THE ADVENTURE COMPANY FOUNDATION
Our Foundation
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If you have just returned from a trip and would like to make a donation to our Foundation then please call 0845 450 5310.
The Adventure Company Foundation has a central part to play in helping people and wildlife in the places we travel to and in administering funds to support specific projects.
Our clients and our staff believe in The Adventure Company Foundation, and working together we’re sure we can reach and even exceed our aim of £8000 from client donations for charitable projects this year. We hope that through such a joint-venture we have the basis to be able to grow our support to good causes around the world, with your help, for many years to come.
Contributions to the Foundation are made in two ways:
1. A lump sum paid each year by The Adventure Company.
2. A voluntary £1 donation per person made by clients at the time of booking. (This is in no way obligatory, but we hope you agree that it is worthwhile). If you prefer to make a larger donation, just tell us at the time of booking.
These contributions add up to many thousands of pounds each year, and the money is used in one of four ways to support a variety of projects:
One-off donations
Every three months, we take the money we’ve collected through the £1 donations over that period and give it to a project that we feel will benefit from a one-off donation.
Read more...Hide A Responsible Tourism team at The Adventure Company chooses the project for that time period. Sometimes the project chosen is one that’s known to us, and is in need of extra money, or otherwise it’s a new idea that has been brought to us by staff or clients, checked out and taken into our portfolio. Sometimes it’s a project run by our charity partners that needs extra support. The money is held in a separate account, away from company funds. By holding the money in this way, we keep administration charges to a minimum (any small banking charges or staff wages associated with the Foundation are paid by The Adventure Company) and we can guarantee that 100% of the money donated goes to the project it’s designated to. Hide
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Our donation matching policy
In addition to the lump sum we already contribute to our Foundation, in 2009 we will be matching every £1 donated by you at booking and donating it to our new charity partner, Just a Drop.
Read more...Hide Just a Drop is a global charity founded by members of the international travel industry that aims to provide clean water and sanitation where it’s most needed. In the developing world it costs just £1 to supply water to a child for nearly 10 years so for every person who travels with us, we give Just a Drop £1. Hide
On-going project support
In many of the destinations we visit there are small-scale, grass-roots initiatives that do not receive a high level of funding from other sources. Sometimes, these will also be specific projects organised by our charity partners. The Foundation supports these on an on-going basis by making a fixed donation per passenger.
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On our passenger’s behalf, we make a £2 per passenger donation to offset the carbon emissions associated with the in-country portion of travel involved in our trips. This is donated to Blue Ventures Carbon Offset. BVCO works in Madagascar to reduce carbon emissions with projects that benefit communities and the environment. Our donation funds the creations and distribution of both solar and energy-efficient stoves in subsistence communities in Morondava, southern Madagascar.
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People returning from our trips have often asked us if through us they can make a donation to a specific project or cause that they have seen while on one of our holidays. We regret that we are unable to do this and can only take donations towards the projects we support already. We do, however, always welcome suggestions and if you would like to recommend a project or initiative to support, please email our Responsible Tourism team on rt@adventurecompany.co.uk
