Burton, we need your help!
Trent Rowing Club is raising funds to build a new boat barn on the River Trent.
Every donation goes into funding the barn build enabling more people to get active outdoors, enjoy our river and feel at home at Trent RC - for the next 160 years.
We’re celebrating this with a Trent Duck Dash during Easter 2026. Your donation builds the barn and your duck is our way of saying thank you.
Why are we fundraising
Right now, we’re at capacity: about 30 active on-water members, with new enquiries coming in that we can’t always accommodate because our boathouse is full.
Rowing isn’t only about being on the water. Our land training - fitness, strength, technique on rowing machines - is one of the reasons Trent juniors and seniors achieve so much. But we’ve run out of space. On busy nights we literally wheel boats and launches outside just to clear enough floor for around a dozen rowers to train indoors. That doesn’t just cap numbers. It stops junior and senior squads training together, reduces knowledge-sharing between experienced and new rowers, and makes it harder for whole families to be involved side-by-side.
A new boat barn fixes that by moving boats into proper storage and freeing the existing building for full ground-floor refurbishment into a real training and community fitness space. We’ve sorted planning permission and have the barn base ready. Crowdfunding is the final push to get this barn built.
How we’ll spend the money raised
We’re raising £50,000 to pay for:
£35,000 + VAT for the new boat barn
The remainder for safe racking and fit-out, so our boats and kit can be stored securely and accessed easily.
This barn will also unlock phase 2: refurbishing the entire ground floor of our existing boathouse into a versatile indoor training and maintenance space - so we can train more people, more safely, in all weathers.
Get involved and Hook your Duck!
Buy a Duck. Build the Barn. Join the Dash.
Back the campaign today and race your own TRC duck on the River Trent Easter 2026
£500 — Business Duck Dash Backer
You’re directly funding the new boat barn.
You receive a limited-edition TRC duck, personally delivered two weeks before race day with its racing card and instructions.
Race it on the Trent at Easter 2026 — dress it up, bring your team, and join Burton’s most joyful fundraiser on the river.
£20 — Family Mini-Duck Crew
Four mini TRC ducks already in Trent colours, ready to race.
Collect your numbers on the day and enjoy the big family duck dash.
Get your ducks in a row — back the campaign today.
