Wallasey Beach CIC
- New shower block
- Cameras installed
- Improved security
- New roof
- New roller shutter
- New till and discounted membership price list
- DJ events and vinyl fair
- Wellbeing festival
- Decoration of inside and outside of club
- Increase of memberships from 35 to 170 over past 3 years
- Introduction of SUP club
- Growth and sailing and kitesurf memberships
- Growth of social members and events
- Awesome kids and adult xmas party
- Successful games night
- Weekly yoga
- New voulenteers on CIC board, management team and new exec team
West Cheshire Sailing Club
Northern Kites
2023 was a successful year for our in-house Kitesurfing provider Northern Kites.
- 296 Kitesurf Lessons
- 108 Wingfoil lessons between Wallasey Beach and West Kirby Marine Lake
- 179 Student memberships
- Over 60 Full Memberships taken out for Wallasey Beach CIC
- Installation of Members’ watersports shop container located in the watersports yard
- Creation of watersports yard and outdoor showers for users to relax, wash gear and get changed.
- Plenty of Kitesurfing social events inc live music, beach games and BBQs
- Leading the improvements of the club: Inc painting inside and outside of the club house
- Weekly kitesurfing sessions
- Have put Wallasey Beach on the map as the best kitesurf destination above London.
- Created one of the biggest kitesurfing communities in the UK
- Female participation has increased massively due to the friendly and welcoming club environment with an active female kite community
- Delivered safety training to the RNLI lifeguards and built strong relationships with RNLI and Coastguard.
In 2024 Kitesurfing and Wingfoiling participation and memberships will grow further, with more social events, competitions, demo and taster days planned.
Adam Crouch
Northern Kites
0151 662 0318
https://northernkites.co.uk
Shakasups
Shakasups season of transcendence, having moved from being a mobile sup business operating between liverpool watersports centre and wallasey beach. I have now put down foundations and become the members traininng provider for stand up paddle boarding within Wallasey Beach CIC
- Established Merseysupclub during the 2022/23 season and gained 39 members at last count in 2023. We have had 20 members so far join as full members and lots more to follow this year
- Met with British canoeing’s newest appointed ambassador for sup ‘Samantha Rutt’ who visited the club to have a look at our venue and facilities and meet some of the members.
- Successful merseysupclub social paddle events with music, bbqs and drinks in the watersports area
- Worked with some of the ladies from the Wirral Wild Wanderes providing fun group sessions during the 2022/2023 season out of the beach club
- Shakasup stats for season, lesson numbers, fairly quiet season as a lot of weekends were unkind weather-wise last year, hopefully we will have a little less wind at the weekends this season, completed about a dozen sessions of various types throughout the season
- Buying a container to create a new shakasup hut facilities onsite offering Wallasey Beach CIC members pay and play paddleboarding options for equiptment use, training and a place to store all equiptment and get advice about stand up paddleboarding.
- Merseysupclub members assisted with improving facilities at the club and helped improve the club and watersports area during work parties.
- Weekly paddleboarding sessions and monthly club social paddles.
- Helped to promote the CIC as the new local wirral hub for watersports and paddleboarders through social media pages.
- Continued efforts to increase merseysupclub membership and make it the largest paddleboarding club in the northwest.
- We doubled our merseysupclub membership throughout the 2023 season with over 20 new beginner members.
- Completed a safety course for all new members teaching them all a little more about the area they paddle in, the environment, Conditions, hazards and general sup safety advice for paddling out on the sea
- Worked alongside the RNLI whilst out using wallasey beach, our very own member Andy Finney who paddles with the club and works for the RNLI.
What does 2024 hold for us all at the Wallasey Beach Club?
WE NEED YOU to make 2024 an amazing year at Wallasey Beach Club.
We have an amazing facility at the beach and would love to see this open 7 days a week for all watersports users, beachgoers and the local community. Wallasey Beach CIC is a non-profit organisation run by volunteers. It is a members-only facility with a yearly social membership of £15 or Full watersports membership at £90
Opening daily will mean we can serve coffee and drinks to the local community, provide much-needed facilities to people using the beach, and become a community meeting space for all (Membership required)
If you would like to help support the beach club you can sign up for a membership here – https://webcollect.org.uk/wb-cic/subscription
If you have some spare time to volunteer, the DIY team meet on Tuesdays 10-1 to carry out odd jobs and to socialise over a brew.
If you have time to help us run the member’s bar, help run the club, or have any more questions please drop us an email at club@wallaseybeach.org.uk
We have loads of events planned for 2024: Vinyl fairs, markets, DJs, wellbeing festivals, taster days for sailing, SUP, swimming and kitesurfing, Weekly and monthly members socials, yoga, games evenings, knot tying workshops, art workshops etc
If you are a community or watersports group looking for a place to call home, please get in touch.
Thank you
The Wallasey Beach CIC Team
21st January 2024 – Wallasey Beach CIC Extraordinary General Meeting and WCSC Annual General Meeting
After what has been an eventful year for Wallasey Beach CIC and West Cheshire Sailing Club we held both an Extraordinary General Meeting (EGM) for the CIC, immediately followed by the Annual General Meeting (AGM) for West Cheshire Sailing Club.
The below structure was explained and the new non exec directors where voted in by the membership.
Keep your eyes on the socials and notice boards in the club for further details, but we have plans for Friday Eve Club Night and regular monthly swims both starting in February 2024.
Wallasey Beach CIC Whatsapp Groups
Too keep in the loop or have a chat about what’s going on please click the link from your phone to join our whatsapp chat – https://chat.whatsapp.com/ChJ23y48GVb8fVFHEruktP
As always, please keep up to date and active on the socials and you never know we may spotlight some posts in future newsletters.