Wiltshire Host Families are Award-winning specialists at providing local host family accommodation for short-stay international student school groups.
For those of you with a spare room, Wiltshire Host Families can offer you an opportunity to earn some much-needed cash and a chance to help your school funds. For every family that registers and hosts more than once, we will give your school a £20 voucher to buy resources.
Our host families can earn up to £304 per week, it’s paid in cash at the start of the stay and is completely tax-free as the payment comes under the Rent a Room scheme.
We are based in Melksham, Trowbridge, Westbury & Warminster. We are now busier than ever as bookings for 2024 are flooding in. As a result, we are expanding to accommodate much larger groups. This will give more local people the opportunity to join us as hosts and to supplement their incomes accordingly.
Hosting short-stay students is great fun and, because each school group only stays 3-5 weekday nights at a time and go out everyday sightseeing, our hosts find that it doesn’t adversely impact on home or work life. It’s also very flexible, in that a host can dip in and out to suit their circumstances, taking as many or as few groups as they want. Of course, the extra money is a great bonus too!
We are looking for hosts who can take a minimum of 2 students (maximum 4) and make them feel welcome. Throughout the stay, we will support the hosts, students and their teachers and make sure that everyone has a great time. We will visit all new hosts to explain exactly how we work and answer any questions they may have. Once on our register, we will allocate students according to a host family's availability and the group’s matching requirements. In fact, we will be there every step of the way with help and advice whenever needed.
Val Rideout, Managing Director and founder of Wiltshire Host Families, is passionate about giving the students a great English experience and loves the diversity of our hosts; we have single ladies, couples with or without children, single-parent families and retired folk – all of different ages and from different backgrounds and cultures. Everyone brings a different experience to their students' stay – and this is then shared with the school group as a whole. Although the students are only at home in the evenings, hosts can give them some great memories to take back with them.
With living costs rising, there couldn’t be a better time to join Wiltshire Host Families Ltd, and earn an extra income, completely tax-free!
For more information about hosting in Wiltshire, please visit www.wiltshirehostfamilies.co.uk or ring 07707 704822