How to help

Sign our petition!

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!

Contact the media

If everyone could write or send an email to local and National media this would help reach National media and get us greater coverage. Here are links to a draft letter you can use as a template in Microsoft Word (.docx) format and in PDF (.pdf) format. And here’s a list of TV and radio addresses and a list of newspaper contacts.

We need to get National attention as well as local. If we all write and raise our voices we have a greater chance of being noticed and finding a potential buyer for Tenacious.

A media statement has been sent to many media contacts and celebrities are next on the list to contact.

Many thanks to Graham Strudwick, Jo Siedlecka and Anne O’Brien for helping with the drafting of this letter.

Write to your MP!

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: