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Durham Amateur Rowing Club encourage young people living in the county to take up the sport of rowing. With some help from County Durham Foundation, the group were able to buy a new coxless quad boat for their youth members. They even asked County Durham Foundation to name the boat and attend her maiden voyage. Staff chose the name 'Lasting Impact' and christened the boat with a bottle of bubbly at the launch.
The picturesque banks of the River Wear in Central Durham are the setting for the club boathouse where both adult and junior members come to participate in the sport. The young people in particular are encouraged to be involved in all aspects of the club including having representatives on the management committee and helping to raise funds towards a £1 million rebuild of the boat house.
The group received a grant of £7,000 from the Local Network Fund towards the cost of a new coxless boat for use by junior members of the rowing club. The young members receive training until they are experienced enough to use a boat which does not need a cox to steer and four people can use the new boat at any one time.
Durham
Amateur Rowing Club also works with young people at schools in Easington and
Sedgefield in an effort to boost membership and take rowing out into local
parts of the community where it is not readily available. From going out into
the community the group hope that these young people may become members of
the rowing club and progress to being able to use the coxless boat. They are
also in the process of developing a Play to Learn centre which offers sporting
opportunities as an incentive to learn. The club are sure that the 'Lasting
Impact' will be a liquid asset to all the current and future young members
for years to come.
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