Tag: Guides

Reef-World Launches Environmental Scholarship For Deserving Dive Guides

Stuart Mitchell

The Reef-World Foundation – the international coordinator of the UN Environment’s Green Fins initiative – and Paralenz are proud to announce the launch of a scholarship campaign to help scuba diving guides receive vital environmental certification. The Dive Guide e-Course Scholarship Fund, which was created by Reef-World and has been kicked off with a generous donation of £1,000 from Paralenz, as part of a wider partnership with the charity, which will enable 50 dive guides to receive their Green Fins Dive Guide e-Course environmental certification. The Scholarship Fund has been…

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Co-op £2m funding boost for Scouts and Guides

Stuart Mitchell

Scouts and Guides across the UK are enjoying a funding boost after Co-op members generated more than £2m in less than two years. Since the Co-op’s local community fund was launched in September 2016, 900 Scout Troops and Cub Scout Packs and nearly 400 Guide, Brownie and Rainbow units in the UK have received a total of £2,100,000. The mutual has supported thousands of other youth groups in the UK, raising a total of £5.4 million* since the scheme began. Co-op members, who receive a five per cent reward for…

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