The Spirit of Adventure Trust is passionate about helping the next generation of New Zealanders to unlock potential and learn lifelong skills.
The Spirit of Adventure Trust is an iconic and impactful organization, regarded in New Zealand as a highly respected youth development organization providing a unique environment for youth development, where the focus of learning is on teamwork, developing skills of communication, self-leadership, self-reliance, self-discipline, self-esteem, resilience, confidence, and leadership.
Since 1972, Spirit of Adventure Trust has taken tens of thousands of young New Zealanders on voyages of personal discovery aboard the tall ship, Spirit of New Zealand.
Aon is proud to join their mission of empowering young New Zealanders to reach their full potential through the challenge of the sea through our sponsorship and scholarship program and also to build a ‘Partnerships within partnerships’ program with Sustainable Coastlines, uniting two incredible organisations.
About our scholarship program
At Aon we believe that lifechanging voyages of personal discovery should be available to all young people/rangatahi.
We are proud to stand by Spirit of Adventure Trust and remove a key barrier to entry, ensuring that every year, we make ten fully funded scholarships for ten-day youth development voyages available.
A 10-day voyage onboard Spirit of New Zealand is an amazing way unlock potential, build confidence and resilience whilst making lifelong friends from communities across Aotearoa.
Want to know more about scholarship opportunities? Learn more about how to get onboard via a scholarship here.
Gift a scholarship: Our goal is to remove financial barriers for as many rangatahi as possible, providing them with an opportunity they wouldn’t otherwise have access to. If you’re in a position contribute by way of funding a scholarship, learn more about how to gift a scholarship here.