With the current river & ground conditions, and in the light of other events being cancelled, we are reviewing the current situation and looking at what decisions we can take to mitigate any costs should the event have to be cancelled. We have always maintained a position of offering a 100% refund in the event of cancellation and believe this is an important principle. This does however mean we have to be prudent in the way we manage finances, to ensure the future of the events are secure. With the loss of half of the 2022 Winter Head, we took a loss in 2022 and as such have to be ever more prudent in 2023 to manage a sustainable level of reserves.

With this in mind, we are taking the following actions:

1. Whilst entries will open as normal, payments will not be enabled. We will notify you when payments are required.
2. We will hold off finalising our supply base until Friday 17^th November, this is the point at which we will begin to incur significant costs.
3. We will continue to review the forecast, river, and more importantly ground conditions, over the next week, and look to make an initial go/no go decision on Friday 17^th November.
4. If ground conditions in the trailer park are not greatly improved by the 17^th , experience across the events committee suggests it is highly unlikely to be manageable for the event.
5. We will post an update here on the evening of the 17^th at the latest.

A photo of the trailer park taken on 10 Nov 2023

Thank you for your entries – we are now oversubscribed have suspended entries now

Please see the entries page for details of how to contact Rachael. She is on holiday and does not have access to the telephone or email at the moment.

Temperatures on Race Day will be very low, and there will be waiting at the start.

Ensure you have warm kit to sit in while waiting for the start, to maintain a good body temperature.

We will try to alert you to take off kit before you race, but please be prepared.

Crews who are not dressed appropriately for the conditions will not be allowed to boat!

Entries for Wallingford Head of River will open on BROE on Sunday 14th November at 18:00 and close when the event is fully subscribed or Thursday 18th November at 18:00

Entry fees are:

£120 per eight

£70 per four