Our UK travel team

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.

Nigel Stout
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."

Tricia Bryant
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 COGO Travel, the latest company to join the Voyager School Travel family.

Louise Richardson
Voyager General Manager

With extensive experience in school travel, Louise decided to join Voyager in 2008 and is our General Manager. Louise is responsible for the day to day running of our busy office and the tour advisors and co-ordination teams. 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

Nicola Middlemiss
Regional Sales & Account Manager

I work with schools to put together the perfect trip. I work with them to create a package that meets their requirements, their learning objectives, and is at a price that they can afford. I assist party leaders from their initial enquiry through to confirmation of the trip. Once the booking is confirmed, their specialist tour coordinator takes over, but I am still here to help where needed. I take great pride in all aspects of my work, and always do my best to ensure that the trip runs smoothly, is enjoyed by all, and is a success.

Paula Nowaskowska
Europe and Worldwide Tours Advisor

Originally from Poland, Paula has worked in school travel for over 7 years and specialises in creating non- language tours which are tailor-made to individual school requirements. Paula really understands the needs of teachers and party leaders, is efficient and organised and will ensure your trip meets your educational objectives.

Fun fact: Paula is a keen Latin American dancer

Carole Green
Normandy Operations Coordinator

Carole has worked in the school travel industry for nearly twenty years and is responsible for Voyager's Normandy tours which include the Château de la Baudonnière, La Grand'Ferme and the Normandy experience. Carole loves to use her wealth of experience to support teachers, before, during and after their trip and obtain constructive feedback to continually improve the service at our Normandy centres.

Fun fact: Carole loves cruising and is planning a trip on the Royal Carribean to Australia and New Zealand

Lucy Newton
Performing Arts Product Manager

Lucy joined Voyager School Travel in 2018 after enjoying 3 wonderful years as long haul Cabin Crew.

Prior to that Lucy was a musical theatre actress for 14 years starring in numerous shows such as Les Miserables, Footloose, Fame, Priscilla Queen of the Desert and most notoriously, her dream role of Glinda in Wicked at the Apollo theatre in London’s west-end.

Lucy is delighted to be able to offer the most FABULOUS performing arts tours for your Dance, Performing Arts school or Choir.

Fun Fact: Lucy was on the X-factor in 2006 reaching the live finals with her band ‘The Unconventionals’.

Lisa English
Family Adventure Holidays Manager

After spending over 25 years in Healthcare, Lisa joined the Family Adventure Team in 2016 to help out and is still here. With 2 boys of her own, she has a vested interest in making sure our Family Adventure Holidays meet expectations and is continually looking at ways to improve our existing holidays and develop new ones. She is very aware that many of our families have tried all our holidays and are just waiting for their next adventure together. We get many fantastic comments from our families, this is one of Lisa’s favourites. "The kids – I forget I have kids – are safe and smiling as they take off for archery. They run to us at the end of a session to babble their happiness; then run away from us without a ‘Goodbye’ to the next event, arms round a new friend and squealing nonsense."

Sharon Langner
Senior Sales Account Manager

Sharon brings a wealth of experience to the travel industry having organised group tours for both leisure and educational markets for more than 15 years. She is ambitious, helpful, and always looking for ways to make tours engaging and tailored to the needs of schools and their students. she strives to make the whole booking process as easy as possible for group leaders.

Fun fact: Sharon has a love for shoes.

Sammi Watsham
Tour Co-ordinator

Sammi has worked for COGO Travel since 2016. She has always had a passion for travel and completed a degree in the Business of Travel Management. She specialises in organising memorable trips for Performing Arts groups in Disneyland Paris, as well as worldwide group educational trips. She ensures her clients receive the best customer service and enjoys building relationships with them.