G8RR 2009 – Tower Bridge
The winners of this month’s draws of £50 each week are as follows:
No. 157 Jacqueline Yorston
No. 8 Melanie Williams
No. 195 Julie Burge
No. 5 Lucy Savill
Congratulations and thanks for your support.
Mermaids December 2011
January sees our first draws of the new year and again we start the year with a full house of 200 numbers being taken up! Fantastic news. we currently have a waiting list for those wishing to join which means we can sustain a full house. If you should like to join please contact us so you can be added to the list.
This month’s draws will be held on Saturday 29th January at 2.30pm in Heybridge Basin aside the Lock and by the Flag Pole. The weekly prize is £50.
Although a little late (apologies), but we are still technically in January, just, we should like to thank all our 200 Club members for their continued support in helping us raise £5,432 for the RNLI over the past year. Notwithstanding, the £4,800 which was paid out to members in prizes!
Please click the link below for this year’s rejoin information.
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New Year’s Race 2019
Congratulations to our winners of the Christmas Even Bigger Oars Draw, 4th Quarter Big Oars Draw and December weekly draws which took place at MLSC on Sunday 19th December. Here are the winners:
Christmas Draw
1st prize £500 – Scott Mills
2nd Prize £200 – Debbie Kiddier
4th Quarter Draw
1st Prize £250 – Christine Oatham
2nd Prize £100 – Lew Schnurr (donated to the RNLI)
3rd Prize £76 – Sue Prinn
Weekly Prize £50
Christine Oatham (donated to the RNLI), Freya Bryson, Jean Cuthbert, Rob Bryson
Some of you may be aware that this year’s MLSC Rowing Race, due to be held on 3rd January 2022, has had to be postponed due to the recurrent COVID 19 situation and it’s hoped to be rearranged for a later date. We are really disappointed about this, but all is not lost in terms of revenue raised by the Basin Oars this year through the RNLI 200 Club as we are extremely proud to announce the total from this will be £5432 which is over £200 more than last year.
Many thanks one and all for your continued support and generosity over this year. We couldn’t have raised this amount of money for the RNLI without you!
Best in Show 2021 Truffle
Our fun dog show finally happened on Saturday 18th September! We thought long and hard about whether to run the show this year due to the uncertainty of COVID restrictions. We decided to go ahead but on a much scaled down event promoting to just Heybridge Basin residents and their families.
We had a fabulous day with very warm sunshine and a manageable number of entrants and spectators and we raised a very respectable £460 for Clarks Farm Greyhound Re-homing centre, a local charity in Little Totham. We shall be visiting them next month to present them with the money and also have the chance to see some of the dogs.
We hope to run the show next year, so hold the date for Saturday 17th September 2022!
We are now on Instagram, so you will be able to see more photos and news from us!
You can find us @thebasinoars
July’s draws took place on Friday 3oth July and as we have 200 numbers allocated the weekly prize fund is £50 and the winners are:
No. 93 Colin Finch, No. 198 Julie Tolfrey, No. 120 John Francis and No. 57 Debbie Kiddier
Congratulations everyone and thanks for your continued support.
June draw results at £50 each went to number 67 Ralph Hobden, number 147 Debbie Kiddier, number 162 Geoffrey Clark and another of Geoffrey’s other numbers 111!! Double whammy or what. We’ve asked him to tell us how he is going to treat his wife. Thank you all again so much for your continued and valued support.
2nd Quarter Big Oars Draws were drawn on Wednesday 30th June and the results were as follows:
1st Prize £250 to No. 87 Lew Schnurr who very generously donated it to the RNLI – thank you so much Lew!
2nd Prize £100 to No. 125 Doug Milsted
3rd Prize £76 to No. 50 David Moule
Congratulations everyone and thank you for your continued support.
May draw results were £50 each to number 199 Samantha Martin, number 194 Colin Trowles, number 114 Rob Bryson and number 70 Peter Ellis. Peter Ellis has put his £50 back into the RNLI pot, saying that they need the money more than him.
Thank you Peter, and thank to you all for your continued support.
Photo is from September 2012 at the Round Northey Island row. Our theme was le Tour de France, inspired by Sir Bradley Wiggins and renamed le Tour de Northey!
On Saturday 24th April we had a cheque presentation from us to the Maldon Branch of the RNLI in respect of last year’s total funds raised through our 200 Club which amounted to £5,020.
If you head to our Facebook page you will be able to see a much appreciated article published about the presentation in INYOURAREA.COM
Lovely to see so many people on lock side supporting this. It was an honour to have the West Mersea Lifeboat crew attend for what was their first PR function of the year! We also drew the weekly draws for April and the results are as follows, with each winning £50
No. 151 Janice and John Frost
No. 157 Jacqueline Yorston
No. 101 Steven Wood
No. 121 Lew Schnurr
Congratulations everyone and thanks for your continued support.
Please click on the link below to view our Thank You poster for everyone who has helped us achieve the grand total of £5000 to be donated to the RNLI for last year’s fundraising efforts through the 200 Club.
We have now reached 200 members, which is fantastic news. This means we will be able to raise more funds for the RNLI and also pay out the maximum benefit to our members – a win win situation that we have been striving for since 2012!
Thanks again to one and all for your support. If you have missed out on becoming a member, that’s a shame, but keep looking on our Facebook page to see if any numbers become available.
Rule Britannia, Britannia Waives the Rules….
We had a fantastic day on Saturday 28th December at the annual sponsored row for the RNLI organised by John Rodgers of the Maldon Little Ship Club (mlsc.org.uk).
It wasn’t too cold and very calm water. It was great to see the event so well attended and supported. This year the BBC sent a camera man and reporter and there was a very brief mention on Look East. As usual, we made a loud and colourful entrance! This year’s theme was Britannia and her take on BREXIT!!!
We are extremely proud to have retained the Panther Trophy for the most money raised by a single boat, virtually all thanks to the supporters of the 200 Club we run, raising funds for the Maldon branch of the RNLI. This year we raised over £4,500.
We were the first multiple ladies rowing boat home and third in the fancy dress.
Thank you everyone, again and a Happy New Year to you from Annette, Brenda, Chrys, Jill and Marion