Trustee Annual Report 2023
Charity Name.. Foyle Sailability
Registered Charity Number: Nl 101212
This report relates to financial year l January 2023 to 31 December 2023
The principal address of the Charity is..
clo Cable and Accessories
6 Balliniska Business Park
Springtown
Londonderry BT48 OLY
The following individuals were the Charity trustees on the date the report was approved.
l. Garry Crothers
2.Kieran McAllister
3.Ken Cu
The following individuals served as Charity trustees during the y&qr:
. Garry Crothers
2.KieTan McAllister
3.Ken Curry
The Charity was fonned in 2015. The Charity is governed by a constitution.

The Charitable purposes of the Charity are."
Foyle Sailability is a cross-border voluntary organisation which aims to deliver opportunities
for sailing and other water-based activities to people with disabilities from across the North
West region of Ireland.
We make these sports accessible with the help of specialised equipmen¢ such as a hoist at
Foyle Port Matina. accessible boats" access to th¢ water via pontoons at Foyle Port Marina
and Greencastle Co Donegal. and support from trained and qualified volunteers.
To further these purposes for the public benefit, we carried out the following activities".
Fortnightly on the water group boating experiences and individual sail training sessions and
annual regattas together WAth classroom-based training.
The trustees have read the Commission's Public Benefit requirement statutory guidance and
have had regard to this when running the Chatity.
A review of the Charity's financial position at the end of the year..
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In the financial year l January 2023 to 31 December 2023 the Charity had an income of
£8145.13 and an expenditure of £8253.66
There are no funds held by the Charity that are materially in deficit.

Foyle Sailability Secretary s Report for 2023
January 28th and we got out on the water l Beautiful day enjoyed by Ken. Catherine, Eoin, Nlamh.
Cara and Claire. Feb 12th and Rebecca and Shirley got out with Ken and Derek Furniss. Marty
Haire and Reggie Downey.
February started w811 with Catherine,Kieran.Niamh and Ken completing their RYA First Aid, and
we managed another few hours sailing on Sun 12th.
5th March and we had another good turnout with two hanses out. Lot of background work from
Reggie, the two Maty's, Padraig, Sean. Gatherin8 With maintenance and tidying up etc plus plans
for funding efforts.
April saw our first recognition night at Lough Foyle Yacht Club, Culmore. John Pollock received a
gift from us all for his service as treasurer for the past few years, and our sailors got recognised
for their part in retaining the President's Cup. Eoin, Niamh. Maty and Padraig started work on the
wild flower display at Prehen.
We managed to get another Gouple of days sailing in May and more maintenance work done.
In June we took a couple of groups from the Foyle Ambassadors scheme out for trips and Ken
completed the Jester Baltimore Challenge and managed to raise a few quid for club funds in the
proc8ss. In July we trave18d to lough Ern8 to support Marty in his marvallous furKI-raising effort
and then back up again for the sailability regatta. This turned out to be a great day out for
everyone despit8 the weather.
August's highlight for us was the Belfast lough sailability regatta which took place for the Hanses
withln Carrickf8rgus harbour. A really enjoyable days racing was had by all and foyle secured their
first race win at any regatta I We managed to sell Eoin's old boat but kept the outt)oard to use on
the incoming Hawk 20.
Downes Syndrome Trust joined us for a trlp on a beautiful evening down river at the start of
September. We had a couple of great days sailing the Hawk at Prehen with sailors learning how to
helm with a tiller. We even practised rescuing our rwscue boat I
We took ownership of our second Hawk at the start of October. This of course was only possib18
with Kieran McAllister's help in securing the donation from Cable Accessories. We cannot thank
C&A and Kieran in particular enough for the support every single year.
Catherine and Padraig attended the Supported Communities event in November and mad8 some
very good connections which I'm sure will prove fruitful in the fLrture. They both have been
working away in the background for many months trying to find ways of securing funding. This is
an important task which we have been struggling with since our inception. but hopefully there's a
brighter future for FS due to their efforts.
All in all, not a bad year for Foyle Sailability. Good connections have been made. Hopefully the
weather gods will be kind to us in 2024 and erkqble us to get more time on the water. We are
looking at all ways of creating more opportunities to sail.
Ken Curry
Secretary

Signature
Name
Date
Ken Curry
Secretary
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Garry Crothers
Chairperson