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A Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year from all at the Nancy Blackett Trust.

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Nancy Blackett: Getting Ready for the Round the Island Race

Nancy Blackett is getting ready today in preparation for this year's J.P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race. The race will be started by Dame Ellen MacArthur, patron of the Nancy Blackett Trust. Participating vessels will depart from Cowes, Isle of Wight, in eleven different groups at ten-minute intervals between [...]

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Nancy Blackett ready to race – and raise funds for charities

Nancy Blackett is registered to enter the Round the Island Race next Saturday (19th June), and we’re planning to use our participation to seek sponsorship for the good causes closest to our heart – helping young people to discover and enjoy sailing.

To make sponsorship as easy as possible [...]

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Lucky 13: Ellen Completes Asian Record Circuit

Earlier this morning Dame Ellen MacArthur, Patron of the Nancy Blackett Trust, crossed the finish line near Singapore at the end of the eleventh and final leg of the inaugural Asian Record Circuit, having established thirteen records between various ports in south-east Asia.

With an international crew onboard the trimaran B&Q, including [...]

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Patron Dame Ellen is Favourite European Personality

The Nancy Blackett Trust’s Patron Dame Ellen MacArthur has been voted France’s favourite European Personality, ahead of people like Luciano Pavarotti, Michael Schumacher, The Pope and HM Queen Elizabeth II.

The survey was conducted by IFOP, which interviewed 1,005 people on April 27th and 28th.

Ellen also was voted the favourite personality by [...]

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Strictly for the Birds

Ellen MacArthur is taking a couple of months off sailing (for the first time in 8 years) to take part in a birdlife survey at the island of South Georgia with biologist Sally Poncet, and to publicise the plight of albatrosses, with 19 of the 21 speices reported to be in danger of [...]

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More Awards for Ellen

The Nancy Blackett Trust's Patron Ellen MacArthur has won more awards from the BBC. During a brief journey home earlier this month, she managed to pick up two titles at the BBC East Midlands Sports Awards – Sportswoman of the Year and Sports Personality of the Year. She also narrowly missed out on [...]

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Strictly for the Birds

Ellen MacArthur is taking a couple of months off sailing (for the first time in 8 years) to take part in a birdlife survey at the island of South Georgia with biologist Sally Poncet, and to publicise the plight of albatrosses, with 19 of the 21 speices reported to be in danger of [...]

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More Awards for Ellen

The Nancy Blackett Trust’s Patron Ellen MacArthur has won more awards from the BBC. During a brief journey home earlier this month, she managed to pick up two titles at the BBC East Midlands Sports Awards – Sportswoman of the Year and Sports Personality of the Year. She also narrowly missed out on [...]

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