The Worthians Charitable Trust Global Action Awards (GAA) Programme

The Global Action Awards (GAA) programme was established in 2000 as a bursary fund for Worthians.

We encourage pupils in their final year at Worth School to apply for a GAA if they are planning to undertake any form of voluntary work during their Gap Year; but the Awards are available to any Worthian who is proposing to spend time in unpaid work for the good of people, the community or the environment, either at home or abroad.

Over the last eleven years we have awarded a total of £13,830 to Worthians participating in voluntary work for good causes.  Click here to view a full list of all GAAs awarded by the Worthians Charitable Trust since 2000.

So, we are hoping that we might be able to entice a few more of you to leave your desks and take a truly worthwhile sabbatical for the benefit of others.  It would be just great to see more mature Worthians taking advantage of them – as Rob Carson (G’94) and Benedict Kelly (StB’78) have done, for example.  You can read more about their respective experiences here – Rob ran a camp for disabled children in Ireland; while Benedict, undertook some fund-raising for communities in Peru during a three-month sabbatical from work.

And during 2010 and 2011, we saw the return of our successful 2010 GAA applicants :

• James Harrold (StB’10) spent from March to June 2011 with the Manquehue Movement and its community in Santiago, Chile
• Max Watson (F’05), through Outreach Peru, spent some time teaching within a community in Tarma, Peru
• Benedict Wintour (B’09) worked on an Academic and Sports Teaching Scheme in the Great Rift Valley in Kenya.

If you are interested in finding out more about the Global Action Awards, please click here to view the GAA Terms and Conditions.  If you would like to apply for a GAA, donate to the GAA fund or find out about any projects in need of volunteers please contact the Olivia Henley at worthsociety@worth.org.uk for more details.