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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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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Thank you EvoqativMedia for this brilliant video of the 2018 Nautical Festival.
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Griff Rhys Jones visited the Purifier on Friday afternoon as part of his Kent tour for Civic Voice [see previous post], looking at local projects and meeting volunteers; He spent the morning at the Faversham Society and then came down...
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