Leander Club Henley-on-Thames
Leander Club Leander Club is the most prestigious and successful rowing club in the world, with 111 Olympic and 1 Paralympic medals won by our members up to and including the London Olympics in 2012. Founded in 1818, we are recognised globally for our achievements, at Henley Royal Regatta, the World Championships and the Olympic Games. As home to rowing heroes like Sir Steve Redgrave, Sir Matthew Pinsent, James Cracknell and Double Olympic Champions Steve Williams and Pete Reed, the club aims to attract and develop high-potential young oarsmen and women by providing state-ofthe-art facilities and world-class coaching. But it has a great deal more to offer. Alongside rowing we run a private members club which is also open to nonmembers. Any business, organisation or individual can pay to use Leander’s facilities, which include: Proud sponsors of Leander Club meetings
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Leander and Henley Royal Regatta Leander is inextricably linked with the Henley Royal Regatta. The Regatta started as long ago as 1839. Later, in 1896, as Leander’s rowing pre-eminence was seen to be matched by Henley’s excellence as a venue, Leander decided to build a new clubhouse there. Club emblem Leander’s emblem is the hippopotamus, known in Africa as ‘King of the River’, the only animal equally at home on land and water. Leander’s club tie. Very few, if any, other organisations in the world have a tie that is a single colour without any emblem or other marking. Only members with distinguished service to rowing are permitted to wear the coveted pink livery. and the lover of Hero, virgin priestess of Aphrodite. Their love story was told by the English poet and dramatist Christopher Marlowe in his poem ‘Hero and Leander’
Facilities for non-members Accommodation and Dining If you are planning a stay in South Oxfordshire and are in need of overnight accommodation at short notice, allow us to let you in on one of the Thames’s best kept secrets. Leander Club is a fabulous place to stay, whether you’re a club member, non-member or member’s guest. It is also steeped in Olympian rowing history, echoing to the footsteps of legendary rowers. Exceptional standards of comfort are available in a choice of 11 individually designed en-suite bedrooms, offering:
would normally expect – television, hairdryer, telephone, lift access to bedrooms and complimentary WiFi. Members receive priority bookings for the Club facilities but non-member bedroom booking enquiries are welcomed. Check-in is from 3 pm on the day of arrival and you are requested to check out by 11am on the day you leave. To book your accommodation, or and what we can offer, please call
history of a particular major rowing school, university or club, and featuring associated memorabilia arrival with a choice of refrigerated pink sparkling wine, cooled mineral water, tea or coffee
be made on-line through the Club website.
Private Parties Whatever the occasion – a low-key evening with friends, lunch with your partner, or a celebration in grander style – you will want a venue and ambience to match. Leander Club will more than meet your expectations. The entrance hall and main staircase immerse you at once in the past. Honours boards and portraits catalogue the club’s successes at Henley Royal Regatta and the Olympic Games.
choose from: laid for lunch or dinner. Off it is the Main Bar, ideal for drinks and snacks, or the Members’ Bar for a more informal atmosphere. for food and drink, which offers exceptional value for money whether or simply having a bar snack
conditioned Dining Room, which has corner, the Members Balcony Room, with windows on two sides viewing the river. This lends itself to more can also be combined with the Dining The Dining Room directly overlooks the Thames, where the water slips gracefully under the bridge. It is a perfect vantage-point for surveying the picture-postcard market town of Henley-on-Thames. The room is considered by many to have a special ‘feel’, due to its glorious views and inescapable sense of history. For more about using and booking the club’s dining or bar facilities, please call or email our Special Events Manager on 01491 575782, events@leander.co.uk.
Business conferences, away days and team-building Good venues for small-scale residential business conferences, seminars or one-off events are often hard to find, especially if you want somewhere discreet or a little out of the ordinary. At Leander Club, not only will your practical business needs be met, but you’ll be bowled over by the stunning riverside location and an unexpected Your delegates will also enjoy: rail network
• Ample dedicated car parking
individually designed rooms. And to help your business tasks along there is a range of wellequipped meeting rooms, ideal for board meetings, small conferences, away days or product launches. All have complimentary WiFi access and a wide variety of visual aids. Individual requirements can also be catered for.
Team building with our Olympic athletes Team-building programmes are many and various, but the question is always whether they will succeed in altering the way your people work. Do the outcomes match the promises made? If you aspire to genuine change in your organisation, then Leander will help you achieve it. Our special advantage lies in our being able to draw on the Club’s world-class and Olympic athletes and offer teambuilding programmes that are: business objectives
conference or seminar
highly talented individuals
rounding off your event.
into the power of one
Leander is unique in having trained our athletes to win more Olympic and world medals than any other singlesports club in the world. All of them live and breathe our core values of commitment, excellence, teamwork and, ultimately, winning – values shared by many of our corporate clients. With such resources at our disposal, we can help you:
all are committed to raising team performance in pursuit of a common goal. For further details please phone our Special Events Manager on 01491 575782 or email events@ leander.co.uk.
