Shadwell Basin Outdoor Activity Centre

40th Anniversary Celebration – Saturday 16th July – 10.30am to 4.30pm

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Shadwell Basin has worked as a Charity to provide outdoor adventurous activities at an affordable cost for the whole community for 40 years. Come and celebrate with us as we provide activities for the whole family, including bouncy castle, face painting and a music festival with a DJ playing 40 years of hits in between four live Bands. There will be refreshments on Brussels Wharf and at the Centre there will be a Tea Room with light snacks and refreshments. There will also be a History Exhibition documenting Shadwell and it’s people over the past 40 years.

The Event Programme: The Centre will run a Flotilla of craft on the Thames arriving at Shadwell Pierhead at around 11.00am. The music festival plays from 12 noon. An adventure activities programme in bell boating & indoor climbing for 5-8’s and kayaking, canoeing, sailing, climbing and high ropes for 9yrs and above will run from 12am to 1pm – 1.30pm to 2.30pm and 3pm to 4pm. To take part in Outdoor activities you need to be 5 and over and have a completed parent Consent form (5 to 18’s). These can be completed at registration. Please register 30 minutes prior to activity times and bring a change of clothes including footwear that does not expose your feet. Activities cost £5.00 for adults or £2.50 for children.

Lobuche East Challenge

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Update: Friday 6th November. On Wednesday 4th November at 11.30am elated and exhausted the team summited Lobuche East Peak 6119m (20,076ft) . Starting at 2.00am in the morning crossing grade 2 rock bands on the lower mountain they started the ascent on ice at dawn. At the top the team were rewarded with amazing views of the worlds highest peaks including Mount Everest. Abseiling down fixed ropes from the summit the descent back to base camp ended in the dark at 7.00pm. The whole ascent and descent of Lobuche East Peak took 17 Hours in total, leaving the team completely exhausted but feeling on top of the world. Thank you to all those of you that have supported us and donated to the Lobuche East Challenge. We will see you all soon, Will, Mike & Ian.

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On top of Lobuche East with Mount Everest in the background.

Views from the top and of the climb

Update: Wednesday 4 November. The team are on their way to Lobuche East summit today. Good luck guys!

Update: Tuesday 3 November. Will, Mike, Ian and Mira have arrived at Lobuche and are spending the day preparing for their climb on Wednesday. It’s not too late to sponsor the team, you can donate online through their Virgin Money Giving page, search for Will Tytler and the Lobuche East Challenge will come up. All money raised will go towards the 2016 40th anniversary funds, including funding a trip to Nepal for 12 young people.

Update: Monday 2 November. The team are now trekking from Dingboche to Lobuche and will spend Tuesday preparing for their climb. On Wednesday they will walk to Lobuche Base Camp before their climb on Thursday.

The first view of Lobuche East!

The team arrived safely in Dingboche – some pictures of the journey so far:

We have arrived in Namche Bazaar at 3445m. We leave tomorrow to trek to Tengboche and then on to Dingboche the day after, here will acclimatise in preparation for the trek to Lobuche. It is snowing here and so we will expect some fantastic pictures on route through the Everest Valley. We are 5 days from attempting to climb Lobuche East Peak at 6,119m. We will try to update everyone in Dingboche.

On the trek from Lukla to Namche Bazaar

On arrival at Lukla Airport

We are here in Katmandu

Lobuche East Challenge is an expedition to Climb Lobuche East Peak in the Himalaya in Nepal. Will Tytler, Ian Tytler and Mike Wardle, will climb the 6119m (20,076ft) mountain between 23rd October and 12th November 2015. All the money raised will go towards a mountaineering expedition by young people between 16 and 19 years old from Shadwell Basin Outdoor Activity Centre. The expedition aims to take young people from the East End of London and Climb Kalapatar in the Everest valley in October 2016. The group when there will also complete a community project for local people.

Please donate to our challenge to give them the opportunity of a lifetime.

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Success at the London Youth Games

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Shadwell Paddlers representing Tower Hamlets gained
team Silver in Slalom and team Bronze in Sprint

SLALOM
Junior Female	Honor	Dixon	7^th in Final	Tower Hamlets Team Silver
Junior Male	Ross	Dixon	Bronze Madal
Senior Female	Gabriella	Leoni	4^th in Final
Senior Male	William	Walker	Silver Medal
SPRINT
Lightning Female	Alexandra	Tribe	Silver Medal	Tower Hamlets Team Bronze
Lightning Male	Ross	Dixon	Silver Medal
Cirrus Junior Female	Emma	Haskey	5^th in heat
Cirrus Junior Male	Michael	Watson	6^th in Final
Cirrus Senior Female	Esther	Graham	6^th in Final
Cirrus Senior Male	William	Walker	6^th in Final

Reserves
Louis	Officer
Isla	Hammond
Connor	Millen
Louis	Wheatley

Thanks to the dedication of the entire team including the reserves for all the hard work during training this year. Well done to those individual competitors for such a great effort. We are all very proud of you and you are an inspiration to the Youth Club.