Student travel and welfare services for independent schools, provided by Airport Guardians, based at Heathrow Airport on main school travel days. This service is open to all UK independent schools who have registered for free (https://gtmatrix.net/ag-pre-reg/) Provides reassurance to schools and international parents to have a chaperone team at LHR Each travel day our team…
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Events surrounding the Coronavirus are developing rapidly. Some families have already cancelled half term trips home for their children. Not all Guardians are available or able to accommodate last-minute changes to travel plans. The problem The immediate issue is the migration of Chinese students at half term from school to mainland China and Hong Kong.…
DetailsWe plan to launch an Airport Guardians app in 2020 aimed at making Unaccompanied Minor bookings at Heathrow simple and quick. Please ask us to send you the booking protocol for forwarding to your school’s international families. For every parent that books via the app we will donate £1 to the World Land Trust (https://www.worldlandtrust.org/),…
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GTMatrix keeps growing and this academic year has seen us transporting more students than ever. So far this term we have transported 1395 students to and from school using 475 different vehicles, from cars to people carriers to mini busses to coaches, and looked after 33 Unaccompanied Minors – statistics that we’re proud to share.…
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Our Airport Guardians team is getting a new uniform next year! On main school travel days (as every day) Heathrow Airport is incredibly busy. Looking over the crowd of arriving passengers, drivers, waiting friends and everybody else, it can be difficult to spot the person you’re looking for. We are therefore ordering clothing and accessories…
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The GTMatrix brief in this case was to provide school-bound travel for students arriving into London Heathrow airport. Overview Three of our clients, all based geographically close to each other, wished to offer international students a regular school-bound travel service from Heathrow at the beginning of term and end of half term. The challenge The…
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On main school travel days, Airport Guardians staff are at Heathrow airport to oversee the students arriving and leaving, and to come to the aid of any student that needs our assistance. So it was at Michaelmas half term. A 14-year-old boy attending one of the schools we look after realised soon after the coach…
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We are offering all schools a free Heathrow transport audit. Please contact David Williams to discuss your requirements and to schedule a visit. Our survey results show: Parents are concerned about unaccompanied children arriving and departing from Heathrow Schools are concerned that they aren’t equipped to have a continuous presence at Heathrow Audit design: The…
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GTMatrix will have a presence at Heathrow Airport through our Airport Guardians staff on 31st August, 1st, 2nd and 3rd September 2019 for the start of the Michaelmas term. We hope that the situation in Hong Kong will be resolved by these dates and that there won’t be any disruption to travelling students, however we…
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We are delighted to announce the launch of Safeguard, our Security division. Safeguard is a natural progression, following on from the high-value work we do transporting Public School students around the UK, and is an area that the Directors of GTMatrix have considerable experience in. We have provided close protection security for key personnel including…
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