The Electric Barge
You may have seen The Electric Barge, a big blue, silent-running electrically powered boat, which is host to events for up to 60 people, cruising past GWS on trips between Ladbroke Grove and Camden Lock via Little Venice. In the past few years, we’ve welcomed teams from Tom Dixon, Nike, Pinterest, ITV, Frieze, Google and many others on board to party, plan or ponder.
All of our profit from commercial hire is ploughed straight back into supporting our charitable education project, The Floating Classroom. Your hire will directly support local school children to learn more about the natural world, to develop a sense of kinship with it and – we hope – to become better guardians of it. Saving the world one event at a time!
The Meanwhile Gardens Classroom is their first project on dry land, and will see them deliver 20 learning sessions at a pop-up gazebo classroom in Meanwhile’s Courtyard Garden.
Pupils at local primary schools will take part in two sessions each over the summer term. The first will see them plant flowers, vegetables and herbs and learning how to cultivate them over the coming weeks. In the second – delivered 6-8 weeks later, pupils will return to harvest what they have grown in order to prepare, cook and eat a celebratory communal meal.