Riverside Safety & security improvement

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Funded on
21 Jun 2022

Security and safety improvements to Queens Park High School Riverside Centre - to replace the fencing and gates that border the river path and to construct gated access to the pontoon.

£17,121 Raised of £16,846

105 Backers

101%

Our Delivery Report

Funded on 21 June 2022 | Delivered on 05 September 2022

£17,121

RAISED

105

BACKERS

125

DAYS TO FUND

BIGGEST PLEDGE

£9,150

From Cheshire West and Chester Council

£20

MOST POPULAR PLEDGE AMOUNT

500

people have visited this project!

Queen’s Park high school rowing club

Queen’s Park high school rowing club donated £10

donated £10

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donated £200

donated £100

donated £20

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donated £10

donated £75

Cheshire West and Chester Council donated £770

donated £50

More about our impact

The environment

Litter has improved greatly now there is no public by access onto the pontoon - less river pollution as well

Volunteering, jobs & education

Having not to deal with moving people off the pontoon before an outing is started has helped our volunteers greatly. Most of us were anxious about what we were going to deal with. Those feelings have now gone.

Activity, health and leisure

we are now able to run rowing sessions without the fear of having to deal with anti social behaviour. We have increased our outings and are now on the river most days of the week.

https://www.qphs.cheshire.sch.uk/page/?title=Rowing+Club&pid=72

We 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.