As a nominated charity of London International Shipping Week 2025 (#LISW25)
We are proud to show the best pictures from our first 10 years of working with the shipping and maritime service industries for the benefit of pre-teenage children at school in areas marked by deprivation and disadvantage.
As part of our Buoyed Up maritime programme, Buoyed Up@Work delivers fun, interactive workshops about what it means to work above, below, around and across the sea.
You can also try our three maritime general knowledge crosswords specially created for #LISW25. Click here. We have created these crosswords as reminders of the boundless and countless ways in which young people can benefit from, be inspired by, and motivated, to learn from and protect the sea.
As Boundless As Deep
These three crosswords compiled by The Auld Mug are just the beginning of our As Boundless As Deep educational initiative. By 2031, the year of Sir Thomas Lipton’s centenary, we aim to be producing a wide range of problem-solving, sea-inspiring, ship-building, ocean-crossing, horizon-expanding challenges to benefit young people everywhere (and, of course, for anyone of any age anywhere to enjoy too).
Compiled by The Auld Mug
Solutions will be available on our website from 16 September 2025.
Sir Thomas Lipton Foundation
The Sir Thomas Lipton Foundation exists as a registered charity (SC041451) because of one simple belief. It is this: We cannot afford to lose the talents and contribution of any of our children, for their sake, for the sake of the prosperity of all, and for the sake of the future of our blue planet.
Whether or not children grow up in areas of deprivation or circumstances of disadvantage, should be totally irrelevant. What matters is that all children, regardless of where they come from or who they are, deserve a fair opportunity to discover and achieve what they are capable of.
What we do, is deliver a challenging maritime programme for whole class groups of 10-12-year-old children who are least likely to make those discoveries without outside help. It’s about steering them, before critical teenage years, to a better understanding of their potential, being more confident about who they are and what they can be. That’s why we call it Buoyed Up.
Thank you to all of our partners and supporters who make Buoyed Up possible.
Badenoch & Co, BAe Systems, Ballyholme Yacht Club, Belfast Harbour, BP Shipping, Anne Brady, Brightlingsea Rotary Club, Brightlingsea Sailing Club, Caledonian MacBrayne, Canberra Yacht Club, Castle Semple Centre Lochwinnoch, City of Glasgow College, Clyde Cruising Club, Clyde Marine Training, CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP, Essex Youth Trust, Hugh Fraser Foundation, The Gannochy Trust, The Hedley Foundation, The Geoff Herrington Foundation, Larry Keating, W M Mann Foundation, Maritime Skills Alliance, The John Mather Trust The Matheson Todd Trust, Geraldine McCaughrean, Philip McFarland, Tom McKenzie, The MEB Charitable Trust, Merchant Navy Training Board, Sir Michael Morpurgo OBE, Murdoch Forrest Charitable Trust, Northern Lighthouse Board, Northern Marine, Prestwick Sailing Club, Captain and Crew of Queen Mary II, The Robertson Trust, The Royal Navy, Sail Africa, Worshipful Company of Shipwrights, Souter Charitable Trust, The Stanley Morrison Charitable Trust, Stream Marine Training, Swedish Maritime Museums, Teekay Shipping, Trinity House, Sir Boyd Tunnock CBE, Unilever PLC, V Ships, Witherby Publishing Group, The M M Wyllie Charitable Trust
Badenoch & Co, BAe Systems, Ballyholme Yacht Club, Belfast Harbour, BP Shipping, Anne Brady, Brightlingsea Rotary Club, Brightlingsea Sailing Club, Caledonian MacBrayne, Canberra Yacht Club, Castle Semple Centre Lochwinnoch, City of Glasgow College, Clyde Cruising Club, Clyde Marine Training, CMS Cameron McKenna Nabarro Olswang LLP, Essex Youth Trust, Hugh Fraser Foundation, The Gannochy Trust, The Hedley Foundation, The Geoff Herrington Foundation, Larry Keating, W M Mann Foundation, Maritime Skills Alliance, The John Mather Trust The Matheson Todd Trust, Geraldine McCaughrean, Philip McFarland, Tom McKenzie, The MEB Charitable Trust, Merchant Navy Training Board, Sir Michael Morpurgo OBE, Murdoch Forrest Charitable Trust, Northern Lighthouse Board, Northern Marine, Prestwick Sailing Club, Captain and Crew of Queen Mary II, The Robertson Trust, The Royal Navy, Sail Africa, Worshipful Company of Shipwrights, Souter Charitable Trust, The Stanley Morrison Charitable Trust, Stream Marine Training, Swedish Maritime Museums, Teekay Shipping, Trinity House, Sir Boyd Tunnock CBE, Unilever PLC, V Ships, Witherby Publishing Group, The M M Wyllie Charitable Trust
About us
Founded in 2010, the Sir Thomas Lipton Foundation is a registered charity.
We care deeply about propelling 10 to 12 year old children – at school in areas of acute social and economic disadvantage – into their critical teenage years with an unforgettable experience of sailing, enterprise and achievement.
At the heart of Buoyed Up is a narrative about the life and example of Sir Thomas Lipton.