The RDC Foundation was set up in 2019 in the name of Richard Crabtree, a Cambridgeshire Scouter who passed away in 2015.
It awards grants to support young people under the age of 21 in recreational and leisure activities so as to develop their mental, physical and moral capabilities so that they grow to full maturity as individuals and members of society. The grants available are:
- Up to £1000 grants to individuals undertaking significant life changing adventurous activities that they themselves have been heavily involved in planning.
- Secondly, they award up to £1000 grants to charities for the purchase of relevant equipment to engage young people in adventurous activities.
The RDC Foundation is also proud to:
- have direct agreements with several leading equipment providers that enable RDC to purchase equipment at up to 50% off retail prices, enabling our funds to go much further, and
- have developed relationships with some outdoor equipment manufacturers and are increasingly convincing them to offer exclusive discounts to those within the groups they support.
As a side benefit of the equipment grants they are able to give they have developed relationships with some outdoor equipment manufacturers and are increasingly convincing them to offer exclusive discounts to those within the groups they support.
EXCLUSIVE DISCOUNTS FOR SCOUT VOLUNTEERS
As a thank you to all the hard-working volunteers that make Scouting possible the RDC foundation in collaboration with Mammut and Terra Nova has arranged an exclusive discount.
- Mammut will give 25% off any purchases of their jackets, footwear, backpacks and sleeping bags up to £500
- Terra Nova will give 25% off any purchase of their tent Terra Nova and Wild Country tent range up to £1000
Please visit
www.rdc.foundation and you will find a link in the “application” section for leaders to apply for this discount and others as they become available in the months ahead.
