Helena Smalman-Smith

I really enjoyed managing this project, shaping the content and researching the results archive - a great opportunity to use my professional digital marketing and content skills in a volunteer capacity!

Home - Henley Women's Regatta Henley Women’s Regatta is the premier regatta for women in the UK and takes place every June. Join us on the water, on the bank or behind the scenes!

We’ve got a new website!
Head over to https://hwr.org.uk/ now to take a peek and enter our ‘treasure hunt’ competition – you could win a CrewRoom voucher to spend on HWR merch🩷

Friends of HWR - Henley Women's Regatta Become a friend. It will provide you access to The Chairman’s Enclosure and other benefits, your contribution to the Regatta makes a huge difference to us.

Could you support HWR, which is run entirely by volunteers, and become a friend of HWR 2025?

hwr.org.uk/support/f...

Actually, the Junior Fours Head is an independent new competition that has added itself to the calendar. the Fours Head Committee welcomes this development, but was not responsible for it being added to the racing calendar :-)

2005 World Rowing Championships The story of the GB women’s rowing team in 2005 where the quad became World Champions, a young lwt 4x won bronze, and new blood raced in an 8.

So, in my profile here I describe myself as a rowing historian. As it's important to put your money where your mouth is, here's my latest chapter in the history of GB women's rowing - I still live in hope I'll catch up with the present day at some point. rowingstory.com/2005-world-r...

In one of those old fashioned things where people used to learn stuff, oh, what are they called...
Oh yes, a books! It was about the history of the Thames, so pretty good at its job!

The Rose Revived pub at Newbridge is a landmark on skiff meanders. I've just read that it's so named because Oliver Cromwell popped the wilting flower he was wearing (seems a bit unlikely for a Puritan, no?) in his beer, and lo it perked up! Maybe.

Wow! I had the gear for a few years and made a few bottles of apple juice - it's really hard work!