International students in London
As a company that came from the other side of the world ourselves, we help international students at every stage of a London degree, and the parents supporting them from home. Many of the international students we move come from the Middle East, the US and China.
For parents paying for the move
Choosing a company you have never met, in another country, is a big ask. Here is why families trust us:
- Trustworthy, trained staff employed by Kiwi Movers
- Which? Trusted Trader since 2016, rated 4.9/5
- Checkatrade member since 2017, rated 10/10
- Fully insured, and a Road Haulage Association member
- A London company since 2007, based in Wandsworth, with our own storage
- Your quote and booking confirmation are sent by email
- Arrange everything by phone or email from anywhere: +44 20 8877 9682
How much does a student move in London cost?
Guide prices for a weekday move within London, based on our hourly rates and a typical student load. Your final price depends on how much you are moving, how far, and access at both ends.
- Suitcase locker, 10 cu ft£25 a month
- Locker, 15 cu ft£35 a month
- Locker, 30 cu ft£60 a month
Hourly rates: 1 mover and truck £70 + VAT, 2 movers and truck £105 + VAT, 3 movers and truck £140 + VAT. Prices include a £25 + VAT fuel surcharge per vehicle. 2-hour minimum Monday to Friday, 3 hours on Saturdays. Congestion charge, parking and mileage outside the M25 are extra. Storage locker prices include VAT.
For an exact price, call 020 8877 9682 or Get a free quote
Recent international student moves
Case study
Summer storage and a move to Bristol for a family in the UAE
The challenge: A student’s family in the UAE needed her flat in Islington packed up, her belongings stored over the summer, and everything delivered to her new flat in Bristol in September. Her father arranged and paid for it all from abroad, and the move had to happen within a week of the first quote.
What we did: When the online payment link would not work from the UAE, her father paid by card over the phone. Our team packed her personal belongings, took them to our storage in West Molesey, kept them safe over the summer, then delivered them to her new flat in Bristol.
The result: Collected five days after the first quote, with the collection signed off by the client. The September delivery to Bristol was completed with no issues at either address.
Case study
Suitcases collected from halls while the student was overseas
The challenge: A student from Japan needed three suitcases collected from her halls in East London at the end of term while she was away, stored over the summer, and delivered to her new building in the autumn. Her return plans changed several times.
What we did: We collected the suitcases from the halls reception without her needing to be there, stored them over the summer, and rearranged the redelivery around her new dates, leaving them with reception at her new building as she asked.
The result: Collected in May and delivered in October, with nobody needing to be at either address.
Trusted Student removals firm servicing London and Greater London
Students move around more than most. Whether you’re moving into student halls, between student properties or moving your things back home for the summer (or after finishing your final year), student life involves multiple moves throughout your studies. If you also need to storage over the summer break we also have you covered with our cost effective student storage in London.
Between lectures, dissertations, exams, revision, seminars and maintaining some semblance of a social life, students already have enough to juggle without having to worry about planning, organising and carrying out a big move. Over 80% of the Kiwi Movers team have degrees, so we know what it’s like to be a student!
Kiwi Movers’ Student Removals service is here to take away the hassle of your house move so you can focus on your studies.
Our fit, friendly and highly-trained removals team can handle every part of your student move — from packing up your belongings, loading them into one of our trademark bright green vans, driving them to your new place (or back home) and unloading and unpacking everything. We’ll handle the legwork and make sure you’re move is as simple, smooth and stress-free as possible.
As a student, you probably have a lot of precious items — we’re not just talking about expensive laptops, tablets or cameras, but important books, notes or folders. You can rely on our highly-trained professionals to handle them with care and respect, and to make sure they arrive at your new place unscathed and in good time.
We appreciate that a student’s pockets aren’t the deepest, which is why our Student Removals service is available at student-friendly prices catered for a student budget. We aim to keep things efficient yet affordable.
Students, We Know Your Struggle
At Kiwi Movers, we know what it’s like to be a student. Most of our team were students themselves not too long ago! We encourage all of our managerial, sales and operational staff to have degrees, while almost two-thirds of our entire team (including our movers) have an international-level degree qualification.
From the early-morning lectures and the late-night library sessions to the unforgettable parties and unconventional meals (are you even a student if you haven’t had cold pizza for breakfast?), we’ve been through the rollercoaster of student life ourselves.
We know what it’s like to feel as if you’re constantly on the move, moving into student halls one year and into a shared house or flat the next, and then moving back home over the summers or after your final year.
We know what it’s like to feel as if there’s not enough time in the day as you try your best to juggle lectures, dissertations, revision, exams, seminars, social clubs and events, a part-time job, making time for your family and friends back home and looking after menial tasks like housework and laundry.
We know how difficult it can be to find reliable people who can help you move, especially if you’re studying far away from home and the journey is too long for relatives and friends to simply come over and give you a hand.
