NEST was formed in 2015 by Andrew Vince.

Andrew left the Army after more than ten years service, which included extensive operational, travel and training opportunities. He then went on to work for a range of organisations providing training, teaching and social care for children in crisis.

His initial skills lay with adventurous activities, and now he has incorporated classroom based teaching and coaching techniques which he has used to support children in crisis, develop individuals and support other teaching establishments with their child development. Andrew draws extensively on his own real experiences to relate his life skills teaching to his students. This has been well received by pupils and staff within the schools he has taught and continues to teach in. For some schools this is their third year of provision for pupils ranging from Year 3 to post sixteen.

As a father of two, Andrew continues to nurture and develop his own children using the outdoors and his coaching experience.

In addition to Andrew's extensive school teaching experiences, he has also had the privilege to introduce novices to the great outdoors. Andrew has taught and assessed basic expedition skills, hill safety and navigation. He has taken adult participants on micro adventures, introducing them to the knowledge and equipment required for remote or local area overnight camps. Andrew is a keen wild camper himself, with more than 25 years of global experience to draw on, and a Duke of Edinburgh assessor to Gold level.