Community Support

For many years we have supported local charities and clubs in a variety of ways. Our two charities for 2024/25 are:

Evelina London Children’s Charity (Registered charity number 1160316-8).

We are supporting this charity in memory of our precious, beautiful granddaughter, Freya who passed away very unexpectedly and far too early on 27^th April 2024 at only 6 months old.

We will be making a donation to this charity for each boat we sell over the coming year. If you would also like to make a donation to support our fundraising we would be really grateful. You can donate by clicking on the following link which takes you to a link to raise funds for our son-in-law who is running in the London Marathon in 2025 for the Evelina Children’s Hospital. Donate

SERV Kent (Registered Charity no 1195148).

SERV Kent, “Service by Emergency Response Volunteers” also known as the Bloodrunners is a charity that provides emergency courier services transporting blood products, samples and other patient essential items for the major hospitals and hospices in Kent outside normal working hours.

Without SERV Kent, deliveries would have to be made by other means, each of which have their own challenges:

By courier or taxi, these have time, cost, reliability and suitability constraints.
By police or ambulance, which takes a valuable and much-needed resource out of service.
By NHS Blood and Transplant who make the daytime blood deliveries, but who may have limited chargeable availability at night and the weekends.

In addition, SERV provide and maintains the blood supply for the Kent, Surrey and Sussex Air Ambulances enabling them to carry blood on board, therefore saving the lives of many patients.

SERV Kent supplies all these needs quickly, reliably and FREE of any charge, thus freeing up much-needed funds for improved patient care and other facilities within the hospitals and other charities.

SERV volunteers provide their services free of charge including fuel and phone expenses and consequently, they save the NHS thousands of pounds a year. We will be making a donation to this charity for each boat we sell over the coming year. If you would also like to make a donation to support their fundraising please click on the following link: SERV Kent

It is a very tough time for us personally as directors and we hope that by making donations to these two charities it will help us through this challenging period and provide support to others who also need help when things go wrong.