We do our very best to accommodate whoever approaches us and work with each customer on an individual basis to meet everybody’s own specific needs and requirements.  We want everybody to get that feeling of complete freedom when out on the water! This approach leads to a very wide access for people of all abilities and ages.

 

Both our sites at Hove Lagoon and Brighton Marina are wheel chair accessible with private changing facilities, shower and toilet for wheel chair users. However at the moment we do not have lifting equipment to help individuals into boats.

We do lots of work with community groups that have learning and  psychological difficulties and also host groups with visually and hearing impaired members.  For example, we work with Cornerstone School twice a week, a school for children with special needs ranging from social to physical and psychological; we host activities for ACE Kids and help them develop new skills on the water as well as socially; we have worked with and taught a group of disabled children from Patcham House recently; and we regularly teach invaluable skills to autistic children as well.  The kids from Patcham House are kids who are too severely disabled to go to mainstream school and most of the kids are severely physically disabled, with hearing, visual and psychological disabilities. We provide help from getting the kids changed through to helping with the equipment and the actual training.

We are also proud to be involved in the Brighton & Hove Physical Activity Project Proposal, which will be delivering a subsidised sailing course over 6 weekends in late August and September, with training being given to 5 people for each of the 14 hour sessions taking place at Brighton Marina. The projects targets people aged 16 and over with visual and hearing impairments. The Head Instructor at the Brighton Marina site has got many years of experience in working with people with a range of disabilities, and he will be leading each one of these courses. Specialist personnel will be on hand  if required. The keelboats used on these courses are very stable so that the sailors will feel safe and secure, but they will still experience the thrill of sailing and will be given increased responsibility for sailing the boast themselves over the period of the course.

There is currently no targeted sailing provision in Brighton & Hove for people with visual and hearing impairments which is why we are extremely pleased to be involved with this project. 

For more information on special rates for your group or private tuition please call 01273 42 48 42 or email us.