Type Of Disability

The Type Of Disability

There are many different types of disability, from people in wheelchairs to people affected by cancer. Therefore offering "disabled" sailing is very broad and needs to be more specific. Whitlingham could start with offering courses for people with lack of mobility. However this could then be expanded in the future into people with learning difficulties or mental disabilities which therefore may not have to have specialised boats but can use all of the ones that Whitlingham already own. Another interesting aspect to look at would be cancer sufferers and their family. There is already a organisation set up for this called sail4cancer, however as so many people are affected by cancer it means there is unlikely to be a shortage of customers. Also there is a lot of fundraising available for cancer so that would make it more possible to get them sailing.