Windermere weekend, September 2025 Our annual weekend in Windermere was held later than usual this year but Pool of Life would not be beaten by cooler weather. Saturday, September 27th saw us braving the water at Fell Foot. On Saturday, 28th September the morning mist gave us a stunning setting for a lovely paddle on […]
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Bradford Dragonboat Festival, 2025 Sunday, June 29th, 2025 saw the Pool of Life racing team head to Roberts Park in Bradford to compete in the Super Cup Division of The Lord Mayor’s ‘Race the Dragon’ event. The weather was glorious, the atmosphere fantastic, and the competition tough. We tried our best and although we didn’t
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Watch out Barcelona! Pool of Life joined forces with Pink Royals UK Breast Cancer Dragonboat Team to take part in the 6th Barcelona International Dragon Boat Festival which took place from 23rd to 25th May, 2025. The Pink Royals are a composite breast cancer team created in June 2019 which enables paddlers to take part
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After a lovely morning welcoming new members to our pink paddle, Pool of Life members enjoyed a lovely meal on the newly refurbished Royal Daffodil. The service was very good and meals were delicious and the cocktails and drinks are quite nice too. It is a beautiful floating venue, based at the entrance to the
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Hoping for a place in the GB Breast Cancer Survivors team, 2025 March 8th 2025. On a beautiful spring weekend a party of keen paddlers from Pool of Life travelled to Silver Wing Lake, near Heathrow, for trials for the first team GB for breast cancer survivors. This was for selection for the world championships
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2024 Christmas Paddle Sunday, December 15th was Christmas paddle day for Pool of Life members. We came prepared for the festivities, all wearing Christmas hats. Time to warm-up. Then, helmed by Russ, we paddled out of the watersports centre and along the dock where we sang Christmas songs, After the paddle it was time for
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20 years of Pool of Life We could not let the anniversary of twenty years since Pool of Life was formed pass by unnoticed. A celebration meal was arranged at the function room of the Duke Street Food and Drink Market for Friday, 01.11.24. The food was delicious, the service outstanding and a wonderful evening
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River of Light evening paddle, 2024 Friday, 25.10.24 was the opening night for this year’s River of Light in Liverpool. October is Breast Cancer Awareness month and Pool of Life took two dragon boats out to the Albert Dock to celebrate and raise awareness of our charity and what we are all about. We paddled
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