WelcomeBirmingham Canoe Club was established over 50 years ago. The club is very active and is supported by a dedicated membership who organise regular trips to various different venues in the UK and Europe. We have a number of coaches on hand to give instruction and guidance where necessary to help paddlers progress their skills.
Membership The club
welcomes all ability levels and age levels from absolute beginners to seasoned paddlers. The club currently has members interested in white water trips to Snowdonia and further afield, relaxing flat water paddles on the Severn and Wye, some sea kayaking and the occasional open boat trip. The club also runs weekly training sessions at the swimming pool or Edgbaston Reservoir. This is a good venue to meet club members and most importantly to arrange weekend paddling trips, non-members are always welcome.
Interested? Please take a few minutes to browse this website as it holds the most up to date info on our club. Have a quick look at our news letter which describes our latest publishable exploits. The best source of information about the sport of kayaking is ukriversguidebook which contains illustrated guides to most rivers in the UK and is probably the most active online kayaking community. In the summer the club meet on Fridays from 7pm at Edgbaston Reservoir for training sessions and in the winter months the club meets at on Fridays from 8.30pm at Thimblemill Baths in Smethwick. Information is available here. This is the best time for potential new members to come along and meet/join the club as coaching, river trips and membership can be arranged there. It's also a good chance to catch up on all the latest gossip.
New Website Launch
This is our new look website that has been in development over the last year. Its design will hopefully attract new members in a similar way to our last website - but its main function is to be a better resource for existing members who rarely had a need to revisit the site.
Please keep checking back to see all the new content as it is added and updated. In time we hope to develop an improved trip list on the homepage; a new electronic news blog/newsletter and have photos uploaded after almost every trip!!
...our site will be one of the best; but in time - we are aware of a few 'bugs' and page errors and will sort these as soon as possible!