Andrew Ashton - Honorary Secretary

Andrew is Company Secretary and has held that role since the beginning of Hinksey Sculling School. He is a solicitor who qualified in 1974, and has worked in Oxford ever since. He has been a  member of Wallingford Rowing Club since 1968, but has accepted the limitations imposed by the aging process. He was married to Pat, a retired G.P., who died in March 2025, and has a son who is the press and communications officer for RAMS RFC, and a daughter, now resident in Sydney, who works for LEGACY, an Australian veterans charity, specialising in Computer Security. His leisure activities include attempting to tame the garden and watching sport, especially cricket

JoJo Blyth, former Hinksey Athlete

JoJo joined the board of Trustees in September 2025. She is a former Hinksey athlete rowing for Hinksey from 2012-2020, starting as a J11 all the way up to J18 when she was Captain of Boats. Jojo confesses to becoming totally obsessed with rowing at Hinksey and very fondly considers Training Camp, Row Down The River and Scratch Regattas as some of her favourite memories of her Hinksey years, not to mention all the hard work and racing too. Rowing at Hinksey heavily influenced her university choice and she went to Oxford University and raced in the Lightweight Boat Race against Cambridge in 2022 and 2023, earning a Blue. JoJo was Vice President and Welfare Officer in the 2023 season at Oxford. JoJo volunteered at Hinksey over the years often helping out coaching in her holidays, mostly learn-to-row courses as well as Sicily training camp 2024. JoJo is a Research Engineer and has become a Trustee to help continue the amazing experience she had at HSS. She is keen to ensure the non-performance events that really brought the club together continue alongside building on Hinksey’s competitive legacy to establish it as a top junior rowing club providing access to this great sport to students from state and other schools that don’t offer rowing to their pupils.

Rafe Stanford Meisl, former Hinksey Athlete

Rafe joined the board of Trustees in September 2025. He is a former Hinksey athlete rowing for Hinksey Sculling School from 2013-2019, finishing his final year qualifying HSS for their first appearance at Henley Royal Regatta. As Head Coach of Rowing at MLC School Sydney, Australia, he leads program strategy, coach mentoring, stakeholder communication and operational management, guiding students to record program performances and building a culture of enjoyment and excellence across the squad. Previously, Rafe served as Secretary to the Exeter University Boat Club’s 140 members and as Head Coach at St John’s College Hamilton, New Zealand. He is passionate about building inclusive, high-performing environments that prioritise athlete wellbeing and long-term success, combining his backgrounds in Mechanical Engineering and Sports Management to blend technical insight with practical coaching expertise.

Peter Shepherd - Parent Trustee

Peter joined the board of Trustees in September 2025 and is a parent to a current Hinksey athlete and a former athlete who left Hinksey in 2023 and now rows at university in America. He openly admits his rowing experience and knowledge is limited to watching his children row, but he is an avid sports fan committed to grass roots sport and the opportunities this provides to young people to develop, make life long friends and learn a wide range of life skills. Peter has been a coach at Oxford Rugby Club of junior teams since 2019, now part of a team coaching the colts. Peter is also a Trustee (since 2021) of local environmental charity; Trust for Oxfordshire’s Environment which distributes funds raised for nature through a wide range of grants to local groups for environmental projects. Professionally Peter is a consultant ecologist and is a founding partner of a consultancy company established in 1997 which works across the UK and Ireland. He has been a company board director ever since the company converted from a partnership to a limited company

James Wynne - Parent Trustee

James joined the board of trustees in October 2025 as a parent of a current sculler interested to help Hinksey thrive. He is a barrister practicing in employment law, general commercial disputes and some charities regulation. James has current experience as a trustee of a large and thriving local scout group and of Oxfordshire scouts, governance roles which have required making the best possible decisions in support of these charities’ activities. James used to scull in a very amateur fashion at school and university, and led the coaching of novice crews at university. He is qualified within scouts to lead and teach various adventurous activities including kayaking and rock climbing, sharing his passion and experience in these sports whilst ensuring the safety and safeguarding of the young people involved.

Advisory Panel to the Board

Tristam Carrington-Windo

Tristam is a long time supporter of Hinksey Sculling School as a parent and a former Trustee between 2012 and 2025. Tristam retired as a Trustee since his daughters Alice and Agnes had long since left the club and he felt it was time for a new team to take the club forward. However, he remains passionate about Hinksey’s mission to bring rowing to young people and the need for a boathouse, and is acting as an advisor providing a vital link along with Andrew Ashton and Eloise Godden between the previous boards of Trustees and the new board. Tristam is an independent commercial translator from German into English whose daughters were keen rowers. After rowing at Hinksey, his daughter Alice progressed to captaining UCL women and rowing with Oxford University in the 2013, 2014 and 2015 Newton Women’s Boat Races, and was Director of Rowing at Hinksey in 2017 and 2018. Having run two family trusts, Tristam was persuaded by John Broadhurst in 2012 to help Hinksey as a then current parent.

Bodo Schulenburg

Bodo was Hinksey Sculling School's Director of Rowing between 2018 and 2025.  He took up a new role at Oxford Brooks University in 2025.  He stepped back from an operational role at Hinksey, remaining and Ambassador to the Board.    

Rowing has played a big role in my life for the best part of 30 years, starting with my first strokes in a single as a seven-year old. Forced to hang up my oars for quite some time after my junior career in Germany, I’ve had the fortune to get involved both in governance and coaching of a number of successful junior rowing programmes in Hamburg, Marburg and Bochum in my late teens and twenties. My studies eventually led me to Oxford, where I started rowing actively again on the lightweight men’s programme of the university, and later on for Taurus Boat Club. Oxford became a new rowing home and I made the decision to pursue coaching as a career. After a season as Assistant Coach, I took on the role of Head Coach of the Oxford University Lightweight Rowing Club for the 2012/13 season. Three boat race campaigns later, I left Oxford and embarked on an adventure to Hong Kong, where I helped co-found a rowing charity called the Kai Tak Youth Rowing Community, providing rowing and educational programmes for Kowloon’s underprivileged youth. After a year-long sabbatical back in the UK as a chef in fine dining, I returned to rowing and Oxford, and was very grateful for the opportunity to help shape the next chapter at Hinksey.