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The Trust’s Chairman, Air Vice-Marshal Nick Kurth, was a guest at Sunday’s Sea Cadet Trafalgar Day Parade and Reception at Horse Guards in London. Nick’s attendance was to acknowledge the support that The Ulysses Trust provides to the Sea Cadet movement. Indeed, so far in 2019, the Trust has awarded over £25,000 to support Sea […]

The first of four prestigious awards was presented by HM Lord-Lieutenant of Northamptonshire, Mr David Laing at a special dinner in Northampton last week. The Prince of Wales’s Expeditionary Awards highlight the very best in leadership, challenge, courage and planning. The annual awards are selected from over one hundred Cadet and Reservist expeditions supported by

Rowing across the Atlantic, trekking in the Guyanese jungle, canoeing on the Amazon and building a toilet block for orphans in Peru before taking on the Salkantay trail to Machu Picchu. These are some of the highlights of The Ulysses Trust’s 2018 Prince of Wales’s Expeditionary Awards which this year included a special individual commendation.

Until recently online donations to The Ulysses Trust could be made via BT MyDonate but this service was withdrawn at the end of June. Another platform had to be found and after considerable research we decided to move to Virgin Money Giving It offers donors the opportunity to cover its fees by making a small,

Our Chairman of Trustees, Air Vice-Marshal N J E Kurth CBE FRGS is back in the saddle to raise funds for The Ulysses Trust. Nick completed the Prudential Ride London – Surrey 100 in 2018 to help raise funds for the Trust’s Anniversary Appeal. And he’s doing it all again this year! Nick said, “After

Rowing across the Atlantic, trekking in the Guyanese jungle, canoeing on the Amazon and building a toilet block for orphans in Peru before taking on the Salkantay trail to Machu Picchu. These are some of the highlights of The Ulysses Trust’s 2018 Prince of Wales’s Expeditionary Awards which this year included a special individual commendation.

Our Chairman of Trustees, Air Vice-Marshal N J E Kurth CBE FRGS is raising funds for the Ulysses Trust by attempting the Prudential Ride London – Surrey 100. Nick said, “I am taking part in the Ride London ‘100 miler’. Significantly, whilst I have undertaken lots of cycling I have never ridden 100 miles in one

Congratulations to the SPEAR17 for winning the Military Awards 2017 ‘Inspiring Others’ category, otherwise known as ‘the Millies’. The SPEAR 17 expedition (supported by the Ulysses Trust) consisted of a team of British Army reservists who completed a coast-to-coast crossing of Antarctica earlier this year. Upon completing their 1,100-mile expedition, the team of British Army reservists

Each year the Ulysses Trust presents awards for the annual Best Expedition to the following categories – Volunteer Reserve Forces, University Units and Cadet Forces to highlight the very best in leadership, challenge, courage and planning. The expeditions for the Ulysses Trust 2016 Awards have been selected using the award guidelines, which include the key

Each year the Ulysses Trust seeks to encourage aspiration by presenting an award to the best expedition to which it has provided support, amongst the Volunteer Reserve, University OTCs, and Cadets.  It seems that every year the competition gets stronger, with some exceptional expeditions taking place which are truly inspirational.  This year is no exception,

From 29 March to 5 Apr, a team of 8 Royal Navy, Army and Royal Air Force Reservists using Nordic skis will attempt to cover part of the of the extremely challenging Kungsleden (King’s Trail) in Sweden. Sponsored and planned by the Ulysses Trust, and underwritten by the Nuffield Trust, the expedition will be lead

December 2013 We are pleased to announce the launch of a new part of our fundraising initiative – the official Friends of the Ulysses Trust programme. Aside from the knowledge that donations are supporting a good cause, for a relatively modest £7.50 per month Friends of the Ulysses Trust will receive a professionally printed copy

Each year we announce the winners of the Ulysses Trust Awards for expeditions undertaken in the previous year. Our task was particularly difficult this year as the quality of entries was extremely high. Congratulations are due to the following winners in each category. Best Expedition – Adult Volunteer Reserve Winner 4th Battalion The Yorkshire Regt

The Ulysses Trust has secured a number of places for the 2013 British 10k London event, run annually in July by over 20,000 participants through the historic sites of London. See www.thebritish10klondon.co.uk We would like to invite you to participate and help raise funds for the Ulysses Trust. If you have been part of a Reserve

Charles Wilson from the Isle of Man Reserve Forces & Cadets Association is undertaking the WW2 Freedom Trail through the Pyrenees, the Chemin de la Liberte, and is looking for sponsors. To support Charles, go towww.bmycharity.com/Freedom In September, a team of Veteran OAPs are planning to walk the Grand Randonee (GR) 20 – a 200

In August 2011, The Ulysses Trust led the planning and funding of a Tri-Service expedition of 11 Reservists, from the RNR, TA and RAuxAF that retraced the steps of perhaps the hardest and most famous wartime escape routes, ‘Le Chemin de la Liberté’, over the Pyrenees from France into Spain on Ex ODYSSEY.  Le Chemin

The Ulysses Trust celebrated its 20th anniversary by presenting awards to cadet and reserve forces who have benefited from its grants, for the best expedition and the best expedition photograph in each category. These four awards were kindly sponsored by the Adventurous Training Group (Army). Among the winners were a Glaswegian Army Cadet who took

In 2011/12, the Ulysses Trust supported 82 expeditions involving 1427 VRF and Cadet units members with a total of £152,000 financial assistance to challenging locations such as Greenland, India, South Africa, Australia, New Zealand, USA, Central Asia, the Far and Middle East, Nepal, South America, Iceland and several European countries.