Our YouTube channel now contains many new videos, including the videos from the 2017 and 2018 Annual Review meetings.
A Team from Waitrose & Partners St Katherines have spend the day volunteering getting our Skerry Christina looking smart for the season ahead.
After passing her RYA Dingy instructors qualification, Robyn Cuthbert can be seen here teaching her first sailing session.
Shadwell Basin Outdoor Activity Centre has successfully secured £47,270 in grants to renovate its outdoor climbing wall of twenty years including £1,600 towards inclusion programmes.
Shadwell Basin Outdoor Activity Centre has been awarded £18,200 by one of the generous funders, the London Marathon Charitable Trust
Shadwell Basin Outdoor Activity Centre has been awarded £16,600 to renovate its Outdoor Climbing Wall and £1,600 for a disability climbing programme by the London Marathon Charitable Trust as part of The Trust’s long term commitment to capital projects which inspire local communities to get active and take part in sports and exercise.
Shadwell Basin Outdoor Activity Centre will invest the funding to completely renovate its Outdoor Climbing Wall. It will also add on a new climbing face and have adapted climbing for people and young people with disabilities. The new wall will have three faces with six ropes areas ranging from very easy to very hard grades.
Mike Wardle, Centre Director said, ‘we desperately needed our climbing wall of twenty years renovated. This is a fantastic opportunity to create a modern and challenging facility for all, but especially the young people and those with a disability who want to get into the sport of climbing’.
The work will take place in May 2019 and on average will allow 200 users a month to take part in the sport of climbing.
Since 1981, The London Marathon Charitable Trust has awarded more than £68 million in grants to more than 1,200 projects in London and other areas where London Marathon Events Ltd organises events. For more information, visit www.lmct.org.uk
For more information on how to join Shadwell Basin Outdoor Activity Centre programmes please contact us on 020 7481 4210 or come in for some information.
Shadwell Basin Outdoor Activity Centre Youth Project has been lucky enough to receive £10,950 worth of equipment from Belgrave Playhouse in Leicester.
Belgrave Playhouse was the brainchild of Sue Ranger who has run it since 1979. The Project, sadly, had to close due to the cuts to local services. Over the years it has assisted 1000’s of young people from disadvantaged backgrounds and those with disabilities, caring for them and helping them to cope with life and reach out to discover their potential. It is unique and groundbreaking in its approach to care and education and its closing is a loss to society.
The charity ran outdoor activities for young people and possessed a large amount of outdoor activity equipment. They have decided to bequeath this to Shadwell Basin Outdoor Activity Centre Youth Project as the principles that guided them for years are reflected in the work that we do here.
Our community would like to thank them from the bottom of our hearts for this kind gift at such a difficult time. Below is a summary of the equipment given;
A canoe trailer, 4 open canoes, 2 kayaks and assorted paddles, 6 tents, 25 rucksacks, 17 sleeping bags, camping stoves, outdoor clothing and camping equipment and a top class racing boat.
Here is a link to their website below: http://www.belgraveplayhouse.org/
Toby Carr a member of Tower Hamlets Canoe Club based at Shadwell Basin Outdoor Activity Centre is under taking an amazing journey kayaking in all the Sea Shipping Forecast areas around the UK.
He has been featured on the BBC news – Click on the link to see the story.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-45419049/why-i-m-kayaking-the-shipping-forecast-seas
Come to the AGM on Thursday November 29th to see more.
On Saturday 8th September two teams from Bench Blisters, rowing magistrates will row the Great River Race. This 21.1 mile race will be a challenge to all but even more so to those that are doing it for the first time.
They are raising money for Shadwell Basin OAC Youth Project in order to fund activities. They have a target of £6,600. Please help them and us achieve that target by following the link to Virgin Money Giving below and donating. This can be done either before or after the event.
https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/Team/GRR2018
Shadwell Basin OAC will be the East London host for the Thames Foreshore Festival on 23rd September. Come along experience and take part in activities, stands and food.
Try rowing, canoeing, kayaking, sailing, Stand Up Paddleboarding, climbing , high ropes, foreshore beach mudlarking, games, food stands, BBQ and stands for Tideway, London Youth Rowing, PLA, Fire Service and local clubs.
Fun day for all. All activities are free on the day.
On Friday 18th May, 16 teams totalling 160 rowers left Fulham Boat Club to embark on over two hours of non-stop rowing through Central London to end at Shadwell Basin Outdoor Activity Centre. The whole event was organised and planned and rowed by Tideway personnel, with support from London Youth Rowing, Skerries For Schools and Shadwell Basin Outdoor Activity Centre as well as Northern exposure and Sea Cadets East London.
The anticipation about the Oarsome Challenge had grown throughout the last 6 months. As it was, battling the River Thames on the day was one of the two challenges. On top of this the crews spent hours persuading and cajoling people to sponsor them to complete it.
By 8pm all the boats had finished and the sponsor money was still coming in as a welcome party took place.
Shadwell Basin Outdoor Activity Centre runs for the local community with young people at the heart of the activities that are done. We rely heavily, on both volunteers and donations as well as grants to help subsidise the outdoor and adventure activities for young people by 80%. It enables access for young people from low economic backgrounds and disabilities into sports like sailing and rowing, which can normally be very expensive and financially out of reach.
The staff at Shadwell Basin have shown great admiration for the Tideway staff rowers throughout the training period and the fact that many of them have never rowed such a distance before. We all know what immense physical and mental exertion is needed for such an event. As a staff, along with the trustees, parents and young people, the whole community that attends Shadwell Basin, we all would like to thank Tideway Rowers from the bottom of our hearts for taking the time to raise money for us as a charity and take part in such a Challenge. We hope that they themselves felt achievement, made friends, learnt infinite possibilities about themselves and have had the blisters heal to leave good memories of what they did.
To date the donation from the event to Shadwell Basin Outdoor Activity centre is £26,500. This is an amazing achievement, for which we are ever grateful.
Mike Wardle
Director
Shadwell Basin Outdoor Activity Centre
Support our team of youth club parents and adults who will be rowing the Great River Race on the 9th September to raise money to support our Youth Project!
The group of ten adults have been training all summer on the Basin and the River in preparation for the challenging 21.6 miles that they will be rowing on Saturday as they race to the finish. Please donate to help them raise money to support our Youth Project and all the fantastic work that the centre do with young people throughout the year.
Please visit: http://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/team/shadwellgreatriverrace to donate towards the team’s and the centre’s efforts. Thank you!
Our summer of fun has come to a close as term begins again but the Youth Club is still open all year round!
Join in our Youth Club sessions on Sundays and Wednesday and Thursday evenings to continue to develop your skills in the outdoors.
Our first session for the autumn term begins on Sunday 10th September and will be a multi-activity programme running all the way up to October half term and beyond.
