The King’s School Canterbury Boat Club has a proud history, but today, our boats and blades need updating to reflect our ambitions.  Help our pupils to compete on the race-worthy equipment they need to achieve their personal bests and sustain the Club into the future. We’re a third of the way there. Please support us.

Luke Reiser, our new Head of Rowing, introduces the Boat Club Fleet Appeal:

Thank you for taking the time to consider this Appeal, launched in the latest edition of the OKS magazine. For those of you who don’t know me, I am the new Head of Rowing here at King’s. Today I work with a Club of around 100 pupils, training 6 days a week on a great body of still water. Our members have created a strong and supportive team and it is a joy to train with them. Everyday, I see them engage with a sport which helps them to develop skills for life, as well as for the water.

The KSC Boat Club has a proud and impressive history, and my vision for the future is rightly ambitious. But to achieve this and to support our pupils and our Club into the future, I need your help.

Our current fleet and blades are made up of mostly lower end equipment. Whilst these are fine for training, to cater for our ambitious and growing squads we need to increase volume, improve durability and push top-end performance with race-worthy equipment. With the generous support of our community, our first milestone would be to purchase the boats and blades listed below.

To all those who have already supported, thank you. Due to your generosity, we have already invested in several new sets of blades and we are so close to being able to purchase our first boat. If you are yet to support and able to do so, please join us. You can donate online, find out more via our Case for Support or get in touch directly, I would be delighted to hear from you.

There is so much potential amongst our talented pupils - together we can enable the Boat Club to flourish and continue the impressive legacy of those who have gone before. Thank you.

Luke Reiser, Head of Rowing

lr@kings-school.co.uk