Plymouth Oddfellows has supported the Horizons children’s sailing charity by supplying sets of wheels for use on their dinghy trailers.
They chose to provide Horizons with the wheels to make it easier to move dinghies between the boat yard storage facility and the water’s edge during their youth sailing and training sessions.
Horizons is a registered charity founded in 1991 with the aim of taking disadvantaged and disabled young people from the Plymouth inner-city communities out on to the Sound. This gives many local young people practical skills and valuable experience through water-based activities which can lead to formal training and industry recognised qualifications.
During 2022, over 1,000 young people and vulnerable adults between the ages of eight and 25 years attended Horizon’s activities of which no less than 150 young people had a registered disability.
Peter English, Oddfellows Provincial Secretary said:
“The remarkable and valuable work carried out by Horizons is plainly evident and we are very pleased to have assisted them in this way. Although we take every effort to support our members during these economically difficult times, we always do our bit to assist local charities and other good causes in Plymouth and across Cornwall.”
Kathy Impey of Horizons said:
“We would like to thank the Oddfellows very much indeed for choosing to support us. These wheels will make it so much easier to move our dinghies. Our small charity relies entirely on donations and charitable funding to deliver our projects to local young people and without the support of groups like the Oddfellows, what we do would not be possible.”
Details on the charity’s work can be found at www.horizonsplymouth.org and information about the local Oddfellows is available at www.oddfellows.co.uk.
