Official Charity 2021
Andrew ‘Bart’ Simpson was a successful young Laser sailor in the RYA Youth Squad and in 1999 he finished 5th in the Laser Standard World Championships in Melbourne.
He went on to compete at the highest level in the Finn, narrowly missing out on Olympic selection, before joining Iain Percy to campaign the Star, where they won Olympic medals Beijing 2008 and London 2012.
Tragically Bart lost his life in an America’s Cup training accident in 2013. His close friends set up the Andrew Simpson Foundation : The Sailing Charity in his memory.
In the 50th Anniversary, the UKLA is thrilled to advise our Official Charity for 2021 is the Andrew Simpson Foundation.
We plan to promote the valuable work the Foundation does to transform the lives of young people through sailing, in Bart’s name.
