The Creek Trust runs a schools education programme, led by Gulliver Immink, to bring awareness and knowledge of Faversham Creek, its maritime history and heritage, to Primary Schools. This was an initiative started in 2013 by the late much-missed Simon...
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As high tide was reached, three St Ayles Skiffs were launched from their new pontoon at the Town Jetty. Festivities began with a speech from Alan Thorne. Philippa Foster Back CBE, (in memory of her husband Simon Foster) accompanied...
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The new Faversham Rowing Club, based for the moment in the Trust’s Purifier Building, is running two open weekends for people to have a go at rowing. The Trust’s newly launched skiff Avocet will be available. The invitation is...
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The Mayor of Faversham, Cllr Alison Reynolds, took to the oars wearing her gold chain of office when the town’s first coastal rowing skiff ‘Avocet’ was launched in the Creek on Saturday. The boat was commissioned by the Creek Trust. Cheered...
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The St Ayles Skiffs is the latest boat-building project which the Creek Trust is pleased to help promote. Alan Thorne, the boatbuilder based in our Purifier Building – is working with community organiser Jude Caryer to get these beautiful sea-going...
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At the end of 2019 Alan Thorne proposed that we become involved with a rather more ambitious programme to build a St Ayles Skiff, a twenty two foot coastal rowing skiff, as a community boat building project in the Purifier. ...
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