Corporate hospitality at Henley Royal Regatta Your most important clients need to be kept on-side, but if the prospect of yet another round of standard restaurant fare fails to inspire you, why not bring them to Henley Royal Regatta as guests of Leander Club?
Soak up Leander’s unique atmosphere and enjoy excellent food and service. Choose from one of our VIP packages.
We are home to the biggest names in Olympic rowing history, and so are uniquely placed to offer you a day your guests won’t easily forget:
This is the ultimate hospitality experience, offering the best views in the house from a luxurious, air-conditioned room in the Clubhouse. It is a premier position from which to view the Regatta, suitable for shared parties on
athlete as your special guest, offering expert insights into rowing and the Regatta
Sample package: Eton Room
package your guests will have: Leander Club facilities to the races
book in advance). And although our grounds are reserved primarily for members and their guests, we’ll make an exception and give you a choice of attractive private areas for your entertaining.
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throughout the day the Pink Hippo shop Meadows. For corporate hospitality enquiries, please contact 01491 575782 or email regatta@leander.co.uk
Leander Academy The Leander Academy is open to male and female rowers who have aspirations to progress and compete at a high level. The purpose of our academy is to build the future success of Leander rowing and feed young rowers into GB national teams by taking the ethos, passion and success of the Leander brand to the next generation of our rowers.
We invite students who are graduating from university together with students taking a year out before going to university to contact us at rowing@leander.co.uk.
Our Success Story Leander prides itself on the achievements of its athletes who have enjoyed so much success since
the club was founded almost two hundred years ago. The impressive statistics speak for themselves – since 1908 Leander rowers have stood on podia across the globe as World and Olympic Champions. Almost 200 Leander rowers have now represented their country at Olympic regattas, where they have won a total of 111 medals, with many more successful at World Championships. Twelve Leander athletes won medals at the London Olympic Games, adding to a club tally since 1976 or 25 Gold, 16 Silver and 14 Bronze. Whilst pulling on a Leander vest is no guarantee of success, the support you will get to help achieve your aspirations is unparalleled.
Debbie Flood – Captain Having joined Leander from Tideway Scullers’ School in 2000, Debbie has gone on to win three world championship titles as well as becoming an Olympic silver medallist in the women’s quad at both Athens 2004 and Beijing 2008. Our newly elected Captain finally hung up her international oars after London 2012, having also become the only British woman ever to have won the Princess Royal Challenge Cup at Henley Royal Regatta, where she has also won the Princes Grace Challenge Cup on two occasions. ‘I developed my international career through Leander over the last 12 years, it has been the perfect environment to help me get the best out of myself, with fantastic support on top of a great club atmosphere, making it the most successful club in the world’ she says.
So let’s get this straight. The US Navy Test Pilot School, home to some of the world’s crack aviators, gets its watches from Henley-on-Thames? The home of cream teas, rowing and cute waterfowl? Actually, it’s not as daft as it might sound. Because Henley is also the home of a company called Bremont.
The result is a chronometer with an adjustable 24-hour hand, that can display local time anywhere in the world, together with Universal Coordinated Time (the standardized time zone used by the military). Built by hand in our workshop, the mechanical movement undergoes an arduous testing process (something it has in common with its wearers) and is 99.998% accurate.
And, over the last ten years, we have developed watches for more than forty different squadrons, both here and in America.
The case is made from a stainless steel that’s seven times harder than anything you’ll find in conventional watches. (We bombard our steel with electrons to toughen it up.)
The US Navy asked us to design a timepiece for the elite pilots who train at their school in Patuxent River, Maryland.
Then we add not one, but nine layers of anti-reflective coating to the sapphire crystal for maximum clarity and hardness.
People who cross time zones about as frequently as the rest of us cross the street.
Some might call all this excessive. But it’s just the way we do things here in Henley-on-Thames.
The question is, how do you get your hands on one of these fine watches? Well, if you’re between the ages of 17 and 34, and an American citizen, you can of course apply to join the US Navy. But if for any reason that proves problematic, you’ll be pleased to hear we manufacture a version for civilians, the Bremont World Timer ALT1-WT. For this, you need only apply within at your nearest Bremont retailer.
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Trains: From Paddington Station, London to Henley-on-Thames via Twyford, from Reading and Oxford via Twyford. The station in Henley is a pleasant ten minute stroll by the river to
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