Fees, subscriptions and donations
How to pay
Membership and sailing rates - effective from 1 September 2007
If you want to pay for a voyage, make a donation to OYT South, or pay a membership donation or mate's sailing donation, you can do it online, by phone or by post. Annual membership and sailing donations can also be paid by standing order (pdf).
Thank you very much for your support!
Online
Click on one of the buttons below to pay online using PayPal's secure service. You can either use your own PayPal account if you have one, or you can use a credit card.
1) Pay for a voyage
Please DO NOT pay for a voyage online until you have checked that there is a suitable space available on your chosen voyage (contact the office).
2) Annual membership donation (non-sailing)
You can be a member of OYT South for just £36, which allows you to attend all OYT South events, including local support groups; the Annual Dinner; the AGM; training days; and other social events. You will also receive regular information about our work, and your membership fee will help us to continue our work, including making our voyages available to disadvantaged and deserving young people who would not otherwise be able to sail. Membership lasts for one calendar year; but for 2008, we can accept membership fees paid as early as September 2007 - giving you up to 16 months' membership for the price of 12 months!
Youth members (aged under 25) should pay a reduced membership donation of £18 instead of £36: 3) Annual membership + mate's sailing donation
OYT South's volunteer sea staff pay the basic £36 membership or £18 youth membership (see above), plus an annual sailing fee.
This sailing donation allows you to sail as often as you can - there is no further charge for any voyages on which you sail as a member of sea staff with young people on board. The sailing donation for 2008 (which can be paid any time from September 2007 onwards) is set at £100 recommended rate (£136 / £118 with membership donation) and £70 minimum rate (£106 / £88 with membership donation).
"OYT South seeks to encourage suitable individuals from a wide range of backgrounds to train, qualify and sail as volunteer sea staff. No-one should be excluded on grounds of cost."
Any individual who would be deterred or prevented from sailing by the cost of even the minimum sailing donation (£70) can apply to the Trust for their sailing donation to be covered in full or in part by bursary funding. It should be possible for any member of sea staff recommended by the staff skipper to have their minimum sailing donation covered if they genuinely cannot afford it.
If you book on an adult training voyage, your sailing donation for that year can be taken out of the voyage fee - you don't have to pay twice.
4) Make a donation
By phone
You can make a donation or pay a subscription or voyage fee over the phone using a credit card. Just call the office on 0845 365 6781.
Please send a cheque made payable to "Ocean Youth Trust South" to:
David Salmon, General Manager, Ocean Youth Trust South, PO Box 203, GOSPORT PO12 9AZ.
Gift Aid
If you are a taxpayer, you can use Gift Aid when making a donation to OYT South. This allows us to claim back the tax you have paid, making your gift worth much more to us without costing you a penny extra. Just print out the Gift Aid form(pdf), fill it in and return it.
You may require a free copy of Adobe Acrobat reader which you can download here.
You can also use the Gift Aid form to make regular donations.
OYT South membership and sailing donations - changes from 1 September 2007
The Trustees of OYT South have implemented a series of changes affecting membership and sailing donations, as follows:
a) Previously, people could join OYT South on any date and get 12 months' membership from that date - meaning that everyone was up for renewal at different times. It is administratively far simpler, and makes it easier to see who is a member and who is not, for everyone's fee to come due at the same time. Therefore, from 2008, all membership is due from 1 January and will last for the calendar year. However, to ease the transition, anyone due to pay after 1 September 2007 was able to pay at the new rate (see below) and this is deemed to cover their membership until the end of 2008 - i.e. up to 3 months' free!
b) The old membership donation was £30pa and the sailing donation was £70pa. These figures had remained unchanged for at least seven years. From 1 January 2008 (or 1 September 2007 for those due to pay then), the membership donation has been raised to £36pa.
At the same time, the sailing donation now has a recommended rate of £100pa and a minimum rate (before concessions - see below) at the old level of £70 per year. It is entirely up to sailing members which they pay (and they can pay somewhere between the two). The Trust would like to encourage everyone who can afford it to pay at the recommended rate, but where this would be a financial struggle, or for individuals who sail so little that they don't feel they get value for money, the minimum rate remains an option. The choice is entirely your own.
c) Anyone paying for a mate's training or familiarisation voyage can have their membership and sailing donation taken out of the voyage fee. This should attract new members but also encourage existing sea staff to undertake training voyages. NEW members who do training voyages in September and do not have the opportunity for further voyages that season (because of limited availability for assessment berths) will be regarded as paid-up members until the end of the following calendar year.
d) Crew members aged 12-25 will be regarded as paid-up members in the calendar year in which they sail.
e) Paid sea staff will be regarded as paid-up members in the year in which they sail. Unpaid relief skippers may also be regarded as paid-up members, although they will not be discouraged from paying if they choose!
f) Volunteer first mates are expected to pay membership and sailing donations, subject to concessions (below).
g) Membership donation - concessions: youth members (aged under 25) should pay a reduced membership donation of £18 instead of £36.
h) Sailing donation - concessions: OYT South policy states: "OYT South seeks to encourage suitable individuals from a wide range of backgrounds to train, qualify and sail as volunteer sea staff. No-one should be excluded on grounds of cost."
Any individual who would be deterred or prevented from sailing by the cost of even the minimum sailing donation (£70) can apply to the Trust for their sailing donation to be covered in full or in part by bursary funding. It should be possible for any member of sea staff recommended by the staff skipper to have their minimum sailing donation covered if they cannot afford it. No-one should be deterred from applying and there will not be a complex approval procedure.
i) Sea staff aged over 65 or with known medical conditions are already expected to have an ENG1 medical, which costs at least £80 every two years (prices can vary). If required, OYT South can deduct this cost from the sailing donation (e.g. £40 off per year over 2 years for an £80 medical).
j) Non sailing members should continue to pay their membership donation but not the sailing donation.
k) All taxpayers should complete a Gift Aid form regardless of how you pay, as the Government will give OYT South 23p for every £ you donate. A Gift Aid form can be downloaded here.
It is easy to make a payment using any of the following ways:
Cheque
By credit card over the phone (0845 365 6781)
OYT South website using credit card / PayPal (this is 24/7)
Banker's Order
Even cash (but not sent by post!)
