Our Internship Programme

Introducing our GUIDES

Our guides will welcome visitors and share the incredible stories of those we commemorate, as well as helping to guide and assist our guests on their journey of remembrance.

As part of the internship, we also offer a social programme of visits and experiences to help our guides in their role and enrich personal development. As well as an extensive training programme, we support our guides throughout the experience of working abroad.

At the end of their time with us, our guides are encouraged to join our Intern Alumni network which lets us retain a relationship with the group and create a growing group of young ambassadors for CWGC and CWGF, as well as giving our guides the chance to keep in touch with each other and collaborate together in the future.

Talks and Tours

Visit our Iconic sites

The CWGF guides are welcoming visitors at two iconic CWGC sites, Tyne Cot Cemetery and Memorial in Belgium, and the Thiepval Memorial and Thiepval Anglo-French Cemetery in France. The guides host and lead daily tours at both sites and are available to help visitors with their questions and provide information on the work of the CWGC and the cemeteries and memorials within our care.

The guides also give talks at the CWGC Information Centre in Ieper (Ypres), focusing on the history of the CWGC and the Ypres (Menin Gate) Memorial.

Guided tours of The CWGC Experience, our visitors centre in Beaurains, are also given by our guides. The tours are given in English and no booking or fee is required.

Owing to the restrictions surrounding Covid-19, the Interns are not currently stationed in Belgium and France, therefore the Talks and Tours listed below are not running currently.

Thiepval Memorial

• Interns on site from Monday 9 March.
• Daily tours at 11:00, 14:00, 15:00 and 16:00.
• Tours are free to attend. No booking required.

Tyne Cot Cemetery

• Interns on site from Monday 9 March.
• Daily tours at 11:00, 14:00 and 16:00.
• Tours are free to attend. No booking required.

Ypres (Menin Gate) Talks

Talks will be organised from Wednesday 18 March until Wednesday 27 May.

• Talks take place from Wednesday to Sunday at 18:00 at the CWGC Information Centre in Ieper.
• Talks take about 30-45 minutes and are in English.
• Booking is recommended, email: ieper.walkingtours@cwgc.org or drop in to the CWGC Ieper Information Centre (Menenstraat 33-8900 Ieper) to reserve your place.

Ieper Walking Tours

• Walks will take place on Fridays: on 3, 17 and 24 April and on 8 and 15 May.
• Walks start at Ypres Reservoir Cemetery (Plumerlaan, Ieper) at 14:30.
• Walks take about 75 minutes and are free to attend.
• Booking is recommended, email: ieper.walkingtours@cwgc.org or drop in to the CWGC Ieper Information Centre (Menenstraat 33-8900 Ieper) to reserve your place.

Find out about life as a GUIDE

The blog posts below were all written by some of our guides, check them out to get a flavour of life as a CWGC guide.