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A NEW IDEA FOR THE NEW YEAR…

    The best of Budapest… From Sacred Basilicas to modern concert halls, Budapest offers youth ensembles a range of exciting concert opportunities. Perform in famous historical buildings...

Top 10 phrases for your international trip

You’ve booked your international trip. You’ve got your students, itinerary, tickets, passports and bags packed… but there’s something you’ve forgotten! With the excitement of planning an...

5 Reasons to go on tour with your band

A tour experience opens up a whole heap of exciting opportunities for you and your band. Whether it’s that open-air concert in the heart of Prague, that moving performance under the Menin Gate in...

5 Reasons to go on tour with your choir

Whatever you reasons for wanting to tour, from exploring new places and satisfying performance aspirations, to enjoying the comradery and social aspect, we’ve picked the top 5 reasons why we think...

A most memorable year for Rayburn Tours – our 2015 highlights

With 2015 drawing to a close, we wanted to take a moment to reflect on everything that’s been achieved over the past 12 months. It’s certainly been a busy year and the fact that we’ve been...

Sandwell Academy announced as the second Golden Ticket Winner… Could you be the third?!

This year Rayburn Tours reached the big 5-0 and we’ve been marking this fantastic milestone by rewarding some of our valued customers. As a way of saying ‘thank you’, we’re presenting three...

Saints Peter & Paul Catholic High School

  It’s been a great few days in Iceland this December with Saints Peter & Paul Catholic High School from Widnes. Despite the dark mornings we have been up and away early from Reykavik...

An Austrian Adventure for St John’s Voices…

Day 1 The first ever St John’s Voices international tour began in fine style at 5.15AM on the 5th of December. Despite the eye-watering hour, we traipsed through the airport with a spring in...

A year to remember for Rayburn Sport…

As 2015 draws to an end, we thought it would be nice to look back on some of the highlights of the past 12 months. Whilst celebrating Rayburn’s 50th birthday, the sports team have been hard at work...

John Lewis Partnership Music Society set off for Sorrento!

Often referred to as ‘The Land of Lemons’, Sorrento sits atop a pedestal-like cliff, overlooking the Bay of Naples and the fabled isle of Capri. This picturesque pocket of Southern Italy is home...

24 Hours in Singapore

I thought I knew what to expect from Singapore. I’d been before, admittedly a few years ago, and done a fair bit of exploring. I only had 24 hours for this visit but that would be fine. It...

Migrants and refugees: the history of human movement

“Vertreibung“. Licensed under CC BY-SA 1.0 via Wikimedia Commons. From early summer, the stories of migrants have been regularly covered on the news and Europe, as a whole, is in debate...