Area: City of Oxford Rowing Club, Oxford

About: City of Oxford Rowing Club runs monthly community rowing sessions in partnership with the Silverlinings Charity – a charity that specialises in supporting people who have been affected by traumatic brain injuries. Love Rowing funded this programme for a year covering coaching, catering and transportation to and from the club for the participants.

Impact: The participants from the Silverlinings Charity have told Love Rowing it really opened doors for them when many were shut. They absolutely loved the sessions. They had never been offered rowing as a sport for them to join and didn’t ever think it was something they could do. Brain injury means varying levels of disability and many of the Silverliners thought they couldn’t get on the water. By the second session, they were on the water rowing! The impact on friends and family is huge and it is a real pleasure to fund this project. We underestimated just how much this means to the Silverliners and we look forward to doing more with them across the country.

Link: If you would like to find out more about City of Oxford RC, please visit their website at https://oxfordrowingclub.org.uk/, and if you would like to read more about the Silverlinings Charity, please follow this link – https://www.thesilverlining.org.uk/.