150th Jubilee

The club is calling for expressions of interest for attendance at the jubilee events. You can do this by filling out the Microsoft Forms document via the Expression of Interest Form below. The form will be replaced with an event registration on on 1 May 2025 and close on 1 July 2025. Email invites will go out to all those who have provided us with addresses on the expressions of interest form.

When filling out the form with a device other than a mobile phone, use the tab and arrow keys to move between answer options, or to move to the next question until you get to the submit request.

What to expect at the jubilee events ........

Registration packs for those who ordered them will be available to pick up from the rowing clubrooms from noon on Friday the 1st of August 2025. The afternoon and evening will be a casual meet and greet, with photo displays, and many of the club’s older wooden skiffs available to view. There will be tables and chairs for you to sit at and enjoy canapes and nibbles in the evening, to go with your BYO drinks. A courtesy coach will be available to get you home, within the Invercargill city boundary, if you need it.

Registration packs will also be available to pick up on the morning of Saturday the 2nd of August 2025 from the clubrooms. Those that show an interest on the registration forms to have a row with past crews, (and there are quite a few so far), there will be a booking roster system to enable this to take place, if the weather allows it. Past photos and memorbilia will be on display within the clubrooms.

A Southland style lunch will be available on the Saturday, for all those who are wearing registration name badges. Decade group photos will then be taken, along with one that includes all those registered from 1pm onwards. 

The Saturday evening jubilee function and buffet meal will be held at the Ascot Park Hotel. (Further details about tickets and registration will be added later) There will be an opportunity to have past crew group photos taken at this event.

There will be a further opportunity to have a row with past crews from 9.00am on Sunday the 3rd of August 2025. Others can gather at the clubrooms for a final catch-up of past and present members and enjoy some more delicous food on offer, along with some informal BYO drinks.

Please reach out to as many of your past crew members as possible and encorage them to join you at this milestone club event

The invite to complete the Expressions of Interest Form has been sent out to past members and supporters that we have email address for, but this is only a small portion of the many rowers who have been members over the last 150 years. The jubilee committee are relying very heavily on those that have received the invite to spread the word to as many others as possible and get them to visit the clubs web site for information.

There are paper copies of the Expression of Interest Form available at the clubrooms to fill in and return, (for those not confident in the use of computers and online forms).