Wealden Sailability is a registered charity and all of our helpers are unpaid volunteers. All of our funds are used directly for the benefit of the disabled people who sail with us. We cover our running costs by levying a small charge to sailors, which pays for such things as insurance cover, boat maintenance, club subscriptions, and varying essential sundries necessary for running a small sailing charity. Some of these essentials, and some “non-essentials but nice to have”, are gifted to us by local (and some not so local) businesses.
For larger and more expensive equipment, such as the dinghies we sail in, we rely on the generosity of grant authorities, charitable trusts, and similar sources of funding. Some of the dinghies have been provided by the disabled sailors themselves.
Without the support of our benefactors, however large, however small, it would not be possible for us to do what we do. Wealden Sailability gratefully acknowledges contributions and practical support from the following:
Amanda Darbon
Anita Soley
Awards For All
Balfour Beatty
Barbara Taunton Charitable Trust
BEL-UK
Bernard Sunley Charitable Foundation
BPH Productions
Brian Mitchell Charitable Trust
Camlab
Caterham, Oxted and Godstone Lions
Chelsfield Village Fair
Chipstead Sailing Club
Chipstead Village Dragon Boat Festival Committee
Colyer-Ferguson Charitable Trust
Coulsdon Masonic Lodge
Coutts Charitable Trust
Francis Macnamara
Friends of Pepenbury
Glaxo Smith Kline
High Sheriff of Kent (2011-2012)
Holmesdale Lodge
HTDS
Jalbum
Jane and Simon Kildahl
John Collins Trust
Kent Community Foundation
Kent County Council
Knole Masonic Lodge 1414
K.H.o.C.A
Lindab Ltd
M & E Carlton
Memset
Mid-Week Society of Knole Park Golf Club
MPB Industries
Mr and Mrs Bignell
Mr and Mrs D Field
Mrs Julie Hazlewood
Mr B Hebbert
Mr R MacCormick
Mr and Mrs S Moffat
Mrs M P Money
Mrs S Sinclair
Mr B Stanley
Mrs J Thomas
Mr D Wardleworth
Mr and Mrs Woodward
Owlett Family & Friends
Pepenbury
Peter Harrison Foundation
The Pilgrim Chapter Province of West Kent Masonic Lodge
Province of West Kent Freemasons (Tricentennial Fund)
Rentokil Initial
Rogers Stirk Harbour + Partners
Rosella Bella
Royal London Society for the Blind (RLSB)
RYA Foundation Grant
Santander Foundation
Sarah
Sevenoaks Chamber of Commerce
Sevenoaks Mid-Week Golfing Society
Sevenoaks School Teachers and Pupils
Sport England
T Rippon and Sons
The Cole Trust
The Edward Gostling Foundation
The Girdlers’ Company
The Hands Trust
The Marsh Family
The MAN Group
The Site Supply Company Ltd.
Waitrose, Sevenoaks Branch
Waitrose, Tonbridge Branch
We Are Beams
Wooden Spoon
And, of course, all of our hard working volunteers.