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Our boat names
The names of our boats help give us a lot of the history of the project and all the groups and individuals who have supported us over the years, so we thought it would be nice to let people know some of this history. The names of the boats (past and present) are given below with a little background on how they were funded. Thanks to everyone who helped put this together and in particular,
Published 09:48 on 21 Apr 2020
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Johnty Dickinson MBE
The first Trustees of the Woolverstone Project when it started as a charity in 1995 were Peter Hooper, Johnty Dickinson and Simon Tozer. Johnty worked tirelessly for the Project right from the outset. This work was recognised when he was awarded an MBE in 2004. In a typically modest way, when told about the award, he said "I think, without sounding pompous, it is not really for me but for the project, particularly the sailors.
Published 20:28 on 19 Mar 2020
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Thanks to Waitrose shoppers
Many thanks to the team at Waitrose Community Matters for coming down to visit our session last week. They came to present us with a cheque for donations received through the Waitrose blue token scheme. Thanks to everyone shopping at Waitrose for their support and to the Waitrose team for coming down to see where the money is being used. Despite it being a fairly cold day, we nevertheless had
Published 15:25 on 12 Mar 2020
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AGM 2020
Many thanks to everyone who came along to our AGM this year. It was great to see so many volunteers and sailors at the meeting. We were delighted to have two guests along - Hugh de las Casas (one of our original founders) and Bryan Knibbs - the Chair of the Woodbridge Riverside Trust - who told us all about the work going on in the Long Shed at Woodbridge. We were pleased that Hugh
Published 00:00 on 18 Feb 2020
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Flossie Trophy 2019
At the 2020 AGM the Flossie Trophy (in memory of Ruth Hammond who donated Flossie) was awarded to Will Spinner. Will was awarded the trophy in recognition of his contribution to our youth group sessions and we were delighted that he was able to attend to collect the trophy. He was unable to attend the Christmas Party where the awards were all made, so it was great to catch up with him at the AGM.
Published 00:00 on 17 Feb 2020
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Yachting on film
Maritime Film Festival January 2020 Sailors are used to getting windswept, wet and cold, but even we sometimes draw the line at doing this in mid-winter and can be reluctant to venture outside in the midst of winter gales. So what better than watching other doing it on film? To enable sailors to get their 'fix' of sailing we therefore put on a unique new event a Maritime
Published 00:00 on 20 Jan 2020
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Awards 2019
Our 2019 Christmas party was in Stutton village hall - an excellent venue. Many thanks to all in Stutton for their support. As part of the Christmas party, we always do the annual awards for everyone at the project. This year's awards were as follows: Woolverstone Awards - December 2019 WOTS UP Group Dan Smith cert of commendation Stevie Harris- bronze Luke Debenge- Bronze Jay Rednall cert
Published 14:13 on 21 Dec 2019
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Thanks to RHS ....
The Royal Hospital School kindly chose the project as one of their charities to support during 2019. The Chair of Trustees was recently invited to chapel at RHS to accept the cheque from the charitable work they have done over the year. The cheque was for for £3793.47 and we would like to thank all at the RHS - staff and students for their incredible support. A summary of the
Published 14:24 on 3 Dec 2019
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Heading down under
The Chair of Trustees has temporarily gone awol from the project! In a vain attempt to recapture his youth he has embarked on a gap year, though the latest trip is just a couple of months trying to get away from winter on the other side of the world. As part of this trip he visited a sailability group on Sydney Harbour - Manly Sailability. They were very welcoming and went to a lot of
Published 11:27 on 23 Oct 2019
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Youth group finale
On Thursday 26 th the Youth Group held the end of season party. The tuck provided by the parents and guardians was a triumphant variety of hot lasagne, curry and sausages with rolls, naan bread and popadoms. Not to mention salads and cakes. Awards were made to all participants including badges which were hand made by Frances Lilley. This was the finale to a successful sailing season which saw 12 young people attend
Published 08:20 on 10 Oct 2019
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Brandy Race - results
We had a lovely day for the Brandy Races with sun and a gentle force 2 breeze with some surprise gusts to keep the sailors on their toes- or rather adjusting their sheets. We had 16 sailors in 3.3s with Buddies so after 3 heats and a final the winner was Phil crewed by Janet. Heat winners were 1 - Phil with Janet, Ross with Angela and Patrick with John N. There were
Published 03:40 on 26 Sep 2019
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Brandy Race - a winter warmer
The origins of the Brandy Race seem to have been lost in the mists of time (do let us know if you know the history!), but the aim has remained the same - to win a bottle of brandy. So, if you would like a chance to win the ultimate winter warmer, why not come and join us on Monday September 23rd. In the morning is the race for project sailors - the racing
Published 19:03 on 10 Sep 2019
