British Rowing Awards 2025
The British Rowing Awards celebrate the people, clubs and crews from across the rowing community who deserve recognition.
Nominations are open now! They will close at midnight on Monday 10th November.
Nominations
The 2025 awards cover activities from October 2024 to September 2025, following on from the period covered by last year’s awards.
Individuals, clubs and other organisations can make as many nominations as they wish across the 16 award categories, which includes one new award for this year: the Welfare, Wellbeing and Inclusion Award.
Check out the Award CriteriaNominations close at midnight on Monday, 10 November 2025.
5 tips for writing a nomination
Each category has awarding criteria. Carefully check the criteria to ensure your nomination is eligible and suitable for the category you are nominating in.
Once you have chosen the most suitable award, here are five tips for making your entry shine:
1. Get off to a good start
Award panellists will often have dozens of entries to read, so write an exciting intro and make your best points first.
2. Stick to the point and be succinct
Use bullet points and short paragraphs to structure your entry. This will enable you to stick to the point and to organise the information in an easy-read format, which will help the panellists too.
3. Back it up
Back up your facts with evidence and detail. Use statistics where possible, include any research you undertook to measure the impact of a rowing programme or project.
4. Include feedback and endorsements
Including feedback, especially from those impacted by the person you are nominating as this can be very persuasive and it could be the difference between two strong entries.
5. Be reassured that nominations are confidential
We only share the information in your nomination with our panellists, who agree to the British Rowing Privacy Policy, so you can be confident that any relevant sensitive information you include (such as an medical condition someone was dealing with) will remain confidential.
Finally, remember that these awards are judged on the content and not the number of nominations received; you can give your nominee the best chance of winning by working with others to craft one really strong nomination.
