Tideway Sailability is a voluntary community of sailors, both disabled and able-bodied whose aim is to encourage and enable disabled people to find in sailing, in the middle of London, a sport and recreation. The club was started in 1982 by a group of disabled people with the aim of making sailing available cheaply to anyone who was keen to try. The club is based at Surrey Docks Watersports Centre.

 

Visit www.tidewaysailability.org

 

About the Opportunity Volunteers are needed to help recruit 20 young Londoners, ten of them blind or visually impaired and ten of them sighted, to learn to sail together from scratch with the aim of sailing in the Paralympics in 2012. The volunteer will help find the best grantgivers with the professional help of Southwark Community Care Forum and fill in application forms as required. The volunteer will also assist with the publicity that will find the potential young visually impaired and sighted members of the 2sail 2012 team, and administer the process whereby they are selected. This means finding the best means of getting publicity to young Londoners who are likely to respond to the challenge of this project and be aware of how much commitment it will need.

 

Time Commitment Flexible

 

Location SE16

 

Interested? Email us

 

Image source: Tideway Sailability website