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Congratulations Phil!
Congratulations to the ARA London Team Leader, Phil Simmons, and Marcia on the birth of their baby daughter on Thursday 17th July.
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British Association of Rowing Journalists Awards 2008
Chip Davis, founder and editor of the American magazine Rowing News, became the 2008 Journalist of the Year at the British Association of Rowing Journalists awards dinner at the River & Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames on Tuesday July 1. Chris […]
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Sport England – two new directors to work with NGBs
Sport England has announced the appointment of two Directors who will lead the organisation’s work with National Governing Bodies of sport (NGBs). Phil Smith joins Sport England from the Football Association where he has been Head of Public Affairs since 2003. […]
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Sport England launches Strategy 2008-2011
Sport England announces its new strategy to get more people playing and enjoying sport and to help those with talent get to the very top: Secretary of State for Culture, Media and Sport Andy Burnham says “This major reform of Sport England […]
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Competition Review
‘Balancing the racing system’ – as part of an ongoing review the ARA’s Competition Committee sub-group put forward a set of proposals to Council at the meeting held on 10th June, 2008. After analysing the racing status of nearly 13,000 […]
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Olympic Rower speaks at UK Sport Performance Lifestyle conference
UK Sport’s Performance Lifestyle (PL) team welcomed PL Advisers working with Olympic and Paralympic sports, as well as rugby and cricket, to their PL Annual Conference yesterday, to encourage debate and reflection around the theme of ‘athlete legacy’. …The second […]
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ARA Honours David Sherriff
David Sherriff with his Medal of Honour, in the company of Sir Steve Redgrave, Andy Triggs Hodge, Pete Reed and Colin Smith from the GB squad. Photo: Peter Spurrier The President of the ARA, Sir Steve Redgrave, recognised the […]
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Wessex Region Council Notes
The minutes of the Wessex Region’s Council Meeting held on Tuesday 18th March 2008. Download here (pdf).
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New editor for Rowing & Regatta
New ‘Rowing & Regatta’ editor Wendy Kewley came on board at Hammersmith this week. After spending four years editing ‘guiding’, Girlguiding UK’s membership magazine, Wendy says she is delighted to be back in sport. In a former life, she used to work in the International […]
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Jurgen Grobler honoured
Jürgen Grobler, 59, Chief Coach to the British men’s rowing squad, has been awarded an Honorary OBE. The award recognises his immense contribution to Britain’s Olympic success in rowing since he began his job with the Amateur Rowing Association in […]
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