Sea Stories - Bristol Channel and beyond

Sea Stories – From the Bristol Channel and Beyond

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Let our storytellers bring you the folklore, legend and history of the Bristol Channel.

In 2019 a group of international storytellers sailed from Cardiff to Swansea and back onboard Adventure Wales. This voyage brought storytelling to hundreds of school pupils.

Both Storytelling and sail training activities with Challenge Wales help young people develop their self-confidence, helps develop social skills and can take people out of their comfort zone. So it is great that Challenge Wales and our storytellers continued to talk about ideas after the voyage and for the first time are collaborating for an evening of folklore, legends and stories around the sailing grounds where the Challenge Wales vessels; Challenge Wales and Adventure Wales sail.

The event is free to attend and our storytellers and behind-the-scenes admin people (the Zoom-meisters) are giving their time and energy free of charge.

So grab your own drinks and nibbles and join us for something different: Register here.

Once you have registered, you will be sent an email confirmation and at the bottom of the email you will have a ZOOM Link. Keep this safe as you will need to click on the ZOOM link on the evening to access the event.

One of our amazing supporters who is helping us to put on this event has set up a fundraising page for Challenge Wales. So, if you would like to support the charity and it’s work then please feel free to donate here. Money raised will enable us to engage with more young people and help them to have a brighter future through our innovative and educational outdoor sail training programme.

Young people hoisting a sail on a tall ship

Have Your Say, Shape Our Project, Change Lives

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Over the past three years, hundreds of young people have benefitted from funded voyages where they were able to learn lifeskills such as teamwork and communication, they improved their self-confidence, achieved Agored Cymru accreditation and learned about the environment by taking part in our shore-side programme and citizen science activities.

Our activities, which happen at sea and on land, have helped young people improve their employment prospects and are also evidenced to improve young people’s mental health. Take a look at some of our case studies! 

At the moment we are unable to sail due to Coronavirus but we are planning for the future and the part we will play in a post-Covid world.

So, how can you get involved and help us?

We are looking for 11 – 25 year olds. Challenge Wales is wanting to hear the views of young people to help us shape our next project to help 600 young people improve their employment prospects. Can you help share our short survey with young people aged 11 – 25 years? Perhaps you are a young person yourself and you have a few minutes to fill it in. Just click here to complete the survey.

Do you work with young people aged 11 – 25 years? You might be a group leader, a teacher or a home-schooling parent. If so, we have a different survey for you to complete. Just click here to complete our group leader survey.

To help group leaders, teachers and home-schooling networks to complete the survey with their pupils, students and young people we would love to join you for one of your virtual sessions. We just need 10 minutes of your time to do this to explain what the project is and to get your views. If you would like to take advantage of this and one of our team virtually visiting you then contact us by email or call 029 20 704 657 for more details.

Challenge Wales is an award-winning charity that changes the lives of young people by taking them to sea on Challenge Wales | Wales’ Tall Ship and Adventure Wales.

People folding up a sail on Challenge Wales
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Co-op Members Around The UK Can Support Challenge Wales

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Challenge Wales is one of the charities selected by the Co-op Community Fund that will be supported this year so whether you live local to the charity or not, anyone who shops at a Co-op shop can help Challenge Wales.
This comes at a great time when food shopping is definitely an essential activity during Lockdown (and of course outside of Lockdown) and charities have been hard hit by the impact of Coronavirus.

Challenge Wales has set itself a target to raise a few thousand pounds through the Co-op and its members to help no fewer than 100 disadvantaged young people through the charity’s innovative outdoor sailing and shore-side activity programme. This will benefit the young people through improved life skills, improved individual potential, and improved mental health, something that Coronavirus has really impacted on.
Young people hoisting a sail on the Adventure Wales boat in Cardiff

To help Challenge Wales reach its target, you will need to be a member of the Co-op (don’t worry, if you’re not a member yet as you can become a member for just £1….which you then get back in-store discounts) and for every £1 you spend, 2p gets donated to community organisations like us.


To choose Challenge Wales as your nominated charity please click here as every penny you spend will really help us.
Remember though, you can only raise money with your Co-op shop if you are a member of the Co-op. To become a member of Co-op you can sign up here or from our Challenge Wales page on the Co-op website.

The Co-op Foundation helps those that are disadvantaged to overcome their challenges by getting the community to work together and help young people contribute positively to their communities.

What an exciting way to start 2021. Happy Shopping!