We know the dilemma of wanting to celebrate your last night in your old place with a few drinks, but dreading having a hangover the next day when you’re supposed to be moving. We also know what it’s like to live on a student budget and just thinking about how much it costs to hire a professional removals company makes you wince.
When it comes to moving, being a student isn’t the breeze people think it is! Lucky for you, Kiwi Movers are here to help.
What you get with our Student Removals service
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A first-class, fully-insured removals service — Here at Kiwi Movers, we pride ourselves on providing a professional service with a friendly face. We take our work seriously, but we don’t take ourselves too seriously. Plus, we’re fully insured, so if anything goes wrong, you won’t be out of pocket.
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A friendly, enthusiastic and resourceful removals team — Aside from providing a trusted removals service, we love nothing more than putting our heads together to solve a problem. We still live by our native New Zealand’s “Number 8 wire” ethos, which encourages ingenuity, resourcefulness and a can-do attitude. Because our team come from diverse backgrounds like engineering and project management, we’re able to come up with creative solutions to overcome any moving-related obstacle. Plus, many of us are proud Kiwis, so we like to think we’re a friendly bunch!
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A professional packing and unpacking service — In addition to loading and unloading your belongings into one of our bright green vans, we also pack and unpack your items. We have a wide range of packing materials that we only source from top-quality suppliers, including durable, double-walled boxes that come in many different sizes and are made from recycled materials. Our removals team are all professionally-trained and highly-experienced, so we know how to wrap, pack and load your stuff in the safest, smartest and most secure way.
A Removals Service Catered to Students Living in or moving to London and Greater London
Thanks to our first-hand experience of student life, we’ve created a friendly, reliable and affordable removals package specifically catered to students.
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Student-Friendly Price — Our student removals service is designed with a student budget in mind. You receive the same high-quality service as all of our other clients, but at an affordable price.
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Safe Pair of Hands — Between laptops, tablets, TVs, cameras, books, study notes and sentimental items like family photos, we know just how precious your belongings are. Our highly-trained and fully-qualified removals team will handle your things with care and respect, ensuring they get from A to B safe and sound. Our professional packing service offers extra peace of mind that your prized possessions remain protected while in transit.
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Friendly, Enthusiastic Team — We’re a friendly bunch here at Kiwi Movers — most of us are Kiwis, after all! We’re passionate about providing a service that’s not just professional, but full of energy and enthusiasm. We believe in doing our job with a smile on our face, and hopefully putting a smile on yours, too!
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Problem-Solving Attitude — We’re a bunch of nerds who love nothing more than putting our heads together to solve a problem. Whether it’s carrying a large piece of furniture through a narrow doorway or moving a baby grand piano onto the third floor, we pride ourselves on coming up with creative and practical solutions to overcome any moving-related obstacle. It’s how our company started out back in 2007, when a group of friends were tasked with moving a BBQ. We rose to this challenge with aplomb, and figured we’d use our ingenuity to help other people move stuff. The rest is history!
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Handy Cleaning Service — We know as good as anyone else that student properties aren’t always the cleanest. There might be several people sharing one kitchen, never-ending parties and those housemates that are always too busy, too hungover or too lazy to clean. This is why we also offer a professional yet affordable end-of-tenancy cleaning service. We’ll spruce up your old place before you hand over the keys back to your landlord, ensuring you don’t have your deposit deducted (orm worse, forfeited) due to cleaning. Think of us as Harvey Keitel’s Winston Wolfe character in Pulp Fiction… minus the dead body, please!
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International Scope — International students make up a sizable portion of the student population. In some UK Universities, more than a quarter of students come from abroad. Likewise, tens of thousands of British students study abroad every year. As a company that hails from the other side of the world ourselves, it only makes sense for our student removals service to cater to international students. We offer door-to-door international shipping and excess baggage services that are fast, reliable and affordable. We can transport your belongings anywhere in the world, including North America, Asia and Oceania.
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Ethical & Sustainable Approach — Everything we do at Kiwi Movers is done with an ethical and environmentally-friendly approach. We regularly review our operations to ensure we’re always on the right side of environmental regulations. We provide our staff with green driving training (which goes well with our bright green vans!) And when it comes to rubbish removal, we recycle as much as we can while only using approved refuse sites. Kiwi Movers are a member of WHICH? Trusted Traders, which means we’ve been professionally audited to ensure we meet the highest possible ethics and compliance standards through our business processes.
Why choose our Student Removals service?
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Affordable — Removals services can be expensive and we understand that students don’t have a lot of money. This is why we offer student-friendly prices designed for a student budget. Kiwi Movers is not only easy and efficient, but affordable.
