About Us
Schools Into Europe was founded in 1992 by Paul and Lesley Denison, starting with many years experience behind them, they quickly grew the family business into one of the UK’s largest independent School tour and day trip operators. Paul has a background in teaching French and German, accompanied by the experience of being Head of Middle School in Yorkshire, which gave him a great insight into exactly what was required by Party Leaders. Mixed in with Lesley’s extensive background in customer service and care, this meant that they brought together a winning combination. The company has built up relationships with Party Leaders from all corners of Britain and this has led to continued success and growth with around 40,000 passengers travelling with them this year - and numbers continue to grow year on year.
Despite this growth, the company still remains a family business with Rhys, their son the Operations Director, carrying on the family business. Schools Into Europe continues to give the personal care you associate with a small business, but backed up with the support and expertise of a large company. Boasting that you can always get to talk to our fully trained staff during office hours without the need to press lots of buttons!!! They have remembered that it was, and still is, the quality and professionalism that grows their business and this is backed up with highly-competitively-priced tours and day trips with safety and security always as a top priority.
Driver of the Year
Congratulations to Mr. Jim Green – Driver of the year 2009 - of Geoff Amos Coaches who received the highest number of nominations out of all of our English and Welsh Operators. Congratulations once again on this excellent achievement.
Safety
All our staff are CRB checked and we operate a Health & Safety Managment System that is independently monitored. Vist our
Health & Safety page for more details.
Bonding
Our tours are operated in line with the E.C. Directive governing package tours. In accordance with Article 7, all the tours are fully bonded for your protection. Our ESCROW Bond 1993 is a Trustee Bond Account that guarantees your financial security. Under the terms of this bond no monies paid to a tour company may be released to that company until the Trustee, in compliance with the law, releases the clients’ monies to the tour principal and then only upon the tour’s return.
Supporting Worthwhile Organisations
As a caring company we like to offer our support to worthwhile causes, whether locally or on a larger scale.
As some of you may know we recently lost our St. Bernard dog, Saffy. As a tribute to the many years of joy she brought to us and our staff we are currently supporting the following organisations which are trying to secure the humane treatment of these loveable dogs and all other animals worldwide. Please take a moment to click on the following links and find out more about their efforts. www.petaasiapacific.com and www.peta.org.uk
