Quest Overseas - Gap Year Travel

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 to more than a few scientists, who have found common names are key to conserving endangered species as the general public find it hard to care about species with cold, clinical and hard to remember scientific names.

So get those creative juices flowing and give an imaginitive name to 10 currnetly un-named British species...including the beautiful coral-like Jellyfish, Haliclystus Auicula above and these below!...

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 heading off for some adrenaline-filled activities in Sabie, South Africa.

Update from the team to follow soon!

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 the FSI to showcase the work of small charities, and will be showing Excellent Development's film 'Walking on Water' at the following times:

Weds 16th June @ 19:30
Thurs 17th June @ 08:30
Sat 19th June @ 08:30 and 19:30

You can find the Community Channel on Freeview (87), Sky (539) and Virgin TV (233).

Why not also find out what broadcasting legend John Humphrys has to say about the work Excellent Development is doing in Kenya.

Rugby School is holding its annual Gap Year Fair on Saturday 29th May and Quest Overseas will be there with other Gap Year providers to answer any of your questions about your Gap Year options.

Whether you would like some more information on our projects and expeditions, Africa and South America in general or even if you are simply looking for some advice on where to start with your Gap Year planning, just come and say hello to us on the day.

If you are already planning on attending the fair, why not take a look at the Ethical Volunteering Guide before you go - this sets out questions you should ask any organisation you are thinking of volunteering through to ensure the work you will be doing will be beneficial and worthwhile and that you will be well supported whilst doing it.

The Rugby School Gap Year fair starts at 9:30am and finishes at 11:45am. Directions to the school can be found on their website here.

If you're looking for ways to get into the volunteering, expedition or travel industry, Quest Overseas may be able to help. We will shortly be looking for a new intern to get involved either in the operational or marketing side of our organisation (or even both). Working here is a lot of fun and our interns do get a lot of valuable experience from their time with us - in fact, most of our current staff were offered jobs on the back of having internships with us.

We ask you to commit to at least three months, but ideally six (either full or part time) and would cover all reasonable travel expenses. There is an opening for an intern position to start from mid June, ideally for someone with interest and background in marketing.

If you're interested or would like to find more, please call us or send an email to info@questoverseas.com