Quest News

A huge THANK YOU to Katie Ashbridge’s good friends, Gordon and Jill Walters, who have donated an amazing £750 to Quest4Change to be used on our project in Villa Maria.  This extraordinarily generous gesture will build an entire new house for a family desperately in need of safe and sanitary shelter.  Over the past few […]

A huge THANK YOU to Katie’s good friends, Gordon and Jill Walters, who have donated an amazing £750 to Quest4Change to be used on our project in Villa Maria.  This extraordinarily generous gesture will build an entire new house for a family desperately in need of safe and sanitary shelter.  Over the past few years […]

So it seems the many incidents which kept the Villa Maria team occupied meant that they didn’t have time to send us updates for the website (bet you all had your fair share of time spent in Ollie’s though grrr!). Anyway, they did make it safe and sound to the end of their expedition in […]

So it seems the many incidents which kept the Villa Maria team occupied meant that they didn’t have time to send us updates for the website (bet you all had your fair share of time spent in Ollie’s though grrr!). Anyway, they did make it safe and sound to the end of their expedition in […]

Well…we haven’t had a blog from them yet but thanks to expedition leader James we have the next best thing – some cracking photos of the Andean Expedition team’s time sandboarding and dune buggying at the Huacachina Oasis. Enjoy! Inspired….? Why not join one of our Gap Year teams heading out to South America in […]

“Relax and enjoy the view” were the wisw words of advice from our team leader as we drove away from the airport. Instantly several giraffes appear about 50 yards away from the road, and the sights didn’t cease to amaze for the rest of the journey – they still haven’t. From baboons scampering along the […]

This weekend Charlotte Ashbridge completed the Liverpool 2011 Triathlon in a fantastic one hour and 51 minutes – well done indeed! So far, Charlotte has raised a brilliant £615 for Villa Maria, which wil be used to expand ‘Katie-Ville’, the collection of new houses for vulnerable single-parent families in the shanty town. These houses can […]

3 Peaks – Charity Challenge for Quest 4 Change from Simon Tierney on Vimeo. We had a number of issues posting this due to copyright issues of the song, Many Thanks to the Proclaimers for scribing a song that was the theme tune to our challenge.  We are looking for people to join us on […]

Bolivia Team 2 have been out in the mountains for a while, trekking in the Huayhuash near Huaraz, Peru…..here’s the update from Walker! Photos to follow (we hope…). Early in the morning, we set off for the Huayhuash. When we arrived in the Huayhuash, we were greeted by a pack of donkeys, a horse, and […]

Three of the Quest team, Simon, Jon and new project leader Eoin, plus six other keen intrepid walkers headed off on a madcap dash around the corners of the UK, to complete the Three Peaks Challenge to raise money for our charity Quest4Change – summitting Snowdon, Scafell and Ben Nevis in under 24 hours…would they […]