Stroke For Stroke had more people taking part than ever before. With some remarkable group and individual efforts boosting the kilometres rowed and money pledged, the campaign to raise vital funds for The Stroke Association has had its most successful year yet - around £40,000 has been raised so far and over 350 people took part in this year's challenge.

GB Rower Anna Watkins clocked up some of the week's first kilometres, before offering her expert advice and tuition to Siemens staff taking part in the challenge at its headquarters in Frimley.

Listed below are some of the achievements made throughout the week on your rowing machines:

• An employee at Siemens' Nottingham site, who individually rowed a total of 100km over the week, raising almost £200.
• Employees in Newcastle took up the challenge to row the distance between the Newcastle Facility to Seabank station, totalling 480km. The final distance reached was a staggering 646km, and funds raised are still coming in.
• Employees at Osram took part in a rowathon, aiming to row a total of 50km in one day ? which they completed in six hours ? they have raised £500 to date.
• A number of Siemens Healthcare employees based the Uptime Centre raised nearly £1,000 and many are now vowing to take to the gym more often as a result!
• A group of four Healthcare and SIS colleagues in Frimley joined forces to row nearly 80k, smashing their £500 fundraising total and collecting over £1,000.
• Staff in Congleton completed 175km in just 4 days. More than 30 employees took part and have so far raised around £500.
• Staff in Derby challenged themselves to row over 100km between them over the week, and ended up clocking up 174km, raising £250 to date.
• Siemens? Crawley site raised £600 with a combination of the sponsored row, prize draws, cake sale and other fundraising activities.
• Tonbridge staff rowed 140km, raising around £300
• The Communications team in Frimley rowed 116km throughout the week raising £898.
• Two highly competitive teams at SIS in London rowed nearly 250km between them raising an impressive £1,100 to date.