Club News

A place for all general club news and activity

Name the gig

We’ve recently been fortunate enough to get a grant from the folk at Rampion as part of their Community Fund and have bought our first ever fully club owned boat. But we need a name! And who better to ask for a community rowing club boat name – than the ...
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Events and Racing information

Please click on the below link for information on NGRC Events and Racing information and how crews will be formed morning forward. NGRC Events and Racing Update v1     ...
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Newsletter

Please find attached the new edition of Oarsome Times Newsletter.   This edition has been put together by Nick Martin – Graphic designer of Mominto Please see the below link to read this edition 00156_Newhaven Gig Rowing Club_V2 ...
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Newhaven Yacht Club Quiz Night Invitation

Newhaven Yacht Club are holding a quiz night on Saturday 23rd February and have asked if NGRC would like to enter a team. The quiz will take place at Mencap Hall, at 6:30pm for a 7pm start. Ideally it will be a team of 4 but they have advised it ...
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NGRC Club Kit

Dear All, Our new club kit is now available to order. Please click on the following link: http://newhavengigclub.zeonshop.co.uk Each member will need to register before placing their order, or even to view garments/pricing. Please note the closing date for placing your orders is 14th February. After this date no additional ...
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Club regatta meeting

After the success of the last minute meeting on Sunday evening. We will be holding another one for anyone who couldn’t make it. It will be at The Hope pub, at 19.30 on February 10th. You are all welcome to come and hear about what we have planned and how ...
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Club regatta 2019

Some hot-off-the-press news to share with everyone — we’ve settled on a date for the NGRC regatta this summer. It’s going to be the weekend of 20th and 21st July — save the date! It should be a very enjoyable weekend and an opportunity to race against some of our ...
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Turning Amelie Sunday 13th 11am

On Sunday 13th at 11am we need as many people as possible to come help turn Amelie over. After weeks of hard hard work on the outside it’s now time to put her the correct way up. We need at least 20 people to help with this. Would will be ...
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Newsletter editor and designer

Newsletter Editor and designer need Looking for one or Two people to work on the Club newsletter Oarsome Times. To lease with Rachel with what to do each issue about. You will need to be good at sticking to deadlines and possibly chasing people up for articles before you need ...
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NGRC Christmas Celebration – 1st December

Time is running out! If you haven’t got your ticket yet then speak to Caroline Dean or Lee St Clair and join us for a festive evening with drinks, disco dancing (music provided by our own Dan Wittenberg) and prizes for Best Seasonal Dress! Saturday 1st December from 8pm at the ...
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Rampion Community Benefit Fund

Ladies and Gentlemen, we’ve got some very special news… A key part of the strategy for creating a sustainable club has always been to own a plastic gig. They’re more suited to everyday use and training than our pride and joy ‘Amelie’. Plastic gigs are more durable and less labour-intensive ...
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Christmas party 1st December

NGRC BIG CHRISTMAS CELEBRATION SATURDAY 01 DECEMBER, FROM 8.00pm, SCOUT HUT, FORT ROAD Please join us for a fabulous festive evening of drinks, disco dancing with music provided by our own Dan Wittenberg, and prizes for best seasonal dress. £5.00 entry and children go free.  Tickets from Caroline Dean or ...
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Awards

Thanks to everyone taking time and voting we are proud to announce that  Nikki Tweedie is a finalist in the BBC community hero awards. At the Sussex sports award we have  Rachel Beardsworth is up for community impact award  Caroline dean is up for unsung hero and volunteer award  And  The ...
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Half way there

Great news thanks to the endless hours coxs give to take rows out, the committee for their hard work, time members take out of their day to row with us, people paying membership to be part of this club, the hours fundraisig team have put into bid writing and events ...
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Maintenance message from Dan

Right then folks. After a slightly bonkers 2 weeks of work, I’m just starting to plan Amelie maintenance. Because we’re going to strip paint this year, there’s the potential to do some damage if we’re not very careful. So what I’d like to do is make sure we’ve got a ...
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EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST REQUIRED:

EXPRESSIONS OF INTEREST REQUIRED: For the post of Health & Safety Officer in our club. Responsibilities: 1) Ensure the club complies with BR guidance in RowSafe. 2) Link with Regional Safety Advisor to report incidents correctly. 3) Update club on relevant safety matters. 4) Organise any safety training for club ...
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Dexter Allen’s resignation as Health & Safety Officer

Dexter Allen’s resignation as Health & Safety Officer

It with sadness and gratitude that the committee accepted for the club. All our safety standards meet and exceed those required of us by British Rowing and the Cornish Pilot Gig Association. Dex has done a huge amount of work, that has set the foundation for us, as a club, to ...
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online shopping

There is a great website called easyfundraising to help raise money for Newhaven Gig Rowing Club (Sussex) – simply by shopping online. easyfundraising turns your everyday online shopping into FREE donations when you use easyfundraising to shop with over 3,300 retailers such as Amazon, eBay, John Lewis, Argos, NEXT and ...
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Just giving

  https://www.justgiving.com/campaign/helpbuyamelie Newhaven gig rowing club who are also a registered charity no 1177297,  have managed to pay off an amazing £4,000 to the owners of Amelie but we still have a massive £9,500 left to pay.  Not only do we have to pay this back by January 2020 we ...
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