Durham Johnston School Boat Club

In 1950, Mr. Stan Turner, a master at the Johnston School, requested permission to use the club boats at Durham ARC on one afternoon a week – initially this was refused as “any form of dual control in the Club was undesirable”, but later in the year Johnston school boys started rowing at the Club.

After a break of many decades, in 1988 Durham Johnston Comprehensive School re-commenced rowing from Durham ARC.

In 1999, after another break from rowing, Colin Brown (ARA Coaching and Development Officer) the club started a pilot scheme with the Durham Johnston School Boat Club to link schools and clubs by taking ergos into the schools to introduce rowing. This pilot became the ARA’s flagship Young People and Coaching Programme “Project Oarsome”