John Green MBESunday, June 20th, 2010
John Green has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s birthday honours. John founded the Helford River Children’s Sailing Trust back in 1997. Since then the trust has gone from strength to strength and has allowed thousands of youngsters to learn to row and sail. Even though he stood down as leader three years ago, John retains a close interest in the charity and says his MBE should be seen as an endorsement of the trust and all those volunteers who keep it running. “It’s a marvellous thing for the trust,” he said. “It is nice to be reminded of all those people who actively enabled the thing to get off the ground. I am very grateful to my family, the hundreds of volunteers who are the trust’s lifeblood and the leaders who come forward to continue our service to young people. They are very important because I did not actually believe it would continue. I thought when I stepped down nobody would be daft enough to carry it on.”
RYA Assistant InstructorsWednesday, February 3rd, 2010
Elsa with Will, Dominique, Harry, Sammy and Holly, who all achieved RYA Assistant Instructor status in September 2009.
Sailing with SkollySaturday, July 4th, 2009
Report by Jake, Adam and Ben
We wanted to make Skolly show people that sailing is healthy.
Thank you for letting us put Skolly the bear on the Optimist.
He found it extremely fun and healthly.
Skolly is really good at sailing so he is really healthy.
Skolly was very sad to leave at the end of the day.
Cury won the Healthy Schools competition for showing their bear, Scolly, doing something healthy
Regatta Report: May 2009Monday, June 15th, 2009
Children have a fantastic day sailing at the HRCST sailing regatta!!!!
Report by Alex Hayton
On the 3.7.09 children from many schools who work with HRCST, joined together on Grebe beach for a big regatta
They did a lot of exciting challenges involving: Ropes, Rowing and even a big sailing race.
The children also had a choice if there group wanted to do a sea shanty and gain some extra points!!!! Alex Hayton , a pupil from one of the participating schools (Wendron) says, “I loved the Regatta the trust had a lot of good ideas which let us kids have a fab time whilst learning loads about sailing!!!!”
In the end all the participating teams joined together and after a big thanks to the staff they discovered that surprisingly Wendron won again (that’s twice in a row!!!!)
In a nutshell it was a very enjoyable and exciting day!!!!
John Green has been awarded an MBE in the Queen’s birthday honours. John founded the Helford River Children’s Sailing Trust back in 1997. Since then the trust has gone from strength to strength and has allowed thousands of youngsters to learn to row and sail. Even though he stood down as leader three years ago, John retains a close interest in the charity and says his MBE should be seen as an endorsement of the trust and all those volunteers who keep it running. “It’s a marvellous thing for the trust,” he said. “It is nice to be reminded of all those people who actively enabled the thing to get off the ground. I am very grateful to my family, the hundreds of volunteers who are the trust’s lifeblood and the leaders who come forward to continue our service to young people. They are very important because I did not actually believe it would continue. I thought when I stepped down nobody would be daft enough to carry it on.”
