There is no reason at all why you would have noticed this, but I don't post very often on social media. But, as @LYRowing About Us (londonyouthrowing.com) turned 18 years old this year, I wanted to change that. I have, in different guises, been involved with grass root rowing and sport for the last 25 years and feel incredibly lucky to have worked at LYR (and a couple of years @CRIBoston) for the last 17 years. This year LYR invested in a report to determine the ‘so what’ of that time and of LYR flagship project – Active Row. People talk about the great works they are doing, and I applaud everyone that is in this area of sport delivery. It can be incredibly hard and the most rewarding job there is – often on the same day! But I asked the amazing team here at LYR – ‘so what’? What is it we are doing and if we believe we are doing remarkable things for young people across the UK, how do we prove that, how do we talk about those benefits and how do we add detail and data to that work. Earlier this year, we released LYR’s Social Return on Impact Report that looked at the Active Row programme in London. Partnering with @Tideway and State of Life, we asked the big and tough questions. Tough because we did not honestly know what the outcome was going to be. We ‘knew’ that it was effective, but could we prove that? The report is here, and the headline is that Active Row works, and works incredibly well. Sport and physical activity can change lives for the better and provide numerous benefits that I believe are so much wider reaching than being fitter and sportier. What we do makes a real difference and has been making a difference for the last 18 years. As celebrate our milestone, here is to the next 18 years and even more success that cannot always be seen in the many thousands of young people we work with, up and down the UK, every year. If you would like to read the report, Our Impact (londonyouthrowing.com) please do and if after reading it, you feel you would like to help us do more of this amazing work, please get in touch. Thank you to everyone that has helped LYR do what it does for the last 18 years – know, for sure, that you are categorically, making an enormous difference.
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