Director of Expeditions and Programmes
Georgia started life at WE as an Assistant Expedition Manager in 2007.
Originally (and proudly!) from Whitby in North Yorkshire, she defected to the south due to a job in the bar industry and gradually moved across into the wine trade. Whilst in this role, Georgia was able to pursue her interest in water sports and joined a local Dragon Boat Team. One year later she was representing Great Britain and had become a World Champion! 4 years later and she had 11 medals to her name. This life-changing experience made Georgia re-think what she wanted from her work life and so she went back to university to study Sports Leadership.
This led to Georgia discovering Wilderness Expertise and she spent a hectic summer in 2006 getting to know the company. It wasn’t long before she’d worked her way in permanently and is now a very happy and experienced member of the team. Georgia’s skill is in relationship development and she delights in meeting clients and extoling the virtues of the myriad opportunities that WE offers. She’s a skilled public speaker with a breadth of experience managing expeditions and always places customer care and quality at the forefront of what she does.
Georgia’s travels have taken her to Armenia, Mexico, Hong Kong, China, Australia, Indonesia, Venezuela, Morocco, numerous places in Europe and now, thanks to her role at WE, has finally been to several sub-Saharan African countries which she’ll readily confess to being obsessed with.
Georgia is passionate about travel and sport and knows only too well about the fulfillment, excitement and challenges that both can provide. She hopes to venture to yet more new places whilst working for WE and continues to be fill her spare time with sporting pursuits. She can be found most evenings of the week lifting weights and testing her physical and mental ability participating in CrossFit.
Expedition Manager
Charlotte started at Wilderness Expertise in October 2016.
Charlotte has previously worked in a variety of events and logistics positions across the education and charity sector, but was keen to put this experience into practice in a role that ties in with her belief in the benefits of travel, the outdoors and challenge on personal development.
Spending four months travelling and volunteering in Sub-Saharan Africa in 2011 changed her outlook on life, and she’s been on a quest to explore as much of the world ever since! Whilst somewhat unable to resist the lure of far-flung destinations including Myanmar, Cuba and South America, she’s also keen to explore more of the UK and has recently discovered the delights of wild camping! Her most recent challenges included Stand Up Paddleboarding across Scotland and climbing Kilimanjaro. She’s now training to go from novice sailor to ocean-racer to take part in a leg of the Clipper Round the World Sailing Race – a steep learning curve!
In her spare time Charlotte enjoys walking her dog, pilates, yoga and also helps teach ballet.
Assistant Expedition Manager
While studying for a BSc in Environmental Geography and International Development, Anneliese specialised in conservation and human development, gender studies and protected areas.
Since graduating, she has lead and participated in many overseas volunteer projects and travelled extensively. She has taught outdoor skills to young people, led biodiversity surveys and volunteer groups in the rainforest. After setting up and coordinating a community conservation project in Malaysia and seeing the incredible impact it had on the community and the international volunteers, she decided to move back home to the UK.
Annie has since worked in the Houses of Parliament on similar international projects before joining the Wilderness team.
UK Programmes Co-ordinator
Jo has travelled to Russia, Morocco, Southern Africa, Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, India, Brazil, and across Europe. She spent time working in Japan, as a ski instructor in the winter and a canyoning and rafting guide in the summer, followed by a year living and working in the Swiss Alps.
Following time spent in Nepal, living in a Nepali community, teaching sport to girls, Jo wanted to continue sharing her passion for the outdoors with young people, and started her career in the outdoors industry in the UK.
At the moment she is getting into cycling, although her first sporting loves will always be skiing and snowboarding. The next travel dream is to learn to surf (outside of the UK) and one day Jo hopes to complete the Mongol Rally with her best friend.
Freelance Liaison
Despite coming from SW London Steve has always been an explorer and was fascinated by wildlife! As a kid, he would ride his bike to any bit of open space like Wimbledon Common, Mitcham Common or Bushy Park to explore and search for frogs, newts or small mammals and watch the deer in the Royal Parks.
Nothing has changed, except that Steve has now gone a little further afield. He still goes exploring in many of the upland and countryside areas of the UK and as an International Mountain Leader he has been lucky enough to lead treks in very many parts of the world. He is truly passionate about getting young people to develop their potential and believes that the DofE Award is a great vehicle for them to use to realise this potential.
Something that most folk don’t know about Steve is that he has signed the “Official Secrets Act”. He would love to tell you why, but ……….
Director
Richard has many years experience in developing companies and managing teams, in both large organisations and smaller companies.
He is the Director of a number of companies in the Adventure Travel, Expedition and Exploration sectors. Richard is a Fellow of both the Royal Geographical Society and the Zoological Society of London. He is also a commercially endorsed RYA Yachtmaster, and has used his sea-faring skills to bring personal development opportunities to a number of organisations and companies.
In his spare time, Richard has travelled extensively – usually on sailing or mountaineering trips, which have included climbing Kilimanjaro and Aconcagua. He has skippered yachts in the Fastnet Race and Three Peaks Yacht Race. In 2005 he competed in the Trans-Atlantic Rowing Race from La Gomera to Antigua with his wife, arriving in 6th place and setting a record time for a couple! In 2009 he cycled the route of the Tour de France to raise money for a cancer charity. In 2013, he sailed solo across the Atlantic in a 21ft yacht to raise funds for Sobell House Hospice in Oxford.
Richard lives in Hampshire with his wife Elizabeth and their two children.
Director
Beth has been managing operations in the expedition sector for over twelve years. She has extensive experience of working and travelling across sub-Saharan Africa and has a long history of working with partner organisations; setting up numerous community projects for volunteers as well as working as a project leader in Kenya, Malawi and Swaziland.
Her background is in geography and she is very passionate about supporting schools and teachers to enable them to offer new challenges to their students, to open their eyes to another way of thinking and break down cultural divides. As well as safety and operations Beth is responsible for managing the relationships with all of Inspire’s charity partners, maintaining Inspire’s ethical and community focused drive and getting to know some amazing and inspirational people along the way. She is Trustee for a charity in Malawi and loves any opportunity to talk about Africa generally!
Beth is also a qualified Off-Site Safety Management Trainer and is a firm believer that safety and risk assessments should never be seen as a chore and should be as accessible and pain-free as possible.
Director & Founder
Peter is passionate about youth expeditions and a believer in the personal development benefits of outdoor education.
In 1994 he set up Wilderness Expertise and has been involved ever since. His expertise in remote travel has led him to work with a number of different companies including BP, Rio Tinto, EarthWatch and the Royal Geographical Society.
His wider work in the youth expedition industry includes founding the Expedition Providers’ Association and supporting the Young Explorers’ Trust. He is also involved in the industry’s work on standards, including the technical committee for the British Standard for overseas expeditions (BS 8848), the Learning Outside the Classroom (LOtC) expedition badge and as the co-chair of the ISO for Adventure Tourism.
From a field perspective he is a qualified mountaineer and has run personal development expeditions for young adults all over the world. He has also worked as a remote medical practitioner and still gets out on triathlons when he can.
Peter lives in Andover with his wife Claudia and their two children, along with their dog Talisker, when he is not off travelling!
Finance Manager
Chris joined Provident Life in 1973 for what she believed to be a stopgap.
Little was she to know that she was going to spend the next 27 years helping the business evolve and progress. Eventually the time came to make a break and Chris joined the team in 2000 to become the finance manager. Be nice to her – she pays all our bills!
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