NW10 News

14th May 2025

Elmbridge May ’25 Results

Marathon Results Just Two Shark paddlers made the short trip to Elmbridge, but what great performances they made.

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5th April 2025

Come and Try It

Easter Saturday fun and it’s free The Sharks, working in partnership will be hosting free sessions at Harlesden Canalside this Easter Saturday. This was to be part of a wider activity day, which will now be held next month when hopefully the weather will be better.

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15th February 2025

Want to work for The Sharks?

We are recruiting Teachers and Coaches We currently pay £18 an hour (to be reviewed in April) for newly appointed Paddle-Sports Coaches, this rises with loyalty. We have an exciting programme of activities in a number of locations, Interested? …

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26th December 2024

Harlesden 2024

Something Special is happening in NW10 After a great re-launch of the Harlesden Canalside at Easter, we had an amazing Spring, Summer, and Autumn. Lots of local people getting active and having fun. This is just the start 2025, will be even better …

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26th December 2024

Harlesden 2025 …

And Beyond Building on the work of past years, we have great plans for 2025, to grow our project at Harlesden and create a first class canoe club for a first class town.

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24th September 2024

Harlesden Charity Canoe Race

Thursday 3rd October The Great Harlesden Charity Canoe Race is being held on Thursday 3rd October 2024. This will be an annual challenge event for local (and maybe not so local) companies and organisations to help raise money for charity.

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14th September 2024

Elmbridge Marathon ’24

This event has been postponed We will provide more information, once a new date has been confirmed. The race has been postponed for safety reasons due to rising river levels.

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7th August 2024

We Stand with our Communities

A Shark Statement The Sharks stand with our communities, the abhorrent behaviour of the far right has no place in civilised society.

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27th July 2024

Tonbridge Marathon ’24

Sunday 18th August Race at Tonbridge Hasler Marathon on Sunday 18th August and earn Hasler points for The Sharks. There are distances for all abilities from just 2k (1.25 miles) for under-12s to 21k (13 miles) for the top ranked paddlers.

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27th July 2024

Southampton Marathon Results ’24

Ivijah takes Gold in Style Ivijah Campbell-Bryan, won the Geoff Sanders Division B race at the Southampton Marathon, in such style, that he actually was faster than all of those in the division above!

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15th July 2024

Southampton Marathon

Sunday July 21st The Southampton Hasler (ranking) Marathon takes place on Sunday July 21st, is anybody interested in going? The distances are not as scary as you thing, details below. There is a race for all standards, you do need to be able to sit a racing boat, and we have some very stable ones.

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12th July 2024

Harlesden Primary School Race ’24

Results from the Harlesden Primary School 500m race. We have inaugurated an annual 500m kayak race for the youngsters at Harlesden Primary School, this is part of our Schools projects, where we run regular after-school clubs for Schools. If your School is interested in taking part please get in touch: canoeing@thesharks.org.uk; 07951 770241.

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15th June 2024

Want to Race a Marathon Event?

Sunday June 23rd – in Oxford The Falcon Canoe Club in Oxford are hosting a marathon event on Sunday June 23rd and it would be a great experience if some of our paddlers could attend. There are different distances for different standards. So why not give it a go?

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3rd June 2024

The Great Harlesden Canoe Race

Inter company Charity Canoe Race The Sharks launched their new inter company (or any other organisation wanting to get involved) charity canoe race on Friday 31st May. A test event was run between McVitie’s Biscuits, Garden Studios, and OPDC.

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14th April 2024

A Great Paddling Easter

250 participants over the holiday! 250 people have been paddling with The Sharks over the Easter Holidays, We had 130 attend our re-launch day at Harlesden on Saturday 30th, with and additional 145 attending other sessions!

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9th April 2024

Harlesden Re-Launch 2024

A great day by the canal On Saturday 30th March 2024 our partners at Harlesden Canalside joined us in a day of activities on the canal, the event attracted over 130 people, helped by a rare sunny day. A big thank you to everybody involved.

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31st March 2024

Making News at QPR

Match Day Programme Article Many thanks to our partners at Queens Park Rangers Football Club’s Community Trust, for an amazing article published in their match day programme against Birmingham City, on what turned out to be a very Good Friday for QPR

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31st March 2024

Harlesden 2k Race

March Re-launch Day Race Liah Boyle and Ivijah Campbell-Bryan took advantage of a pre-launch day opportunity to do a timed 2k race at Harlesden on Easter Saturday.

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26th March 2024

Harlesden Summer Sessions ’24

Mondays and Wednesdays from 5pm We will be resuming our regular Summer sessions at Harlesden Canalside on Monday 15th April from 5pm. We have sessions for beginners and more experienced paddlers, contact us on 07951 770241; email: sprint@thesharks.org.uk.

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26th March 2024

Harlesden Race – March 30th

Saturday 30th March 2024 at 10am We are going to host a free to enter canoe/kayak/SUP race on Saturday 30th March at 10am as part of the Harlesden Canalside relaunch. Distance 3.5k, with shorter distances for younger or less experienced paddlers.

