On the 19th March BBC London Radio interviewed Row East London Programme manager, Grainne Mohan along with Tom Aggar, Paralymic gold medallist and LYR board member on the Midweek sports feature.
The BBC were celebrating the return of the coverage of the Oxford Cambridge boatrace to the BBC from ITV. This sparked the conversation if rowing is accessible to all or only ‘toffs in boats rowing from the pimms to the champagne’.
Row East London! is a major new fitness and health initative which provides access to rowing for young people across the 10 east London Olympic and Gateway boroughs.
One of the Newham beneficiaries of LYR’s work sent in a text to the show, saying how she enjoyed participating in and coaching rowing in her borough.
To find out more about Row East London and how you can get involved, click here.