Nick Heiney Sailing Scholarships

Each year, in association with The Jubilee Sailing Trust (JST), The Ogden Trust offers a number of "Nick Heiney Sailing Scholarships" worth £500 towards the cost of a voyage on the Jubilee Sailing Trust Leadership at Sea scheme.  
  
About Nick Heiney Sailing Scholarships
 
Nick Heiney (pictured right) was born in 1982 and was educated at Royal Hospital School, Holbrook and St Catherine's College, Oxford where he studied English. He sailed extensively as a boy and as a young man and found some of the greatest highs and experiences of his life sailing tall ships, which are described in his book "The Silence at The Song's End".  He crossed the Atlantic in the Tall Ships Race 2000 and in 2002 served six months as a deckhand on the square-rigged barque Europa sailing across the Pacific to Japan and Korea.  He died in 2006 aged 23.
 
These scholarships are named in his memory and are offered to those who have a sense of adventure and would like to undergo a working voyage on a tall ship. No previous experience is necessary.
 
"Going aloft is to me a magical experience of which I do not believe I will ever tire.  On the way up you are encapsulated in a world of rope, tar, and billowing sails. Height is not an issue, since the distance travelled is less important than the over-tarred rung in which foot must be jammed.  Every ratline, shroud and futtock contains the fear, relief and exultation of everybody who has climbed it. You are ascending through clouds, through your own effort, not the will of any power or God. Yourself, in control and washed clean of identity, association.  The mind is drawn to the climb through the jungle of rigging.  When I reach the top, the jungle, the cloudy sails and everything else lies below.   I am open to the sky and can look down upon the ship as a soul in heaven looks down upon the earth. Through jungles of complication and stress, to the open sea and sky.  Every thought wiped clean, every emotion intensified, every colour brighter. The best part of working on a yard to furl a sail is the teamwork. Everybody works slowly and steadily with each other, driven by adrenaline and necessity. After a certain point, adrenaline stops pumping through the veins.  It is replaced by pure life."

Nick Heiney from "The Silence at the Song's End" published 2007 by Songsend Books 
 
Details and how to apply 
 
JST voyages are for both able-bodied and disabled students and the Ogden student is normally paired with a disabled student or sailor.  The Ogden Trust will provide £250 and The Jubilee Sailing Trust £250 towards the cost of each voyage but you must pay the balance plus £35 insurance.  The successful candidates will also have to fund their own travel to and from the UK ports, must be in possession of a UK passport (as voyages often dock in other countries even if they are to and from UK ports) and be 16 years of age on the date of departure.  Places will be offered on a first-come first-served basis.   
 
 
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These scholarships are open to all Ogden alumni and all current fellowship, scholarship and bursary holders (including those who have applied before).
If you would like to apply for an Ogden/Jubilee Sailing Trust Leadership at Sea place on one of these voyages (listed on the JST website), please go to www.jst.org.uk and complete the appropriate application form.
 
When completing the JST on-line application form please note that in order to claim your £500 scholarship you must:
a) start your personal statement in the Youth Leadership at Sea box with the statement "I am an Ogden Trust student"
b) write "The Ogden Trust" in the box at the bottom of the form where you are asked how you learnt of these voyages
c)  e-mail ogdentrust@hughes.cam.ac.uk to tell us which voyage you have applied for
 
Please note that all Ogden/Jubilee Sailing Trust scholars will be asked to write a report on their voyage and provide an accompanying photograph taken on board.