Children’s climbing courses have been hugely popular on the new wall in Pangbourne. Due to the demand we have added an extra course on a Wednesday evening starting at the end of June. During the course you have the opportunity to work towards National Indoor Climbing Awards.

Dates: 29 June – 3 Aug

Times: 19.00 – 20.30

Cost: £40 →

Welcome to the New Year and exciting opportunities for your DofE programme.

First and most important, if you are nearly at the completion stage of your Award to have it presented at our annual Award Garden Party on Sunday 22nd May 2011, you will need to make sure that →

Adventure dolphin has just put up a massive wall map. This covers most of West Berkshire and surrounding points of interest. It spans from Hungerford on one side and Henley on the other side. It goes as high as Abingdon and as low as Tadley. The new wall map will help groups of DofE, School groups, Mountain Bikers, Pangbourne Plods, Leisure Walkers, Paddlers on the Thames or Kennet and Avon Canal, Geocaching, Orienteeringand much more. The map →

After three weeks of polo the last nights and final results have been collected in. Well done to all who took part and all who helped it happen.

Sounded great fun.

ACTUAL RESULTS & MATCH LIST

DATE: 29 JAN ‘11

Game Team A goals Team B goals23 B3C B 0 RDG A 3 →

Pangbourne and Newbury Adventure Dolphin are taking part in a 3 evening series of Polo session. Tonight the 27th January is the last eveningof the series. With 6 games to go, here are the results so far.

ACTUAL RESULTS & MATCH →

The new website will be relased and ready for use on 30th.

Please report any bugs to gneilson@westbberks.gov.uk

Here are some know problems that being addressed.

The girls and ladies at Adventure Dolphin have been starting a female paddling programme. This started with an introduction to white water at the end of the summer season, and more recently a Winter’s paddle around Windsor in canoe or kayak with 22 girls and women.

The trip around Windsor was one of those wonderfully chilled out paddles to somewhere that is pretty much on your doorstep. There weren’t any 6.30am starts or 9pm finishes but a leisurely 9am meet and 4pm →

The New Year was welcomed in style with the staff paddle. 20 paddlers took to the water in open canoes led by Claire Hardwick and Ian Flanders. With the cold weather before Christmas I was worried that our adventure on the Cherwell was going to be a cold one, but the sun did shine as we made our way down the river. All enjoyed the challenge of avoiding trees, or →

Sunday 30th January 9-4.30pm

This year our guest speaker is Margaret Goldie the Director of Children and Young People for West Berkshire, who has asked to come and share with us what is happening both for the Council, Youth Service and ourselves, so I hope you will be able to attend as this will affect →

Clare and Jen have launched a girls and ladies paddling programme. This is to allow members to paddle with other females and to compliment paddling trips and clubs that you might already be part of. The first trip was to Symonds Yat at the end of the summer holidays, 13 girls and ladies came together for an introduction to moving water. The next trip planned are a Valentines weir bash on 12th February. If you want to get involved contact Clare or Jen to →