Empowering young sailors

British Youth Sailing are delighted to announce a new collaboration with Working with Parents in Sport (WWPIS). This 12-month partnership aims to provide assistance to parents of young performance sailors through various workshops throughout the 2023 sailing season.

Working With Parents In Sport is a company based in the UK that provides information and guidance to National Governing Bodies and other sporting organisations worldwide, helping them to navigate today's challenges. They have already established partnerships with the Youth Sport Trust, Spond, and several other organisations, such as England Rugby, British Gymnastics, Gymnastics Australia, and Basketball England.

As part of the initial stage of the partnership, a customised programme platform will be made available to all parents and coaches involved in the youth sailing activity either in British Youth Sailing Squads or class run activity to help better support the parents of and their young sailors both on and off the water. Throughout the next year, the youth sailing community can look forward to a series of workshops delivered by the partnership, with the intention of maximising the benefits of the collaboration and providing further support.

Supporting youth sailors and parents with tailored workshops

Youth Racing Manager, Oli Woodcock announces: “We are thrilled to introduce a new means of supporting parents of young sailors. We recognise the enormous commitment, passion, and effort that parents of performance sailors put into funding their children's sports expenses and transporting them to various events to help them progress along the performance pathway.

"Therefore, we are thrilled to provide parents with a supportive resource that will aid them in the future”.

CEO of WWPIS, Gordon MacLelland said: "This is such an exciting partnership. We are looking forward to working with British Youth Sailing, providing not just support for parents but also working with coaches on how they can engage and support the parents in their role in to benefit young sailors."

Parents of the youth sailors will be reached through the class associations about the sessions and sign up.