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About my charity
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Laburnum Boat Club
The Laburnum Boat Club is a community-based boating project by the Regents Canal in Hackney. Set up by local parents in the early eighties, the Club runs a programme of water-based activities throughout the year - primarily for children, young people and their families - but also for local community, education and welfare groups.
Charity Registration No
801255
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| Fundraising target: |
£24,000.00 |
| Donations so far: |
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440.00
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| My personal message: |
This is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity for 12 inner city young people to undertake a major 15day expedition to India in August 2007.
The aims of the trip are three-fold
- firstly to make the First Youth Descent of the Zanskar Gorge (the 'Grand Canyon of India') by raft and kayak. This will involve 2days warming up on the Indus, a 3day bus journey to the start of the gorge and 5days self-supported in the gorge itself
- secondly to enhance the personal and social development for all involved, as the young people will be organising the trip themselves, including all the logistics and fundraising the £24,000 necessary for the trip to go ahead.
- and thirdly to be a motivational tool for the young people of Hackney through a lecture tour produced by the group on thier return and taken to local youth groups and watersports centre to show what you can achieve if you work hard.
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