Giving Back
Giving back is a huge part of what we do and what we are about. Our view is that tourism isn't just about having a good time in someone else's country, it's about learning, fostering understanding, concern, and compassion. The natural world has never been as threatened as it is now and it is everyone's responsibility to do something about preserving it.
We choose suppliers and service providers that act responsibly, with the best interests of the local people and wildlife at heart, who we think will do the best job of providing our clients with a insight into not only the beauty they witness on holiday, but the threats and dangers facing it.
Beyond helping create stable employment for locals, we have become involved with helping out communities and wildlife in one form or another. We put our money where our mouth is. Around 30% of our profit is given back to causes, charities, and organisations.
We support marine conservation charities:
And also:
We choose suppliers and service providers that act responsibly, with the best interests of the local people and wildlife at heart, who we think will do the best job of providing our clients with a insight into not only the beauty they witness on holiday, but the threats and dangers facing it.
Beyond helping create stable employment for locals, we have become involved with helping out communities and wildlife in one form or another. We put our money where our mouth is. Around 30% of our profit is given back to causes, charities, and organisations.
- We pay for meals for kids in South Africa through the Peninsula School Feeding Association
- We donate to the Maa Trust in the Olare Motorogi Conservancy, Masai Mara region to support conservation through the sustainable development of communities in the Maasai Mara.
- We donate to the Mara Elephant Project that does sterling work in the field of elephant conservation and human development, saving and protecting the African elephant population in the Mara by combatting poaching operations, collaring, and monitoring elephants, and protecting farmers and elephants across their large dispersal area.
- We co-sponsor the dive training of locals on Mafia Island, Tanzania.
- We contribute to wildlife educational trips for kids in rural KwaZulu-Natal.
- We sponsor a village football team (who now have boots to play in) on Pemba Island, Zanzibar.
- We have built a website to promote a community campsite in Namibia
- We have built a website to promote a guesthouse in the Papua New Guinea Eastern Highlands run by Asaro villagers, and provide them with advice, as well as sending our clients to stay with them.
- We helped set up a women's empowerment project in the Ngorongoro Conservation Area (www.bartlettimages.com/charity and Money for Honey).
- We co-sponsor a kindergarten in the remote Tanzanian village of Ischinde, Same District.
- We assist those who have been made homeless by natural disaster and conflict though Shelterbox
- We have sponsored people through further education programs in Mozambique and Tanzania.
- We pay for boarding school fees, uniforms, educational materials and transport for two teenage girls in Uganda through Educate Bwindi.
We support marine conservation charities:
- Bite-Back shark conservation
- Sea Shepherd
- The Maldives Whale Shark Research Programme
- The Wildlife Conservation Society
- The Marine MegaFauna Foundation
- A private turtle nest relocation program in Papua New Guinea on Lissenung Island
And also:
- We raise money through sponsorship doing challenges: VICTA (London Marathon 2010), Medecins Sans Frontieres (Paris Marathon 2015), Concern Worldwide (Refugee Ration Challenge 2020), WWF (Brighton Marathon 2021).
- And we carbon offset.
