News Articles in the category 'Events'

Chales Allen a Board Director of LOCOG at Bisham Abbey on Tuesday, to showcase our success with legacy programmes such as Sportivate but last night at the Bucks Sports Awards, our rowing coach, Bret King was awarded Coach of the Year and Ian Bowditch, one of our most qualified volunteer coaches was runner up for Volunteer of the Year.  

Picture shows Hannah Bladen of Sport England talking to Charles Allen who is Chair of LOCOG's Nations and Regions Group, responsible for bringing about the UK-wide benefits of the Games behind a blend of Marlow Rowing Club and Longridge Rowing Club members...

Not only did our young rowers meet the chair of Sport England and...

Thank you to everybody that came along last weekend to celebrate our glorious early summer and enjoy Steve Backshall, local bands, great food and of course our amazing activities.  I will be posting a link to photos taken on the day here shortly and below I have pasted in an amalgamation of some of your comments - thank you to all that took the time to write, it means the world to the team to know what we do is appreciated.  Next Family Days are 28th & 29th May and then again on 4th & 4th June - hope you will join us.

I am a BIG fan of Longridge. The Family day was great - CH

we had a fab day yesterday and loved the canooeing games at the end!!! Soaking wet and thoroughly enjoyed it!! - SR

I would like to thank you both for the excellent day we spent at Longridge on Friday.   My Son had the time of his life - VS

event was really good and the kids had a fab time - TH

I just wanted to say thank you for a fun and well organised day at Longridge last Friday!  All your staff there were friendly and helpful, despite being very busy, which made the day run smoothly - CB 

it was absolutely brilliant, we will be coming again - CE

Thank you for another brilliant day at Longridge - I brought a new family friends this year and again they were very impressed.  As always it was really well organised and the instructors were great.  Please pass on my thanks to them - MC

just wanted to say a big thankyou for yesterday - we had a fantastic time - JS

I just wanted to say that my daughter and I had a great visit to Longridge today; the activities were excellent - RT 

We had a lovely first visit to Longridge today, everyone enjoyed the kayaks - DT

We had great fun at Longridge - SJ

My family and I really enjoyed ourselves yesterday-please pass on our thanks to the instructors. - SR

We had a fantastic time on the 29th.  A fabulous afternoon which my children thoroughly enjoyed.  A big thank you to all your instructors and yourself for organising and running such a great day - KR

I would like to say that my whole family thoroughly enjoyed many of the activties - kayaking, climbing wall and leap of faith. - ATW

Thank you for a great family day out yesterday! Our children and their friends really enjoyed themselves on the kayaks and coanoes. We thought that maybe this would be their last year as they might be getting too old to do this - no chance, they have already planned on next year!! - DG

Feedback from our wonderfully busy weekend

On Monday 2nd and Tuesday 3rd May on ITV1, Longridge appears very briefly in the programme Case Sensitive.

It is a small but beautiful appearance, which you will have to be super vigilant to spot but the best scenes of this programme, were filmed at Longridge and if you really, really pay attention you will spot four very gorgeous and familiar faces from our team.  See if you can spot them all.....

On Monday and Tuesday from 9pm

A HUGE thank you to all of you that supported Longridge by attending our firework party Saturday evening.  I really hope you enjoyed the evening as much as we did.  We will be of course now planning next year's party to be even better (if that is possible), with an even more spectaculor display.

By attending Saturday, you have helped raise enough money that we can with the additional help of Wycombe District Council, put a floor in on the top floor of our Training Centre and may be even one internal wall.  This means that from December this building will be operational and we will be only seeking funding for internal walls, equipment and furniture - a kitchen, bathroom upstairs and of course gym equipment!

Don't forget that an easy way of supporting Longridge is when shopping online to use  www.easyfundraising.org.uk website. If you select Longridge as your cause, it will donate money to Longridge to help finish our Training Centre.  Shops such as Marks and Spencer, Ebay, Amazon and Tesco are on there.

Thanks again and hope to see you here again soon.

(photograph courtesy of Rob Sareen)

Another amazing firework party, which delivered lots of entertainment and has raised a substantial sum towards completing our training centre.

Nearly 200 people filled the new training space, to hear speeches from Theresa, Greg and John Cove from Sport England, praising all that the centre has achieved and a heartfelt plea from Amanda, Longridge's Centre Director for donations to enable the space to be completed.

Following the speeches, we released hundreds of balloons provided by Lynn Boyes and then enjoyed some fantastic music from the young and talented musical group The Watermelon Men.

The evening was rounded off with the cutting of a cake model of Longridge, made by the very talented Louise Hammett and cut by Bill Bendyshe-Brown, Chairman of Wycombe District Council.

