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Applicants of all ages are invited to apply for the 2018 Jersey Clipper Bursary – a £1,000 cash award aimed at furthering maritime endeavour.
The bursary is designed to assist an Islander of any age to achieve a particular nautical ambition. This could be a trip on a tall ship, attending a training course, participation in a watersports competition, undertaking a marine biology field trip or competing in an ocean race – anything with a maritime theme.
The annual award, a legacy from the three Jersey campaigns in the Clipper Round-the-World Race, was established in 2007 through the generosity of Dandara, Les Pas Holdings and UBS. Further funding to ensure the future of the award has recently been provided by UBS, enabling the trustees to increase the main bursary to £1,000 and offer a runner’s-up award of £500.
The 2018 winner will follow in the wake of sailing instructor Tom Pollard who put the 2017 award towards the cost of representing Great Britain in the Laser 4.7 World Championships in Nieuwpoort, Belgium, and also the Laser Radial Youth World Championships in Medemblik, Holland.
Since then Tom has been selected for the under-19 British Laser Radial Youth Squad and has been attending challenging training sessions in the UK run by the Royal Yachting Association.
‘The coaching and tuition from some of the nation’s leading sailors and coaches has been extremely useful and to train alongside the other best youth sailors has been a great experience as we all push each other to the max,’ said Tom.
As part of the British sailing team Tom also went to Palamos in Spain during the Christmas holidays to take part in a large international regatta that attracted the best sailors from all over the world. This gave him a great chance to sail against the competition he will face this summer in the Laser Youth World Championships in Germany.
The deadline for submitting written applications for this year’s Jersey Clipper Bursary is the end of April 2018. They should be no more than 200 words in length and should be emailed to philipjeune@gmail.com.
