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    BACK TO WORK

    Oct 31, 2019 4 minutes

    After devoting 10 full days to fundraising and raising awareness at Southampton Boat Show, the instructors, volunteers and apprentices at Oarsome Chance are back at the day job – engaging young people excluded (or at risk of exclusion) from education through vocational training and mentoring.

    The weather is now working against the build team over autumn and winter, but a new (temporary) roof on the smaller workshop across the yard from the main boathouse means that the charity’s other projects can receive the attention they deserve as well as the PBO Project Boat, which dominated everyone’s time over the

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