Our thanks to our guests, all our supporters and to Sidecar Communications who handled the media and organisation of the entire event.

We had a fantastic, well supported event on Friday to welcome Theresa and Greg to Longridge to open our new Training Centre

At the Family Festival we where asked if you could buy The Quotes music, the band advise me that you can find their music on iTunes or through myspace www.myspace.com/thequotes

At the Family Festival we where asked if you could buy The Quotes music, the band advise me that you can find their music on iTunes or through myspace www.myspace.com/thequotes

Steve is best known for being a keen member of Longridge Canoe Club.  However when paddling allows, Steve Backshall is also the naturalist who reaches parts of the world others just can’t reach. He’s travelled to over 100 countries around the world making first ascents of remote jungle mountains or descending into hidden sinkholes in search of new species, climbing the world’s highest peaks or completing some of the world’s most demanding endurance races. Steve has continued to push back the boundaries of exploration whilst capturing it all on camera or in words.

His BBC natural history series ‘Deadly 60’ is being shown around the world, and is about to enter its third series. Whilst making the series, he has danced with thresher, tiger, bull and white sharks, come into contact with rattlesnakes, king cobras, mambas and giant pythons, and discovered such oddities as ghost bats, mantis shrimps, alligator snapping turtles and Humboldt Squid. In 2009, the series was nominated for two BAFTAS; best children’s presenter and best children’s factual series.

We are delighted that Steve will opening this event and our amazing Training Centre and hope you will join us on Monday to make the day even more wonderful.

Steve Backshall will be opening the event and use of the Training Centre at 1.30 on Monday August 30th.

You can buy tickets for both the music afternoon and activities here by following this link.

Please put the date in your diary and come along, we are really hoping to raise enough money from this event to complete our Training Centre and won't do that without your help.

If you have suggestions on bands, entertainments, can donate an auction prize, can help on the day or have a suggestion for a stall or entertainment then please contact our Operations Director, Jim Hughes - jim.hughes@longridge-uk.org

If you think your business would like to sponsor this (or another event) or would like to chat about Longridge's future development and fundraising plans and how you can support our efforts to expand and develop the centre so that we can truly provide inspirational opportunities to all young people, then contact our Center Director, Amanda Foister, amanda.foister@longridge-uk.org

Longridge is your resource, it exists to serve it's community and we can't do that without our communities support, so please help either by visiting the centre, attending our events, donating your money or by giving us some of your time.

See you soon.

Please come along to our Summer Fundraising event on August 30th. In the morning you have a chance to try out our activities and in the afternoon we will have an eclectic range of music, as well as refreshments, food and of course our stunning river-side setting.

Our thanks to all those very lovely pirates at 'fst The Group' for organising the day and for all those that supported it.  It all edges us even closer to achieving our 13m Team Swing - we now have £13,000 towards it, so only £12,000 to go.  We hope to be involved again next year and introduce some suitably pirate activities for all ages here too!

To see what it was like follow this link to the Maidenhead Advertiser's video site:

http://www.maidenhead-advertiser.co.uk/news/article-11346-video-a-pirate-s-life-for-me/

Wow - all you lovely pirates raised a whooping £647.16.

Friday 29^th May has been designated Marlow Pirate Day 2009 in an effort to raise funds to pay for a new 13m Team Swing at Longridge Outdoor Activity Centre, which for the past 50 years has provided a range of water sports and land based activities for young people of all abilities.

The High Street will be awash with a motley crew of fearsome swashbuckling sea dogs sporting an assortment of bandanas, gold ear-rings, eye patches, baggy trousers and maybe even the odd parrot and wooden leg.

The Ship in West Street will be holding an All-Day Pirate Party where grog can be washed down with special-recipe “pirate burgers”, the profits from entry will go to the centre. 

Teams from Longridge will be out in force all day collecting money and with many local stores and businesses taking part it promises to be a fun-packed day.

“We are very grateful that so many local businesses and offices have entered into the spirit of the occasion by agreeing to dress up as pirates, all in the name of charity.” (Amanda Foister, Longridge Activity Centre)

 

Well shiver me timbers, hoist the Skull and Crossbones and watch out you lily-livered landlubbers! The Pirates are coming to Marlow town!

This is a family festival, offering opportunities to try out all our activities either free or for a nominal charge. Kayaking, canoeing, bell boating, dragon boating, rowing, leap of faith, climbing will all be on offer.

You will be able to book your choice of activities on arrival at Longridge. We will also have a range of refreshments, craft stalls and a bar.  Doors open at 11am and the day’s activities will finish at 6pm.

To find out more about the event contact our Events Manager, Sarah Folley on sarah.folley@longridge-uk.org

 

We are delighted that Mary Nightingale will be attending the official opening of our new boathouse accommodation.