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By Queen’s Park high school rowing club
We need to make urgent repairs to our boating pontoon to make sure it’s safe to use. Whilst the repair work is done, to save over £4000 we would like to extend the platform in length.
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To pay for the urgent repairs that are needed to our landing stage / pontoon to ensure it is safe and ready to use. Early this year, it was discovered that our pontoon- (this is a flat platform that sits in the water where we launch our boats from) had become damaged through wear and tear and mainly due to it being vandalised and overloaded with too many people using it during the lockdown. A ballast tank that makes it float is damaged and needs to be replaced, the metal frame has become twisted as well, this is causing it to tilt at a sharp angle. Without this platform none of our rowers and canoeists will be able to access the water. The platform is used by a variety of clubs, we have the rowing club which is the main user, we also have a community junior canoeing club, the scouting association use it for bell boating and dragon boating and there is an adult canoeing community club. This platform was built 15 years ago and provides daily access for our users.
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Why it's a great idea:
Safe access onto the river for all our users. The platform will be stable and won’t take on water. - No wet feet! This platform was built 15 years ago and provides daily access for our users. we urgently need to make repairs to its structure to make it last another 15-20 years at least. we have considerably increased our members numbers over the past seven years, going from just 10 children in 2013 to our 73 that we have now. our aim is to keep increasing that number, where by 2025, we hoping to have over 100 students. The landing stage will be extended in length to allow easier access for our larger boats and to enable it to be used by mulitple users at anyone time. This work will be completed alongside the urgent repairs that are needed whilst the platform is out of the water. Doing both pieces of work at the same time will save us over £4000.
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VolunteerWe are a purely voluntary run Rowing club for the students of Queens Park High School in Chester, providing coached rowing sessions for children aged 12-18. We currently have 73 students registered with a large waiting list for year 7 and 8 students.
The club was initially started in 1946 as part of The Chester Grammar School for boys and eventually getting its current name when the Grammar school converted to a comprehensive school in 1971.
The club is run by a very loyal group of volunteers, made up from mostly parents of current and past students and people local to the area who have rowed in their younger years whilst at the school and other rowing clubs.
Many parents choose to send their children to the school because of the rowing club, we are very lucky to be one of only four state schools in the country to have its own boathouse.
All our athletes are encouraged to compete at a regional / local level and at a national level and get to race all over the country.
We offer stability to all our children, a proportion who come from fractured homes and low income families. we feel we do a great job of being fully inclusive to all our rowers, whether they want to compete at the highest level or just want to get away from everyday stresses and go out in a boat a few times a week.
Through the sport of Rowing, we teach organisation, discipline, tenaciousness and resilience to produce happier, more responsible young people with increased confidence in their own abilities and how to deal with the world. There is a big team work ethos at the club with an emphasis on all year groups working together and helping each other.
Most of our rowers go onto achieve good academic results and continue to row when they leave us.
Project Owner: Queen’s Park high school rowing club The Project Owner takes legal responsibility for receiving and spending the funds raised and ensuring the project is delivered.
