UKSA: Cowes Week Charity!

We are delighted to be Cowes Week’s official charity as a charity who believes in the power of the sea to make a change.

We offer the very best professional maritime training courses alongside youth development programmes and school and group visits to help young people transform their lives for the better.

All the money raised through Cowes Week helps us to #SeaChange in the lives of all the young people we welcome through our doors every year.

Our Cowes Week fundraising campaigns 2014, 2015 & 2016

In 2014 we met our £35,000 fundraising target during Aberdeen Asset Management Cowes Week. With this money we offered a free sailing session to every Year 6 Island child, through their school. That’s over 1,000 children!

In 2015 we aimed to raise enough money during the regatta to put 100 young people through one of our highly successful youth development programmes, helping them to overcome the barriers to employment whilst giving them essential life and work skills. We raised £64,500 and the money is already being put to good use.

This year we have a new fundraising target; in our final year as the event’s official charity we want to build on the success of previous years by raising £80,000 to enable disadvantaged children from areas of high deprivation the opportunity to visit and experience what UKSA has to offer.

Coming up during Cowes Week 2016

Our full programme of events are being finalised but we will once again offer activities for the public, including increased opportunities to Try Sailing with a one hour taster session on the water and Try Yachting with a full day onboard one of our yachts competing in the world famous regatta.

More will be announced over the coming months, we are looking forward to offering lots of interactive experiences from our stand at Cowes Yacht Haven and we plan to celebrate the official charity day with a mass participation event!!!

Ben Willows, UKSA Chief Executive: “We are really proud to be associated with Cowes Week as their official charity for the third year in succession. We want to include the visiting public as well as all crews this year so that everyone can be a proud to have played a part in us reaching our £80,000 goal.”