Raise and Sail – Help with funding & collecting the money

There are a number of ways that you may be able to get some funds to help you pay for your trip.

You may be able to get help funding your trip

There are a number of ways that you may be able to get some funds to help you pay for your trip.

CHRIS ELLIS AWARD

If you have already done a voyage with us, enjoyed it and want to come again, you can enter the Chris Ellis Award – there’s an annual prize of up to £200 off the cost of another voyage for the best diary, logbook, story or picture from someone who has done a voyage with us.
Age limit 12-25.
Deadline is Christmas each year.

OTHER BURSARIES AND FUNDING

OYT SOUTH BURSARIES

Ocean Youth Trust South itself also has a limited amount of bursary funding available to help people aged 12-25 who cannot afford our full voyage prices.

For more details on all of these funding options, see the main Ocean Youth Trust South website.

How do I collect all the money?

However you have decided to raise money, however vast the amounts you have been sponsored, one thing is for sure; you’re going to need to collect it.

If you are selling items you have made, keep the money you are given together and think about paying it into a bank account so that it’s safe. Don’t forget to keep a good record of exactly how much you have made. If you are working as a group, think about asking a group leader or teacher to take care of the money for you.

If you have decided to do a sponsored event, the way you collect your sponsorship money will depend on whether you want it to go straight to the charity, or to go into your sailing fund if you are trying to raise money to join an OYT South voyage.

RAISING MONEY TO PAY FOR A VOYAGE

If you are raising money to help fund your trip with OYT South, you’ll need to get people to sponsor you and then give you or your group leader the money directly.

Use paper sponsorship forms and get people to give you their details and how much they are sponsoring you. We have blank sponsorship forms on the site here but you’ll need to add in the details of your event and make some changes – for some events people will sponsor you to complete a challenge, for others, they might sponsor you a certain amount for every length you swim or day you wear your wellies.

Make sure your sponsorship form makes it clear how you would like to be sponsored.
I NEED SPONSORSHIP FORMS

RAISING MONEY DONATE TO THE CHARITY

If you are raising money to support the work of Ocean Youth Trust South, you can use online sponsorship sites to create a page for your event.
Websites like Just Giving or Virgin Money Giving let you make a page and then they manage collecting the money and making sure it gets safely to OYT South.

RAISING MONEY

What can I do to raise money?

GETTING STARTED

What you need is a plan

FUNDRAISING IDEAS

Here are a selection of ideas

WHAT TO TELL PEOPLE

Where their money is going

Here to help – posters & leaflets

We’ve put together a few things to help you with your fundraising. They have been designed for you to print out and write on the details of your event or activity.

Posters & leaflets

Here are few things to help

If you are planning a large event and think that you might need a lot of leaflets, get in touch with us at the office and we’ll send some along, so you can spend less time printing and more time planning!

CONTACT DETAILS FOR OUR OFFICE

How to sail with us

Ocean Youth Trust South is an adventure sail training charity which takes young people aged 11-25 to sea in our 30-metre vessel Prolific.

Individual Voyages

Voyages for people aged 11-25

 Group Voyages

Introduction for adult leaders

Adult Voyages

Voyages for people aged over 18