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Sailing without limits

Introduction

The Sailing without limits Project promotes the regular practice of sailing adapted to the disabled, from an entertainment, therapeutic and sporting perspective.

Problem

The central theme of the Project is the inclusion of the disabled in an adapted sport which takes place at the Cascais Naval Club. In this context the Project assures the human, logistic and financial resources necessary for the regular practice of adapted sailing so that it is assumed as a sport within the Cascais Naval Club.

Description

The document in the annex is the Publicity Pamphlet of the Sailing without limits Project, highlighting the following information:

Goals;
Enrolments and how to participate;
Target groups;
Results obtained;
Available resources;
Sponsors;
Project partners.

Approach

A Protocol was signed between Cascais Municipal Council, the Cascais Naval Club and CERCICA so as to assure the resources required to implement the regular practice of Adapted Sailing.

The Cascais Municipal Council is responsible for the coordination of the Project, the partnership and its financing. The Cascais Naval Club is in charge of running the theoretical and practical sailing sessions which are held on Monday and Thursday mornings and Wednesday afternoons following enrolment.

CERCICA (institution working with the disabled) is responsible for implementing the evaluation methodology of the therapeutic gains and interpersonal relation gains resulting from the participation in the Sailing without Limits Project.

The Project operates 11 months a year (with a break in August), weather and sea permitting.

Results

The main results are:

Participation of 6 institutions from the Cascais Council who work with the disabled;
Participation of private individuals;
Participation of disabled children and young people as part of regular schooling;
Practice of the sport 3 days a week;
A public private partnership in which 51% of financing for Project costs is assured by private companies, thus reducing the public investment in the Project to just 49%;
128 days of sailing;
1332 sessions on ACCESS boats;
More than 600 hours of adapted sailing;
82 Participants (disabled) have already benefited from the Project;
743 participations by disabled people;
Participation of a Project athlete in IFDS – International Multihull Championships 2006 in Rutland (UK).

Beneficiaries

Disabled children and young people of school age attending regular schooling;
Disabled people on an individual or institutional basis (young people and adults);
Schools;
Institutions working with the disabled.

Resources used

Human Resources:

Technician from Cascais Municipal Council for Project management;
Technicians from institutions to accompany participants in Project;
Volunteers;
Sailors at the quay;
Sailing monitors.

Logistic Resources:

5 ACCESS boats;
2 support boats (motorised);
1 transfer winch;
1 adapted Quay;
Life jackets;
1 adapted vehicle for transport.

Financial resouces:

Financial support form Cascais Municipal Council;
Private sponsors (SETH, SIC Esperança, Vodafone, Grupo Lindley, Plástimo).

EU involvement

There has been no community funding. There has only been the disclosure of community legislation in the area of the disabled, as well as the directives transposed to national legislation and also the legislation in the context of the disabled by national initiative.

Financing

Financial support form Cascais Municipal Council;
Private sponsors (SETH, SIC Esperança, Vodafone, Grupo Lindley, Plástimo).

Contact info

Cascais Municipal Council
Ricardo Jorge Caldeira Fernandes, tel. +351 214 815 276

Project start date

01/06/2005

Cities

The Project takes place in Cascais Council, in the local administrative unit of Cascais, on Cascais Naval Club premises (Cascais Bay).
Cascais Town is located in the Lisbon District, in Continental Portugal.

Links

More information on the Municipality of Cascais (in Portuguese only)

Publicity Pamphlet of the Sailing without limits Project (PDF, 942KB) Português

Document type

case

Themes

Urban Policy

Keywords

Social inclusion & integration

Institutional characteristics Local Authority