Love from Papa...
I wrote this eulogy for my beloved Finn the day after he died. Of course, I couldn't sleep so I went down stairs
Epic Dream Grant · Applications Open
The biggest
dream wins.
One grant. $10,000. We're funding the most ambitious plan we receive — travel, sport, or vocation. Not the safest. Not the most sensible. The one that keeps you in the field the longest, doing something that changes the shape of your life.
Write us the plan. The panel picks the best one. You go.
Adventure
Sport
Vocation
Sport
Adventure
Vocation
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Finn Wardman
World Explorer Fund
World Explorer Fund
Podcast
WEF Podcast
Travel on the Cheap
How young people go further on less. Real trips. Real budgets. Grant recipients, adventurers, and people who said yes before they'd worked out how. Coming soon — subscribe to be first.
YouTube Shorts
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Grant recipient Jediah — first week in Mexico
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What a $10,000 adventure grant actually buys you
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Freeride skiing Verbier — in memory of Finn
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How to apply — 3 things the panel actually looks for
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Amélie's Arabic — 90 days, zero prior experience
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The Routeburn Track in 60 seconds
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Why we fund vocational dreams too
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The fund turns two — what we learned
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All shorts on our YouTube channel
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From the Field
Latest dispatches
Dear Finn, from Ali
Not really sure how to start this and to be honest wish I never had to but it seems like you still succeed to persuade
The beautiful life of Finn
Author Devi, Finn's flat mate at Durham University I met Finn in the Collingwood JCR, he was probably the third person I met