UKSA
UKSA, previously the UK Sailing Academy, is a charity based in Cowes, on the Isle of Wight.
Today UKSA’s charitable work is split into four areas:
- – Training for maritime employment
- – Non-standard education for school age children
- – Building essential life and work skills
- – Adventure and personal challenge
Their patron is HRH The Princess Royal. Dame Ellen MacArthur; Shirley Robertson OBE and Hilary Lister are all Ambassadors for the charity.
Below are the article that OnTheWight has published about UKSA.
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Double Olympic gold medallist, Shirley Robertson, will be out on the Solent this coming Thursday with a group of young...
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Youth conference held in London gathered views from young people about difficulties of transitions in life, particularly between leaving school and gaining employment.
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UKSA has plans, in conjunction with IYWAC, to combine the youth centre land and buildings with its sailing academy premises in order to expand the onsite residential accommodation.
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Best of luck to all those taking part in the race, it should be an amazing experience.
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Well done to berth holders at Dean and Reddyhoff marinas across the UK, who last summer put their hands in...
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Fantastic news for twelve young people from the Island as UKSA offer training programme to help boost their confidence, self-esteem and provides effective and long-term solutions to worklessness.
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UKSA's trial suggests screen time reduction may ease youth anxiety
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Dee Caffari reminds us that it's sometimes easy for us to lose perspective and that “a problem shared is a problem halved"
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UKSA funded a record 3,275 young people on water-based adventures in 2021, and during the same year 285 UKSA students entered maritime employment
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Congratulations to James Boast for winning a bursary from Trinity House to become a “future leader of superyachtingâ€
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UKSA unveils four youth ambassadors to promote mental health and peer support among young maritime trainees