The Sorted Project

Home
United Kingdom
Edinburgh
The Sorted Project

The Sorted Project is an Edinburgh charity based on board a stunning purpose built canal boat.

The Sorted Project is an Edinburgh based charity (charity number SC040115) and has been delivering services across the Lothians since 2008, supporting people in recovery from substance use and mental health. The Sorted Project has a purpose built wide beam canal boat called Panacea, moored on the Union Canal. We are part of a wide network of organisations in the voluntary and statutory sectors bot

h within the recovery community and the wider canal and rural interest communities. We provide peer led training and volunteering opportunities and our crew members have lived experience of recovery.

28/04/2026

Great to welcome Kirstie onboard from Streetwork/Simon Community Scotland to discuss collective support across Edinburgh. Streetwork Simon Community Scotland

We are now running online booking for our Monday and Thursday sailing and training days, and it's working very well. This will help us to manage capacity and make sure everyone has a seat.

Safer by Sound had a great sail last week and ERA Edinburgh Recovery Activities join us today! 😊

Outreach this morning is being delivered by Simona and our new volunteer, Emily.

Our Wednesday groups enjoyed a great session with Anna from Floramedica last week, making pesto from wild garlic collected near Harrison Park. Spring has definitely sprung! Have a great day everyone! 🏵🌸

fans Fountainbridge Canalside Community Trust Safer by sound Scottish Drugs Forum The National Lottery Community Fund The National Lottery Community Fund Scotland The National Lottery Heritage Fund Scotland EVOC Corra Foundation Foundation Scotland

20/04/2026

Fabulous photos captured by Mark last week. Phoenix Futures loved their sail! Also check out our poster for our boats open afternoon on Thursday the 14th of May 1pm to 5pm. Come along. Kettle will be on. 🌞

fans Fountainbridge Canalside Community Trust Safer by sound Scottish Drugs Forum ERA Edinburgh Recovery Activities EVOC Go Forth and Clyde Polwarth Parish Church Foundation Scotland Corra Foundation The National Lottery Heritage Fund Scotland The National Lottery Community Fund The National Lottery Community Fund Scotland Scottish Recovery Consortium

14/04/2026

Hi everyone! Just dropping in with an update and photos for everything Sorted. Following an excellent First Aid course from Frans and VITAL SIGNS Scotland - Saving Lives Through Training we now have 9 First Aiders onboard Panacea!
Well done everyone! 👏👏
Thank you to the fabulous catering team for our lovely teas/coffees and delicious lunch. Cafe 48 at North Merchiston Club. Great venue and team.
Today we welcome Phoenix Futures to sail with Mark and Elena for the first time, then we have our Wednesday and Thursday groups doing sailing, crew support and arts and crafts. Anna from Floramedica will be joining us for foraging and pesto making next week.
Thank you so much to Nathan from Go Forth and Clyde for the brilliant boat key rings! Nathan designed, 3d printed and assembled them. Let us know if you would like one. We have Panacea and Gryphon.
Martin carried out a full service for Panacea last week, and the w**d hatch was cleared of a fair amount of plastic.
Lots of sailing and learning and looking forward to bringing on new RYA Helms soon.
Karen attended an excellent networking and learning event with EVOC last week and we are now planning for our open afternoon on Thursday the 14th of May with Fountainbridge Canalside Community Trust and Polwarth Parish Church . More news about that in the coming weeks.

After 2 1/2 years volunteering with us, we wished Mary well as she returns to her local bowling team. We will miss you Mary and thank you for all your support! Join us any time for a sail! ❤️ Judy made a beautiful bead portrait of Teddy!

