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Donations to Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team and John Muir Trust

We take our obligations as a not-for-profit Community Interest Company very seriously. Being a CIC means the directors of the company do not benefit personally from the success of the business; any profits that the company ultimately makes will benefit the wider community and, more specifically, the organisation named in our ‘asset lock’. In our case, this means that any profits Taleblazers ultimately makes will be donated to the Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team based in Ashburton.

However, we intend to be running Taleblazers for a very long time! This means that DSRT could be waiting a long time before sharing any financial success. We have therefore decided to make a donation of £250 as a New Year’s gift to DSRT, as a kind of interim statement of our ongoing investment in the community and our desire for other organisations we love to benefit from our success.

Dartmoor Search and Rescue Team are a voluntary charity who help the emergency services to search for and rescue lost, missing, injured and vulnerable people. We most frequently associate them with finding lost walkers on the moors but they are also active in helping to find vulnerable people such as people with dementia, children and people experiencing mental health crises. Over 90% of their income is from donations and we are delighted to be in a position to support them.

At the same time, we have also decided to donate £100 to one of our favourite charities, the John Muir Trust, who conserve, protect and restore wild places across the UK. We share their passion for wild places and their John Muir Award programmes are central to our education work.

Setting intentions

Wishing you all a very Happy New Year 💚 !

Today we have been thinking about changes that we would like to make and what we would like to ‘let go’ of in the coming year. How can we make ourselves feel a little lighter? How would we like to feel by the end of this year? What sort of person would we like to be?

Our students wrote in chalk on rocks what they were leaving behind in 2022, and then we threw them into the sea. It was very cathartic. It feels even better when you do a big roar as you do it, like a professional tennis player.

Then we wrote a message to ourselves to keep for 2023. What would you throw into the sea? What would your message be, to your future self?