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Leander Club takes delivery of new, high-performance Kanghua KX boats
The Kanghua KX is an elite range of boats developed with technical input from Leander Club, which has been using Kanghua boats since 2015. Kanghua has benefited enormously from the detailed feedback provided by Leander coaches and athletes over the past five years and...
Leander Club Opening Hours
The Club is open* Following the recent Government statements on hospitality re-opening, we are also pleased to let Members know that we are extending the Club dining service and offering accommodation in a phased re-opening during July. Our new menu also has some...
New Summer ‘All Day’ Menu
We will be serving the following dishes, all lovingly prepared to order by our Leander chefs Please note that booking is essential under the current guidelines. To book, please contact Laura Andrew by email or call the Club on 01491 575782. Starters...
Join us for a Saturday Summer BBQ
Bookings being taken for 5th & 12th September Our 'all day' BBQs will be serving a wide range of tasty meat and vegetarian main courses, accompanied by homemade salads and side dishes. Available from 12-8pm every Saturday until mid-September. Members are welcome...
Leander Club reopens with garden picnics and more
We are pleased to announce that following the continued easing of lockdown restrictions, Leander Club is reopening with a bar and dining service. Our first event will take place over what should have been 'Regatta weekend'. We will be marking the...
Join an Irish night on Zoom
7.30 - 9.00 pm Thursday 2nd July 2020 With the likelihood of a slow return to normality from these strange times and, even then, perhaps to a ‘new normal’ we have not experienced before, it is time to launch 'Irish Night - Regatta 2020'. The Irish Night was instigated...
MESSAGE FROM THE PRESIDENT
When I was elected to Leander Club over 50 years ago (scary thought) I was very proud to become a member of such a prestigious organisation with such a wonderful history. However, looking back at that time - the sixties - I now recognise that both British Rowing and...
Message from the President
After one of the worst ever winters for rowing - the majority of the Heads cancelled because of high river flows all over the country - this should be a pivotal moment for our Club, our rowers, our staff and all our members. The clocks change this weekend and we...
OLYMPIC TRIALS
The 2020 GB Rowing Olympic team took their first big steps to gain selection for Tokyo this weekend. A total of 45 Leander athletes raced at the Redgrave and Pinsent Lake in Caversham, all vying for the chance to impress Head Coach Jurgen Grobler. On Friday evening,...
WOMEN’S EIGHTS HEAD OF THE RIVER 2020
The Women’s Eights Head of The River race had to be cancelled on Saturday 7th March due to the fast river conditions on the famous tideway course from Mortlake to Putney. Thankfully a few of the leading women’s rowing programs came together to organise a last-minute...
LADIES’ SPRING LUNCH 2020
Thursday 7th May 202012 noon for 12.30 pm Tickets include a welcome drink and three-course lunch. Payment is required at time of booking. We will hold an auction and raffle during the lunch. Half the proceeds will be used to help rising young athletes at Leander and...
OLYMPIC TRIALS
The priority of Leander Club’s High Performance centre is to develop talented athletes and prepare them for each stage of GB trials in order to help them to gain selection to row for Great Britain. In this all-important Olympic year Leander Club have achieved an...
Leander at Huntercombe Golf Club
Tuesday 9th June 2020 - CANCELLED The fourth Leander Golf Day will take place at Huntercombe Golf Club on Tuesday 9th June 2020. The plan will be to convene at the clubhouse at 8.45am for coffee and a Bacon Roll. We will tee off from 9.15am, playing in three balls in...
Fine Dining Evenings 2020
We will advise Members of the next event, as soon as our Fine Dining evenings can be reinstated Leander’s Fine Dining Evenings offer the very best cuisine, prepared with care by our Head Chef, 'Vas' Vasilev, and his team and served in the historic ambience of the Club...
Taster Evening
Thursday 27th February 2020 The evening will consist of a 7-course menu, showcasing smaller dishes, carefully planned and crafted by our Head Chef, Vasil Vasilev and his team. The menu will vary between meat and fish dishes and the cost of a meal will be £65.00 per...
The Cox, the Coach and the Commentator
Thursday 12 March 2020 Double world champion Erin Kennedy, high performance coach James Loveday and Olympic commentator Robert Treharne Jones will be giving their own perspective in Tokyo 2020, following their experience last year at the Sea Forest Waterway, the...
New Captain
Leander Club is pleased to announce Jack Beaumont as its new Club Captain for 2020. Outgoing captain, Vicky Thornley, became only the second female Leander Captain in its history when she took on the role in 2018. Vicky has been a fantastic Captain for the last...
GB 2nd Assessment
17th December 2019 Selected athletes from all over the country were invited to take part in today's GB closed assessment race at Caversham Lake. Invites were sent out to athletes who performed well enough at the first GB November trials in Boston, Lincolnshire....
