Our Future

What Happens Next

Upon our return from the round the world expedition, we wish to establish a residential centre from which we can provide structured sailing experiences, workshops and respite to individuals after a traumatic life episode. By providing structured sailing and water sport programs combined with educational workshops, we hope to allow people the time and space they need to reflect on their experiences, re-discover their confidence and independence, and learn new skills.

Sailing and watersports are at the core of everything that we do, based on our personal experiences combined with sailing the success of other sailing charities and the general opinion of anyone who has ever sailed, we truly believe that sailing has a significant impact on both mental and physical well-being. Our structured sailing experiences will be short adventures that will allow individuals to develop key skills and rediscover confidence and independence along with other valuable skills that they will take forward with them for the rest of their lives. As well as providing time to reflect on the adversities that they have overcome, our sailing opportunities provide an environment where individuals can socialise and relate to shared adversities in-turn creating a lasting support circle and community.

We want to offer as many people as possible a safe place, where individuals are able to interact with people who've been through similar experiences, make lifelong friends, creating a lasting community and support network. During a person's time with us, they will take part in workshops tackling issues relating to their experiences such as, mental health, fertility, managing life with a disability, managing finances after a challenging life episode and workshops that support people in their return to employment and education. 

Once we are established, we intend to provide scholarships and bursaries encouraging people to get into the maritime industry & engineering as well as other skilled professions. By providing scholarships and training bursaries, we not only create a lasting impact on a person, we make an impact on the industry itself encouraging diversification of industries such as the maritime sector and create greater inclusion for people with disabilities or sufferers of long term illness and conditions. 

We hope to educate employers and empower employees!

Many companies underestimate the value and potential of someone who has been through a challenging experience. These incredible individuals have often been through experiences and concurred challenges, where most people would have given up. Those who have triumphed over adversity often possess skill sets and attributes that can only be achieved through their experiences and therefore should be seen as highly valued assets to any business. Sadly, it is often the case that people who have a disability, or have been through a life changing episode are too often undervalued and under-appreciated or treated differently to other people. By educating employers and empowering employees, we will help people to get into work, and we provide employers with extremely dedicated staff.