Sponsorship and donations
Crew bursaries
MAKE A DONATION - 94.2% of our expenditure in 2006-7 went on the direct delivery of our charitable services.
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In recent years, generous donations from a number of individuals and organisations have enabled OYT South to offer cut-price or (more rarely) free places to a wide variety of young people aged 12-25 who would not otherwise have sailed with us.
These included:
- Young people just leaving local authority care
- Young people who had recently lost one or both parents
- Young people who had been abused
- Young people with exceptionally low confidence and self-esteem
- Young people who had never been on a holiday before
- Young people experiencing family trauma
- Young refugees
- Young people who had experienced homelessness
- Young people with a brother or sister who has died or currently has a life-limiting condition
- Young people who had given significant support to OYT South – for example, by working on the refit
- Young people who had sailed as crew and shown sufficient promise to be earmarked as future sea staff, but who would not normally be able to afford to sail often enough to develop the required experience.
- An overseas crew trip funded to promote mutual understanding between young people from different countries. Eight different nationalities were represented on board for this trip.
If you would be interested in offering bursary funding for one or more crew members to sail with OYT South, please contact the office to discuss it.
You can choose whether to contribute to a general fund to be used for any deserving cases as they arise, or whether you want your money to support something chosen by you. This might be young people in particular circumstances, or living in your local area, or for a specific voyage. You can identify bursary recipients yourself, or you can instruct us in how you would like your money to be spent and we will invite applications which meet your criteria.
