Established in 2012 with Sir Ben Ainslie as patron, our Royal Cornwall Yacht Club Sailing Trust encourages and provides opportunities for families and especially children to experience sailing in the waters around the Port of Falmouth, with the aim of enhancing lives and opening up further avenues and skills.

Since the Trust started in 2012, it has given several hundred such children from various local schools and organisations the opportunity to get out on the water on a variety of boats.

The majority of children supported by the Trust are from local charities and organisations who support under-resourced families and communities.

‘For many of the young people these are life-enhancing experiences with many of them having never been on the water or around boats before,’ says Robin Taylor, co-founder of the Royal Cornwall Yacht Club Sailing Trust.