Welcome to the Garstang Canoe Club Website
Garstang Canoe Club was founded at the town’s Tithe Barn pub in 1973; originally part of the Scout group. The club is small and friendly and caters mainly for river running and playboating kayak paddlers, but welcomes open boats and sea kayaks too.
The club is fortunate to have access to the river Wyre in Garstang, with easy access a stretch of water perfect for training and a weir for practicing moving water paddle skills.
Anyone from age eight upwards is welcome, although under 16s do need to be supervised by a parent or responsible adult. The club has many BCU accredited instructors ranging from the new BCU UKCC Level 1 to the BCU Level 3 Inland Kayak Coach award.
The club meets at 6.15pm every Wednesday April to September at the weir in Garstang where there’s always someone to help and advise either the complete novice, or paddlers who just want to join a club with a friendly family atmosphere.
Anyone can propose a trip or event, (use the forum!) whether it is a weekend beginners’ day, a full blown holiday to Nepal or with the recent addition of a couple of sea kayaks to the club, a day at the seaside.
Garstang Canoe Club benefits from lottery grant funding through the “Awards for All” scheme, helping small community based projects.
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