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Anyone having gone away with Quest between 2000 and 2006 will probably remember Lucy King. She helped to set up the entire Quest Africa operations and brought some much needed sanity to the until then all male office! She has now moved onto academia, and has been spending the past few years doing a PhD […]

With Icelandic volcanos behaving and cancelled flights now flying the Swaziland team have finally been able to get stuck into their project work in the Lubombo Conservancy reserves. We’re assured an update from the team will be winging its way through cyberspace shortly so keep do your eyes peeled. At present the team are taking […]

Interested in becoming a Quest Overseas Leader? The above is just one of a hundreds of different scenarios you could find yourself in when in charge of a Quest team in Africa or South America, so we’re looking for only the best. Our staff are selected not only for their all-round personality, skills and abilities, […]

Excellent Development – our project partner out in Kenya – will be featured on the Community Channel on as part of the Foundation for Social Improvment (FSI)’s Small Charity Week. The week has been set up to celebrate the diversity, vibrancy and value of small charities in the UK. The Community Channel have partnered with […]

Congratulations go to Danya Bush, Josh Connon and David Benson – members of the Swaziland GAP team out in Mozambique at the moment who have just completed and passed their PADI Open Water Dive courses and are now qualified divers! The team are currently making their way back down from Tofo beach to Maputo before […]

Congratulations go to Danya Bush, Josh Connon and David Benson – members of the Swaziland GAP team out in Mozambique at the moment who have just completed and passed their PADI Open Water Dive courses and are now qualified divers! The team are currently making their way back down from Tofo beach to Maputo before […]

A word from John Humphrys on the work that is being done with and by our Project Partners excellent development. If you want to be part of this incredible project click here.

Looking to live on in ecological immortality? Then why not take up the challenge to name one of Britains many un-named species. The competition is being run in conjunction with Natural England, The Oxford University Museum of Natural History and The Guardian. Plants and animals are dying out across the UK without ever being known […]

In a world cup that let’s face it provided very little in the way of entertainment there is one character that will for me be a lasting memory South Africa 2010.  It’s not an physic octopus, Spain’s tika taka, the at times breathtaking speed of German attack, the Argentinean teams adoration for their tactic less […]

  As the Swaziland Gap team bid good-bye to Africa at the end of their three months of hard work and adventure, a fitting farewell photo was crafted by the ingenious team – Toby Stafford-Deitsch, Danya Bush, Josh Connon, Richard Whalley, and David Benson.    Nice work guys, it’s awesome!