Contact Us

Details of current and recent projects can be found on this website. Full details including photographs are kept on file in our Resort Office.

You can donate via the following:

• You can make a personal donation at our Resort Office; send a cheque made payable to The Gambia Experience to our office in the UK or donate via our website. Please quote your Gambia Experience booking reference in all correspondence. Any donations given by our guests are matched by The Gambia Experience.
• You may have spare or unused change after your holiday. Collection tins are handed around the departure coaches. These are matched by the Company.
• Please remember to complete your questionnaire! For every 100 questionnaires returned to the UK the Company donates £10.
• Even if you are not a client of The Gambia Experience, you can still donate to the School Development Fund, and although these donations are not matched, they are gratefully received.

Charity excess is only given to ‘Registered’ charities on our winter charter flights and you will be required to supply a registered charity number.

• Due to the high number of charity requests it is done on a first come first serve basis.
• Airline restrictions mean our charity allowance is limited to 30 kilos per flight.
• We are not able to give excess if you are travelling on a Thomas Cook or Thomson flights.

Please contact our Administration team at admin@gambia.co.uk or on 0845 330 2044 for excess availability. An alternative option would be to freight goods, which is also less expensive. This can be done through ‘Redcoat Travel’ on 01293 522440.

We can be contacted via the following:

• By telephone on 0845 3302076
• By email sdf@gambia.co.uk

You can arrange a school visit by contacting the School Development Team. We would be extremely grateful for any photos and feedback from your visit.

Unfortunately we are currently unable to transport books due to weight restrictions on our flights. Redcoat Travel, a Freight Operator, maybe able to assist you and their rates are often cheaper than excess baggage charges. Their number is 01293 522440.

There is also a company called Jole Rider, who carry and distribute books out in The Gambia http://www.books4africa.eu/ Please be aware that Jole Rider is not associated with The Gambia Experience.

Although you may view it as a small contribution, schools are more than happy to receive basic equipment such as pens, paper and chalk and these are light items which can be carried within your own luggage allowance.

For information about where to distribute these you can contact us in advance of your trip or speak to our Resort Office when you arrive in The Gambia.

We do not reccommend handing out gifts directly to the children.

Every year schools send in their request for funding to our Resort Office in The Gambia.

Requests for support are judged on certain criteria, with schools in the provinces being favoured over schools in tourist areas, which already tend to receive help. We aim to fund whole projects as we want to see them completed. We consider help with renovations of classrooms, kitchens, toilets and building of teacher’s accommodation amongst other things.