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28th February 2024

Harlesden 30th March ’24

Relaunch of Harlesden Canalside Come along and have some fun on Saturday 30th March when we relaunch our sessions at Harlesden Canalside with an event to celebrate everything canal related with our partners. Free Sessions for families and much much more.

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5th January 2024

Work for The Sharks

We are recruiting teachers and coaches for 2024. Operating at many sites in West London, and in many disciplines The Sharks offer amazing opportunities for qualified instructors to get involved in every aspect of paddlesport. And we pay very well

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18th December 2023

Harlesden Partnership Working

Thanks to Co-operation this is possible Collaborative working in Harlesden has been bringing canoeing to a wider audience, getting people active and having fun. We have big plans for 2023, time for you to get involved. call/text 07951 770241 or email: canoeing@thesharks.org.uk.

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18th December 2023

In The News Again!

Lates bulletin from OPDC The latest newsletter form OPDC is out and yet, again it features The Sharks. this time it is Ivijah Campbell-Bryan making the headlines. Since is debut listed in the article Ivijah has raced another twice for us.

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26th November 2023

Harlesden Work is Finished!

The Canal is Accessible Again The very long ongoing work at Harlesden Canalside has a long last been finished and the building site returned to public use. We hope to start running sessions there is the very near future.

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13th November 2023

Age Group Champion

Richard Davis Congratulations to Richard Davis in becoming the 2023 Over 80s and over 85s National Masters Slalom Champion.

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27th October 2023

Harlesden Update October ’23

Canalside Improvements and a New Boat. 2023, has been a difficult year for The Sharks at Harlesden as we have not been able to operate properly at the site, whilst prolonged improvements have been undertaken; but now we can see some tangible benefits …

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14th September 2023

Help Make The Sharks Even Better

We need some voluntary help The Sharks has grown, and continues to grow, we need a few volunteers to help co-ordinate some of our activities and other tasks. If we can grow these ideas, we may even be able to pay. Interested email: canoeing@thesharks.org.uk or call/text 07951 770241.

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6th September 2023

Harlesden Autumn Sessions

Mondays and Wednesdays at 5pm We are going to restart our Harlesden session on Monday 18th September at 5pm. They will be open to anybody and will cost £6 per person, we accept cash, card, PayPal, or a bank transfer. We will be introducing more sessions in the following weeks.

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5th September 2023

An August Month!

A very good month for paddling The weather in August was patchy, but the attendance at Shark activities was defiantly not, we were involved in a lot of sessions with partner groups across our sites, delivery Summer holiday activates for people of all ages.

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29th August 2023

Harlesden Holiday Club ’23

Canoeing Sessions held in NW10 During August 2023, we were able to host free paddling sessions in Harlesden thanks to the support and funding of KSP (GLi Urban Life) and we would like to share some pictures of people having faun on the canal.

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24th July 2023

Harlesden Summer 23

Monday 10:30pm We will be running sessions for school ages children on Mondays at 10:30am during August, please email: Sprint@thesharks.org.uk or call/text 07951 770241 to let us know you are coming. These sessions are free and are run in partnership with KSP Urban-Life.

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23rd May 2023

Urban Life – GLi Partnership

Supporting Paddling in NW10 We are pleased to announce our partnership with GLi (also know as KSP) is to be extended and expanded. We are very grateful for the support GLi through their Urban Life Project, have given us over the past year and look forward to an exciting Summer in Harlesden.

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12th March 2023

Barrow March 2023

Final Barrow Race of the Series Liah Boyle and Neal Underwood, were there on a very strange day, the sun was out, there was snow in the fields and the river was in flood!

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17th February 2023

Barrow February 23

Another Fine Race Just two Shark paddlers at this race, but what great results they had. Liah Boyle winning the under 16s and Neal Underwood winning the over 60s!

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7th February 2023

Melksham WWR – February 23

Super Sharks! A great day of racing and fun at the Melksham Wild Water Race, just four paddlers, but, what a four the were!

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13th November 2022

Back Again

Wild Water Racing A small team traveled to the Barrow-upon-Soar Race on Saturday, the first time The Sharks have raced Wild Water for a while, too long. Hopefully this marks the beginning of our return and again become one of the Country’s top clubs.

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30th September 2022

Plans Approved

Harlesden Canalside gets the go ahead! After a long slog, planning permission has been granted for the development at Harlesden Canalside, meaning that improvements to our facilities at Harlesden, NW10 will now happen.

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9th July 2022

Please Support us

To improve Harlesden Canalside Planning is being sort to make significant improvements to Harlesden Canalside, which will enhance what we at The Sharks can offer and do, the improvements will also benefit the wider community and canal users in general.

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18th March 2022

Improving Our Environment

Harlesden Reedbeds The Sharks are committed to maintaining and helping to improve our environment, which is why on Wednesday 16th March, we spent a very wet day helping Canal and River Trust install some reedbeds on the canal at Harlesden,

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