
The TreadRight Foundation: Tread the Pledge fund
Recognising continued efforts of The Travel Corporation’s Travel Directors who are supporting community projects worldwide.
29 Mar 2021
Recognising continued efforts of The Travel Corporation’s Travel Directors who are supporting community projects worldwide.
29 Mar 2021
The TreadRight Foundation, The Travel Corporation (TTC)’s not-for-profit, has announced the recipients of its second annual Tread the Pledge Fund. Created in 2019, the fund’s purpose is to recognize and support the involvement of TTC’s family of Travel Directors, Trip Managers and Travelling Concierges in community support projects worldwide. This year’s awards are particularly meaningful as local organizations globally need funding more than ever as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Travel Corporation’s Travel Directors and Trip Managers are integral to TreadRight’s mission to MAKE TRAVEL MATTER®, and a critical link between guests and the stories of the not-for-profit foundation’s projects and TTC’s sustainability initiatives. TreadRight supports sustainable travel projects categorized in its three pillars of Planet, People and Wildlife, and has funded 60-plus initiatives to date. Throughout Covid-19’s year-long disturbance to the travel industry, TreadRight has continued to fund all projects through 2020 and now into 2021. Travel Directors, representing Contiki, Trafalgar, Costsaver, Insight Vacations, Luxury Gold and Uniworld Boutique River Cruises were asked to nominate projects in December 2020, and winners for the 2021 Tread the Pledge Fund were selected in March.
The Bamboo School in Cambodia, one of four recipients of the Tread the Pledge Fund 2021, provides free education and mentorship to children whose families are unable to fund their schooling.
'The passion of our Travel Directors and their involvement with the communities they visit and the initiatives they support truly exemplifies TreadRight and TTC’s shared ethos to tread right,' says Brett Tollman, Chief Executive of The Travel Corporation. 'Despite being grounded right now with their jobs on hold, their continued commitment to our mission to MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® hasn’t gone unnoticed, and we’re thrilled to be able to support the projects close to their hearts,' Tollman added.
The four chosen organizations are spread out globally and will each be awarded a grant of $2,500 USD to support their efforts:
For more information and to hear more about these projects as they’re launched throughout the month of April, please visit TreadRight.org, and join us as we MAKE TRAVEL MATTER® by signing The Pledge.
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