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Donations of any amount are always a great help to a small charity like SailadayOK.
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Here's a few examples of how your donation can help:

  • £40 will pay the fuel bill and mooring fees for a 4 day/night session
  • £100 will pay for one person for a 4 day/night session 
  • £20 will buy by the food and provisions for the whole crew for a day.

Our Mission

                This is what defines Sailaday OK, what we do and hope to achieve .

  • The Sailaday Ok experience is an adventure/wilderness therapy at sea.
  • We work with those recovering from addictions, abuse and trauma.
  • The primary aim is for the participants to have a positive experience of themselves.
  • This experience gives them tools to help their completion of treatment and eventually re-integration into the community.
  • This is a therapeutic, healthy, physical, educational, self-esteem enhancing and enjoyable pursuit.

What We Do

Invite you to participate in.....

  • A  therapeutic  adventure sailing activity
  • For 3 to 5 days and nights at sea with a  qualified therapist and skipper
  • Sailing from Falmouth along the beautiful south coast of Cornwall
  • We work with about 50/60 persons a year.

 

Primary Aims and Outcomes

  • Participants  report feeling physically healthier and feel more able/  responsible for taking care of themselves physically
  • Participants report improved self esteem, improved self reliance, and increased sense of hope.
  • Participants  report benefits from the experience of team work and co-operation and a more
    •         positive attitude toward relationships
  • Participants in Sailaday OK are more likely to complete treatment
  • Sailaday OK will offer volunteering opportunities to people from the wider community;
    •         and will also provide mentoring to previous participants.

Volunteer Vacancies

We are currently looking for people who can help us in the following areas:

  • Boat Maintenance during the winter
  • Office Administration
  • Urgently wanting volunteers to build a team for 'Events'

      manning a stall to increase awareness and collect funds.

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Who Do We Work With

We work primarily with those recovering from addictions, abuse and trauma. Sailaday OK is available to a marginalised and alienated element of society, who we believe have a lot to give and have the potential to become valued members of the community at large. Statistical monitoring of our work over several years has shown that the majority of our participants belong to one or more of the following socially excluded groups; the unemployed, the homeless, ex-offenders and repeat offenders. In addition the majority of participants come from severely socially deprived neighbourhoods, in Cornwall or elsewhere in the UK. Typically our participants are referred to us from NHS or third sector Drug and Alcohol Residential Centres, and are at a stable stage of their recovery process. They are assessed to ascertain whether they will benefit from the Sailaday experience.

Sailaday OK is an innovative, effective and fulfilling therapeutic approach which is aimed at supporting the difficult process of transition from intensive residential drug and alcohol treatment centres to living in the community. The experience of a Sailaday session can be life changing; it challenges participants to adopt new ways of viewing themselves and their relationships, but challenges them in a supportive way