Our proposal to divert the outfall from the Faversham sewage works into a reed bed system gained a lot of positive support, however further findings have shown some drawbacks, reports Eldon Hinchliffe. Reeds spread very quickly and clog up the...
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In recent years, the concern for the quality of water in our Rivers and Seas has grown. Any visions for the future of Faversham Creek had always been built on the assumption that water was safe enough for leisure and...
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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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Faversham Safari is an annual town-wide, street market held on the first Sunday in August. A £6 registration fee, payable to the Creek Trust, allows residents to appear on the list of those participating. This year over 200 households signed...
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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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Our annual fundraising plant sale will be at the Purifier Building on Saturday 29 May from 10am – 3pm. Donations of labelled plants would be very welcome: bring them along on the day. If you would like to help run...
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Huge congratulations and thanks to Lesley Seager and her team of volunteers and supporters (including the Town Council) for their work in cleaning the rubbish out of Cooksditch. This ancient little waterway runs down from beside the Rec, behind the...
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Work has proceeded during lockdown on building Avocet, one of the St Ayles Skiffs designed for coastal racing under oar-power. This lovely boat has been built under the supervision of Alan Thorne in the Trust’s Purifier Building and many members...
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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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Alan Thorne, of The Purifier Yacht and Dinghy Company, says “LET’S BUILD A BOAT TOGETHER! FOR AGES 12 TO 99!” Building a wooden boat, getting into it and on to the water is magic! It can be a life changing...
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