Certified B Corp Chartered Accountant 🌍 Helping small businesses achieve profit and positive impact 💡 ▪ Accounting ▪ Tax ▪ Sustainability 💚 Climate and nature activist ⛵ Sailing enthusiast #Switchfootaccounting
Tomorrow, the 13-year-old grom steps on board with the Tall Ships Youth Trust to complete her competent crew course. She has been practising her knots, and the buoyage flashcards have been out. The Tall Ships Youth Trust, based in Portsmouth, is one of the largest and oldest youth development sailing training charities in the UK. It has trained over 120k trainees since 1956. They are dedicated to enabling young people aged 12 to 25 to fulfil their life potential through transformational adventures at sea. Since the pandemic, they have found increased demand for their services, and our young people need more help guiding their way into adulthood. Charities like this are essential for all children, but especially for those who find school challenging or who don’t have regular access to the natural world. If more money were available, I would vote for every child to spend at least a week sailing and learning through doing. So many life skills can be learned outside of a classroom. Where else do you get to learn without learning: -To cook & clean for a crew - Home economics -Experience weather ( either too much or too little) - Science lessons -Navigation - Maths & Geography -Tides and Sails - Physics -Winching in sails - PE -Safety briefings, including fire safety - Life skills -Jumping off a yacht - PE -Dolphin and seal spotting - Biology -Leader and delegation - Leadership and influence -The importance of developing a plan and a plan B - Life skills ( and there are loads of others ⛵) We should be concerned that the grom will like 55 ft sailing with a crew over our little Dawn. I have a strong admiration for anyone who can volunteer to spend a week with teenagers on a sailing yacht, as I know that I don’t have the patience. I am thinking about what I can do 💚 So, Two things I am pondering for the weekend: - Is there a correlation between people who have access to & enjoy nature and Climate action? - How can we support more young people in making positive life choices and finding purposeful employment through our business activities or donations ( time & money)? #Sailing #Youth #Training #Sustainability #PositiveAction
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10moConnecting with nature is very important & there is nothing like sailing to understand just how powerful nature can be...makes you think twice about powering her any further. She will take our extra energy and use it mostly to throw water around. The earth energy imbalance is currently running at around 13 Hiroshima's per second...eek😬