The Chris Ellis award
Win up to £200 off the price of your next voyage!
Chris Ellis was one of the founders of the Ocean Youth Club in 1960.
He left a fund to help crew members aged under 25 who have enjoyed sailing with us and would like to be able to afford to sail again the following year.
In order to enter, you need to produce a piece of work based on a voyage with the Ocean Youth Trust. This can be a logbook, a diary, a picture, a story, a poem, a collage, a piece of computer art – whatever you like. Entries should be emailed to webmaster1@oytsouth.org, or posted to the office (mark the outside of the envelope "Chris Ellis Award entry"). Please also tell us your age and, if it isn't already clear from your entry, which voyage you sailed on.
The closing date for entries is the end of November each year. Judging is done by Chris Ellis's widow and daughter, who are always delighted to see how the project that Chris started continues to inspire young people down the years.
OYT South can award up to £200 (to one entrant, or split between two or three individuals) in the form of a discount off a future voyage.
The Chris Ellis Fund can reward effort as well as achievement, so crew members with a physical or learning difficulty stand just as much chance of winning as anyone else, if you send in something that is all your own work.
We look forward each year to seeing what crew members can produce!
Read 2009's winning entries:
2009 Chris Ellis award winner: Kizzie Bridgman
Highly commended: Ro Chamberlain and David Merison
