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Looking beyond… Then seeing it through…
www.Tectona.org.uk
Welcome to the Tectona Trust website
TECTONA off Bolt Head by Gordon Frickers (1978)
This project has been amazingly favoured by the right people coming forward at the right time, not least the three Trustees! Captain Tim Charlesworth was reunited with Tectona last April, when he was one of our first visitors coming alongside in his Harbour Master’s launch. Tim had been a Tectona cadet in the late 1970s and especially remembers the time when Tectona had a small float-on part in The Onedin Line. His support for the project has been unswerving and of great practical help.
Chris Rowsell, our Chairman, is an Old Tectonite from the same time when he too was a student at the School of Maritime Studies. Chris has recently retired from a senior position at Shell and is currently the director of CHIRP – the Confidential Hazardous Incident Reporting Programme which will be familiar to seafarers both professional and amateur – it’s the green newsletter that drops out of PBO. Chris is a keen dinghy sailor, hence his talent for getting Trustees meetings to the finish line on time, and we are all very grateful to him for the energy he put into refining the formal relationships between Roger as owner, the Tectona Trust as manager of the vessel, and Cremyll Sailing as the users.
This structure is designed to enable the Tectona Trust to develop the work for trainees with mental health / rehab problems, in the context of Tectona being successfully run as a Sail Training vessel by Cremyll. It has also been important to have total clarity about Roger’s financial position: on the one hand he wishes Tectona to be loaned free of charge for this work, on the other hand he must not benefit financially from either Charity for obvious reasons.
TECTONA TRUST – Up and running!
Our third Trustee is Charles Hattersley, who as a prominent Plymouth lawyer has brought the legal expertise we require. This has been essential as we concluded the charter contracts between the various parties, in the unusual circumstance where the charter fee is “one peppercorn if demanded ” – and even this exceeds Charles’s fee for his work, which we are extremely grateful for.
On 12th January 2009, Tectona Trust finally became a registered charity.
Away from the magnificent committee room table at Cattewater Harbour Commission, there has been a lot of spadework around getting registered as a charity.
Quite rightly, the Charities Commission makes you jump through hoops. What you are trying to achieve – and raise funds for – has to be “charitable.” This seems obvious but is in reality highly technical, and relies on the application being framed in a way that ticks the CC’s boxes. Thanks to Andy’s invaluable advice and support we were able to choose the right model and the right wording and it all came together on 12th January – registered status, phew!
