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From Friday 11th to Sunday 13th of October a mixed-ability team will cycle from tall ship SV Lord Nelson in Barry 100 miles to tall ship SV Tenacious in Sharpness and finish at Gloucester. Transport will be by any (human powered) wheels – including tandems, sit-bikes, and pedal assist e-bikes or similar for anyone that requires them to take part.

The mission is to unite individuals of all abilities in a thrilling challenge event, showcasing the power of mixed-ability teamwork, transforming perceptions of disability, and rallying support for the Save Tall Ship Tenacious campaign to preserve the world’s only tall ship designed and built for a mixed-ability crew.

You can join us for the whole challenge, a day, or a segment: we’d love to have you with us! More details and how to sign up can be found on the Wheels For Tenacious website.

Just like onboard the ship, no matter your abilities, no matter your circumstances, there’s a place for you in our team and the #WheelsForTenacious challenge will be a team effort.

This is not just about the physical challenge, it’s a testament to the spirit of inclusivity, of community, and of collaboration.

Here’s a link to a draft letter that you can download, complete, print and then send to your local MP, your representative in the Scottish or Welsh Parliaments, or the Northern Ireland Assembly, and those sitting in the House of Lords in your area. If you would like to personalise it with your own story, feel free. The letters are much more powerful if you can personalise them by adding a paragraph about why Tenacious is so important to you.

You must add you own home address as MPs can only respond to people living in their own constituency. And please remember to add the date and sign it.

Munira Wilson, the MP for Twickenham, has tabled an Early Day Motion (EDM) in parliament about Tenacious and our campaign to save her (and re-tabled it after the election). You can read the full text of the motion by clicking on this link to EDM 40 – it’s well worth reading! Munira Wilson MP has said EDMs are a mechanism to raise awareness around an issue, and so has suggested we should all lobby our MPs to sign her EDM. So when you write to your MP please also ask them to sign Early Day Motion 40.

If you don’t know who your local MP is information, including contact details, can be found at:
Find your MP

And of course you can also use the text of the draft letter as the content of an e-mail to your MP. The Find your MP website should also provide an e-mail address for your MP.

The WriteToThem website lets you find and e-mail all your local and national representatives.

It would be really helpful if, once you have sent the letter or e-mailed, you could let Anne O’Brien know who you’ve sent it to by clicking on this link to Contact Anne O’Brien. We want to keep track of who has been contacted and hope to fill in the gaps, so as many MP’s and Lords are aware of Tenacious as possible.

If you would like to pass the letter on to friends and family who could also send it to their MP/local Lord, please do so. The greater number of people we reach, the better.

Here’s a map showing which MPs have been contacted so far:

Please sign and share this petition to help get Tenacious sailing again:
Save the Tall Ship Tenacious (mixed disabled and non-disabled crew)

After you’ve signed our petition on the Change.org website you may be asked for a donation. The Save Tall Ship Tenacious team aren’t collecting money at the moment – any donation you choose to make goes to support Change.org.

Here’s a link to an A3 poster with a QR code to this web page which you can print and display to encourage more people to sign!

It was with great sadness that the Jubilee Sailing Trust declared insolvency on the 14th December 2023. Like many charities it has faced great financial difficulty, particularly after Covid. This leaves the future for SV Tenacious very uncertain. The ‘Tenacious – Looking Forward’ group, which is made up of many volunteers and supporters, hope that a solution can be found so that Tenacious can continue to provide adventures for all. It would be a tragedy if the only tall ship in the world that enables disabled and non-disabled people to sail along side each other as equal members of crew is lost.

Please help us find someone, a charity or a consortium to take on this magnificent ship to continue changing lives through providing mixed ability voyage experiences. There is a large body of volunteer supporters who would be willing to help in any way they can!