UKSA has been awarded a maritime grant from the TK Foundation worth over £600,000 over the next 3 years.
The Isle of Wight-based charity provides life enhancing water-based adventures, education, and world-leading maritime training and aims to increase accessibility and diversity in the maritime industry. It will use this important grant to fund a number of beneficiary places on its Superyacht Cadetship and Sea.Change Foundation programmes for those who would not otherwise be able to participate.
The TK Foundation’s mission is to enable disadvantaged youths to succeed and promote maritime education and safety. It invests in programmes which enable young people from disadvantaged backgrounds to maximise their potential through pathways such as education, training, and life skills to become self-sufficient. It also aims to promote knowledge of the seas and oceans to strengthen maritime safety and security.
The funding will enable UKSA to welcome 77 teenagers onto its Sea Change Foundation Programme each year. This week-long residential course gives them an introduction to the water and informs them how to progress into the maritime industry.
The grant will increase the percentage of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds who can access the UKSA Superyacht Cadetship. Of the 2021 cadet intake, only 16% were from the most deprived areas of the UK (based on the Indices of Multiple Deprivation). The grant will also enable the purchase of new keel boats to ensure the charity maintains a top-quality fleet of equipment to meet safety requirements.
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