This weekend 19 Pool of Life members embarked on their bi-annual weekend retreat to the beautiful Plaish Park retreat in Shropshire. We arrived mid-afternoon to a really warm welcome of home-made cookies and a ready-made log fire. We had a chilled Friday night as always, with pizza, chips and plenty of corked medication to […]
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The St Helens Star has covered the recent ‘Dragon Boat Taster Day’ with an article and some photographs on its website. Read ‘Breast cancer survivors hit Liverpool waterfront in Dragon Boat‘.
Press coverage in the St Helens Star Read More »
Fresh from our trip to Florence, where we paddled among the finest breast cancer dragon boat teams in the world, we held an incredibly moving naming ceremony for our new boat. We already have Hope, so it was fitting to call our new boat Faith. Faith has been funded by the kindness and generosity of
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Some members of Pool of Life were recently honoured to take part in an event which aimed to turn Florence pink for a weekend. Every four years teams like Pool of Life, who have members that have survived breast cancer, are undergoing treatment for the disease, or are living with a secondary breast cancer diagnosis,
2018 IBCPC Dragon Boat Festival, Florence, Italy Read More »
Thanks to the charity fundraising efforts with Sainsbury’s East Prescot Road, Pool of Life have been able to purchase a new boat. Our existing boat, Hope, has welcomed hundreds of breast cancer survivors and supporters and will continue to do so. The new boat will enable us to get even more people out on the
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In glorious sunshine, teams from as far afield as Bournemouth and Donegal came together to join in the 2018 Dragons and Flowers event. As ever, the Pool of Life members worked tirelessly to ensure everyone got a real flavour of what it is like to be in a boat, paddle as a team and –
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Pool of Life recently took part in a BDA event at the water sports centre. They competed in the ladies category, against a number of other teams, some of whom have qualified to represent GB in upcoming international events. The weather was gloomy and the conditions were difficult, but it was great practice for the
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