Enjoy the photos and we will share more updates soon. 🌞

fans The National Lottery Community Fund The National Lottery Heritage Fund Scotland The National Lottery Community Fund Scotland Corra Foundation Foundation Scotland Scottish Drugs Forum Scottish Recovery Consortium

24/03/2026

Good afternoon everyone! We have lots of activity going on going into Spring. 🌻 Great sailing and learning taking place with Mark, along with crafting and Reiki with Grace. Simona is supporting us onboard and with outreach. Look out for Simona at ERA Edinburgh Recovery Activities sessions quite soon.
We have a First Aid course with Frans in April. Training Enterprises Scotland and a Volunteer Open Day in May, all in partnership with Fountainbridge Canalside Community Trust and Polwarth Parish Church (All Aboard)
We also have a lovely article in Canal Magazine highlighting Gryphon and training and our work with Go Forth and Clyde
It will be great to continue our sailing with Safer by sound and we look forward to seeing Edinburgh Recovery Activities rejoining us in April.
In addition, we have a dedicated group with the Royal Edinburgh Hospital and feedback from participants is great! Hope you enjoy the photos. 🌞

fans The National Lottery Community Fund Scottish Drugs Forum Corra Foundation EVOC The National Lottery Heritage Fund Scotland Foundation Scotland

27/02/2026

Thank you to the Safer by sound crew for sailing with us last week! Everyone had a lovely day.

Spring is just around the corner and our diary is busy already with bookings from Safer by Sound, planning dates with ERA Edinburgh Recovery Activities and the Royal Edinburgh Hospital. We have a volunteer recruitment day coming up in March along with Fountainbridge Canalside Community Trust and All Aboard. More news on that soon. In April, we celebrate Chelsea's success with Scottish Drugs Forum and the National Traineeship programme.

The positive start to the year is reflected in the positive vibe onboard Panacea. Thank you everyone.🥰

06/02/2026

Hello February 2026!

Our Instructor, Mark is supporting new crew members as well as making epic soup! We are seeing some great sailing and crew support from Chelsea, Doug and Alistair. The authentic minestrone soup was very welcome yesterday on what was a very cold day! (authenticity confirmed by Simona 😁) Grace is delivering focused crafting sessions and we are all looking forward to her famous lentil soup on Monday!

We are planning First Aid training in the spring with Frans as well as a dedicated volunteer information day in March with our partners Fountainbridge Canalside Community Trust / Re-Union Canal Boats and All Aboard/Polwarth Polwarth Parish Church

We celebrated Judy's Birthday yesterday and Simona (University of Edinburgh) is settling in very well supporting us both onboard Panacea and with community outreach sessions.

We welcomed Safer by sound onboard this week and thank you to crew member Jackie for supporting their sail.

A new catering service has opened next to Leamington Lift Bridge. A welcome replacement since the departure of the coffee boat.

The days are getting longer and lighter and Spring is just around the corner.

Thank you everyone for a wonderful start to the year! 🥰 💪🏆

fans The National Lottery Community Fund The National Lottery Community Fund Scotland Corra Foundation EVOC Foundation Scotland The National Lottery Heritage Fund Scotland Fountainbridge Canalside Community Trust Safer by sound

25/01/2026

We are beyond delighted to share that The Sorted Project has been awarded £224,330 over the next three years from The National Lottery Community Fund Scotland!

This funding will power our new project:
“The Sorted Project – Sailing to New Horizons on Canal Boats.”

Thanks to National Lottery players, we can continue creating life-changing opportunities on the water for the people we support, building confidence, skills, teamwork and new horizons through canal boating.

A huge thank you to The National Lottery Community Fund Scotland and every player who makes this possible. Your support truly changes lives.

We are incredibly grateful to National Lottery players whose contributions make this work possible, enabling us to continue delivering meaningful experiences for our participants through canal boating.

Thank you for investing in our community and our future.

We have worked incredibly hard to bring together a funding package, which focuses on a partnership approach with our funders over the next three years. We will bring you news shortly to let you know which organisations are supporting us, along with the National Lottery Community Fund Scotland, taking us into 2029!

We are looking forward to making plans and working with our team, participants, volunteers and partners over the coming years.

