Costs of Running Rutland Sailability
Nobody at Rutland Sailability is paid, all members are 'Unpaid Volunteers'. Membership fees contribute to our running costs (about £45,000/year) and we are very pro-active in seeking grants and donations from both national and local sources.
We are also very fortunate in having an amazing group of donors who make significant contributions to the cost of new or replacement equipment as well as the ongoing maintenance costs associated with our fleet of 30 boats. In a process similar to that of maintaining a car, in order to ensure a safe, comfortable and reliable method of transport it is also necessary to carry out similar maintenance activities on our boats. Maintenance costs, per year, per boat are something like £150 per boat. For our 30 boats that's about £4,500. In addition we have to have insurance, including 3rd party liability of £3,000,000, as well as the costs of being corporate members of Rutland Sailing Club.
While we do run our own fundraisers, if you or your organisation feel able to help us out with funding we would be enormously grateful.
Donors
The list of recent donors and the support that they have given us are included in the list below:
| Corby Phoenix Rotary Club | Servicing costs for our 5 hoists |
| Blaby Rotary Club | Maintenance of a Hansa 303 |
| Grantham Rotary Clubs | Maintenance of Challenger and electric controls on a new Hansa 303 |
| Lands End UK | Maintenance of a Hansa 303 |
| Rutland Rotary Club & Uppingham Rotary Club | Provision of 2 new hoists in 2024 & 2025 |
| Stamford Burghley Rotary Club | Maintenance of a Liberty boat |
| Woodhall Spa Rotary Club | Maintenance of a Challenger Trimaran |
| Topstone Girl Guides | Boat maintenance (General) |
| Market Bosworth Inner Wheel | Boat maintenance (General) |
| Blaby Inner Wheel | Boat maintenance (General) |
| Joe Gil's Cycling Group | Boat maintenance (General) |
To Make a Donation
To avoid charges incurred via credit card and other payment organisations, we would very much appreciate it if you could make that donation via an electronic transfer. Please use the button below to contact our Membership Secretary who will then provide you with the appropriate information.
In making your donation it would also be extremely helpful to RS if you could include your name and email address as this would allow us to properly manage your donation.
In addition, if you are in a position to include Gift Aid in your donation that would allow us to reclaim a further 20% of your donation from the HMRC.
To help us achieve our aims please do contact us.
Rutland Sailability Christmas Fair 2023
As anyone that attended will already know, the Rutland Sailability Christmas Fair 2023 was a huge success. We raised £1,822.82 in total and the day itself was very enjoyable.
Months of planning went into the fair, which meant that it all came together perfectly on the day. With enormous thanks to all the member volunteers, carers and even their friends too.
We ran out of raffle tickets on the day and could have sold more. Appreciations must go to the businesses that provided us with such excellent prizes:
And to all the RS members that also donated fabulous items that allowed Vee and Caz to create the hamper prizes. And, of course, to those that sold raffle tickets to their friends and families.
Having built on the lessons learned from the 2022 fair, we fully intend to refine yet more for the 2024 event. Vee will welcome any ideas and suggestions members may have so do speak to her on a Thursday when possible.
Thank you to everyone involved for making the fair such a successful and memorable event.
Donation by Anglian Water
In October 2023 we held a very successful meeting with Jake Williams the Managing Director of AVH Parks Ltd (part of Anglian Water). Following a quick trip to the Sailability jetty to see RS in action we had further detailed discussion with Jake about the who, what, why and where of Rutland Sailability. The discussion culminated in a generous offer under which Anglian Water would waive the boat fees that we pay, through Rutland Sailing Club, to Anglian Water, for the next 2 years. This amounts to £2,000 in each of the next 2 years. The meeting was also attended by Nick Neve (Commodore Rutland Sailing Club) who was satisfied that this arrangement would not have any impact on RSC members or finances.
For the 2024 season we hope that Jake and some of his team will be able to take up the offer of going sailing with Rutland Sailability.
Launch of Fusion Dinghy Donated by Stamford Rotary
With grateful thanks to the members of the Rotary Club of Stamford who presented Rutland Sailability with an exciting Fusion Dinghy on April 27th 2023. This donation will extend the experience of sailing for many of our members. For further details please see the article in the
Peterborough Telegraph.
Sailability Easter Event - April 2023
A big thank you to everyone that took part in the recent Rutland Sailability Easter Event.
The participants, the cake bakers, the generous donators and everyone else that helped in any way.
The entries for the Easter egg decorating competition were all very artistic and the votes were shared quite evenly across them all. Having said that there was a clear winner and two entries in joint second place.
The Easter hamper went to Hope in first place while the two people in second place, Val and Charmaine, received smaller prizes.
The Easter Egg hunt itself was not quite as busy as we had hoped for, but those who took part had great fun plus an awful lot of eggs to find. The ‘Golden Egg’ prize was won by an excited grandchild of a member. The event also brought Rutland and Stamford Sound to the club to speak to us. You can listen to the interview courtesy of Andrew Bloomer, and his granddaughters.
Although the event was organised in a bit of a rush, it still raised over £110 and was a great success!
Sailability, #MoreThanSailing
Sunflowers and Sailability!
On the August Bank Holiday 2021, the Rutland Vineyard opened its gates for the first time and welcomed people in. For £10 anyone could pick as many sunflowers as they wanted and all the proceeds would go to Rutland Sailabilty.
Three days later over 1,400 people had visited, sunflowers galore were cut and thanks to the amazing generosity of all the visitors Rutland Vineyard had raised £5,147.60 for Rutland Sailability!
The following week Zoe visited Rutland Sailability and formally handed over the donation to the extremely grateful Chairman and Members of Rutland Sailaibilty.
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