Award winning travel stories
BUNAC is please to announce the winners of the Green Cheese Scholarship 2010!
Emma The Life and Stories of a Volunteer Teacher
Claire
Around the World in 50 Lines…
Getting in a tuk tuk
Riding on the back of a moto, sideways some days...
Crossing the road in between traffic
Bartering
The language
Being stared at
The smells
The dust
The heat
The colours
Beautiful countryside
Being surrounded by rice fields
Wooden houses on stilts
People sleepin...
Promoting BUNAC
Helping to spread the BUNAC word…
Whether you went to the States with BUNAC in the 60s or you’ve just arrived back from a summer on camp we’re sure you had a fantastic experience.
As a not-for-profit organisation we rely a lot on word of mouth from past participants to let others know that BUNAC can help them have the working adventure of a lifetime.
Here are some ways in which you can help…
• Write a travel blog or article for a travel website.
• Get involved i...
BUNAC in the Swinging 60s
To kick off our ‘BUNAC through the decades’ series, we thought we'd take you back to the beginning, back to life as a BUNACer in the swinging sixties...
California Dreaming
1962 saw the birth of The British Universities North America Club or BUNAC, as it quickly became known. Founded by students Chris Harbour and Martin Truscott, its aim was to develop a special relationship between British and North American students. Run through the nationally based, locally rep...
Keeping you in the UK loop
Here at BUNAC, we know how spending over 2 months living and working overseas can make you feel out of the loop. So whether you’ve just come back from a summer at camp or three months in Ghana, surprise your friends and family by being clued up on what’s been going on in the UK...
BBQ summer?
Despite promises of a ‘bbq...
The history of BUNAC
BUNAC was founded in 1962 by Chris Harbour and Martin Truscott with the aim of encouraging interest in Canada, the USA and Mexico among students at British Universities.
The work and travel experts
Over its 47 year history, BUNAC has enabled hundreds of thousands of travellers to explore the world through work and travel. Established in 1962 as a non-profit, student members Club, BUNAC is today re...
10 friends, 10 years on …
This summer Suzanne is organising a 10-year reunion for her fellow 1999 Work New Zealand participants in the Lake District. Commenting that her BUNAC trip has been the single most influential thing she’s ever done, Suzanne recounts some of her experiences…
Of the 25 of us that arrived in Auckland in September 1999, I'd say about 10 are still my very close friends, including my best friend Dee, who I travelled with for the entire 18 months and then li...
30 year land mark
Since it's establishment in 1962, BUNAC has helped over a quarter of a million people undertake working adventures around the world - with some remarkable stories along the way...!
Lindsey took part in BUNAC’s summer camp programme, then known as BUNACAMP, in 1979. Not only did she have a life changing experience she also met her husband of 30 years.
The last thing my father said to me as I got on the plane to go to Summer Camp all those years ago was "Have fun, be carefu...
10 years on - how a working holiday can change your life!
We love hearing from past participants - particularly when they're still talking about experiences abroad 10 years after participating in their BUNAC programmes! Check out what some former Work New Zealand participants are up to:
'I think there were 25 of us in the first batch of Work NZ participants - we left on September 30th 1999. Of that number, I'd say about 10 are still my very close friends, one of wh...