Corporate Social: Yacht Club "Puts Wind in the Sails" of Wortley Home

September 30, 2017

The Royal Jamaica Yacht Club recently hosted a fundraising event,‘Music Under The Stars’ to benefit The Wortley Home, an orphanage for girls in Kingston, which is struggling to rebuild after being destroyed by fire on June 29^th 2015. 

International donations and concert proceeds of over $600,000 were presented to Wortley Home Directors Keith Sangster and Tanya Wildish on September 20^th 2017, by event organizers, ‘Sisters from the 2 Cities’ - Michelle Bent and Phillippa Adams. 

The concert featured performances by Vancouver Canada based ‘Top Line Vocal Collective’ as well as Jamaica’s Father and Son Guitarists ‘Rupert Bent Senior and Junior’. There was also a special appearance by 11-year-old Vancouver Guitar sensation ‘Saige Adams’. Event production was supported by Epic Events, and On Q Productions.

$600,000 FOR WORTLEY HOME REBUILD: Tanya Wildish (left) and Keith Sangster (2^nd Left), Directors of the Wortley Home receive a donation of $600,000 towards the effort to rebuild the Home, which was destroyed by fire in 2015. The funds were raised at a recent benefit concert organized by Michelle Bent of Sisters from the 2 Cities (3^rd left) and guitarist and RJYC 2^nd Rear Commodore Rupert Bent Jr (right), featuring Jamaican and Canadian performers and held at the Royal Jamaica Yacht Club.

Photo Credit: Ricardo Fuller