Wonderful Windermere In late June 2021, when lockdown restrictions were eased, a group of Pool Of Life members along with friends and family had a fun weekend surrounded by the beauty of Windermere. Lake Windermere The group stayed at Park Cliffe Camping and Caravan Estate. Pods are available for hire too! Preston Dragons kindly […]
Pool of Life wins National Lottery funding from Sport England POOL OF LIFE, Liverpool’s very own Breast Cancer Survivors’ Dragon Boat Racing Team, is celebrating having been awarded £3,419 of National Lottery funding from Sport England’s ‘Return to Play’ Small Grants Award Scheme. The money will help the charity buy additional safety equipment
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The Team Undefeatable Dance Team Missing social connections due to the Covid lockdowns? Wondering what to do about it? read on, as Ellie and friends turned to streamed Zoom meetings as one solution. The video is also available on youtube: Please meet our Team Undefeatable dance team! For the last 10
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Intro Life and Lockdown have inspired me to write poems. I just kind of write about experiences of my own and of family and friends. Having the time with not going to work and also my family’s whatsapp group, have all been encouraging me to write more. I’m now back in work, but still
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Exciting POL news!! A few weeks ago, POL were lucky enough to be visited by producer and director Paul Craven of the BBC Inside Out team, who filmed a typical POL pink paddle, and interviewed POL’s lovely founder, Eve Elliot-Pearson. The filming was for an episode of Inside Out focusing on Dragon Boating, and the
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Kelsall & Friends Pink Charity Walk!, 5th October 2019 This was the second Pink Charity Walk we have held in the village during October Cancer Awareness Month, with all monies raised being shared 50:50 between NW Cancer Research (Kelsall Branch) and Pool Of Life. This years walk proved to be a great success again, matching
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Pool of Life paddle as part of Pink Royals at the BDA nationals in Nottingham, September 2019 At the BDA nationals in Nottingham last month, eight Pool of Life members joined up with six other teams to make up the Pink Royals crew. The Pink Royals is the UK’s first-ever composite breast cancer survivors’ dragon
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5k Your Way, Princes Park, Liverpool, Saturday 28th September, 2019 It always surprises me that there is so much going on locally around Liverpool that you don’t get to find out about. I was lucky enough that Merseyside Sport Partnership put me in touch with Myka Heard, who helps to co-ordinate ‘5k Your Way’ in