Meet the Athletes Evening 2020
Thursday 2 April 2020 6.30pm to 9.45pm (the Main Bar will remain open following the formal proceedings) Meet the Athletes Evening 2020 and a chance to hear from those who are preparing to compete in Tokyo. PROGRAMME FOR THE EVENING The evening will follow our well...
St Valentine’s Dinner 2020
St Valentine’s Dinner Friday 14 February 2020 A romantic candlelit dinner will be served in the splendour of the Club dining room. Reserve your own intimate table for two or join a Club table to meet fellow Members and their guests. Menu as follows: Red cabbage...
Vesta Scullers Head
7th December 2019 Leander Club took six scullers to race over the traditional course, from University Stone Mortlake to Putney on the ebb tide. Seb Devereux racing in the men’s elite event set off 4th overall out of the 450 scullers racing. The three scullers ahead of...
GB Junior Trials
16th November 2019 This weekend saw Leander squads at the GB Junior trials first assessment in Boston, Lincolnshire. Leander coach Dave Loveday replaced their usual coach James Loveday, who was unable to attend. The first division featured Stephen Hughes (pictured...
GB Trials
2nd - 3rd November 2019 Leander Club travelled in force to Boston, Lincolnshire to compete in the first GB assessment trials of the year. Sixty-six Leander Club athletes took part in the two-day trial, which consisted of a 2000 meter ergo test on Saturday at the...
READING SMALL BOATS HEAD
The torrential rain did not dampen the spirits of the Leander squads who competed at the Reading Small Boats Head this weekend. Leander Club boated three men’s fours, two women’s fours and a men’s quad to race the 3.7km course downstream. The club finished the day...
Turkey Sculls 2019
Sunday 22nd December 2019 1.00pm Everyone is welcome to watch our traditional Turkey Sculls event at 1.00pm when Leander athletes (juniors, seniors, including our Olympians and world champions and veterans from ‘rent-a-crew’) race scratch quads over 100m for prize...
Living Advent Calendar 2019
Thursday 5th December 2019 Now well established in the Leander Calendar for family of all ages and friends The Living Advent Calendar 2019 features a performance by a local ‘surprise’ act, which takes place outside at 6pm with a complimentary drink and a mince pie...
Ladies’ Christmas Lunch 2019
Friday 13 December 2019 - Last few places remaining Lady Members and their guests are invited to the Ladies' Chistmas Lunch; a 3 course meal with a glass of fizz, to celebrate the festive season. Lady Members can have their own table or join a Club table and meet new...
INFORMAL SUPPER TALK WITH JÜRGEN GROBLER
In Conversation with Jeremy Randall - 8th November This event is now FULLY BOOKED with an extensive waitlist. This is a rare opportunity to spend an evening with Jürgen Grobler, a living legend in our sport. In conversation with Leander’s immediate past President,...
CHRISTMAS AT LEANDER 2019
Why not hold your Christmas Party at Leander? All Christmas menus come with crackers, a traditional three-course meal, coffee and mincemeat fancies.Bookings now being taken.
Rowing results update
Senior World Championships, Linz, Ottensheim, Austria Leander Club had 31 athletes selected out of 64, across all boats in this very important year for qualifying boats for the Tokyo, Olympics 2020. Below is the list of the Leander athletes in each boat and their...
Quiz Night 2019
THURSDAY 10 OCTOBER 2019 Our popular Quiz Night returns again this October Starting with drinks at 6.30 pm. Teams of four (maximum) are invited or you can simply roll up and join a team on the night at £2 per head. Prizes for the winning team will be awarded at the...
ANNUAL DINNER 2019
Saturday 5 October 2019 Our Annual Dinner gives us the opportunity to celebrate our year’s success. Our guest speaker for the Annual Dinner 2019 will be Ken Dwan, Former Olympic sculler and six-time winner of the Wingfield Sculls. Booking is open for Members only. We...
Ladies’ Autumn Lunch 2019
Thursday 10 October 2019 Lady Cynthia Hall will be joining us as our guest to talk about her role as Deputy Lieutenant for Oxfordshire. Lady Hall is one of the county’s six deputies appointed last year and she has lived in Henley for over 25 years. Henry the VIII...
Henley Festival 2019
Wednesday 10 July - Saturday 13 July Please do let us know if you wish to make a reservation for dinner or accommodation, or both Henley Festival of Music and the Arts Pre Concert Dinner from 6pm Enjoy the tranquility of the Clubhouse with a pre-concert summer dinner...
HRR 2019 – Bar Food Menu
Served between 11.00 am – 15.00 and 17.30 – 21.00 Dressed Cromer half lobster With char-grilled asparagus spears, coleslaw and new potato and broad bean salad - £26.00 When served with a glass of Digby Fine English, Leander Pink, NV - £36.00 Traditional Ploughman’s...
