The Sorted Project

Thank you to the Safer by sound crew for sailing with us last week! Everyone had a lovely day.

Spring is just around the corner and our diary is busy already with bookings from Safer by Sound, planning dates with ERA Edinburgh Recovery Activities and the Royal Edinburgh Hospital. We have a volunteer recruitment day coming up in March along with Fountainbridge Canalside Community Trust and All Aboard. More news on that soon. In April, we celebrate Chelsea's success with Scottish Drugs Forum and the National Traineeship programme.

The positive start to the year is reflected in the positive vibe onboard Panacea. Thank you everyone.🥰

Hello February 2026!

Our Instructor, Mark is supporting new crew members as well as making epic soup! We are seeing some great sailing and crew support from Chelsea, Doug and Alistair. The authentic minestrone soup was very welcome yesterday on what was a very cold day! (authenticity confirmed by Simona 😁) Grace is delivering focused crafting sessions and we are all looking forward to her famous lentil soup on Monday!

We are planning First Aid training in the spring with Frans as well as a dedicated volunteer information day in March with our partners Fountainbridge Canalside Community Trust / Re-Union Canal Boats and All Aboard/Polwarth Polwarth Parish Church

We celebrated Judy's Birthday yesterday and Simona (University of Edinburgh) is settling in very well supporting us both onboard Panacea and with community outreach sessions.

We welcomed Safer by sound onboard this week and thank you to crew member Jackie for supporting their sail.

A new catering service has opened next to Leamington Lift Bridge. A welcome replacement since the departure of the coffee boat.

The days are getting longer and lighter and Spring is just around the corner.

Thank you everyone for a wonderful start to the year! 🥰 💪🏆

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We are beyond delighted to share that The Sorted Project has been awarded £224,330 over the next three years from The National Lottery Community Fund Scotland!

This funding will power our new project:
“The Sorted Project – Sailing to New Horizons on Canal Boats.”

Thanks to National Lottery players, we can continue creating life-changing opportunities on the water for the people we support, building confidence, skills, teamwork and new horizons through canal boating.

A huge thank you to The National Lottery Community Fund Scotland and every player who makes this possible. Your support truly changes lives.

We are incredibly grateful to National Lottery players whose contributions make this work possible, enabling us to continue delivering meaningful experiences for our participants through canal boating.

Thank you for investing in our community and our future.

We have worked incredibly hard to bring together a funding package, which focuses on a partnership approach with our funders over the next three years. We will bring you news shortly to let you know which organisations are supporting us, along with the National Lottery Community Fund Scotland, taking us into 2029!

We are looking forward to making plans and working with our team, participants, volunteers and partners over the coming years.

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Happy Christmas Eve everyone! 🎄🎉

We end the year with lots of thanks and a special welcome to Simona, our very first Community Learning and Development, University of Edinburgh student placement.

Special thanks to our partners including ERA Edinburgh Recovery Activities, The Bothy, Connecting Craigmillar, CGL, DadsWork SCIO, Wheatley Homes East, Access to Industry, NHS Royal Edinburgh Hospital, The Ritson Clinic, and many more for working with us and sailing with us throughout the year. Thank you to Go Forth and Clyde for building the amazing Falkirk Wheel! and to Safer by sound for supporting our winning flotilla display, regular sailing and for the sweet treats. Thank you to Scottish Drugs Forum and Chelsea for all your input through the National Traineeship. Thank you to our brilliant team for a remarkable year! To our sessional team, Mark and Grace and our volunteers and participants - thank you!

We are delighted to share news of new funding support from The Robertson Trust, EVOC Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund, NHS Lothian Charity, Thomas Wall Trust, The Paristamen Charity, and The Barcapel Foundation. We look forward to bringing you more funding news in January!

Special thanks to our Trustees, Fiona, Nicholas (Nick) Jonathan and our new Trustee - Jay
And to our finance, admin, online and project development support - Jon, Gina, Alison, SCVO and The Melting Pot

Thank you to our RYA Scotland Chief Instructor Frans and Instructors Mark and Stephen and to Scottish Canals and The Falkirk Wheel and our boating partners on the Union and Forth and Clyde.

Looking forward to making plans with Louise and WithYou in the New Year! More about that very soon.

And finally, thank you to you, our followers and supporters for engaging with us and our adventures. We can't wait to share our plans for 2026!

Panacea will be open on the 29th of December for coffee and a sail and reopens for our regular schedule on Monday the 5th of January.

We wish you all a very peaceful Christmas and a healthy and happy New Year! 🎄🎉🥰

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It's been a wonderful week of sailing, soup, crafting, online meetings, setting up the Christmas Tree and receiving very welcome funding results from The Robertson Trust, Barcapel Foundation, EVOC and the Thomas Wall Trust. We will highlight the work we will be doing with their support very soon.

We plan to pilot a new online booking system in January as we are now so busy, we want to make sure booking is as simple and straightforward as possible. In addition, new volunteers, Trevor and Alistair, sailed Trevor's boat, Skean-Dhu II, from Auchenstarry to Linlithgow yesterday! What a great achievement! We hope Trevor will be very happy in his new home. I see new RYA Helms in the making!

Jackie and Dougie will be taking part in Leamington Lift Bridge training on Monday with friends at Fountainbridge Canalside Community Trust

However, its also been a bitter sweet week this week as we heard of the passing of our good friend, Simon Jaquet. Director of Simon Jaquet Consultancy Services Ltd. As well as being a well crafted musician and songwriter, Simon has been a youth worker, manager, volunteer, chief executive, and board member. He has worked in the third sector for more than 45 years, including as founder and director of Fast Forward Positive Lifestyles Ltd 1987 - 2001 and Chief Executive of YouthLink Scotland 2001 - 2004. He set up Simon Jaquet Consultancy Services Ltd in 2004. Working at the interface between the third and public sectors, he specialised in research, evaluation, and organisational development. Simon supported our 5 year business plan and feasibility study for Panacea, and introduced us to many people we continue to link with. He sailed with us at the launch with his wife, Caroline. Sincere condolences to all who knew him and loved him. We will miss him. ❤️

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Happy Friday everyone! It's been a great week of activity! New participants, great conversations and networking, soup (of course) and beautiful thank you flowers💐. Safer by Sound enjoyed a sail with us on Wednesday and celebrated a Birthday. We had a completely full boat on Thursday! We are now taking enquiries for Monday afternoons for new participants interested in joining us as Thursdays are now full. We have a local resident Heron. More photos soon. Have a great weekend! 🌞🫶

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