Endsleigh Insurance offers tailored support for gap year travellers

Easter signals the time when many students and academics start serious planning for the Gap years and sabbaticals that are becoming increasingly popular in the UK.

Having first become fashionable amongst students, a wider age range is now taking extended breaks ‘with a purpose’. For example, research suggests that around 50% of over-50s in the UK are planning to travel the world after retirement. However, as people become more determined to achieve ever more ambitious ‘life milestones’, it is also more difficult to know what kind of insurance policy will best suit you.

Endsleigh Insurance offer insurance cover specifically for gap years, sabbaticals and ‘trip of a lifetime’ holidays.

More than ever, people in the UK are determined to achieve travel and experience ambitions, usually referred to as ‘life milestones.’ Ambitions range from seeing ‘the Seven Wonders of the World’, to volunteering abroad, or spending a year working somewhere exotic; Endsleigh Insurance provides tailored packages to ensure the most ambitious life milestone can be enjoyed whilst appropriately covered.

Mike Day, of Endsleigh Insurance, said: “Gap years are an increasingly popular choice with many sections of the amongst the UK population, but as they become more common people are recognising the need to insure themselves because as the ambition grows, so do the costs should anything go wrong. We have a great history of providing cover for gap year and ‘life milestone’ holidays and can give clear advice to customers about what kind of cover they need.”

Endsleigh Insurance has policies that can offer:

Activity specific cover tailored to individual trips

24 hour English speaking emergency medical claim lines across the world

Low excess charges

Endsleigh is also the only insurance provider recommended by National Union of Students, and offers a variety of gap year insurance policies for students that include:

Adventure gap year insurance that includes cover for over 100 sport activities.

Work abroad insurance providing cover for up to 12 months in paid or voluntary work such as teaching, au pair work, sports coaching, bar work, fruit picking and even tour guiding.

Volunteering policies provide 12 months cover for volunteer work such as counselling and mentoring youngsters, buildings projects and working with animals and wildlife.

Endsleigh can help with planning adventures, working abroad or volunteering, and offers a variety of affordable policies tailored to a customer’s travel, holidays and gap years.