• When: Tuesday 3 to Friday 6 December 2024

  • Who: 18 to 29 years

  • Location: Edinburgh, Scotland

  • Cost:

    • £100 – this covers accommodation, breakfast and structured activities
    • Participants will need to book their own travel which VICTA will reimburse after the activity (see further information below)

  • Closing date: Friday 1 November

Explore the beautiful city of Edinburgh with VICTA this December.

Wrap up warm with VICTA and explore Scotland’s capital as it comes alive with winter festivities and excitement! Discover Edinburgh’s historic secrets and enjoy winter themed activities.

Staying close to Edinburgh Waverley station for three nights, we will explore (just a bit) of Edinburgh’s 1.76 square miles of World Heritage Site. Our time will be spent taking part in a curling taster experience, a private city walking and Harry Potter tour, as well as an opportunity to get festive exploring their famous Winter Markets combining the celebrations for Christmas and Hogmanay.

Trip information

This activity includes accommodation, breakfast and structured activities.

Travel costs

We appreciate that people will travel to Edinburgh to join this activity from different parts of the country. As such, you will need to organise your own transport to the hotel. To help support participants to attend, after the activity has taken place, we will reimburse the cost of public transport providing the tickets have been purchased with the support of a Disability Travel Card.

VICTA staff will be travelling between London Euston and Edinburgh Waverley by train for this activity and there will be an opportunity for participants to travel with VICTA staff. If you would like to join VICTA on the train, please select the box on the application form and we will be in touch if you have a successful application.

Apply for the Exploring Edinburgh Residential
Note for applicants completing this form After completion, if you have successfully submitted the form, you should receive a successful submission message. If you do not it may be because you have not completed a required field. After your form has successfully gone through you will also receive notification via email. If you do not receive an email please contact the office on 01908 240 831 as there may have been a problem with your application.

Applicant details

Contact details

Emergency contact (EC)

Medical details

Independence skills

Please indicate your level of independence in the following areas by selecting your response and giving details if the assistance is required.
In order to ensure that activities are adequately staffed we need full and accurate information about all participants. Please note we reserve the right to refuse admission to the activity or ask a participant to leave the activity if the information given proves inaccurate or the conduct of the participant reaches an unacceptable level.

General information

The overall theme of this activity is about having fun, but we would like you to gain confidence and develop life skills through a programme of leisure, cultural and social activities. To help us plan our activities and staffing levels please describe your ability in the following areas:

Eye condition

Please rate the following from 1-5 (1 = very low, 5 = very high).

If this is the first VICTA activity that you are applying for, please note that applicants must be registered sight impaired or severely sight impaired, or be able to provide proof that they are registerable. Any information or documents supplied must include the applicant’s name, date of birth and visual acuity.
Supporting documentation
If the applicant is registered, please include a copy of one of the following registration documents: - Certificate of Visual Impairment (CVI) - Blind Registration Card issued by local authority If the applicant is not registered, please provide: - a letter from an ophthalmologist confirming visual acuity. Please note, applications cannot be processed without these documents.

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Declaration, privacy and consent

To be signed by the applicant or a responsible person. This form has been completed accurately and I undertake to update VICTA should any of the information in this form change.
a. I agree to take part in VICTA's activity and have read all the information sent to me.
b. I acknowledge the need to behave responsibly at all times during the activity.
c. I confirm that this form has been completed accurately and I undertake to update VICTA's organisers should any information contained on the form or personal circumstances change.
d. In the event of an emergency/accident, I consent to emergency medical treatment, which may include the use of anaesthetics.
e. By signing this form you consent to VICTA using the information supplied for the purpose of administering the named event. All the information will be treated in the strictest of confidence and made available only to those staff working with the participant. We may need to share your details with third party suppliers in relation to this activity. Contact information will be retained and used for marketing of other relevant services.
f. I give consent for VICTA to carry out the following in accordance with the UK General Data Protection Regulations as supplemented by the Data Protection Act 2018 and related laws and to store my personal information on VICTA's database and/or any other suitable system.

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