Welcome to the Waterstart Website...

'Waterstart is a waterways community project that offers life enhancing activities, skills and training'

The project offers training and recreational facilities based at Thorne, South Yorkshire. In an area where there is little local provision, the project aims to encourage people of all ages, backgrounds and postcodes to share new experiences whilst learning. Our community boat and training centre are used to offer accredited workshops and courses to promote and enhance individual employability and social inclusion.

Waterstart provide a programme of interesting and enjoyable activities specifically designed to build self-esteem, raise confidence levels and develop motivation and team building skills. This broad range of courses can be the first rung of the ladder towards volunteering, further vocational study leading to paid employment.

Volunteers are welcome to become involved with the project. Many of our existing volunteers have already found it an extremely rewarding and fulfilling experience being involved with such an exciting project. You can easily gain qualifications whilst undertaking an extremely enjoyable activity and meeting new people at the same time. Currently, we have over thirty volunteers who participate in boat handling, digital photography and general office duties. Please feel free to call and get involved!

Websites can be confusing, irritating and hard to navigate. Much effort has been put into this website to make it as manageable as possible. Here's a basic rundown of what you'll find within this website:

Training	Brief yet comprehensive overview of all courses and activities
Boats	Description and pictures of our greatest asset
Trips	Everything you need to know if you want to rent out the boat
Students	Our students in action
Creative Crew	Amazing pictures taken by very young kids
Contact	How to find us
Partnerships	Our various funders, governing and sister organisation details
Downloads	Get all our documents and policies
Links	Find other interesting websites
Extra	Lots of cool stuff
Home	Brings you back here

For further information, please do not hesitate to contact us at the following address:

Waterstart
5 Finkle Court
Thorne
DN8 5TW

Tel: 01405 741122
Email: info@waterstart.co.uk

The project was developed by The Sobriety Project (Registered Charity No.510221) in Goole and local partnerships with funding support from the Coalfields Regeneration Trust. The Waterstart project uses the environment of the local waterway network to remove barriers to the development of young people caused by deprivation, low educational achievement and ill health.