National news

UK Sport announce funding allocation for London Olympics

sarahhope — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 14:48:26 +0000

Today a total of £292 million funding allocation has been confirmed by Uk Sport to British Olympic and Paralympic sports ahead of London 2012. The decision had been awaited with some trepidation due to the current economic uncertainty.

CCPR launches Sports Club of the Year 2009

sarahhope — Tue, 02 Dec 2008 16:00:13 +0000

CCPR is delighted to announce the launch of its search for Sports Club of the Year (SCOTY) 2009.

ARA Online Incident Reporting

sarahhope — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 11:03:32 +0000

The ARA's online incident reporting system is now up and running and available for all our clubs and members to use. This new system will capture all types of incident including those, which are presently entered in the club's Incident Log Book as 'recordable' (no injury or significant damage to equipment).

Sports Journalist Awards 2008

randolph — Fri, 28 Nov 2008 11:19:26 +0000

The outstanding achievement of Olympic rowing champions Tom James, Pete Reed, Andy Triggs-Hodge and Steve Williams was recognised at the Sports Journalist Association of Great Britain Awards held on Wednesday 26th November.

Rowing and Sport Unlimited

randolph — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 08:41:33 +0000

Sport England have introduced 'Sport Unlimited', a scheme to provide funding to groups that target young people turned off sport by traditional activity. The three-year programme will enable 900,000 more 11-19 year olds to choose from a vast range of sports including several in which Team GB has excelled at the 2008 Olympics. It is hoped that the 10-week taster sessions will lead to young people joining clubs and continuing with their chosen sport once their session ends.

Club Development Conferences 2008 - 2009

randolph — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 15:05:14 +0000

It's the club conference season and the ARA is running a series of events from November 2008 to March 2009, kicking off in the WAGS region on Sunday 23rd November.

Club officers and volunteers are encouraged to attend if they can to hear updates on a number of issues central to running a successful and safe club. This year the conferences offer the chance to learn more about

Guardian: Leander prevented from competing in Henley events

randolph — Tue, 25 Nov 2008 09:00:47 +0000

'Leander, Britain's premier rowing club was told that it could no longer enter three of Henley Royal Regatta's prestigious club-based events.

The news represents a body-blow to Leander, who until now have used their financial muscle to attract and develop Britain's best young prospects, as well as supporting top under 23 rowers and Olympians like Peter Reed and Steve Williams, who took gold as part of the British four this year in Beijing.'

Olympic Rower is Oxfordshire's Sportsman of the Year

sarahhope — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 09:34:42 +0000

Olympic rower Steve Williams, MBE was announced as Sportsman of the Year 2008 at the Oxfordshire Sports Awards ceremony, which took place at the Kassam Stadium on Friday 7th November.

City of Oxford Rowing Club's Junior Women’s Coxless Four were the winners of the Junior Sports Team of the Year, sponsored by Oxford City Council Leisure Services.

ARA launches new safety guidance

agroves — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 13:51:39 +0000

The ARA's new water safety guidance is to be launched at Bath University on 23rd November. Stuart Ward, the ARA's Honorary Water Safety Adviser, will introduce 'Row Safe: A Guide to Good Practice in Rowing' at the first of the ARA's annual round of Regional club development conferences.

Sir Steve Redgrave endorses 'Row Safe' guidance

agroves — Fri, 21 Nov 2008 11:23:26 +0000

Sir Steve Redgrave, five times Olympic gold medallist and Honorary President of the Amateur Rowing Association (ARA), backs the new Row Safe guidance.

“I’m pleased to endorse this Row Safe Guide. In my view safety is not something that should curtail what we can do. Safety training can be fun and rewarding and good practice allows us all to enjoy rowing in an environment which is as safe as necessary.”