Active Thames Fund
The Active Thames Fund
The Active Thames Fund is dedicated to fostering growth in water sports and enhancing the use of the Thames Path National Trail. It is focused on improving access, diversity, and inclusion, while raising awareness of the benefits of physical activity in blue spaces.
With over 15,000 football pitches worth of blue space, the tidal Thames is a fantastic place to get active.
There is also an extensive network of inland waterways, which provide even more space for people to enjoy, and perfect locations to gain the skills and confidence needed to take on the tidal river. This is why the fund is also open to inland waterways connected to the Thames in London, Kent and Essex.
Photo: Laburnum Boat Club, previous grant recipients
Impact Report 2022
This report outlines the progress made between 2021 and 2022, with an emphasis on the grants awarded to community clubs who then went on to deliver hundreds of watersports sessions in 2022.
Major boost for Active Thames 2024
Tideway, the company behind London’s super sewer, has given Active Thames a major boost in 2024.
The PLA’s partnership programme, Active Thames, encourages more people to get active on or by the tidal Thames and inland waterways. Tideway’s new funding marks the year when the new infrastructure starts to clean up the river, and is in addition to the £150,000 of Active Thames grants awarded to 23 projects across London, Kent and Essex in January this year.
Active Thames funding fuels 23 projects to encourage use of ‘blue space’
Active Thames has awarded £150,000 in grants to 23 projects across London, Kent and Essex.
Like our better-known green spaces, the 95 miles of “blue” space offered by the tidal Thames can be a place for sport and relaxation, benefitting people’s physical and mental wellbeing.
Active Thames awards funding to 26 organisations
Active Thames, led by the Port of London Authority, has awarded £150,000 in grants to 26 successful applicants.
The increase in funding from over £90,000 last year to nearly £150,000 this year demonstrates the continuing commitment Active Thames partners have made to promoting activity on the tidal Thames and inland waterways in London, Kent, and Essex.
Active Thames Fund 2021-2022 winners announced
More than £90,000 has been awarded to 24 organisations promoting activity on the tidal Thames and inland waterways in London, Kent and Essex, as part of a new programme led by the Port of London Authority.
Active Thames grant recipients
Rowers feel empowered
"The whole community works together"
"It’s about knocking down barriers to accessibility"
"It’s about breaking down barriers"
"It’s about being prioritised"
Aims to inspire positive change
Allow women to share their lived experiences
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