About Us

Bourne

Bourne Leisure is one of the largest providers of holidays and holiday home ownership in the UK. Our brands (Haven, Butlins and Warner Leisure) are amongst the most recognised within the UK holiday market, and we own and operate leisure assets on 6,500 acres of some of the best real estate in the country. Over 4 million families come on holiday at one of our parks, resorts or hotels every year and we aim to give our guests an exceptional experience.

Our purpose is to provide products and services to our holiday home owners and holiday guests so that they can enjoy the Bourne experience in a safe, secure and appealing environment.

Our experience over the years confirms the simple belief that we need the support of our owners and guests to ensure the continued long term success of our business. As part of our commitment to our owners and guests, we invested some £94 million in 2013 on improving the accommodation and facilities at our resorts. We challenge ourselves to provide an experience to our guest that continues to delight and amaze them.

Our success over the years has been driven by the enterprise, experience and exuberance of our team members. They play a critical role in delivering an outstanding guest experience. We celebrate our successes and achievements by maintaining our place in Sunday Times Top 25 Best Companies for the last 7 years running.

We have 6,000 team members that work across our 3 brands which rises to nearly 12,000 in our busy (peak) periods. The majority of our team work for a particular brand including those that work at our Support Centre based in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire. We also have a number of team who work divisionally across a number of brands and ultimately the aim and purpose of our Hemel Support team is to support the operation in areas such as Marketing, IT, HR, Sales, Commercial and Finance with the overall aim and purpose of ensuring an exceptional guest experience.

Hemel

Our Hemel Support Centre is the hub of the Bourne team. You will find opportunities to work for one of our brands, or a role supporting across the whole of the Bourne family.

We are based in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire with over 700 team members, and every day is different as we provide a service to our team, guest and owners to ensure our business goals can be achieved. With such a wide variety of roles numerous opportunities are available to shine through with your talent and contribute to providing an outstanding holiday experience.

Based in Hemel Support are all the support functions; HR, Payroll, Finance, Sales and Marketing, Purchasing, Health and Safety, IS, Agency Sales, Insurance/Serious Customer Complaints and Studio.

Haven

We operate award-wining, family-focused caravan parks around the British coastline as part of the Bourne Leisure family. The 36 parks have an excess of 36,000 caravan pitches, making Bourne the largest operator of caravan parks in the UK. All our parks offer the opportunity to own a holiday home, and our owners services teams looks after in excess of 23,500 holiday home owners. All of our guests come to our parks to enjoy a variety of activities and experiences from our entertainment and activities programmes to just wanting to escape from daily life and just spend quality and simple family time together.

Our holiday home owners and holiday guests come to us enjoy the ‘breath of fresh’ experience we strive to achieve which is at the heart of our strategy. During 2013 alone we provided a great holiday experience for over 2 million families , in addition to selling over 5,800 caravans to new and existing owners, drawn by the enduring appeal of our holiday home ownership proposition.

As a brand we are proud of our award winning team, having been recognised in so many different ways. Some of our proudest achievements are; Top 25 Best Big Companies, British Travel Award winners, TTG Travel Awards winner, Green Tourism Awards, Travolution, Customer Service Training Awards Winner plus many more.

Butlins

Butlins is one of the most recognised brands in the UK holiday market, offering a family product with the emphasis on entertainment. Part of the Bourne Leisure family, Billy Butlin opened his first resort in 1936 and right from the start his aim was to bring a little colour and happiness into the lives of hardworking families. We think working for us is the best job in the world. Billy Butlin promised someone to look after you always, and today we still believe it’s the service you receive that really makes the holiday.

Butlins is the nation’s best known holiday brand with over 98% of the public recognising the Butlins brand. Our three resorts, Bognor Regis, Skegness and Minehead attract over 1.5 million guests every year. Each resort benefits from some of Britain’s best beaches and each hosts our famous fun filled skyline pavilion, indoor water worlds, large scale entertainment venues, shops and restaurants.

Our true intent is all for your delight and our Big Hearted teams are at the heart helping hard working families rediscover their sparkle.

Warner

Founded by Harry Warner whom opened his first holiday camp in 1932 Warner Leisure Hotels is now part of the Bourne Leisure family. In 1994 Warner rebranded to its present offering of providing adults only short breaks across its 13 countryside and coastal hotels and resorts throughout Great Britain.

Each of its sites provide its guests with half board accommodation, a wide range of leisure facilities and an inclusive entertainment package, where people who love life come to live it all over again.

We believe that every one of our guests should be given the time of day and allow our team to work from the heart. The Warner team is proud of the service they provide and if you are motivated by introducing new and exciting ideas, creating an environment where everyone feels involved and where they feel they are being treated to something special, then we look forward to your application to join our warm-hearted team.