Projects
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Ill Health and Disability Themes
Coming soon another great project
Tay Seekers
This Tay Seekers project, funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund, will support young people whose curiosity about the heritage of the River Tay has been primed by respite river trips (Time for Life! Project), run for children stressed and affected by severe ill-health. THE project will convert children’s curiosity, into learning about the extent and detail of the heritage along the River Tay, extending the initial detail they glean from their river trips.
THE project will target 60 children, in groups of up to 30 children each year for two years. Each year group will study the heritage of a different geography linked to the river. Each year group will further divide into three teams, 10 focusing on maritime, 10 on built and 10 on environmental heritage within that year’s geographical boundary. The teams will be supported by experts in the three themes of maritime, built and environmental heritage, by our staff and volunteers and by those who manage specific heritage assets and data.
While each team will concentrate on their own theme the teams will come together quarterly to share what they have learned.
Email jess.johnston@taymara.org
The Gannochy Project
The Gannochy Project
The Gannochy Project is funded by The Gannochy Trust
The project offers alternative support for young people and their families affected by a disability or ill health.
Taymara affords a unique opportunity to engage in the magical river scenery of Dundee and Perth. We provide boat trips down the river Tay, during which young people and their families have the opportunity to navigate and steer one of our two vessels Badger or Missel Thrush.
The boat trips include the opportunity for observing dolphins, seals, ospreys and many more sea birds.
The trips give a whole new and breathtaking perspective on Dundee and Perth with insights as to how the cities developed and how their inhabitants used the river for their food, work and recreation. You will be enthralled, and inspired to investigate further the history and wildlife of our beautiful river Tay.
Coming soon another great project
Tay'gether...Improving Lives
This project, funded by the National Lottery Community Fund, provides an introduction to contemporary Dundee, North East Fife and Perth and Kinross for children whose imagination and interest has been stimulated by river trips provided by the Time for Life! project. Direct referrals to the project are also welcome and will involve at least one river trip.
They will, for example, visit the port from the seaward side, viewing at close quarters the massive 17,000 tonne jackup rigs and ships carrying various cargoes from the Baltic and further afield. They can view the magnificent architecture of the V & A Dundee from metres away on the water, and see – literally from underneath – how the Tay’s two major bridges were constructed.
They will then be taken to the sites on land and given informative tours which will show them aspects of the features the public never sees or hears about.
Improving Lives gives young people a whole new perspective on their local area as it is today and how the river has helped to shape it.
Email lynn.cunningham@taymara.org
Social Justice and Heritage Themes
Volunteer Instructors
This targets prisoners from SPS Castle Huntly (Scotland's only open prison which is seven miles from our base). We provide training to take them through three internationally recognised maritime qualifications plus a basic diesel engine maintenance course, then provide volunteering roles for successful participants. For the duration of their sentence they assist Taymara's training team as volunteers, supporting us in managing the development of their peers, both in practical work with us and academic support to their peers in the prison. We then select a group whose credentials we seek to upgrade in order that they may become qualified instructors. On release all participants will become part of our Sea Change - Ex Offenders programme where we aim to help them find suitable volunteering opportunities.
North Carr Lightship
Taymara's NC100 Project is focused on a care and maintenance regime for the National Historic Ship "North Carr", the last lightship ever to be based in Scotland. Supported by a growing group of multi-disciplined volunteers, the Project will focus on preserving the vessel against the day when funding and facilities might permit her full restoration. Working in conjunction with a number of groups across Scotland, the Team hopes ultimately to secure a berth alongside HMS Unicorn in the Eastern Graving Dock.
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