The National Lottery Community Fund Scotland EVOC Corra Foundation The National Lottery Heritage Fund Scotland Foundation Scotland The National Lottery The National Lottery Community Fund Fountainbridge Canalside Community Trust ERA Edinburgh Recovery Activities Safer by sound WithYou CGL South East Recovery Service Thistle Foundation The Bothy North East Go Forth and Clyde Forth and Clyde Canal Society Scottish Canals Scottish Drugs Forum RYA Scotland

01/01/2026

Good morning everyone and Happy New Year! 🎉🎊

We are sharing a New Year message from the inspirational Liliana Myres whose words reached us and we hope they reach you too.

Thank you to Cicely for the wonderful article in Towpath Talk. We will share that soon.

We will be thinking of Simon and Ron and their dear friends and families. Simon Jaquet and Ron Rusack, both friends of The Sorted Project, sadly died very recently. Their lives were quietly bold, brave and kind and they each leave great legacies. We will miss them.

"A new year arrives quietly, carrying both hope and responsibility in equal measure.

It’s a reminder that beginnings don’t always come with perfect timing or clear plans for everyone, but they do come with possibility.

A new year doesn’t erase the past, but it gives us space to write the next chapter differently.

With fresh pages ahead, may we step forward with courage, integrity, love and hope, ready to meet whatever comes, and willing to grow through it.

Some questions I’ve learned to use in the past years and I’m giving them to you now, hoping they will help you.

‘So what?
Why not?
What now?
What if?’

May you all have the most amazing
2026!!!"

The National Lottery Community Fund Scotland The National Lottery Heritage Fund Scotland EVOC Corra Foundation Foundation Scotland Scottish Canals RYA Scotland fans ERA Edinburgh Recovery Activities Safer by sound Scottish Drugs Forum Access to Industry Go Forth and Clyde WithYou Forth and Clyde Canal Society Seagull Trust Cruises - Ratho Seagull Trust Cruises- Falkirk. Edinburgh Union Canal Society Linlithgow Canal Centre The Bridge 19-40 Union Canal Society Polwarth Parish Church Fountainbridge Canalside Community Trust

24/12/2025

Happy Christmas Eve everyone! 🎄🎉

We end the year with lots of thanks and a special welcome to Simona, our very first Community Learning and Development, University of Edinburgh student placement.

Special thanks to our partners including ERA Edinburgh Recovery Activities, The Bothy, Connecting Craigmillar, CGL, DadsWork SCIO, Wheatley Homes East, Access to Industry, NHS Royal Edinburgh Hospital, The Ritson Clinic, and many more for working with us and sailing with us throughout the year. Thank you to Go Forth and Clyde for building the amazing Falkirk Wheel! and to Safer by sound for supporting our winning flotilla display, regular sailing and for the sweet treats. Thank you to Scottish Drugs Forum and Chelsea for all your input through the National Traineeship. Thank you to our brilliant team for a remarkable year! To our sessional team, Mark and Grace and our volunteers and participants - thank you!

We are delighted to share news of new funding support from The Robertson Trust, EVOC Communities Mental Health and Wellbeing Fund, NHS Lothian Charity, Thomas Wall Trust, The Paristamen Charity, and The Barcapel Foundation. We look forward to bringing you more funding news in January!

Special thanks to our Trustees, Fiona, Nicholas (Nick) Jonathan and our new Trustee - Jay
And to our finance, admin, online and project development support - Jon, Gina, Alison, SCVO and The Melting Pot

Thank you to our RYA Scotland Chief Instructor Frans and Instructors Mark and Stephen and to Scottish Canals and The Falkirk Wheel and our boating partners on the Union and Forth and Clyde.

Looking forward to making plans with Louise and WithYou in the New Year! More about that very soon.

And finally, thank you to you, our followers and supporters for engaging with us and our adventures. We can't wait to share our plans for 2026!

Panacea will be open on the 29th of December for coffee and a sail and reopens for our regular schedule on Monday the 5th of January.

