50th Vogalonga, Venice, Sunday 24th May, 2026 The Vogalonga is a 30km (18.6 mile) non-competitive marathon created as a protest against motorised boat wash and pollution. This 50th year celebration saw nearly 2,000 boats and over 8,000 participants, including Pool of Life. It was an early start but we were all eager to load our […]
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A selection of events from 2026 Pool of Life take part in many other events besides our training sessions and Pink Paddles. Here’s a selection of events that have happened so far this year. Deysbrook Tesco kindly let us have a tombola stall in their store. This helped us to raise funds and awareness of
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Christmas paddle, 21st December, 2025 Pool of Life took two boats into the Albert Dock this year to celebrate Christmas. Mrs Claus helmed Hope. Hope also had a little drummer elf. Chief Elf helmed Faith. Naught Elf had got down from the shelf to meet us there. He’d heard so many good things about us.
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21st Anniversary Gala Pool of Life, the first ever Breast Cancer Survivors team in the UK, were celebrating 21 years of strength, resilience and camaraderie. Our dragon boat teams stands as a powerful testament to the unwavering spirit of those who have faced the battle against cancer. Over the years, we have paddled together, not
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River of Light, 2025 October is breast cancer awareness month and also when the River of Light illuminations come to Liverpool. The Pool of Life ladies were out on the water to celebrate with help from Russ and Ant (Amathus members), who helmed for us.
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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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