This year’s Mental Health Awareness Week centres around the theme of loneliness and how it can negatively impact people’s mental health and wellbeing. We recently spoke to Vicky Williams, Business Development Manager for Challenge Wales, who explained how Sail Training can allow people to form better connections and how their Winter of Wellbeing voyages…
The theme of this year’s Mental Health Awareness Week raises awareness of loneliness and the effect it can have on people’s mental health. According to the Mental Health Foundation, one in four adults feel lonely some or all of the time and research shows that the longer people feel lonely, the more they are…
Our UK Sail Training members are hiring and as part of an initiative to get more people into #SailTrainingCareers, we are sharing stories from Sail Trainers to highlight the benefits of working in this incredibly rewarding sector. We recently reached out to The Island Trust’s Craig Young to tell us about his experience working…
Our UK Sail Training members are hiring and as part of an initiative to get more people into #SailTrainingCareers, we are sharing stories from Sail Trainers to highlight the benefits of working in this incredibly rewarding sector. Recently, we spoke to Seas Your Future’s Ben Wheatley to find out about his experience of Sail…
This week (1-7 Nov 2021) is Youth Work Week, and the theme this year focuses on the ‘Champions of Youth Work‘. All of our UK Sail Training Skippers, Mates, and Watch Leaders are champions of youth work thanks to the vital work that they do to help transform young lives all over the country.…
Many of the young crew members and Trainees who take part in Sail Training voyages enjoy their experiences so much that they return as adults and volunteer for their Sail Training organisations. Harry Cook (@adventures0utdoors) is one of these former crew members and is now a volunteer Watch Leader with Rona Sailing Project.…