Schools & Education

We welcome school groups, home educators, youth and community groups and special interest groups.

Our minimum age to visit is Year 5 (9-10 years old) and we have a maximum class size of 30.

If you're interested in corporate visits, get in touch.

We have morning and afternoon sessions available from Tuesday to Friday. Morning sessions are approximately 9.30am - 11.30am and afternoon sessions are approximately 12.45pm - 2.45pm. However, we can be flexible around your timing requirements so just let us know what suits you.

Approximately 2 hours (either a morning or an afternoon slot, from Monday to Friday).

Each session involves all or some of the following, depending on the needs of your group: a tour of Science Creates, a hands-on workshop at The Learning Lab and a Q&A with a scientist.

Yes, all our visits are by prior booking only.

The Learning Lab is within the Science Creates Old Market building, in Midland Road, BS2 0NS.

By train: we’re a 10-15 minute walk from Bristol Temple Meads train station.

By bus: we’re a 5-minute walk from the Old Market St bus hub.

By car: we have available parking spaces that you can use. If you need to book a parking space please mention this in your booking.

Science Creates Outreach is a charity with a mission to demystify careers in science, diversify the faces of science and empower confident, skilled problem solvers who will be our future scientists. In order to carry on offering workshops and sessions for young people, we have a suggested donation of £150 for a 2-hour visit (which works out as £5 per person for a class of 30). If this is not something you can afford, please let us know and we can discuss other options. We also have a 'Pay it Forward' scheme so schools/groups can donate additional funds to support others.

Once we have arranged a date, agreed to a donation and booked you in for your visit, we will send details on how to pay.

You are welcome to bring lunch and eat it outside on the grass in our grounds, but unfortunately no food or drinks are allowed in The Learning Lab — where our educational visits take place — so there are no indoor spaces for you to eat.

Everything is designed around the age and ability of the learners visiting us, but before the day we will share a risk assessment with you for your visit.

On the day, we ask that long hair is tied back, all visitors wear covered shoes and there is no food or drink consumed in The Learning Lab.

Yes. Find out more about the location and some of the people you will meet on your visit here.