Let’s Spring into Action

Sessions for Easter Weekend

The Clocks Spring forward at the weekend and the weather is improving so it is time to get back into action. Although many of our padders have bee active through the Winter, now is the Time etc welcome back those who haven’t and get as many new people active as possible.

Easter Holiday Programme

Over the Easter Holidays we will run daytime sessions to ease us back into action and we will have activities going on at all of our sites. As soon as the schools go back we will be in full swing with our packed and regular sessions, which will be better than ever as we continue to grow our Club.

Saturday 28th March

The Season Finale of the Cedric Avery Series of Mini-Marathons at Harefield. Control open from 10am and racing starting at 1:30am. Al the details are here.

Three distances, 1.5 miles (no portages) 3.5 miles (two portages), and 6 miles (4 portages). £7 per person. Afterwards we are gathering in The Oaks Public House for food, drink, prize giving, and a chance to relax and chat.

Thamesmead

We will host daytime sessions, meeting at the boat house on Bazalgette Way, SE2 9TX, on:

Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursdays 10am till noon and 1pm to 3pm

Each session is £10 for two hours paddling, please email: thamesmead@thesharks.org.uk for more information or to book a place. These sessions are suitable for all standards and are designed as a gentle way to get people back in to the habit of paddling again. Once the schools are back we will return to our regular timetable of Tuesday and Thursday evenings.

Saturday 10am to noon

The last Saturday session will be on Saturday march 28th, we are planning to bring something special at weekends later in Spring…

Just to recap you can paddle at Thamesmead on:

  • Saturday 28th March 10am to noon
  • Tuesday 31st March 10am to noon and 1pm to 3pm
  • Wednesday 1st April 10am to noon and 1pm to 3pm
  • Thursday 2nd April 10am to noon and 1pm to 3pm
  • Tuesday 7th April 10am to noon and 1pm to 3pm
  • Wednesday 8th April 10am to noon and 1pm to 3pm
  • Thursday 9th April 10am to noon and 1pm to 3pm

After Easter Holidays, we will revert to our normal evening paddling with some new opportunities coming along very soon.

Southall

We will host Holiday sessions on Wednesday afternoons at noon during teh School Holidays and then we will revert to Tuesday and Thursday evenings from 5pm when the schools go back. Last year we had some amazing results fro our Southall cohort, we are planning for a great 2026.

Sessions cost £7 for an hour, for more information please email: canoeing@thesharks.org.uk.

Harlesden

During the School Holidays we will be paddling on Wednesday afternoon 3pm, please let us know if you are going to paddle, cost is £7 per session per person. Email: canoeing@thesharks.org.uk for more information.

We want to get as many people racing as possible from Harlesden this year, those who have had lots of fun and some fantastic results. After the holidays we will be hosting sessions twice a week on Monday and Wednesday from 5pm.

Harefield Slalom

We will continue our Sunday Slalom sessions at 10:30am throughout the Holidays and through the Summer, for more information email: Slalom@thesharks.org.uk.

We will be starting Tuesday evening sessions in the near future, so keep an eye out. We have signed up to Slalom Starts and are planning a big push for slalom this year, why not join in the fun.

Published 27th March 2026