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Hassle-free — Moving by yourself or without help is a draining process. Not only does it eat into your precious time, but the process of packing all your things up, loading/unloading them into a van and carrying heavy furniture up and down flights of stairs is physically exhausting — especially after a heavy night or stressful exam! Kiwi Movers are happy to do the hard yards for you.
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Ethical & environmentally-friendly — At Kiwi Movers we always strive to conduct our business with fairness, honesty and integrity. We are individually accountable and collectively responsible. We’re also committed to reducing our impact on the environment and continually improving our environmental performance. We do this through regularly reviewing our procedures, operations and policies, making sure that both ourselves and our suppliers comply with environmental laws and regulations and increasing staff awareness, including providing them with green driving training.
Kiwi Movers also offer:
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End-of-tenancy cleaning — We understand that student properties aren’t always the cleanest or tidiest of places (most of us here at Kiwi Movers were students ourselves!) We’ll get your old place in shipshape so you don’t have to forfeit your deposit.
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Waste and rubbish removal — Whether you’ve accumulated a lot of rubbish at your current place or there’s a load of waste at your new place, we can take care of this not-so-desirable job. As a company that prides itself on its ethical and environmentally-friendly approach, we recycle everything we can and only use approved refuse sites.
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Handyman service — Let’s face it, things tend to get damaged or broken in a student house. The last thing you want is to lose your deposit, which is more than likely a considerable chunk of change. If you need something fixing before you vacate your current place, we can take care of it.
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Storage and shipping — With almost half a million international students in the UK and almost 10% of UK students working or studying abroad, there’s a big demand for moving things overseas. If you’re going travelling or moving abroad, we offer very affordable rates and deals for both storage (including self-storage and container storage) and shipping.
Student storage in London
Going home for the summer, taking a gap year or waiting for your next tenancy to start? We can store your belongings in our own storage in West Molesey and Clapham Junction, including container storage for students. Student lockers cost £25 a month for a 10 cu ft suitcase locker, £35 for 15 cu ft and £60 for 30 cu ft, VAT included. West Molesey is open seven days a week (Mon–Fri 8:30am–5:30pm, Sat 9am–5:30pm, Sun 10am–4pm). We can collect from your halls or flat, store everything safely, and move it into your new place when you are ready. Read our guide to student storage vs self-storage, or see all of our storage options.
If you’re a student who’s looking for a quality, reliable and affordable removals service, get in touch with Kiwi Movers at [email protected] or on 020 8877 9682*, or get a free quote here.
The Kiwi Movers team has amazing local knowledge of London
If you’re a student moving to or from any of the universities in and around London, then you’re going to want a removals team who knows the area. It doesn’t matter where you are moving to or from in London – it’s can be a difficult city to move around in at the best of times. Between the busy calendar of major events, restrictive parking and congested traffic, there is a lot to take into consideration when moving from different properties around London. Fortunately, the Kiwi Movers team knows London inside and out!
As you may have already guessed from our name, we hail all the way from New Zealand on the other side of the planet here at Kiwi Movers! But London has now been our home for over 10 years and we have set up our headquarters over in Wandsworth. In this last decade we have lived and worked in London, we have helped move many happy students into and out of student and private accommodation across the nation’s capital.
With a close and thorough knowledge of London and its many boroughs, alongside our commitment to proper planning and scheduling, the Kiwi Movers team knows how to carry out a smooth and easy move into or out of student accommodation, student halls and private accommodation in London.
Worried that your belongings are going to be difficult to move? The Kiwi Movers team is up to the challenge
We understand how easy it is to accumulate a lot of belongings and furniture throughout your student life. When you spend years living away from home for the first time, you could well be surprised by just how many personal items and bits and pieces you find yourself with when it comes time to move out of student accommodation! You may even be worried about how difficult these things will be to move.
Here at Kiwi Movers, we are here to give you peace of mind. Our moving service for students includes a team of fit and capable professional movers with a wide range of removals equipment that equips us to handle any student move! Interested in enjoying a smooth student moving process at an affordable price? Just get in touch with us today for your free quote.
London student removals in four quick and easy steps
Our student move and removal service is designed to be as quick and easy as possible. As a student, you might find yourself needing a reliable moving service at short notice. With Kiwi Movers, you can arrange your flexible student move quickly and easily for extra peace of mind. In fact, all it takes is four easy steps:
- Step 1 – Get in touch with the Kiwi Movers team today on 020 8877 9682* in order to discuss your student move and get your free quote today.
- Step 2 – Time to get packing. In order to prepare for our removal service, we’ll need to get everything packed and ready. Here at Kiwi Movers, we can supply all the packing materials you might need for the job. If you can’t, then alternatively we can take care of the packing and unpacking for you with our own professional packing service.
