Anne is the person to contact about hiring the hall, or conference room, tide tables, general information about the Pier etc. She looks after the office from 11am to 2pm Monday-Friday.

Anne's parents put her in a boat whilst in a carrycot and she has been involved with boats ever since. She lives in Chiswick and has been interested and inspired by the Thames all her adult life.

"I really wanted to do something in the community and the events at the Pier were an obvious draw to someone with my boating background. And the icing on the cake is the marvellous view of the river from my office."

I first started working at Chiswick Pier back in 2001 when I was asked to organise “Chiswick Pier Day” as it was then called. This annual event became “Party on the Pier” - and I’m still here!

Each year I organise three main events. Two help celebrate popular annual river events ie the Boat Race and The Great River Race. The third is our own family day – Party on the Pier. 

I also arrange river cruises to either Westminster or Hampton Court – the first in the year being the very popular Mother’s Day cruise. With these cruises there is always the option to just take the boat trip or have a three course meal at Pissarro’s afterwards.

This year I have also introduced a jazz cruise - the first one celebrating Midsummer which turned out not to be the case!  Despite the fact it rained throughout the trip our passengers made the most of it whilst listening to the jazz band and being served supper by Pissarro’s. In fact the feedback was so positive we are having another run at it on August 12^{th .}

So please come down to Chiswick Pier and support the events.  You can even volunteer to help too!

I look forward to meeting you.

I am lucky to have a beautiful cycle ride along a stunning stretch of the river from Hammersmith to Corney Reach when I work for the Chiswick Pier Trust. My responsibilities include the content of the website and newsletter, publicity, marketing and masterminding the winter talks and events. 

I have a particular interest in local heritage and am always impressed by the knowledgeable audience attending the Trust's winter talks. This is often demonstrated by the lively question and answer sessions at the end of the evening. I am fascinated by the river's past and concerned to protect its future.

As I write the regular newsletter, I am interested to find out about local news and events connected to the Pier or river. If you have any news you think our members may be interested in, or have some pictures of the Pier or river you may like to share, please send them to trust@chiswickpier.org.uk . We look forward to seeing them.

I have been afloat on this stretch of water from time to time since 1957, living and working in Chiswick since 1980, and a CPT member since the Thorneycroft shipyard lecture three years ago.  I was welcomed by friendly people so came to an AGM and volunteered to help, was co-opted as a Trustee, and then as I was the only person without a role at a management meeting, I found myself elected Chairman!

I came to Chiswick Pier in 2001 when the RNLI Lifeboat Service for the Thames commenced. I grew up on and around rivers and the sea, and enjoy the beauty, serenity and spendour of being on the water as much today as I ever have.

The River Thames is undiscovered by too many Londoners, it is there for all to enjoy and admire; enabling this is a key goal for the Trust.

I've been a Chiswick resident for more than forty years.  I've always loved the river and still feel a thrill when my train trundles across Barnes Bridge - the river never, ever looks quite the same.  I like the idea of Chiswick Pier being a place where the community and the river come together and I enjoy being involved, in a very minor way, in the on-going river "story". 

The charities housed at the Pier embody much of what the river is about: its ecology, the opportunities it offers for leisure activities, and also a reminder, in the RNLI, that it needs to be respected. Now that I'm retired, I'm very pleased to be involved with the Pier and with its many and varied activities.

 Sarah has been a member of the Chiswick Canoe Club based at the Pier for many years and is a trustee of the Chiswick Pier Trust.

When the Pier was built, it was thought that it would be an ideal venue for a Sea Cadet unit as it has proved to be. My sons were two of the original cadets and although they are now long gone, it shows my belief in what the Sea Cadets Corps can offer young people, that I am still a very active member of the Unit's Management Committee and have joined CPT as a trustee to represent the unit.

I can see the Pier in the distance from my bedroom window. The first morning I woke after having moved in, I mentioned with delight to my husband how many people I could see on the water (mainly rowing eights and sculls) and thirty years on it is still one of the great excitements for me to see how many people are using the river. Despite this I don't actually sail or row myself but through Sea Cadets I can work to get more young people on the river whether it be in our powerboat or rowing boat or the canoe club's kayaks.

I have been appointed as one of two representatives from Hounslow Council since June 2011 as a trustee.

My involvement with the River Thames began as a child visiting London from the Medway Towns, one river where I played as a child to the great river of our capital city! Watching the Boat Race originally on TV and supporting Oxford where one of my brothers studied.

I moved to London as a student and stayed - the Thames being a focal point of much of my social life - whilst rarely in it, I was often to be found on it!

Sailing and pleasure motor cruisers (a brilliant summer of 1977 travelling with friends from Teddington to Oxford where we ran out of water to go further!) and my involvement with the STA now better known as the Tall Ships Youth Trust as a Sixth Form Deputy Head sending our young people on adventures! Helping out with the fund raising activities held on HMS Belfast as well as their Tall Ships moored alongside.

Nowadays it is the wildlife along and in the river that has become enormously important to me.

It is the life of the river on, in and along that I wish to see co-exist together for our young people to enjoy in the future and all of our communities to share in all of the activities that make our Thames the wonderful resource it is for the people of London.

I am involved with the Trust through my role as Chair of the Chiswick Pier Canoe Club.  The venue is ideal for us as it provides an excellent starting point for all kinds of canoe and kayak based activity on the Thames.  Our regular sessions take us to Hammersmith or Mortlake depending upon tides and the river conditions are never the same as the last time.  We can aslo strike further afield and reach Tower Bridge or Richmond with a bit of planning. I have been enjoying the river almost six years now from this base and look forward to every weekend I can get afloat.