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Travel With A Cause Inc. See www.travelwithacause.com.au

Travel With A Cause Inc
Your not for profit International Travel Agent

Travel with a Cause Inc, trading as Australian Discount Travel & Tours
 

Who are We?
What are our interests, loves and passions?
Who are our Directors?

Our Personal Belief system:
Travel With A Cause Inc is a non-denominational Christian Not for Profit Travel Agency. Our Directors (Board Members) and Senior Managers are first and foremost Christians. By law, company profits go to projects based in developing countries such as Zambia, Fiji, India, South Africa, Colombia, and, to missions-based or humanitarian projects based in Developed Countries such as Australia. So when you book through us our directors are obligated under law to ensure that that your travel booking profits go to worthy causes somewhere in the world.* In particular our overseas aid programs include: AIDS education and AIDS-orphanage/fostering, Education, Disaster relief, micro-economic development, school funding and freshwater well engineering. Membership of Travel With A Cause Inc is optional. You do not have to become a member to book though us. If you are interested in membership please type "Travel With A Cause" Membership into your search engine and you'll find the relevant information.

Travel With A Cause t/a Australian Discount Travel & Tours commenced in 2006 as a not-for-profit travel agency and overseas aid organisation. Its three founding Directors were married couple Jane & Paul Evans and, Richard Parker. Below you'll find some background information about our founding directors. By October 2008 an additional director joined our inaugural directors on our dedicated management team.

 

Jane Evans, President, Travel With A Cause Inc.

President &
Senior Manager:

Jane Evans.

 

 

 

 

 

Jane has some 25 years experience in the travel industry and has enjoyed wide and acclaimed international experience.  Jane is brilliant at pulling together those difficult international quotes that often will be ignored by other agents. Jane is well respected in the Tasmanian community and has won many awards for her work of excellence in the Travel Industry. Jane formed her own Travel Agency some 10 years ago, drawing on her vast experience in both the domestic and international travel arenas.  Jane has sold her profit-making travel agencies and decided to work full time in the not for profit arena. Jane has travelled extensively and spent over 12 months living and studying in the USA & Canada before returning to her beloved homeland of Australia.  Jane manages a select group of enthusiastic, energetic, committed and skilled travel consultants who can cater to virtually every conceivable travel requirement.  Jane maintains a close 'hands on' approach to travel in order to ensure that her business continues to deliver excellence to her valued clients.  More details on our team of consultants.


 

Paul Evans: Senior Vice President

Board Members (Inaugural)

Richard Parker, Vice President Travel With A Cause Inc

Paul Evans
Vice President

Richard Parker
Vice President

 

Paul enjoys extensive experience including training, business marketing and strategic planning. His career path has been diverse, providing high level policy advice to various government and non-government organisations as well as carrying replete experience in the arena of human services. Paul is actively involved in the Church and has practiced as a full time pastor and worship leader. Paul was an executive member of the Full Gospel Business Men's Fellowship International (FGBMFI) - Hobart Chapter - until it went into recess in June 2009. He has been commissioned to work with Peter Rowe to establish a new Kingborough Chapter of FGBMFI which held its inaugural breakfast on 4th July 2009.

Paul is an avid sportsman and his sporting achievements include: winning various state sailing championships, state representation on rugby union teams as well as being honoured with a runner-up title, Australian sailing championships. Paul can still occasionally be found at the helm of a 35 footer on the magnificent Derwent River - if you look carefully!

Richard has a strong motivation on his life to work for and in Africa. Richard has recently returned from Zambia and he is enthusiastically engineering several "Not for Profit" tours through  Travel With A Cause and Australian Discount Travel & Tours  which he believes will bring hope, healing and empowerment to Zambia and other African countries.

*How are our profits distributed?

By law, 100% of our net profits are distributed to the many projects that we support. In order to cut down on red tape we send our net profits to organisations (usually NGOs) that already have in place the infra-structure to impact positively around the nations of the world. In other words, we support existing projects. Your NGO could be next!

Our policy is that we support projects managed by organisations that use us as their corporate travel manager.

We regularly examine our profit base and as a "rule of thumb" we disburse profits on a "quid pro quo" basis. For example; let's say 11% of our overall company profit was derived from an NGO's travel bookings that supported "NGO Project X". Let's say that a further 13% of our net profit was derived from bookings where "friends or affiliates" of that NGO had nominated Project X as the beneficiary of their travel booking profits. In this case we'd assess that 24% of our net profits had been derived for the purposes to support "Project X". Therefore, our policy is to distribute to "Project X" 24% of our annual net profits.

For obvious reasons greater benefit is derived by our corporate clients (usually NGO) using their networks to explain to their own network of clients how booking through us can greatly benefit their organisations' projects. A large network can result in huge financial benefits flowing on to a particular project. In this way the "apparent travel budget" associated with these organisations can be significantly increased and financial rewards expand commensurate with bookings received.

Throughout the year our directors meet to implement profit-disbursement and adhere to these guidelines.

Some personal insights

EQUESTRIAN:  Some of our personal interests include equestrian events. Our Managing Director Jane Evans is an Ex State Barrel Racing Champion.  Our Managing Director Jane Evans is an avid barefoot equestrian (Strasser method & similar) who has owned and ridden many of her own horses, riding regularly and enjoying the beauty of nature on her horses. Jane's husband Paul is also a company Director. Similarly  to Jane he "barefoots" his horses and performs all hoof trimming and hoof care himself.  When required, Paul & Jane make use of the brilliant skills of Strasser-certified Carola Adolph (HCP), to trim their horses.

Paul & Red in Dressage Arena Jane & Paul up close and personal with a blackheaded Python

 Paul in Dressage mode on "Red"

Jane and Paul won't ever get snaky with you!

Musicians: Our Senior Manager Jane Evans is a keen musician.  Jane's professional blues/rock voice is renowned in Southern Tasmania.  Jane's husband Paul is also a singer and guitarist who actively pursues musical interests, regularly playing and singing at various venues - often alongside his beloved wife Jane.  Jane & Paul recently entered and won a local original song writing competition, and have had a CD cut of their winning single "Country Smile and City Beat". They are currently working on their first CD - offering a range of original worship music for use throughout the Christian Church.

Photos by Paul & Jane Evans

 

*Projects sponsored vary over time. Please ask us about projects we currently sponsor and we'll be delighted to provide up to date information.


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