Stripe
Donate securely with your credit or debit card via Stripe. All major cards accepted, including Visa, Mastercard, and American Express. Your payment is processed instantly. Stripe handles all card data, Foreningen Neptun never sees or stores your card details. You will receive a receipt by email.
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Wise Banking
Donate directly to our Wise account with low or zero transfer fees. Wise offers excellent exchange rates for international donations in any currency. Ideal if you already have a Wise account.
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GoFundMe
Support Foreningen Neptun through our GoFundMe campaign page. Read about our mission and leave a public or anonymous donation. GoFundMe lets you share the campaign with friends and family.
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PayPal
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Manual bank transfer
- Name:
- NEPTUN
- IBAN:
- BE77 9054 3490 3042
- Can receive EUR and any other currency.
- Swift/BIC:
- TRWIBEB1XXX
- Only used for international Swift transfers.
- Bank name and address:
- Wise, Rue du Trône 100, 3rd floor, Brussels, 1050, Belgium
What your support keeps at sea
NEPTUN is operated by Foreningen Neptun, a Danish nonprofit. There are no shareholders, no margin, no charter income. Trainee fees cover the running cost of a voyage, provisions, fuel, harbour fees, watchkeeping. Everything else, the major refits, the rig, the boats, the safety equipment, the long lay-ups between voyages, is funded by members and donors who care about keeping a working brigantine at sea.
Concretely: a single donation of €50 buys a watch's worth of provisions for a 14-person crew. €500 funds a set of new running rigging on one mast. €5,000 covers a rig inspection in port. The 2024–2025 conversion from schooner to brigantine was funded almost entirely by donors and volunteers, that scale of work would not happen without this kind of support.
If you want to know more about what we actually do with the platform you're funding, the Sail Training Programme page is the most honest description of the daily work, and our crew are the people doing it. The captain, mates, and engineer earn only a modest salary, far below commercial rates.