Read our key stories
How Andrew Cassell Foundation got started and how you can support us on the journey.
Fairwinds Art Exhibition raises more than £4000 for Foundation.
Supporters of the Andrew Cassell Foundation inspired by the late John Garlick raised over £4,400 over the weekend at an Art Show featuring nine of the Island’s artists. Held at the Cowes Corinthian Yacht Club, paintings were available for auction and general sale.
Resuming activity after lockdown
Andrew Cassell Foundation are raring to go as public health restrictions lift to permit organised sport. Thursday was the first…
History of the Foundation
Andy Cassell established the Andrew Cassell Foundation when he returned from the Atlanta Paralympics in 1996, having won a Gold…
Read sailor & volunteer profiles
Getting disabled people sailing is what we do. Read some sailor and volunteer profiles and if you think sailing might be your thing – see how to get involved.
Bex Foulsham: profile
Bex’s Autism and other disabilities means they approach sailing in a particular way and has limited them to supported activity, but with the Foundation’s help they are developing into an increasingly competent keelboat sailor capable of sailing in open regattas with and against a mixture…
Jazz Turner: Case Study
Jazz is a 25 year old wheelchair user who, as a little girl, set her sights on becoming a ballet dancer until a cruel turn of fate rendered her almost unable to walk. Were it not for a simple gesture by a friend, this determined…
Ian Wyllie: Case Study
As a young naval cadet with a passion for sailing, Ian Wyllie’s life was heading for a career at sea. Like many of us with a clear vision of where we want to end up, the thought of a spanner being thrown into the works…
Sailing Trilleen Supporting @acfsailing
Ian is sailing a Vancouver 27 round the UK and Ireland to support the Andrew Cassell Foundation. He refitted Trilleen, a boat as old as he is, when he was deep in his rehabilitation with us at the Foundation. Now he wants to put something back and is raising funds for the Foundation as he sails. Can you help him by donating to the CrowdFunder, or by spreading the word on social media?