A charity organisation has been providing boat rides for community groups for more than a decade. The Newark Crusader is a 60ft boat that has been taking disabled, elderly and disadvantaged groups of people on river cruises near Newark since the 1990s.
The boat operates as a charity run entirely by volunteers who provide pre-booked River Cruises on the River Trent from Newark Marina. The organisation specialises in providing trips for care home, special needs, community and educational groups.
One of the group's trustees, Maurice Flemmings, has been a volunteer since 2016. He said: "The boat was one of a series built for St John's Ambulance in the early nineties and from what I can gather, they couldn't manage to operate them and they were being sold off. The one in Newark was rescued by a couple of business men who set it up as a charitable association about ten years ago.
