Amateur Rowing Association

The following clubs have outstanding Affiliation Fee payments, and those still outstanding on 15 February will be suspended from racing from this date. Please contact sarah.leys@britishrowing.org or call on 0208 237 6700 for any queries.

Division 1
Hexham RC
Blue Star Club
St Aidans College BC

Division 2
Black Sheep RC

Hull University BC

Division 03A

Lancaster John O’Gaunt RC

Lancaster Schools RA

In the run up to a summer of Row for Gold events – British Rowing’s programme to give everyone the chance to join in and feel part of the Olympic Regatta – our marketing workshops are designed to help clubs attract new rowers and volunteers and keep them engaged in the sport.

The intensive three-hour programmes will help you to identify your club’s aims and objectives, think about what your club offers at the moment and what it could offer to your local community. 

Premiership rugby club Saracens FC enjoyed an afternoon of Indoor Rowing on Wednesday, in preparation for a charity race on the River Thames.

Members of the Explore Rowing team put the Saracens squad through their paces on indoor rowing machines at the Old Albanian Sports Club, St. Albans.

The River & Rowing Museum’s Knowing Rowing initiative is offering a brand new Flip Video Camera to the junior rower who sends in the best short film about their club.

The competition – which will run until 17 February 2012 – invites juniors to make a short film describing something or someone from their club that inspires them.

The 2012 Henley Fours and Eights Head of the River have been cancelled, due to ground conditions at the site and the predicted weather forecast.

'We have approximately 250 yards of ice an inch thick, with daytime temperatures forecast to reach no more than two degrees for the rest of the week, and temperatures at night plunging to minus six or below,' Bedford Rowing Club said on their website. 'Tuesday night was minus nine here, and these temperature ranges are expected to continue until Sunday.'

British Rowing would like to congratulate Phil Clements (pictured above right) who passed the FISA Umpires exam in Oslo on Saturday 4th February.

Phil, of Wycliffe College Boat Club and Chairman of WAGS Regional Rowing Council, said that it was a proud moment to be presented with his umpire's badge by Patrick Rombaut (Chairman of the FISA Umpires Commission) after several years of hard work. He is now looking forward to joining the exclusive list of GB FISA umpires able to represent Great Britain at international events.

The Oxford and Cambridge University Boat Race celebrated a 'momentous day' today, with the announcement that the women's Boat Race will be given equal billing with the men's from 2015 onwards.

At a press conference in London this morning, new Boat Race sponsors BNY Mellon were revealed as the new Boat Race sponsors, and the investment management company's representatives immediately announced seismic changes to The Boat Race.

Voting opened today (February 8) to select seven volunteers who will be elected onto the new 35-strong Council of the Canal & River Trust.

Four positions will be elected by boat licence holders and two positions elected by boating businesses. Employees of the Canal & River Trust will also elect a staff representative to the Council.

The Port of London Authority (PLA) has released a video which is designed to help crews safely navigate the upper tidal Thames between Putney and Kew.

The film provides a simple guide to the unique Code of Conduct for safe rowing on the tidal Thames, useful for both newcomers to the Tideway and experienced rowers looking to refresh their knowledge.

British Rowing is pleased to announce an adaptive rowing classification opportunity at Crosby, Merseyside, allowing rowers with a disability or physical impairment to establish their racing classification.

The classification opportunity – which is free of charge – will take place on 10 March 2012, at Crosby Lakeside Adventure Centre, Crosby Coastal Park, L22 1RR.

British Rowing’s flagship water safety advice, RowSafe, is being given a makeover, and we’d like your feedback on some of the ideas we’ve come up with so far.

We hope that the addition of RowSafe Plus sheets will be a welcome modernisation to our water safety guidance in our rapidly developing sport.

See below for a selection of sample RowSafe and RowSafe Plus pages, for feedback.

Six months into Sport England’s Sportivate Olympic and Paralympic legacy project, and 33,000 young people have taken up sport in their own time.

Sportivate aims to get hundreds of thousands of 14 to 25-year-olds taking part in sport over the next four years by offering them a pathway into sports clubs and venues across the country.

Figures published yesterday show that, of the 33,000 Sportivate participants who have received six to eight weeks of coaching in a sport of their choice, almost 26,000 took part in the last three months alone.

The 2012 Wycliffe Big Head and Peterborough Heads have been cancelled, due to adverse weather conditions.

With temperatures well below freezing, the Gloucester Berkeley Canal had this morning (Friday) frozen to the North and South of the Wycliffe Sculling Centre boathouse.

Organisers had posted a warning about the weather conditions on the official WBH website earlier this week, before making the decision today to call off Saturday’s event.

The deadline for online submission of the 2011 Club Water Safety Audit was Saturday 31 December 2011. The following clubs have not yet submitted the Audit, and are therefore suspended from racing. Clubs will be allowed to race as soon as they submit their Water Safety Audit and it is accepted by their Regional Water Safety Adviser.

Water Safety Audits are submitted online at: http://www.britishrowing.org/taking-part/staying-safe/club-safety-audit

Entries for the Women’s Eights Head of the River (WEHoRR) close next Friday (February 10), leaving one week left for crews to submit their entries via British Rowing Online Entry.

WEHoRR entries are set to close earlier than usual this year, with organisers are expecting a flurry of late entries this weekend.

The annual event for women’s eight crews has been held on the River Thames since 1927, and follows the 4.25 Championship Course between Mortlake and Putney – mirroring the men’s route.

The first of three drop-in sessions for residents to view and discuss traffic concerns ahead of this summer’s Olympic and Paralympic rowing events at Eton Dorney takes place this evening (Thursday 2 February), at Windsor Racecourse.

Up to 30,000 spectators will arrive at Dorney Lake each day between Saturday 28 July and Saturday 4 August for the Olympic rowing events, with a similar number anticipated for the Paralympic events from 1-3 September.

This evening’s drop-in session will run from 4pm-8pm, with similar sessions planned for Friday and Saturday.

Entries have opened for the 2012 Cornish Indoor Rowing Championships (CIRC), which will take place on Sunday 18 March in Newquay. 

The annual event - now in its 13th year - sees juniors and seniors battle it out on Concept 2 indoor rowing machines at the Newquay Sports Centre.

Seniors will cover 2km in male and female categories, while junior racing will follow the format of the National Junior Indoor Rowing Championships - contestants rowing for a specific amount of time varying by age-group.

The newest rowing club in the East Midlands region, Devil’s Elbow, is offering free taster sessions in March and April.

Based at the confluence of the River Trent and Soar in Long Eaton, Derbyshire, Devil’s Elbow was founded this year and has already signed up for Explore Rowing accreditation.

The nomination process has begun for the 2012 Thomas Keller Medal, awarded ‘for an outstanding career in rowing.’

The Thomas Keller Medal is FISA’s most prestigious accolade, and can be awarded to anyone up to five years after their official retirement.

According to the official FISA website, the following five factors are taken into consideration when selecting the winner:

Rowing club representatives from across the North gathered at Durham Rowing Club on Sunday, for the Northern Region British Rowing Club Development Conference.

More than 50 regional and university rowing clubs sent representatives to the day-long conference, which included presentations and updates on the Umpires Commission, Tony Blair Sports Foundation (TBSF), and water safety.