Fantastic Idea from Grosvenor

At British Rowing we often come across some interesting ideas for promoting your club - I just wanted to really highlight one I've come across today from Grosvenor Rowing Club (one of the first year Explore Rowing clubs).  The club have been offering a learn to row package as 'Gift Vouchers' for people to purchase over Christmas - for friends and family.  It's such a simple idea but easy to run and could help bring a few more people onto your learn to row course.

It's great to see a number of different clubs now coming up with innovative promotion ideas whether it's working with community groups or marketing the club in a different area or just making it easy to get your friends involved like this idea from Grosvenor.  One thing I'd love to see a club try out is a Weight Watchers club.  We all know how healthy rowing makes you feel even if you're just getting out once or twice a week on the river.  There's also plenty of people out there who will pay a large sum of money each week for advice on how to lose some weight (through diet and exercise normally) at a normal Weight Watchers Club.  Wouldn't it be much nicer to do a bit of the exercise at the meeting, get outside plus keep an eye on your weight?  Combining a learn to row course with some of the normal aspects of a weight watching club could be much more fun.

Well there's my idea - anyone else out there got some more ideas?

You can see Grosvenor's advert and more about what the club is up to on their website http://www.grosvenor-rowingclub.co.uk/