Skylark IX Trust

We warmly invite friends and supporters to join us for this year’s AGM: 📅 Wednesday 22 October 2025 🕑 2:00pm 📍 Alternatives Dumbarton, Quay St Your voice matters. Together we’re keeping the spirit of Skylark IX alive.

From Charles Rennie Mackintosh's masterpiece Hill House, to vital local parks to the amazing @SkylarkIX Dunkirk Little Ship - saving lives 85 years ago on the beaches of France and continuing today. The Dumbarton constituency is a great example of the diversity and importance of the heritage #NationalLottery players have helped save for future generations. Thank you @jackiebmsp for today highlighting the milestone of £1bn National Lottery Heritage Fund investment in Scotland. #Dunkirk85 @HeritageFundUK @N_T_S @HeritageFundSCO @scotgov

Vice-Admiral Bertram Ramsay, working from a command centre beneath Dover Castle, devised the plan to evacuate tens of thousands of troops - called Operation Dynamo. The coordination of naval and civilian vessels became one of WWII’s greatest feats. (Image: Topical Press Agency)

Remembering the Little Ships - crewed by civilians who answered the call. From the Thames and the Solent, from ports and harbours across the south coast, they crossed the Channel to rescue service personnel from Dunkirk’s beaches and harbour. (Image: Hulton-Deutsch Collection)

“Wars are not won by evacuations,” said Churchill - but the success of Operation Dynamo gave Britain the strength to keep fighting. In May 1940, over 338,000 soldiers were stranded on the beaches of Dunkirk. What followed was nothing short of miraculous. (© Getty Images)

Delighted to announce that Skylark IX Recovery Trust has been awarded a grant of £11,502 to support our ‘Canoe Beginnings’ project from the WDC Community Mental Health & Wellbeing Fund. More information and how to get involved at the link below:   skylarkix.co.uk/skylark-ix-rec…

A fantastic weekend at @clydebuiltfest meeting so many people and being able to share the Skylark IX story.

Skylark will have a stall at the Clydebuilt Festival this weekend, so please drop by, say hello to the team and join in on the activities.

Join us on the 5th June for our Dunkirk Anniversary Concert (Journeys) at the Denny Civic Theatre 🎭 🎶 Tickets available (£5) from Alternatives Dumbarton, by calling the number below and also from the box office on the evening 🤩

SAVE THE DATE: Skylark IX Recovery Trust: Dunkirk Concert - ‘Journeys’. 🗓️ 5 June 2024 🕖 7pm - 9pm 📍 Denny Civic Theatre More information to follow soon!

Skylark IX is seeking a Community Engagement Officer. We need someone to help develop and coordinate a high quality community based activity programme. More information at the link below ⬇️ goodmoves.org/vacancy/a4sP10…

🚨 SKYLARK IX NEEDS YOU 🚨 Can you help? Our oral history collection for our beloved little ship needs your stories ‼️ Please contact Sophie or one of our team using the details below 👇🏻

We ❤️ the t-shirt!

It was an absolute pleasure to welcome volunteers, guests and interested members of the public to the Skylark IX Recovery Trust AGM yesterday evening.

Three of the armada of 'little ships' which brought the men of the BEF, from the shores in and around Dunkirk, to the safety of British warships and other vessels. (IWM: HU 41241)

Operation Dynamo: Evacuated troops on a destroyer about to berth at Dover, 31 May 1940. (IWM: H 1637)

Thanks @ClydesiderMag for showing us @Scotmaritime's Denny Ship Tank in Dumbarton. Important shipbuilding heritage, part of the @GoIndustScot group of industrial museums. #CuttySark was completed at the Denny yard (before the tank) @SkylarkIX @WDCouncil @RMGreenwich

An amazing place and one that our @SkylarkIX project is very happy to call home. You can also see our boatbuilding workshop at the Denny and enjoy the new cafe set up by our recovery partners @AlternativesWD

If you're free this Sunday afternoon (and not bringing kids along to our Climate Change workshop or dropping older kids off at it and passing some time!), our Rowing Club buff.ly/43ZA5wW invite you to a Community Challenge row on the skiffs in and around the Harbour...