Woolverstone Project

Come sailing with us

The Woolverstone Project provides sailing opportunities and tuition for those with disabilities with sailing throughout the year at Alton Water and during the summer months at Woolverstone on the River Orwell.

Volunteers are on hand to take the sailors out on the water, help the sailors in and out of the dinghies and to provide refreshments during the sessions.

Why not come along and see what we do at one of our open sessions on a Monday morning. See the Calendar link for the times we sail.

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Latest news

AGM 2019

Thanks to everyone who made it to our AGM on Monday 11th February. With nearly 50 people in attendance, it was a great chance to set out our plans for the years and report on progress in 2018. Though 2018 had its frustrations - blue-green algae being the main one - it was nevertheless a good year and we ran 507 sessions involving 1,186 sailors and 917 carers. We also managed three special trips - More »

Published 7:14pm on 14 Feb 2019

Lion Venture

The Woolverstone Project were delighted to be invited by the Royal Harwich YC to be a part of the visit by HRH The Princess Royal to the club celebrating their 175th Anniversary. The celebrations included the release of an Illustrated History Book of the Royal Harwich Yacht Club, 1843 - 2018. Her Royal Highness was presented with a copy of the book and signed a copy for the RHYC library and archive collection. During More »

Published 9:31am on 1 Feb 2019

New website

Welcome to our new website. We have extensively updated the whole site and you will now be able to manage all your own information online, book sailing sessions as well as join the project. The new calendar will give much more information and you can filter it to see just the events you are interested in. We will also be using the new website to manage all our mailings to members. We look More »

Published 5:40pm on 26 Jan 2019

Awards 2018

Thanks to all sailors and volunteers who came along to the Christmas party this week and congratulations to all the award winners who received their awards at the party. The people who received their certificates/awards were: Entry Luke Dibenga Stevie Harris Martin Lomax Bronze Jay Rednall Daina Wilson Improvement Chris Rubens Townsend Matthew More »

Published 12:06pm on 28 Dec 2018

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Upcoming events

Mar 25	Adult Open » (AW) Open session for adult sailing members.
Mar 28	Instructor planning meeting Instructor planning meeting for 2019 season and Sailing Club Manager
Mar 30	RHS Charity Gala Concert A local charity fundraising gala concert.
Apr 1	Adult Open » (AW) Open session for adult sailing members.
Apr 8	Adult Open » (AW) Open session for adult sailing members.
Apr 8	Tractor training Following the open session today, there will be a short
Apr 9	Work party A work party to prepare the Hawk and Wheelyboat for
Apr 10	SI and Ops manager - SCM train… Training for Project SI's and Operations Manager in using Sailing
Apr 11	Safety Boat Course Internal Course
Apr 15	Adult Open » (AW) Open session for adult sailing members.
April 25-26	Power Boat 2 Course Internal Course
Apr 29	Adult Open » (AW) Open session for adult sailing members.
May 2	Youth Group Open » (AW) Open sailing sessions for individual members aged 8 to 18.
May 3	River safety course In this training course we will look at the safety
May 6	RS Venture rigging training In this training session we will cover the rigging of