We wish you all a very peaceful Christmas and a healthy and happy New Year! 🎄🎉🥰

fans The National Lottery Community Fund Scotland The National Lottery Heritage Fund Scotland Corra Foundation Foundation Scotland Moray House School of Education and Sport Training Enterprises Scotland

06/12/2025

It's been a wonderful week of sailing, soup, crafting, online meetings, setting up the Christmas Tree and receiving very welcome funding results from The Robertson Trust, Barcapel Foundation, EVOC and the Thomas Wall Trust. We will highlight the work we will be doing with their support very soon.

We plan to pilot a new online booking system in January as we are now so busy, we want to make sure booking is as simple and straightforward as possible. In addition, new volunteers, Trevor and Alistair, sailed Trevor's boat, Skean-Dhu II, from Auchenstarry to Linlithgow yesterday! What a great achievement! We hope Trevor will be very happy in his new home. I see new RYA Helms in the making!

Jackie and Dougie will be taking part in Leamington Lift Bridge training on Monday with friends at Fountainbridge Canalside Community Trust

However, its also been a bitter sweet week this week as we heard of the passing of our good friend, Simon Jaquet. Director of Simon Jaquet Consultancy Services Ltd. As well as being a well crafted musician and songwriter, Simon has been a youth worker, manager, volunteer, chief executive, and board member. He has worked in the third sector for more than 45 years, including as founder and director of Fast Forward Positive Lifestyles Ltd 1987 - 2001 and Chief Executive of YouthLink Scotland 2001 - 2004. He set up Simon Jaquet Consultancy Services Ltd in 2004. Working at the interface between the third and public sectors, he specialised in research, evaluation, and organisational development. Simon supported our 5 year business plan and feasibility study for Panacea, and introduced us to many people we continue to link with. He sailed with us at the launch with his wife, Caroline. Sincere condolences to all who knew him and loved him. We will miss him. ❤️

EVOC Corra Foundation The National Lottery Heritage Fund Scotland The National Lottery Community Fund Scotland Foundation Scotland Scottish Canals

28/11/2025

Happy Friday everyone! It's been a great week of activity! New participants, great conversations and networking, soup (of course) and beautiful thank you flowers💐. Safer by Sound enjoyed a sail with us on Wednesday and celebrated a Birthday. We had a completely full boat on Thursday! We are now taking enquiries for Monday afternoons for new participants interested in joining us as Thursdays are now full. We have a local resident Heron. More photos soon. Have a great weekend! 🌞🫶

fans EVOC Corra Foundation The National Lottery Heritage Fund Scotland The National Lottery Community Fund Scotland Foundation Scotland Scottish Canals Seagull Trust Cruises- Falkirk. Jay Lamb Polwarth Parish Church Fountainbridge Canalside Community Trust

21/11/2025

It's such a beautiful time of year to be on our canals. It's soup season and we have had a busy week. The Bothy Mum's group had a great sail with us on Wednesday, and we arrived to a toasty boat on Thursday having added some extra heating onboard Panacea. Leamington Lift Bridge training is booked with friends at Fountainbridge Canalside Community Trust in December, and Professional Boundaries training certificates have been received. We will soon be planning First Aid training with Frans. Let us know if you would like to join us. Enjoy the photos and hope you have a great weekend! 🌞🫶

fans EVOC Corra Foundation The National Lottery Heritage Fund Scotland The National Lottery Community Fund Scotland Foundation Scotland Scottish Canals Edinburgh Union Canal Society Polwarth Parish Church Go Forth and Clyde Forth and Clyde Canal Society Seagull Trust Cruises - Ratho Seagull Trust Cruises- Falkirk. Linlithgow Canal Centre The Bridge 19-40 Union Canal Society

Address

The Sorted Project, The Melting Pot, 15 Calton Road
Edinburgh
EH88DL

Telephone

+447425147635

Website

http://www.sortedproject.co.uk/

Alerts

Be the first to know and let us send you an email when The Sorted Project posts news and promotions. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose, and you can unsubscribe at any time.

Contact The Organisation

Send a message to The Sorted Project:

Shortcuts

Want your organisation to be the top-listed Non Profit Organisation in Edinburgh?