22 April 2021

Erne Paddlers News

Natural social distancing on a recent voluntter training for our Retutn to Paddling

EP - Friendly reminder - Discount ends tomorrow (Fri) night - booking help -

A quick friendly reminder that our early bird discount of 10% ends at midnight on Fri night.

We don’t want anyone to miss out, so help (if you need it) registering and booking on our new system will be available all day today and this evening by email, text, whatsapp, facebook or phone - contact details below.

Our Monday Learn to Paddle and Fri Family courses are full.

There are at least 2 spaces left on our:

Progress your Paddling (nearly full)
No Work Wednesdays (nearly full)
Skills After School
Love to Paddle Sat trips

We added another course on Sat mornings - Paddle Power, for kids and adults, beginners and improvers. It's from 10 to 11:30 and has 8 spaces left on it.

We have also added all our courses to our Google Calendar for easy viewing and adding to your own calendars.

If you miss out on a course, don’t worry, you can add your name to the waiting list for any event in the same way you book on. We plan to run a similar programme in June.

Further info
All are Events are here by category, a complete list and by Google Calendar.
There are guides on our website on how to choose a course (including how to book), our prices and discounts and how to join or renew your membership.

Returning members please note: you should first renew your membership (with both EP and CANI) before booking on a course as you are not eligible again for the first year introductory membership included in the non-members prices.

For people new to the club, a full year’s club membership (not inc. NGB fees) is included in the non-member price of a 4 week course.

Our discounts for members, juniors and more are automatically calculated at checkout so please make sure you are logged in with your profile and membership updated before booking a course.

Logging in

For anyone receiving this email, you will already have an account on our EP/CANI GO-Membership platform.You can login using the email address you received this email at and the “forgot password” link to generate a new password.

Any problems, please check our guides and if that doesn't work, just reply to this email and we will help.

Contact info for booking help

Phone, SMS and Whatsapp - 07808649173

Facebook - http://m.me/ernepaddlers

Email - harry@ernepaddlers.org.uk (or reply to this message)

17 April 2021

Erne Paddlers News

Our May programme will be promoted to all via Facebook and Instagram on Monday.

As many of you know, our remaining spaces go very quickly after that. So this is a reminder that those on our email list still have a chance to get in first :)

Every course still has at least 2 spaces on it and some a handful or more.

We have an early bird discount of 10% for booking before Sat 24 April and booking for all the May trips and courses closes on Fri 30 April.

Here is a quick rundown of what we have on offer:

For Beginners
- Learn to Paddle, 7 pm, Mon evenings
- Skills After School, 4 pm, Wednesday Afternoons
- Family Fun Paddlers, 7 pm, Friday Evenings
For Improvers
- Progress Your Paddling, 7 pm, Monday evenings
- No Work Wednesdays. 10am Wednesday mornings
- Love to Paddle Trips, 9:30 am, Saturday mornings
For Volunteers, Coaches and Leaders
- New volunteer Inductions - TBC soon
- Junior Leader Development Curse
- Leaders Trips - Sundays

You can find out all the info and book on via the events page of our new website.

Here you will see our course split up into categories as above.

We have full guides on how to find a course and to book and on our prices and discounts. If you can't find what you are looking for, please check these guides.

If that doesn’t answer your question, just reply to this email, we are happy to help.

Our discounts for members, juniors and more are automatically calculated at checkout, so please renew your membership and login with your membership account.

Logging in

Any problems, please check our guides and if that doesn't work, just reply to this email and we will help.

We had our first trip out today with our volunteer team and it was great to meet up and get back out on the water :).

15 April 2021

Erne Paddlers News

Our May Return to Paddling programme is open and we are excited to be back :)

Link to Erne Paddlers Events

Here you will see our course split up into categories for Beginners, Improvers, Volunteers and more.

We have full guides on how to find a course and to book and on our prices and discounts. If you can't find what you are ooking for, please check these guides.

If that doesn’t answer your question, just reply to this email, we are happy to help.

Prices and booking

We have an early bird discount of 10% for booking before Sat 24 April and booking for all the May trips and courses closes on Fri 30 April.

However we are expecting our more popular courses to fill up very quickly, especially coming out of lockdown and as places are limited due to covid restrictions.

