Dixons Academies Trust partners with British Rowing
Posted 20th June 2025
We’re excited to announce that we have partnered with British Rowing, bringing indoor rowing to students across our Liverpool and Manchester academies.
Thanks to support from All About Youth Rowing, each of our Liverpool and Manchester schools now has a fully equipped indoor rowing room with ten ergometers. The sport is now embedded in the PE curriculum, helping students build physical fitness, resilience, and mental wellbeing.
Students from Year 7 to Year 10 are now competing in virtual inter-academy indoor rowing races, coordinated by British Rowing as part of our new PE programme.
These races are hosted in each school’s new rowing room and streamed online, giving students a fun, motivating way to engage in physical activity and connect across our trust. This collaboration is helping to break down barriers to what has traditionally been seen as an elite sport and is opening up new opportunities for our young people. This is just the beginning of a movement to bring equity, energy, and excellence to school sport.