny

Date: Saturday 5th October 2019

Time: Departing Fulton House at 8.50am with a pick up at Bay Campus (Archway) at approx. 9.10am. The journey to Big Pit will take approximately 1.5 hours and will return from Abergavenny at 5pm. The driver will confirm the departure meeting point on the day.

Description: Our first stop will be at Big Pit National Coal Museum - an industrial heritage museum in Blaenavon, approximately 47 miles from Swansea. A working coalmine from 1880 to 1980, Big Pit was opened to the public in 1983. The museum features a range of above ground attractions including a winding house, sawmill, pithead and baths. Visitors are also taken below ground to the pit bottom where they tour the mine workings. In 2000, the Blaenavon industrial area, including Big Pit National Coal Museum, was named a World Heritage Site by UNESCO. For further information please visit: https://museum.wales/bigpit/

Our second destination of the day is Abergavenny – “the Gateway to Wales.”  Abergavenny has history and heritage in spades – explore the castles, medieval mansions, Roman remains and standing stones. The town is also hub for foodies! There are plenty of gorgeous gastro pubs, ancient inns and restaurants to try. The town has regular indoor and outdoor markets where you can buy quality produce grown locally too. Visit http://www.visitabergavenny.co.uk/ to plan your afternoon.

Refund policy: refunds for tickets cannot be given after the date of the trip if you fail to attend for any reason. If you require a refund, you must email international.campuslife@swansea.ac.uk before 5pm on Wednesday 2nd October  or the refund may not be issued. Any refunds will not include the booking charge, this will be lost - apologies for any inconvenience caused. 

Data Protection: International@CampusLife will use the information you provide to us for attendance and safety purposes. We will use your data to produce internal statistics but will not share it with third parties or use it for marketing purposes. Your information will be provided to our trip leader on the day of the trip for the purpose of attendance monitoring and emergency situations where they may need to contact you. The information will be kept confidential and passed back to ICL and destroyed on return from the trip. Fatsoma’s policies can be found on their website.

Photos: We will be taking photos throughout the event which we will use to promote future activities in the form of leaflets, social media posts, digital screens and on our website. If you would not like to be included, then please tell us on the day of the event. If you see yourself in any pictures and would like to be removed, please email us at international.campuslife@swansea.ac.uk and we will make sure that any photos of you are deleted.

Children: Children (aged 3 and over) are welcome on this trip and must be accompanied by a responsible adult. Please be advised that their safety and well-being is the responsibility of their accompanying adult at all times. Children must sit in a seat with a seat belt on the bus.  Children must not ride on the lap of an adult. No children under the age of 3 will be allowed to embark the coach. International@CampusLife and its partners take no responsibility for any children attending this trip and sole responsibility lies with the parent/guardian.

Accessibility: Please let us know if you require disabled access transport. We cannot guarantee that we can provide this, but we will make every effort to accommodate you by liaising with the coach provider.

Conduct: You are responsible for your own behaviour and time keeping. Please take reasonable care of your own and other people's health and safety.