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Merseysport offers courses in Canoeing, Windsurfing, Sailing and Powerboating to people from local communities including disadvantaged groups. Costs are heavily subsidised to increase access.
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Operating watersports activities since 1979, in 1993 Local Solutions secured private and public sector funding to build a Watersports centre, Merseysport. The award winning building, situated near to the docks and the river Mersey, is uniquely placed at Queen’s Dock in Liverpool and provides professional tuition in watersports activities for the whole community. This busy, ‘not for profit’ complex is providing affordable access to watersports activities for thousands of service users, including the disabled and their carers, the unemployed, families, children from inner city schools and disadvantaged groups. The centre needs over £50,000 every year to maintain these services.