Our Bawdsey Manor centre is steeped in history and was a key location during both World War I and II. Back in 1936 it was used as a research base for radar and shortly afterwards became RAF Bawdsey, and remained an RAF base until 1991. We are proud that each year year we welcome back members of RAF Bawdsey Reunion Association who served their country from the Suffolk base and this year the anniversary coincided with the commemoration of the D Day landings.
PGL Travel
Travel Arrangements
Giving young people the freedom to be the best that they can be. Creating life-enriching adventures since 1957.
About us
PGL provides residential, outdoor education, adventure and ski trips for school children and groups, as well as adventure holidays for individual children and families. PGL is the UK’s leading provider of activity courses and holidays for schools, colleges, youth groups and individual children and young people. PGL also operate an extensive programme of cultural, language and sports tours for schools to UK and European destinations. In winter, PGL arrange inclusive ski packages to well-known European and American resorts.
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https://www.pgl.co.uk
External link for PGL Travel
- Industry
- Travel Arrangements
- Company size
- 1,001-5,000 employees
- Headquarters
- Ross-on-Wye
- Type
- Public Company
- Founded
- 1957
- Specialties
- School trips, Group residential trips, Adventure holidays, Family activity holidays, Ski trips, and English Language Programmes
Locations
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Alton Court
Ross-on-Wye, HR9 5GL, GB
Employees at PGL Travel
Updates
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With over 65 years of experience in creating enriching experiences for young people we know that a first trip away from home can not only be be a little daunting for children, but for parents too! So, to help reassure them, we held our first ever live virtual Kids' Camps parents’ evening! Parents joined a Q&A session with members of the team to learn more about Kids’ Camps and several important parts of a PGL trip, from safeguarding to the centre experience and more. They also had the chance to hear first hand from children who have been on Kids' Camps and their experiences. It was fantastic to have time with parents to hear what is important to them and how we can best support them ahead of their children's first adventure!
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We are very proud to be headline sponsor and are looking forward to tomorrow's EVOLVE Advice and can't wait to meet with EVC's and help them understand more about booking a trip with us. If you're signed up to the breakfast session then you'll be able to hear from our Head of Safeguarding and SEND Gemma Roberson talk about safeguarding measures.
We’re delighted to announce PGL Travel as headline sponsors of the National Educational Visits Conference. PGL has been delivering educational and inspiring residential activity holidays for over 65 years. PGL is a long-term supporter of the conference. Thank you to the team for supporting this important learning and development day for EVCs and all those involved in educational visits. Join us in London on 13 June 2024. Find out more 👇 https://bit.ly/3TzcwJh
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We’re proud to share that we have been awarded ‘Employer of the Year’ by Seetec Pluss! Seetec Pluss is a charity that provides work and wellbeing services to thousands of people to help develop their skills and find work opportunities. This fantastic achievement is thanks to the work that our Resourcing team and PGL Liddington colleagues have been doing with the local Swindon branch to support job seekers in getting roles with us at PGL. Huge congrats to Dave Jury and our team at Liddington who have worked with Seetec Pluss and are the driving force for this fantastic achievement.
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We are delighted that as part of our partnership with Girlguiding our Windmill Hill centre will be hosting our biggest Brownie Takeover Weekend to date! We are looking forward to welcoming over 350 Brownies and their leaders for an action packed weekend and make incredible memories. Want to know more about how you could have a partnership for your youth and uniform groups then contact partnerships@pgl.co.uk
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To any colleagues affected by the closure of restaurants by the Whitbread Group, we understand that this must be a challenging time for you. We want to offer our support and if you are seeking new employment opportunities then we have roles available at our PGL centres across the UK, catering to all levels. And, for some, there may be live-on opportunities. If you have been impacted and are interested please view opportunities at https://jobs.pgl.co.uk or if you have any questions please contact resourcing@pgl.co.uk #jobopportunities #hospitalitycareers
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We are delighted to be working with and supporting Newcastle United Foundation through its Employee Engagement programme. Enriching young lives isn't just for those who visit our centres but providing life changing career opportunities too. Our talent acquisition team led by Chris Whitehead is happy to discuss opportunities with other partners.
🚨GOOD NEWS STORY - FIVE Newcastle United Foundation young people (18-24 years) secure jobs with PGL Travel across their 15 UK national outdoor adventure centres 🚨 A life changing opportunity for our 5 young people , who are going to be moving away from home, to live in their chosen residential outdoor activity centre to work as Outdoor Activity Instructors or in housekeeping. 🛶 🧗♀️ 🏊 🧽 PGL Travel have been a pleasure to partner with on this Employer Engagement programme with a special thanks to Talent Aquistion Chris Whitehead for making this happen and also the manager of the Newby Wiske adventure centre Ross Hocking MBA for providing a fantastic site visit. 🤝⚪️⚫️⚽️ We are all delighted with these positive outcomes and all the hard work that went into this from all the NUF employability staff - Lauren Dixon, Robert Fenwick, Hannah Rowan, Carl Robson. 👏
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It is so important to us that all children can access our residential activity centres and we have invested in our training and activities to meet guests needs. We look forward to welcome more and more SEND students to our centres.
A very informative insight into the considerations teachers have to make when taking students with SEND on educational visits
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At PGL we know how valuable creating unforgettable outdoor experiences for young people can be. And we have the perfect partner in Girlguiding who we’ve been working with for the past 10 years to ensure even more girls can reach heights they only previously dreamed of. So it makes sense that to celebrate our 10 year anniversary we are sponsoring Girlguiding’s height adventure badges. Girls of all ages will be able to achieve these badges by taking part in an activity where they leave the ground, something our guests can do at PGL by scaling our climbing wall, flying down our zipwire and so much more. We're excited to see how many Girlguiding members will attain their badge on their adventures!
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