Monday 18 September 2006, Port Solent, UK.

A group of young people and chaperones from London-based charity Kids Company (www.kidsco.org.uk) enjoyed a fabulous day out in Port Solent learning to sail, along with rugby legend Brian Moore and UK TV host Melissa Porter. They also got to stay overnight in a nearby hotel, and particularly loved the showers and comfy beds!

Salesforce.com's UK Country Manager, Peter Grant, together with Carl Henderson from Marketing, organized this second Annual Salesforce.com Regatta.

Partners and customers bought 21 yachts, and raised race prize money of over £11,000 - all of which was donated to children's charities.

Winning crew from MeetingZone chose to donate their prize money to Kids Company. Omniture came in second place and gave their money to the NSPCC and third place crew, Elevate, donated their winnings to their local Bristol branch of Make-A-Wish.

Camila Batmanghelidjh, the inspiration behind Kids Company, said "the kids had a fantastic time sailing and sleeping in the hotel. They couldn't get over the quality of everything. Your welcome was really generous. Thank you for the money you raised too - our kids felt really respected".

Kids Co kids at Regatta 2006Kids Company supports just under 11,000 vulnerable and disadvantaged young people in London, offering them support from the very basic, practial and educational, to the most complex therapeutic and psychiatric.

They will put their winning money towards their Christmas Day party - run by volunteers - which gives joy and refuge to over 500 children who cannot be at home with their families on Christmas day.