If you want to attend, please don't delay in booking to avoid disappointment.

Our discounts for members, juniors and more are automatically calculated at checkout, so please renew your membership and login with your membership account.

Logging in

For anyone receiving this email, you will already have an account on our EP/CANI GO-Membership platform.

You can login using the email address you received this email at and the “forgot password” link to generate a new password.

Any problems, please check our guides and if that doesn't work, just reply to this email and we will help.

Our coaches and leaders are raring to go and we are looking forward to seeing you all back out on the water.

Update 12 April 2021

Erne Paddlers News

Hello All,

Some exciting news :)

New Website

To accompany our return to paddling we have a new website :)

Most of the content is up with the the exception of some images to brighten up the pages. There are also a couple of pages to go,, but please feel free to have a look around and let us know any feedback.

Our old address ernepaddlers.org.uk redirects there and we hope to get it all under that URL soon.

Membership

Along with the website we have a new membership portal and events system.

The membership is up and running and waiting for you all to join or renew!

There are guides on how to join, how to renew, how to add family members to your account and info on prices and benefits.

We will have our events (starting in May) ready for booking soon.

Please note, that the event discounts for members, u18, volunteers and assistance rates, will be automatically calculated at checkout from your membership information. This means that you have to be current 2021 member with up to date information in your membership profile on the portal for the correct discounts to be applied.

Also Important: In the past we have collected your membership fees and then sent of a proportion to CANI as an affiliated club and as essential for insurance. Under the new system, we can do this automatically (saving club admins a lot of time and effort!). However, all club members must add both a CANI membership (usually Adult or Junior Affiliated) to their carts, along with their Erne Paddlers Renewal before completing checkout. We have adjusted our membership prices accordingly to reflect this.

If you have any problems at all, check the detailed guides (which include some problem solving tips) and if that doesn't work, please feel free to get in touch by replying to this email - we are happy to help.

Club Programme

We are sure you are all keen to make the most of the lockdown restrictions being relaxed and we are working hard to organise our club programme, completed with a new website and booking system.

Our plan is for coaches and volunteers to return this week to refresh their skills and a full club programme will be ready for a 4 week block of courses and trips in May.

We will, off course, have rigorous covid-19 mitigating proceeds in place. The good news is that paddling is a naturally social distant but still social activity and we are sure we can operate safely as always.

Full details will be sent out via these emails and on our social media accounts (links below).

Our popular courses tend to fill up very quickly and this mailing list gets advance notice before we advertise to the public, so please make use of this and make sure your membership is ready so you can book early to avoid disappointment when the programme is published.

Kayaks for Sale

Attached to this email is a list of the second hand kayaks we have for sale. Full information on prices and who to contact are in the attachment. Thanks to John for organising all this :)

That’s all for now, we are all looking forward to seeing you all out on the water soon.

Happy Paddling,
Erne Paddlers Admin Team

Update 1 Apr 2021

A few important updates to come today from Erne Paddlers - we are planning our return to outdoor sessions - watch this space!

Firstly we would like to mark the end of our formal partnership with CANI as we have come to the end of this funding period. Harry (Paul Harrington) has worked tirelessly in this role and the club developments clearly show it! We continue to work closely with CANI to push forward high standards of paddlesport coaching, leadership and club development. Erne Paddlers Board of Trustees are delighted to confirm that Harry will continue in the same role for EP and we have big plans to launch our new website and streamlined membership and booking system soon.

Great news - from today we can meet up to paddle (just 10 people from max 2 households) - this is a great development for our competent paddlers and coaches but we feel a strong duty to do it right - we must remain socially distanced at all times (on and off the water) and take care over hand sanitisation and equipment quarantining - sport in general could suffer if individuals don't follow guidance - luckily we have roughly 2m paddles to help us out! As this is still for only 2 households, it does not allow us to run group sessions yet.

Return to club activities - many of our coaches haven't been out on the water for a while and we want to break them in gently - we will run coach engagement and safety training from 12th April (when up to 15 individuals can meet) to the week beginning 26th April to get everyone up to speed. Then we look forward to a club programme for all (as regulations allow) from the start of May.

We are all looking forward to getting back on the water and seeing our happy paddlers again