Friends for Sharks World Tour
Nicholas and I have set up a marine conservation cause called Friends for Sharks and are offering free educational events to audiences around the world to share our love of sharks, our passion for the oceans and to inspire adults and children to protect the oceans around them. We have given up our careers to create this cause because we want to find a way to use our skills and passion for positive change.
We are organising a working World Tour for 2015 to promote marine conservation and increase worldwide awareness of the plight of sharks whilst raising money for two fantastic charities; The Shark Trust and Project AWARE.
We will be visiting a number of countries during our tour and giving educational and inspiring talks about our experiences and work as wildlife guides with great white sharks, the threats sharks face and marine conservation issues. We aim to provide free events for a wide variety of audiences in each country, such as aquariums, schools, conservation organisations, scuba diving centres and community groups. During our tour we hope to raise money for our two nominated charities.
We are paying for our international flights throughout the tour and will be working very hard to provide fun, educational events for all age groups. We are fundraising and seeking sponsorship to help us cover our essential tour costs such as food, educational material production and local transport. This will allow us to reach our audiences and voluntary work destinations. This is not for profit and, if all costs are met, 100% of any further money received will go directly to the nominated charities.
Voluntary work will be undertaken throughout the tour with global initiatives such as WorkAway. The WorkAway hosts request 4-5 hours of work per day in exchange for food and board. By undertaking this in addition to our Friends for Sharks events we will keep our tour costs to an absolute minimum, resulting in more of the money we fundraise going directly to our nominated charities. We aim to complete voluntary work at orphanages, schools, eco-projects and for families requiring assistance.
Please watch our fun, 3 min promo video below to hear more about our cause and plans. It has some beautiful white shark footage. Enjoy!
The support of others is needed for our world tour to succeed. The donations we receive will be used to fund essential tour costs so that we can reach our audiences, undertake our voluntary work, raise money for our charities and spread the Friends for Sharks message!
We will be...
• Using our voices to promote marine conservation and increase worldwide awareness of the threats to sharks
• Educating and encouraging people to become Friends for Sharks themselves and protect the oceans around them
• Inspiring people to be the change they want to see in the world
• Raising money for our nominated charities
Please support our work and be sure to check out our Facebook page for our regular updates and competitions where you can win great prizes from our clothing and merchandise range. Please support us in any way you can and be a part of our venture. Let's get out there and inspire!
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