The young person
Chooses My 10 EdVentures, uses the resources, takes the next useful action and learns how income and costs work.
FOR TRIP LEADERS WHO WANT MORE FOR THEIR TEAM
The trip changes young people. The EdVenturist journey can too.
Ways2Raise is a free resource site that helps young people, their families and Trip Leaders take ownership of the journey behind a school trip, Scout expedition, DofE or adventure abroad. You stay focused on leading an exceptional experience; we provide practical ideas, tools and guidance that families can use together.
Free resources for young people, families and Trip Leaders. No subscription. Ways2Raise never handles money, takes a percentage or asks for bank or card details.
A better EdVenturist starting point
The cost is real. So is the opportunity behind it.
When you introduce an ambitious trip, families often have one immediate question: “How will we afford it?” A list of ideas alone does not answer that question. Young people need a route, parents need reassurance, and Trip Leaders need a practical way to bring the team together.
Ways2Raise gives the young person, family and Trip Leader one shared resource base. The young person can build a plan, take useful action and record progress, while the adults find the guidance they need to support the journey with confidence.
20+ years
Built from more than two decades of helping over 10,000 young people and their families work towards life-changing expeditions with major youth-travel and adventure organisations.
One clear journey, three important roles
The young person owns the goal. The adults make the path possible.
Ways2Raise gives each person the right resources without turning a Trip Leader into an administrator or asking parents to do the young person’s work for them.
The parent or guardian
Helps make sensible decisions, keeps real-world activity safe and has a private Parent Lounge for practical guidance and reassurance.
The Trip Leader
Sets the shared trip context, encourages the group and uses the Staff Room approach for team progress, group progress and parent updates.
The Staff Room
A better way to support a whole team. Without stepping into family accounts.
The Staff Room is Ways2Raise’s dedicated coordination approach for verified Trip Leaders. It brings together a coded Trip Team, an agreed public-progress picture and useful parent updates in the right place.
✓Families remain in control. A parent chooses to link using the Trip Team Code, knows exactly what is shared and can unlink at any time.
How a Trip Team connects
Simple for the group. Clear for every parent.
A clear invitation keeps the process straightforward for you and understandable for every family.
Set the shared trip context
You name the trip in the Staff Room and receive a unique Trip Team Code to share through your normal group communication.
Families link by choice
Parents use Link with the Trip Leader from their Ways2Raise account and see what their connection will share.
Progress stays consistent
You can use the Staff Room resources to plan group activity and point families towards the right guidance.
Parents stay in the loop
Trip Team updates sit in the parent’s PIN-protected Parent Lounge, not in an adult-to-student direct-message channel.
Practical support for the whole group
EdVenturist resources that help you bring people together.
The Staff Room is not a second copy of the family Toolkit. It puts group materials first, while making it easy to point parents and young people towards the right Ways2Raise help.
✓Start with the job in front of you: launch the group plan, involve parents, approach businesses, run an event or keep the group moving.
Clear boundaries build confidence
Support the whole journey. Keep family information protected.
Ways2Raise is built around parent involvement, young people’s ownership and careful sharing. The Staff Room follows the same standard.
- ✓Trip Leaders are verified before they can create a live Trip Team or see linked families.
- ✓Parents choose the connection and can unlink their family whenever they wish.
- ✓Family information stays protected: the Staff Room is for agreed group coordination and resources, not browsing private family activity.
- ✓Ways2Raise never handles money raised for the trip and never takes a percentage of what a young person raises.
FOR THE PEOPLE MAKING BIG ADVENTURES POSSIBLE
Bring a better EdVenturist journey to your next trip.
Talk to Ways2Raise about the free resources available to the young people, families and Trip Leaders travelling with you. We will show you the family journey and the Staff Room approach for organised trips.
Ways2Raise supports the EdVenturist learning and skills journey around the trip. It does not organise travel, hold family money or replace your own safeguarding and trip-management responsibilities.