What beautiful weather we had last year for the start of our Wednesday Evening Sailability Open Boating and Sailing Sessions… This year’s season kicks off on Wednesday 6 April. Meet 7pm at the Belfast Lough Sailability Cabin, just inside the gates of Carrickfergus Sailing Club. [UPDATE 6/4/16: FIRST SESSION, 6 APRIL, CANCELLED – TOO STORMY!] Continue…
Congratulations to four of our volunteers on gaining their RYA Northern Ireland Keelboat Level 2 Certificates at Carrickfergus recently – Andrew Bisp, Colin Craig, Michael Donnelly and Karen Graham. Continue…
Can you help Belfast Lough Sailability to win a charity award?
Belfast Lough Sailability has been nominated by the local Nationwide Building Society branches for a charity award in the Nationwide Communty Match scheme in which we can win £500 – an amount that would be a great help with our running costs. But it requires your vote…
Sponsored by Arigna – enabling Education and Training for people with disabilities and learning difficulties.
We would like to thank our sponsors ‘Arigna’ for their support in making this very special evening – on Saturday 12th March 2016 at Loughshore Hotel, Carrickfergus – so enjoyable. The BLS Annual Dinner and Prize-Giving is an opportunity to acknowledge our wonderful volunteers in good company. Thanks also to our guests on the evening for their invaluable support to our group. Continue…
Belfast Lough Sailability sailor and young volunteer Eoin Bannon was a successful award winner at the recent Lady Taverners Spirit of Sport Awards in Belfast. The Spirit of Sport Award winners are recognised young people who display the right spirit and positive qualities, like determination, commitment and sportsmanship when they play.
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The BLS Spring 2016 Newsletter is here; how appropriate that it arrives on the 1st of March – the first day of meteorological spring! We’ve hopefully made it more suitable for reading on your mobile devices…
At the annual Good Samaritans Service in Belfast Cathedral on Sunday February 7, more than 220 charities received a share of the money raised during the 2015 Black Santa Sit-out – and Belfast Lough Sailability were lucky enough to be one of them, along with some of the local charities we often interact with. Continue…
We were delighted to host a Royal Yachting Association Northern Ireland run, SportNI sponsored weekend training camp at Carrickfergus Marina and Harbour on 23 & 24 January for coach/ volunteer training towards The Paralympic Pathway. Representatives from Foyle Sailability and Sailability Ireland were in attendance together with sailors from as far south and west as Kinsale and Galway, and north to Lough Foyle Continue…
For people with disabilities, their families and carers, Belfast Lough Sailability (BLS) is offering an OPEN DAY at Carrickfergus to coincide with DISABLED ACCESS DAY – Saturday 12th March 2016. Everything we offer is fully accessible from the facilities to the boats themselves.
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The BLS Christmas 2015 Newsletter is here, and it’s all singing and dancing… well, sort of!
