Wallingford Accessible Boat Club is seeking to recruit additional crew members and a fundraising officer in preparation for its next season.

The boat club enables those with disabilities and reduced mobility to get out on the River Thames free of charge and its new drive to expand is intended to offer more river trips to passengers in line with increasing demand.

The club, which is also a registered charity, announced earlier this year that it has delivered river trips to over 250 disabled and less mobile people (together with their friends and families) from all around South Oxfordshire and further afield during the past season, which finished at the end of September.  

Club chairman John Jenkins MBE said: “We are making this appeal now so that we can get all the necessary training completed before next March. We are seeking river-loving people ideally with experience of river craft management who ideally live relatively local to the Wallingford area.

“Additionally, we are seeking a fundraising officer for a few hours each month to help us raise the necessary funds to operate existing and additional trips. We want to get to a position where we can operate trips every day of the week. We will provide all necessary training at the club’s cost.”

Those interested can contact John at john.jenkins@wabc.org.uk for an initial discussion.