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MENAI STRAITS HERITAGE SAILING Home Donate About Gallery Blog Contact Us Thanks Acknowledgments Jobs More SUPPORTING HERITAGE CREATING OPPORTUNITY EMBRACING SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY A Unique Vintage Fleet Menai Strait Heritage Sailing MSHS is an innovative and inclusive community and heritage initiative project focusing on The Menai Straits Gallows Point and the wider local community around Beaumaris on Anglesey in NorthWest Wales a place steeped in maritime and local heritage. We aim to engage with and involve a wide group of people in what we believe to be a unique local heritage project with the potential to build extend and share the many benefits of involvement in the local community. As such our key objectives are Inclusion wider engagement and involvement of a more diverse group of people Improved wellbeing of participants Skills and training developmentemployment opportunities Better condition of heritage assets including fleet and skills As a group of people who sail we saw the many values ofnot only sailing but of being part of a Project which offered a facility where people could come to meet and work on boats in whatever capacity they are able so joining a long tradition of men and women who have occupied the sheds at Gallows Point and maintained boats since the 19th Century. The idea for the Project germinated during the COVID19 pandemic when the number of people experiencing social isolation and poor psychological health such as depression vastly increased and at a time when many support services were unable to cope with the referrals for support.