ASTO’s Chief Executive Kerry McMillan and Chair of Trustees, Mark Todd welcomed 150 delegates to the annual UK Sail Training conference at the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard today. Record breaking Heather Thomas delivered a fantastic keynote speech to a broad audience made of sea staff, member charity trustees and representatives from the sail training and wider marine…
ASTO’s UK Sail Training conference takes place on Thursday 30th January 2025 at the Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. This year’s headline speaker is record breaking Heather Thomas who led her all-female crew to victory in the Ocean Globe Race onboard Maiden, backed by Tracy Edwards MBE. Heather is the first woman skipper to win a fully crewed round the…
This weekend, Guernsey welcomes hundreds of young sailors as they prepare for the Association of Sail Training Organisations (ASTO) Guernsey to Poole Small Ships Race 2024, inspired by the RNLI’s 200th Anniversary. The event sees a fleet of 13 charity sailing yachts arrive in Guernsey today, Saturday 10 August and they will spend a few days…
Rona Sailing Project, Challenge Wales and staff at the Cirdan Sailing Trust, Marine Society and Sea Cadets and ASTO were recognised for their outstanding work at the UK Sail Training conference on Friday 27th January 2023 at Portsmouth Historic Dockyard. Conference delegates were presented with awards acknowledging their professionalism, initiative and positive impact on young…
AROUND 200 young people from across the UK benefited from a life-changing youth development opportunity at the Cowes Small Ships Race this weekend (Saturday 24th September). The annual event is organised by Gosport-based youth charity ASTO (Association of Sail Training Organisations) and gives young and disabled people the opportunity to experience new challenges and…
MORE than 230 young people from around the UK are set to take part in a youth charity’s annual sailing race this weekend (Saturday 24th September). The Cowes Small Ships Race is hosted by Gosport-based charity, ASTO (Association of Sail Training Organisations), with support from the Royal London Yacht Club and Royal Yacht Squadron.…