Our Vision

Faversham Creek Trust is an independent, non-political, not-for-profit community enterprise. Its overall aim is to restore Faversham Creek as a working waterway. In particular, it will:

In order to achieve these aims the Trust is refurbishing the Purifier building to act as a training centre, a workshop, and a focus for community activities relating to the town’s maritime heritage as a Cinque Port Limb. In partnership with other organisations it is also campaigning for a new swing bridge that will re-open access to the upper basin, and contributing to the local authority planning process.

We have around 400 members, and an active programme of events and activities. We are Charity Number 1146660 and Company Number 7667130.

The Creek Trust was formed at a time when pressure for housing development seemed to threaten any possibility of reviving the economic fortunes of the creek as a working waterway. Houses at the water’s edge command a premium, but throughout the Thames Estuary, dozens of boatyards have closed due to conflicts of this kind. Various people came together to fight for the Creek as a genuine heritage project – whereby the skills of boatbuilders and shipwrights could be passed on to young people, and traditional boats such as sailing barges and the local bawleys would find a haven here, for overwintering and repair. We have had campaigns, raised funds, held exhibitions, meetings, and social events to help local people understand what is at risk. The current battle is to get the authorities to reinstate an opening bridge across the creek – to allow vessels into the Basin (beside the Purifier Building), as is their legal right.

Latest News

WETLAND ECOSYSTEM OF WATER TREATMENT (WET)

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...


WATER QUALITY IN FAVERSHAM CREEK

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...


EDUCATIONAL PROGRAMME

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...


FAVERSHAM SAFARI – 6th August 2023

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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