Meet the Team

Nigel Stout
Non Executive Chairman

Nigel Stout has been our Chairman since April 2018. He has spent 35 years in education first as a university lecturer, then a school teacher and, most recently, as a Chair of Governors of various independent schools. He was Chief Executive of the MPW Group of sixth-form colleges between 1996 and 2015.

He says “What attracted me to Voyager was the outstanding quality of its programmes and the consistent testimonials from teachers about its willingness to go the extra mile in service provision. Voyager completely understands schools’ requirements in pivotal areas such as risk assessment, safeguarding and the hard educational outcomes that pupils can expect to achieve from their trips."

Nigel English
Chief Executive Officer

With nearly two decades in school travel, Nigel's ethos is simple - deliver highly educational tours with clear learning outcomes, guarantee value for money and remember the experience of the group is everything.

To make that happen, he has hand-picked a team of dedicated, experienced and professional people, who share his values and are committed to making your school tour a success.

He has also put Voyager owned and run centres at the heart of most of our programmes, where we control every element of your trip to ensure the highest levels of service, in schools only environments.

David Chalude
Chief Operations Officer

Andrew Larsen
Chief Financial Officer

Tricia Bryant
Sales & Operations Director

With a long career in school travel, including several positions at senior level, Tricia has a wealth of experience to complement her customer focus and infectious personality. As our senior troubleshooter, Tricia main role is to use her experience and contacts to inject the Voyager ethos across the growing company.

Tricia has spent time in Germany and speaks fluent German. She has also been stationed at our Moulin Aux Draps school centre in Northern France, setting up the schools programme and training the overseas team. Latterly Tricia was responsible for integrating Pegagus Coaches into the business. She is currently heading up the sales team, driving product knowledge and delivery across all of our tours. She also loves a coach and can often be found deep in conversation about drivers' hours regs and coach sizes!

Louise Richardson
General Manager

With extensive experience in school travel, Louise decided to join Voyager in 2008 and is our General Manager. Louise is responsible for many aspects of our company, with a focus on managing our team of busy tour co-ordinators who make our whole range of trips happen. She also is committed to making sure each group is ready to travel and that each trip will run according to the itinerary, ensuring all health and safety documentation is up to date and in order. Her knowledge and expertise are only matched by her motivation and commitment to your student's experience.  

Fun fact: Louise was the World Power Lifting champion 2017

Kate Moore
Head of Marketing

Kate is responsible for the communications, websites and social media for all the Class Tours brands - Voyager School Travel, Chateau de la Baudonniere, COGO Group Travel, Pegasus Coaches and Family Adventure Holidays. She loves the varied nature of her role and no two days at work are ever the same.

Before joining Voyager, Kate worked for an educational publisher and strongly believes that school trips should deliver the highest educational standards for the school that organises the trip, the parents who fund it and, most importantly, the students who participate.

Kate says the most gratifying part of her job is seeing students on a language trip grow in confidence in recognition that they can communicate, and be understood, in another language.

Interesting fact: Kate bought an apartment in Valencia while appearing on Channel 4’s A Place In the Sun.

Ruby McCandlish
Centre Manager of Chateau de Chantereine

Becca Ropars
Centre Manager of La Grand'Ferme