The University of Essex Rowing Club in recent years has gone into significant disrepair through both lack of funding and viable infrastructure. 

The club that caters for both students and members of the local community alike has, since its inception in 1995, been instrumental in providing a fun and friendly environment where people can train and compete in a highly active and social sport!  

UERC is a vibrant and increasingly international club, and offers a wide variety of people a means to stay fit and healthy whilst helping them develop team-building, leadership and above all else communicative skills, that can put members in good stead for gaining successful employment prospects in the future!

The club however, like many rowing clubs across the UK, is significantly underfunded and relies on the support from the University of Essex Student Union to help keep it running.

Last year the club raised over £2,500 in a sponsored 24 hour row for a variety of charities. The money raised was divided between Combat Stress, the Rotary Club of Colchester, Parachute Regiment Charity and the University of Essex Student Union and was even accredited on the British Rowing website: http://www.britishrowing.org/news/2012/december/10/students-v-soldiers-rowing-colchester

This year the club hopes to build upon this great effort and raise more than we did in 2011, when the project started, and even more than in 2012 when the club raised the most it has ever!

Money raised this year will be divided between the Samaritans to help keep this well-established charity, provide emotional support to anyone in emotional distress struggling to cope, or at risk of suicide throughout the UK and Ireland. The remainder of the proceedings will go to the University of Essex Student Union which will help develop UERC.

Check out more information on the club at: www.uerc.co.uk