Whakapapa

Sasha and Ali's Fundraiser!

We are raising money to provide a young person with a scholarship to join The True Athlete Project's Global Mentoring Program! It would mean so much to us if you would consider donating.

Who Are We? 

Sasha is a footballer who plays for Cambridge City Ladies and Peterborough United Girls Scholarship Team, and Ali is a recently retired sailor who represented the British Sailing Team and Great Britain in multiple Olympic games. 

About Sasha

'I always played football growing up with my dad and brother but started competitively when I was 12 and soon found a strong passion for the game and being part of a team. I'm currently playing for Cambridge City Ladies as well as Peterborough United Girls Scholarship alongside my education and my ambition is to play at the highest level possible. I've been very fortunate to participate in the True Athlete Project and have been paired with Ali Young, a former British Sailor competing in the Olympics and World Campionships. The mentoring in sport and life skills will help me on this journey.'

And as a team we will be taking on this challenge to give another young athlete the opportunity to be mentored.

Our Fundraiser: 

On Wednesday 3rd August, Sasha and Ali will be completing a 50km hike, overnight sunset to sunrise.   

We will be hiking along the South Downs Way from Brighton Pier to Beachy head. 

A challenge full of blisters and lack of sleep!

Target Amount: 

£950 (the cost of 1 full scholarship)! 

If we raise a full scholarship, we will get to name the scholarship.

What is Whakapapa?

Whakapapa is The True Athlete Project's summer fundraising campaign.  When we designed this fundraising challenge, we knew that it needed to be about more than just raising money; it should also bring the TAP community together and build on our shared mission to create a better world through sport. 

To this end, we have been inspired by a Māori concept, which is at the heart of the New Zealand All Blacks culture, called Whakapapa.

Whakapapa says that each of us are part of an unbreakable chain of people, stretching back in time to our first ancestors and forward in time to the end of time. This chain represents our tribe. We share a purpose with these people. We belong. It is a powerful idea that suggests that we will be judged not on our material successes in life, but on what we did for our tribe.

With this fundraising campaign we aim to connect the current cohort of mentors and mentees on our Global Mentoring Programme with next years generation of mentoring pairings.

This is about both giving back and paying it forward, and we envisage it becoming a wave that passes through each cohort, connecting them in an unbreakable chain.

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What is The True Athlete Project (TAP)?

TAP is a US and UK based charity which aims to build a more compassionate world through sport. We design and deliver a range of creative, mindfulness-based programmes for athletes and coaches at all levels of sport - from primary school children to Olympians and Parlaympians. We work with 40+ sports, in over 15 countries. 

We also deliver a pioneering athlete mentoring programme, pairing world-class athletes with young people in a year-long nurturing relationship. Our aim is to unleash sports true potential to holistically nurture the long-term personal development of each and every athlete.