Share your Story and Inspire Others to Explore!
Outreach is a critical part of the Trust’s Inspiring Explorers™ programme. If you travel to Antarctica with us on this once-in-a-lifetime expedition, you will return with so many stories to tell!
The Inspiring Explorers™ selected for this expedition will become ambassadors for the legacy of exploration the Trust cares for and we will support you to find exciting and innovative ways to tell your story, inspire others, and advocate for the work of the Trust to conservate the important cultural heritage sites of the Ross Sea region.
The aim of our outreach programme is for Inspiring Explorers to share their own experience of the expedition within their community, creating a powerful ripple to inspire others to explore. Outreach programmes create awareness and advocacy of the Trust’s mission and the importance of Antarctica and its cultural heritage to the world.
Individual Outreach Requirements
As a condition of being on this expedition, on your return, Inspiring Explorers™ are required to:
- Deliver three outreach presentations in your community. These can take many different forms, from a talk at your school or tertiary institution, or to a community group or organisation you have connections with, to and question time at your local library.
- Write a blog about your experience for publication on the Trust’s website.
If this seems daunting, don’t worry, you will be fully supported to achieve these requirements. You will receive coaching and practice at speaking in front of an audience at the team building and de-brief weekends, we can help you with suggestions for organisations that would love for you to visit and tell your story, including many of our donors who enabled your participation on the expedition. We will supply you with resources to help you share the work of the Trust. We can also provide support to help you write your blog.
Group Outreach
You will work as a team to plan and deliver a group outreach project.
The goal is to share your experience of life aboard a historic tall ship, and how Scott and Shackleton’s ships played an integral part in the heroic era of Antarctic exploration.
The ships Discovery, Nimrod, Terra Nova, Aurora and Endurance were an embodiment of the spirit of exploration, with thousands turning out to see them off. This was an opportunity for the whole community to connect with the most exciting expeditions of their time, venturing South to explore the unknown.
The heroic era tall ships were a home for expedition members, dogs, ponies, and even a cat during their ocean journeys, and where the explorers started to develop their ‘Explorer Mindset’, growing the personal skills and teamwork they would need during their time in Antarctica.
The ships also supported important science and exploration, and played a part in some of the most incredible tales of survival.
- Discovery remained the explorer’s living quarters throughout Scott’s first expedition.
- When Terra Nova failed to reach Scott’s Northern Party, they were forced to spend a miserable winter in a snow cave at Inexpressible Island, subsisting on seal meat, and having to make their own rescue.
- The Aurora was blown out to sea in a storm, marooning Shackleton’s Ross Sea Party with limited food and equipment to undertake the huge task of laying depots to support Shackleton’s planned crossing of Antarctica.
- Shackleton’s Endurance was trapped in the ice and crushed. Many parts of her were repurposed to build patience camp where Shackleton and his men lived on the ice floe, to ready the lifeboats, making them more seaworthy and hospitable for the dangerous journey to Elephant Island, and then for Shackleton’s epic voyage to South Georgia in the James Caird.
Tell us your ideas for sharing your story and this fascinating history – it could be through digital technology, art, music, writing, video or many other mediums. Tap into your passions and skills – there are so many possibilities! However, you don’t need to do everything, your team mates will help you, so also think about what complementary skills your fellow Inspiring Explorers™ could contribute to make the project a success, and share this with us when you apply.
