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May brings us up to the present day in Villa Maria… The team all dressed up and ready for the Sunday show… So here’s this week’s update 🙂 We’ve now reached the end of our third week in Villa Maria, and I don’t think we’ve seen the time go by. It’s all gone so quickly! […]

The Andean Expedition team have arrived back in La Paz after a few days deep in the Bolivian Jungle, exploring the waterways of the Pampas. Here are a few photos of their time getting back to the wild! Ty embraces his inner Indiana Jones… Relaxing jungle style… Cruising at sunset… Izzy gets to grips with […]

So today is Shrove Tuesday…and all of us here in the Quest Office will be spending our evening eating our body weight in pancakes (excpet for Si…he’s on a detox). In honour of this, and to help the culinary challenged out there here’s the BBC Good Food recipe for the Perfect Pancake… 1. Blending in […]

  International Women’s Day has been observed since in the early 1900’s, a time of great expansion and turbulence in the industrialized world that saw booming population growth and the rise of radical ideologies. 1908Great unrest and critical debate was occurring amongst women. Women’s oppression and inequality was spurring women to become more vocal and […]

Sorry I’m Late Folks Here we are in our last few days at what has become a friendly home away from home, adding the finishing touchs to our newly built pigsty and the various other projects nearing completion. Needless to say that while the Locals are making this week as special as possible with gifts, […]

Sorry I’m Late Folks Here we are in our last few days at what has become a friendly home away from home, adding the finishing touchs to our newly built pigsty and the various other projects nearing completion. Needless to say that while the Locals are making this week as special as possible with gifts, […]

Arriving into the office to find a postcard from one of our teams overseas sitting on my desk certainly brightens the day here in Brighton….so thanks Bolivia Gap Team 1 for this beauty from Sucre! Looking forward to many more to come….. Keep up to date with what the Bolivia team are up to on […]

For only 3 more days, The Big Give will match any donations received by charities, turning a £10 gift into £20 received. For our project partners in Kigali, Ubaka U Rwanda, this money will help buy land for a new home for the 30 ex-street children who live there. As rent of their current building […]

“This school has been supported in its continuing improvement by funds raised by friends and family of Katie Ashbridge. Katie was a well-loved volunteer with Quest Overseas in 2000, and donations continue to be made in her memory.” As a thank you for all the support over the years from Katie’s friends and family in […]

Quest strives to be different, to challenge our team members and to inspire them……most evident when the South American teams reach Machu Picchu each year! The Quest tradition of trekking the Inca Trail dressed up, dressed down or simply carrying a porcelain toilet (yes it happened!) is still going strong. Recent teams have really risen […]