East Anglian Dragon Boat Festival Launch 2015

East Anglian Dragon Boat Festival launch for 2015

Gable Events and East Coast Hospice launch the  2015 East Anglian Dragon Boat Festival at Nicholas Everitt Park, Oulton Broad, Lowestoft, at the Harbourmaster’s Office, Yacht Station, Bridge Rd, Lowestoft, Suffolk NR33 9JS 

Celebrating the return of the East Anglian Dragon Boat Festival to Oulton Broad on Sunday 31st May 2015 with a new charity partner, East Coast Hospice, Festival organiser, Gable Events and East Coast Hospice hosted the official launch on Tuesday 9th September 2014.

The launch was well attended by local companies interested in entering teams into the Festival next year as well as by representatives of Festival Charity, East Coast Hospice and Festival organisers, Gable Events.

The attendees were as follows:

The companies are;

Sainsburys Great Yarmouth

Mumfords of Southwold

Persimmon Homes

Fusions of Gorleston

Bradwell Butchery

Along with Patrons of East Coast Hospice; Dr Patrick Thompson and Helen McDermott

Chairman of ECH; Jennifer Beesley

Vice Chairman of ECH; Bridget Lowe

And the rest of ECH team; Jeff Wood, Corinne Bryant, Tafadzwa Kativu, Nadia Sondh

Plus Festival Organisers, Gable Events – Merk Hauck, Tom Gillett and Matt Edwards

East Anglian Dragon Boat Festival Launch 2015

Gable Events and their new charity partner East Coast Hospice are excited to announce that together they will bring The East Anglian Dragon Boat Festival back to Oulton Broad. On Sunday 31st May 2015, after a year’s gap, the Dragon Boat Festival is expected to be one of the largest and most eagerly anticipated team events in the region. Up to 40 crews representing companies, organisations, clubs and groups of friends from Lowestoft, Waveney and throughout East Anglia are expected to battle it out over the 200m race course on the Broad at Nicholas Everitt Park raising much-needed funds to build the first hospice in the area.

The dragon boats, qualified helms and all racing equipment will be provided, no previous experience is required and each crew is guaranteed a minimum of three races. The Festival offers a full day of fun on land as well as water with plenty of activities on the bankside to entertain teams and spectators between races.

The Great Yarmouth and Waveney area currently has no inpatient hospice care. Recognising this gaping hole in palliative care, the Festival’s official charity, East Coast Hospice (ECH), has purchased a five acre site near Beacon Park on the Hopton/Gorleston border and planning permission has been granted for a ten bed in-patient facility with complementary therapy rooms, day care and a peaceful garden. Margaret Chadd House will support patients and their families to live as well as they can for as long as they can and when the time comes, to support a dignified and peaceful journey at the end of life. The mammoth task of raising funds and building the hospice cannot be managed without support.

Community Fundraiser, Jeff Wood, is hoping that as many local companies as possible will enter teams into the Dragon Boat Festival and raise sponsorship for this worthwhile local cause. He says “ECH are pleased to be a part of bringing back such a high-profile event to the people of Lowestoft and Waveney, especially with the Air Show and Carnival not taking place this year. It will be a wonderful day for colleagues, friends and families to get together and challenge themselves to racing a dragon boat. We really appreciate the continuing support of the community and local companies to help us ‘Raise the Roof’ of Margaret Chadd house, and we look forward to seeing you all there!”

Carol Lester, Director of Festival organisers, Gable Events, adds; “The Festival is a great chance to try something completely different, enjoy a fabulous day out and raise money for East Coast Hospice. It is also a fantastic team building opportunity – what better way to get to know what makes your colleagues and competitors tick? Next May might seem a long way off but we are expecting the Dragon Boat Festival to be extremely popular next year so we strongly urge teams to sign up early in order to secure a place”. 

For further information please visit
www.dragonboatfestivals.co.uk/eastanglia
or call Gable Events on 01780 470 718.

To find out more about the work of East Coast Hospice call 01493 718707
or visit  www.eastcoasthospice.co.uk

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