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Nicole Lee returned from her 5 weeks’ volunteering with Quest last summer in Malawi, full of motivation to keep on giving her time and energy to support the orphans and vulnerable children of Malawi.  Nikki not only raised over £3,100 last year, garnering an amazing amount of support from her work colleagues at CCS Mobile […]

The Royal Geographical Society (RGS) has Gap Year Scholarships currently available to students taking completing their studies in 2012 and taking a year out in 2012-2013. The scholarships include a grant of up to £4000 plus expert support and mentoring to plan a worthwhile experience. Applications are invited from young Geography students who would not […]

The year’s most anticipated event . . . what a way to start the week leading up to Christmas!  7:30pm – 2am on SUNDAY 18TH DECEMBER 2011 The Artesian Well, 693 Wandsworth Road, Clapham, London, SW8 3JF **Black Tie Dinner**  **DJ** **Charity Casino**  **Raffle** **Caricaturist** Tickets £30 per person This includes your entry, two course […]

A massive congratulations to Rachel Bodger of the Quest Overseas Malawi summer team who recently won an award for her fantastic pencil drawings.  I had the pleasure of Rachel’s company for the trip and it would appear that my boyish good looks were not worthy of a portrait!!  I shall be having words!    Rachel […]

It is with immense pleasure that we can announce that after 9 years together (having met on their gap year in Yachana) Greg and Jamie are finally getting hitched. You took your time Greg!  They got together during the trip which was led by Mr. Cupid himself Matt Powell and have remained together since. All […]

With Halloween soon upon us we thought it necessary to unleash this monster from the vault. Halloween is celebrated all over the world and oftern brings with it fancy dress and trick or treats.  It is basically a great opportunity for Lucho and the boys at our shanty town project in Villa Maria to have […]

This Thursday (17th November 2011) Quest will have a stand at  the City of London Freemen’s School’s Careers, Education & Gap Convention so if you have questions about our Gap Year teams in Africa and South America or simply want to know more about travel in those parts of the world then come and chat […]

For all the teams who worked on the construction of the Clinic in Pensulo, Malawi – we’ve just received some fantastic photos of it in action from the Joshua Oprhan & Community Care trustees. It’s great to see the final result of the hard work of so many teams and the benefit it is having […]

  I was fortunate this year and was able to lead the team in Malawi. Though I was unable to be there from the start I did have the privilege of being there for the completion and was incredibly proud of all of those that helped to construct the feeding centre. The bellow is a […]

No one could doubt that 2011 has been an eventful year in global events – with the ‘Arab Spring’ spreading from Tunisia across North Africa and the Middle East, the killing of Osama bin Laden, News International, and deepening economic woes with the Eurozone Crisis. Here at Quest Overseas, it’s also been eventful, if on […]