- Step 3 – When you’ve got your free student quote and everything is packed, we’re ready to carry out your move. Arrange a time with our team that suits you. We know how busy student life can be, and we’re a flexible student removals team that can work around your schedule and moving date. We can even move your things without you needing to be present! Just let us know what arrangement works best for you.
- Step 4 – Time to sit back and relax with the peace of mind of knowing that your student move is in safe hands! The Kiwi Movers team of expert movers will take things from here and do (literally) all the heavy lifting for you!
We are here to make your life easier with our reliable student moving service. Moving into and out of student properties is an exciting but sometimes overwhelming time! Student luggage can really pile up – fortunately, our friendly bunch of professional movers are on hand to talk you through the entire moving process, creating a bespoke service that suits your needs.
Why is it so important to find a reliable student moving service in London?
Moving all of your things from place to place is never easy. Perhaps you’ve just finished a gap year and need to move into student accommodation, or you’re moving from student halls into private student properties, or you’re packing your things ready to move out for a house move. In any case, from small removals to large, you need professional student removals to get the job done properly. You never want to move only to find that something fragile or precious has broken on the journey. Moving during student life can be difficult to organise, so your moving date and schedule are of great importance. Fortunately, the Kiwi Movers team is here to help you move with as little disruption as possible.
This is why it’s so important to find reliable and professional student removals services in London areas such as Wimbledon, Putney, Wandsworth, Chelsea, Fulham and more. You need a team that is going to be flexible to move around your schedule while providing a smooth, timely, quick and easy move that allows you the extra peace of mind to concentrate on other things. Want to find out more? Just get in touch with the Kiwi Movers team today to discover how we can help you with your student removals and student move needs. When you choose Kiwi Movers, we’ll take the difficult things out of your hands.
Of course, we also offer container storage for students about to go on a gap year, or for those students who need their belongings storing over summer before moving into new accommodation. A lot of students around London need a place to keep their things safe and secure, whether it be for the long term or short term. Here at Kiwi Movers, we are only too happy to provide this service at our very own container storage!
Student moves, storage and international students: your questions answered
Most student moves in London cost between £165 and £865 + VAT. A room in halls starts from £165 + VAT (1 mover and a truck, 2-hour minimum), a room in a shared house is usually about £235 + VAT (2 movers and a truck for 2 hours), and a whole student flat is usually £445 to £865 + VAT. The price depends on how much you are moving, how far, and access at both ends. Call 020 8877 9682 or request a free quote.
Yes. We can collect your belongings at the end of term, keep them in our own storage in West Molesey or Clapham Junction, and move them into your new place when you are ready. Student storage lockers cost £25 a month for a 10 cu ft suitcase locker, £35 a month for 15 cu ft and £60 a month for 30 cu ft, VAT included.
Yes. Many students move from halls to a shared house, then to another flat, then home. We can handle each move and store your things in between if your dates do not line up.
Both. We supply strong double-walled boxes in lots of sizes, or our team can pack and unpack everything for you.
Yes, we are fully insured. We are a Which? Trusted Trader and a member of the Road Haulage Association.
We are based in Wandsworth and move students to and from universities, halls and student houses across London and Greater London. International students can also ship belongings overseas with us.
Yes. We can pack your belongings and ship them anywhere in the world, including the Middle East, the US and China. For smaller amounts, our excess baggage service ships boxes and suitcases by sea.
Yes. Parents can arrange the whole move, storage or shipping with us by phone on +44 20 8877 9682 or by email, and the quote and booking confirmation are sent by email. The student does not need to be there on moving day.
We can ship belongings anywhere in the world, including the Middle East, the US and China, where many of our international students come from, as well as the rest of Asia and Oceania. For Australia and New Zealand, our excess baggage service ships boxes and suitcases by sea in a shared container, and you can get a quote online with our calculator.
Yes. You can keep your belongings in a student storage locker while you finish your course or travel, and we can then pack and ship them home when you are ready.
Possibly. Our excess baggage quotes cover collection in London and shipping to the destination port, but not import duties, taxes, or customs and quarantine inspection fees charged by the destination country. We will tell you what is and is not included before you book.
Insurance is available for excess baggage shipments, from £39.20 for £1,000 of cover or £78.40 for £2,000, including insurance premium tax. Cover starts once we receive a completed proposal form and final payment.
Our student lockers come in three sizes: a 10 cu ft suitcase locker for £25 a month, 15 cu ft for £35 a month and 30 cu ft for £60 a month, VAT included. Tell us what you want to store and we will recommend the right size.
Anyone with access, such as a flatmate or friend, can let our team in. Tell us who it will be when you book, and we will arrange everything with them directly.
Our movers are trained staff employed by Kiwi Movers. We have been a Which? Trusted Trader since 2016, rated 4.9/5, a Checkatrade member since 2017, rated 10/10, and we are fully insured and members of the Road Haulage Association.
