Newcastle University's School of Civil Enginering and Geosciences can offer free loans of surveying equipment to your school to support fieldwork.  Equipment will be delivered to your school and you return it after an arranged period.  There is no charge for the loans - it is a free scheme!*

You can borrow the following:

• Handheld GPS receivers - great for recording positions of your work and/or points of interest, help to develop map and coordinate skills
• Levels - fantastic for recording profiles.  Out with range poles and clinometers and in with what surveyors use in the field.  Robust and easy to use, they add a professional feel to river and beach work.
• Thedolites - measure horiztonal and vertical angles to record heights, positions and slopes in your fieldwork site.
• Additional equippment - tape measures (up to 30m) and reflective jackets.  The jackets are great if you want to be able to see where your students are quickly and easily in the field.

*We do ask that the kit is insured while you have it and this will normally be covered by your LEA without too much work on your part.  If your LEA wants serail numbers, values etc., let us know and we will send them through to you.  In the Indpendent School sector, schools will normally self-insure the equipment.