We are a registered charity offering sailing and waterborne activities for disabled children and young adults and older people throughout Derbyshire, Nottinghamshire and Leicestershire.
We also offer the opportunity for less mobile sailors to continue sailing when a conventional dinghy may be a little too much for them to handle.
There is no lower or upper age limit. However, we reserve the right to restrict or limit access or activities.
If you or your organisation would like to get involved as a user of our facilities, or you would like to sponsor or support our work, please email us.
We are based at Staunton Harold reservoir, near Melbourne, Derbyshire, alongside Staunton Harold Sailing Club.
Check out our partners the Pontoon and Dock Company, suppliers of pontoons, Hereford hoists and all things making water accessible to all.
www.pontoonanddock.com
sailability@shst.org.uk
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Take part in one of our events! You can come to as many or as few as you like, we think once you come you will come back for more !
To book for a session, choose the one you are interested in from the list, then click or tap the Sign Up button.
You will then see the Sign Up form. Enter your details fully in the fields provided, then follow the link to make your payment.
See our event calendar here...
See all our events here...
Sailability Event - March
Opening Sailability Session Free session sponsored by Amy Gibbs
Sailability Session, Katakanu, Powerboats, Hansa, Challengers , Coypus
Sun Mar 30, 2025
This event takes place at 09:30:00
The price per person is £0.00
Number of places booked so far: 26
Maximum number of places: 50
Number of places left: 24
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We are affiliated to the Royal Yachting Association.
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Sailing with the Trust happens in a number of ways. Familty sailing with an experienced sailor, solo sailing , or joint sailing with a family member or volunteer.
We have Coypu, Gul ,Challenger trimaran sailing dinghies alongside Hansa single seated dinghies, and double-seated Hansas.
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Powerboating is provided primarily for reasons of safety on the water.
However, because of the many people attending and their possible lack of sailing experience, we use powerboats to show our visitors around the lake, allowing them to experience being afloat. We do tours of the lake where you can watch the sailing, go bird spotting and looking at the bio diversity around the reservoir, you might even see some pretty big Pike and other fish!
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We welcome donations of any amount, via the Charities Aid Foundation. regular or one off donations all help us to keep offering our activities to everyone. Nobody invovled in the charity or sessions is paid we are all volunteers and all donations go to the cause.
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Find us at the Staunton Harold reservoir near Melbourne, Derbyshire.
Our post code is DE73 8DL. or what 3 words is ///crawled.payer.appointed
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There are plenty of opportunities to help out! You dont need to be a sailor we welcome all and offer training for all roles.
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These are the people who run the charity, they are suopported by a small army of dedicated volunteers
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Here are some links to the Staunton Harold Sailing Club:
Sailing Club main page...
Social events...
Training...
