Love Rowing believes rowing is for everyone and is on a mission for more people to experience the sport, whether on land or in water.

Since its launch in December 2019, the organisation has positively impacted nearly 7,000 people through 50-plus projects to ensure more people get involved with rowing. Working with people across the UK, the foundation prioritises young people from deprived areas, people with disabilities, and ethnically diverse communities.

Beyond the physical gains, rowing has a multitude of mental and social benefits for people’s overall well-being, including increasing self-esteem and social development. Rowing helps to enhance teamwork, resilience and leadership skills and encourages a sense of community, as well as a connection with nature.

The organisation is committed to increasing access to the sport for those who would benefit most. They achieve this by:

• Funding rowing programmes, providing grants to rowing clubs, schools, and community organisations with inclusive and accessible rowing projects
• Raising funds to create tailored community rowing projects
• Linking up projects, schools, and clubs to share advice, best practices, and equipment.

Newcastle Youth Programme

The latest Love Rowing impact report released in March 2023 explains how state schools are searching for new ways to engage students who struggle in the classroom environment. With rowing clubs unused in the daytime and often unbusy on weekend afternoons, there is much opportunity for them to be accessed and utilised.

Since working with the Newcastle Youth Programme led by Tyne Amateur Rowing Club in 2023, Love Rowing has supported the club in providing outreach programmes to young people in state schools, particularly in locations of multiple and significant deprivation.

In a case study from May 2024, three cohorts of young people in school years 8 and 9, across two schools captured the experiences and impact of the programme through surveys, facilitated questioning, observations, and input from teachers and coaches. For some of the pupils, it was their first experience of on-water rowing following participation in indoor rowing.

A standout observation from working with the schools on the Newcastle Youth Programme is the significant improvement in student attendance.

“We started off with a lot of troubled kids and helped make them have less suspensions. They started out with 4 suspensions from school a week, and now it’s 1 every 2 weeks.” Coach Bobby, Newcastle Youth Programme.

To find out more about how the students feel about their experience with the Newcastle Youth Programme, check out the full blog from Love Rowing here.

Lowestoft

Another area benefiting from the power of rowing is Lowestoft. Lowestoft has an above-average rate of children living in poverty, and until this project, young people had no opportunity to access rowing. Love Rowing is supporting a local project to introduce rowing through the state schools in the areas, along with holiday activities and a new junior section at the local club.

dryobe® x Love Rowing

Through the dryrobe® Warmth Project, we support charities and non-profit organisations that share our values of promoting wellbeing through outdoor activity and protecting the environment. We believe in the inclusivity and diversity promoted by Love Rowing and want to help more people enjoy the sport's many benefits across the UK. Our unrestricted support is helping across all their projects, especially the coastal projects in deprived areas that get people onto the water

Love Rowing is British Rowing’s Charitable Foundation, the governing body for the sport responsible for the development of rowing in Great Britain. We’re proud partners with British Rowing, who share our passion for encouraging inclusive and life-enhancing outdoor lifestyles.

The Big Row

Love Rowing aims to raise £60,000 to support inclusive and accessible rowing projects across the UK. This will help get more young people from deprived communities and disabled people involved in rowing, changing lives for the better.

This year, the Big Row is symbolically taking place in the final week of the 2024 Paralympic Games. The aim is to collectively row the 15,241 km distance from Paris to Los Angeles - the location of this year's games, to the host city of the 2028 Olympics and Paralympics.

Between the 5th to 8th of September is your chance to challenge yourself and help an amazing organisation to continue doing great things. Whatever your level, whether you’re a beginner rower or an experienced one, take part on land or in water, in a crew or solo!

Make the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games an unforgettable one, and become part of The Big Row crew today! Make your pledge and sign up here.

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Published on July 22, 2024