Example Financial Balance:

Your savings, work earnings                           € 250,-
Gifts parents, grandparents, birthday etc.     € 250,-
SPONSORSHIP & FUNDING                          € 550,-

Total Costs Voyage on Tall Ship                    € 1000,-

 

2. Support yourself with your savings or work earnings

 

3. Ask your family, relatives and friends to support you

 

4. Identify possible sponsors and funds like Service Clubs, Charitable Trusts, Youth Organisations and/or local Business. Most of these organizations are willing to support you financially because they see the value in the aspect of Sail Training.
In general Service clubs have a great network! A service club – some well known are: Fifty One; Inner Wheel; JCI; Ladies Circle; Lions; Rotary; Round Table; Soroptimist - is a voluntary non-profit organization where members meet regularly to perform charitable works either by direct hands-on efforts or by raising money for other organizations or individuals. Often these clubs don’t have many amounts to give themselves so for you the most interesting question to ask: can you help me with introductions to companies and private sponsors?

At Sea Sail Training is experienced in finding service clubs and Companies (that have a social paragraph in their policies) so please don’t hesitate to contact us.
 

5. Write a personal email or letter to the identified (possible) sponsors (they appreciate a direct approach from you) with
the following content:
 

Short introduction about yourself, your age, school, work and interests.

* Why you want to join the sail training experience?
* The voyage you will undertake (think of the ship, pictures, locations etc.)

* What do you hope to learn onboard?
* What is the support you need (see your financial balance, step 1)?

* What will you do in return for the sponsorship? (You could write a saillog,
give a presentation about your experience etc.)
* Remember to write your sponsor after your voyage to thank them!
 

To give your funding requests more creditability At Sea Sail Training created a flyer, which can support any application
for funding you’ll make. Within the flyer four people talk about Sail Training and why they support it. Tell Sponsors that
they can contact the referred people on the flyer and that they can transfer their financial support directly on the bank account of At Sea Sail Training.

 

6. After sending your email or letter call your (possible) sponsor to check if they received your funding request and
thereby ad a personal touch to it.

Blog Bark Europa 30 January 2012

Not just yet
30-01-2012 10:00

The gloomy mood of our first mile on the way to `The Battle of Drake´ is suddenly interrupted when Klaas yells out `Whale off the starboard bow!”

All the crew reacts promptly and even de masts bend over to starboard to see what’s going on. The goodbye-to-Antarctica sadness prompts everybody to feast their eyes on this last antarctic treat.

Somebody somewhere must have thrown a small fortune in the whale-machine. We get to see four whales playing together in a quarter of a mile circle around Europa. Every lack of a diving whale tail in any camera is made good.

The four are toying with us: disappearing and surface right next to our ship, swim under the ship from port to starboard, wave a white fin at us, demonstrate skills in backstroke… Antarctica does not let us go yet.

A ship full of people applauds the whale-show and is two bits less sad for the moment.

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