Limited Company | |
Industry | School expeditions and gap year trips |
Founded | 2002 |
Headquarters |
Ringwood, United Kingdom Dubai, United Arab Emirates Diani, Kenya Kota Kinabalu, Malaysia Quito, Ecuador |
Key people
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Stuart Rees Jones, CEO and Director Matt Lacey, COO and Director Simon Englefield, Director (Africa) Rory Hall, Director (Africa) Carl Palmer, Financial Director |
Products | Gap year and school trips |
Number of employees
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150+ |
Website | www |
Camps International Ltd is an international volunteer travel operator headquartered in Ringwood, Hampshire UK and Dubai, UAE. Camps International build permanent volunteer accommodation camps within Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda, Malawi, Borneo, Cambodia, Ecuador and Peru. Its products include gap year volunteer trips, adventure expeditions and educational volunteer expeditions for UK and UAE school groups.
Camps International was founded in 2002 by Stuart Rees Jones, selling volunteer expeditions to Diani, Kenya, for volunteers to participate in projects related to the local school. In 2003, Stuart Rees Jones and Simon Englefield set up Camp Kenya Limited, as a branch of Camps International, to help manage the projects based in Diani. Camp Kenya offices are located on Diani Beach. The Camp Kenya headquarters are led by director Simon Englefield. In 2010 they were featured in The Telegraph Gap Year 100 Company Directory.
Camps International now employ over 150 local people from the communities surrounding their camps [1].
Camp Kenya is branch of Camps International UK, UAE and Kenya based gap year sports and school expedition provider. The company was founded in 2003 by Stuart Rees Jones and Simon Englefield.
Camp Kenya Headquarters in Kenya are based in Diani, Ukunda 50 km south of Mombasa and also bordering Tsavo national parks, 160 km north west of Mombasa. The Camp Kenya logo features a black rhino which is classified as critically endangered in Kenya.