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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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Participans' informal interviews


Conor interview part2

C talks about how his life has changed since last Sailaday OK session in April. Describes his changes as monumental, ability to communicate, self-awareness but most of all a positive image of himself. I like myself today.

 
Conor interview 1

C talks about how his life has changed since last Sailaday OK session in April. Describes his changes as monumental, ability to communicate, self-awareness but most of all a positive image of himself. I like myself today.

 
Stop trying and just do it.

The harder one tries can be counterproductive. Stop trying and just do it. Entails some degree of letting go. What C recognises is she now achieves more with less effort, with ease. Stop struggling. 

 
Interview Life Change in attitude

Life Change in attitude due to realization that one does not have look for something enormous to help change your life but something very small can do the job. “Drugs were the biggest thing I could find to change me, now I don’t need to look for something bigger than me.”

 
Fab found peace
He talks about this first time experiencing peace after a lifetime of crime and drugs, he never thought it possible. Extraordinary change in attitude. Realization that he can be at peace without drugs and alcohol.
 
I can’t be content with being content

Informal interview.   “Its a brand new world. I can’t be content with being content. What is enough?”

 
D interview new found trust

Interview with D, about being trusted to helm the yacht

D talks about what a live changing experience it was being trusted to helm the yacht and consequently realizing that she does not really trust herself and now feels more trusting and trustworthy.

 
Dave feels hope and satisfaction

Dave expresses his feelings of hope and satisfaction. New feelings and a first time for him. The consequence is that he thinks now that he has a future.

 
Sarah expesses feeling happy

Sarah talks about being really happy for the first time in her life