[1] Along with NST, European Study Tours and StudyLink it is a part of the HB Education group, owned by Midlothian Capital Partners.

In the 1960s and early 1970s, its market was young adults and based on three main activities – canoeing, sailing and pony trekking – with accommodation in tents.

PGL moved into the school and group travel market and expanded in the 1980s, purchasing more properties, ranging from a mansion house in Perthshire to a converted farm in Oxfordshire.

In 2014, PGL opened an office in Melbourne, Australia and acquired two centres in Victoria and one in Queensland: Campaspe Downs, Camp Rumbug and Kindilan.

In 2017, PGL sought to acquire two new centres: Newby Wiske Hall (formerly North Yorkshire Police Headquarters)[6] and Bawdsey Manor on the Suffolk Heritage Coast.