Leander Book Talk: Cath Bishop – The Long Win

Enjoy an evening with Olympian Cath Bishop, author of the book "The Long Win", in aid of the Leander Trust and Love Rowing, with finger buffet.

The Leander Trust Library at the Leander Club in Henley-on-Thames is proud to present to you Cath Bishop, Olympian and author of the book The Long Win. The evening is a special collaboration between Love Rowing, where Cath is a Trustee, and the Leander Trust with all proceeds shared between the two charities. A finger buffet will be served in the beautiful club house.

Cath published The Long Win: The Search for a Better Way to Succeed in October 2020 drawing together her personal and professional experiences across Olympic sport, international diplomacy, and working with organisations to coach and develop leadership and culture by applying The Long Win approach. In sport, for example, Cath works as an independent advisor to British Gymnastics on their culture change journey since the Whyte Review. She also writes monthly opinion pieces on culture in sport for the Guardian!

The Long Win was acclaimed as one of the Financial Times’ Best Business Books of 2020 and one of the Daily Mail’s best sports books of 2020 – few (if any) books have ever featured on these two lists simultaneously! Cath revised the book for a second edition (published in May 2024), The Long Win: There’s More to Success than you Think, updating and refreshing the core stories and adding a chapter with short stories of leaders putting The Long Win into practice.

The Leander Trust is a registered charity (No. 284631) to advance the education of young people and their physical education by providing facilities – including grant awards – to enable and encourage rowing and sculling; and to help by providing facilities for recreation for those who need such facilities because of their youth, social or economic circumstances. A short presentation will be held to illustrate the benefit of the Trust.

Love Rowing is a registered charity (No. 1179845) to transform lives through rowing. Love Rowing funds rowing programmes for everyone across the UK. Our projects bring more disabled people and more young people from deprived areas of the UK into the sport. Rowing improves physical and mental well-being, and opens the doors to new life chances.

Tickets for this event are available here: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/book-talk-with-cath-bishop-the-long-win-tickets-1074232852379. The Rowing Book Talks are open to all and are run in aid of the Leander Trust (no need to be a member of Leander Club). The ticket price includes a generous finger buffet in the beautiful dining room at Leander Club overlooking the River Thames.

This Rowing Book Talk is part of Series 4 of the Leander Library Rowing Book Talks. The library at Leander Club is one of the most comprehensive collection of rowing books and documents in the world. It is owned by the Leander Trust, which is truly making a difference in the lives of young people. All funds raised go directly to the Trust and Leander Club is providing the food at cost. So far, the Rowing Book Talks have raised over 7000 GBP for the Leander Trust!