NEW: Adventurous Expedition Award

ADVENTUROUS EXPEDITION AWARD

We are excited to introduce the first ever recipient of the TTS Foundation Adventurous Expedition Award: Charlotte Harris (2009 cohort).

The TTS Foundation Adventurous Expedition Award was launched to support Alumni in audacious projects that require teamwork, endurance, resilience and tenacity. Awardees may be pioneers in a particular activity or following a road less travelled. The support of the award can help both fund an endeavour and enable Alumni to become “Inspirational Speakers” at Tanglin, so as to share their experiences with our student and Alumni communities.

NEW HORIZONS Charlotte Harris (2009 cohort)

Charlotte (above, in foreground) is currently preparing for the Talisker Whisky Atlantic Rowing Challenge, an annual rowing event that sees participants traverse the 3,000 miles between San Sebastian, Canary Islands and Nelson’s Dockyard, Antigua. The challenge has been dubbed the World’s Toughest Row, and Charlotte – along with her rowing partner Jess – expects to complete it in December 2021, with the aim of raising more than SGD180,000 for charity.

Says Charlotte, “Both my teammate and I are complete novices to rowing. We entered the event just two weeks before the UK’s first national lockdown, and this heavily impacted both our training and fundraising processes. We had to wait a year before being able to get out on the water and experienced a lot of rejection from corporate sponsors who were struggling due to the pandemic. Receiving the TTS Foundation Adventurous Expedition Award meant we could start investing in our journey and it was a huge mental win: getting that ‘yes’ was invaluable. Plus, it hasn’t only been funding that Tanglin has provided: we’ve also received guidance on our fundraising campaign, and connections that have helped us enormously.

We are hoping to raise funds for Shelter and Women’s Aid; both organisations have been under enormous strain since the beginning of the pandemic. While we haven’t yet completed the row itself, just being involved with the event has been an unbelievable experience. It’s going to be life changing.”

If you have a challenge in mind and would like to find out more about how the TTS Foundation Adventurous Expedition Award can support you, contact the Alumni Team at alumni@tts.edu.sg.