Better late than never here are a few photos of the animals the Bolivia Gap Year Team were working with in Parque Ambue Ari last month. The whole team worked fantastically hard, ensuring these animals were fed, watered and walked each and every day of their 2 week stay. Congratulations on a job well done! […]

Huge congratulations to the Water, the New Petrol student and teacher team from Peru & Mallorca, who have just been crowned joint Platinum Award winners in the “Doors to Diplomacy” competition! Doors to Diplomacy is an international education challenge sponsored by the US State Department, designed to encourage middle & high school students around the world to […]

NOMINATION DEADLINE: FRIDAY 25TH MAY 2012  Nominate Quest Overseas in the 2012 Virgin Holidays Responsible Tourism Awards and be in with a chance to win a 7-night trip for two to Kerala with Virgin Holidays & CGH Earth Hotels. Quest Overseas were proud to achieve a “Highly Commended” in 2007, but we would be thrilled if […]

Royalist or republican, none of us in the Quest Overseas office is one to turn our noses up at street party… particularly one involving cake, champagne and plenty of bunting! Unfortunately, our fondness for a  right royal knees-up does mean we’ll be closing the office over the UK Jubilee bank holidays: Mon 4th June – CLOSED […]

We’re a little bit excited to have just taken delivery of a batch of brand spanking new Quest Overseas brochures! In them, you’ll find all the info you need on our projects and expeditions, details on our charity Quest4Change and on Fair Trade Volunteering, reviews from previous volunteers, and much, much more. Coming soon to […]

This summer brings some exciting times for Quest in South America as the first ever team to venture to our newest project in the Manu Biosphere Reserve arrived in Peru last Wednesday. This pioneering bunch have arrived safely in the jungle and have spent the last couple of days exploring and getting to know their […]

Here at Quest we’ve always been fans of the strange, awe-inspiring or just plain ridiculous things that happen when people have too much time on their hands and this has to be one of my current favourites…..Human Mattress Dominoes…. The exisitng World Record of 550 people has been toppled (see what i did there…) by […]

Things are going incredibly well in Kenya. Already this years team have broken the cement mixing record – “the Quest team, ASDF staff and community up in Tawa have mixed 599 bags of cement in 2 days. The record was on day one when they mixed 300 bags. That’s broken the record previously set by […]

Things are going incredibly well in Kenya. Already this years team have broken the cement mixing record – “the Quest team, ASDF staff and community up in Tawa have mixed 599 bags of cement in 2 days. The record was on day one when they mixed 300 bags. That’s broken the record previously set by […]

    This update is provided by Team Leader Joe who has been involved with the Charity since he was a young boy growing up in Malawi.     The Northern Ireland team arrived safely in Malawi and settled into thier newhome very well and made a wonderful friendly relationship with the local community. One […]