Charity and Community Dragon Boat Festivals

  • Over £12 million raised annually by Gable Events charity dragon boat events
  • Dragon boat events are a superb and proven way of raising funds for charity with individual events raising between £5,000 and £100,000
  • We offer full promotional and marketing support to help you to recruit the teams and will take care of every aspect of the organisation of your day, leaving you free to raise the money!
  • Whether you are hosting a charity or community dragon boat festival, our 20+ years of experience ensures a professional, safe and successful event
  • Up to 60 crews can race during a day and absolutely no previous experience is required
  • Many of our charity and community dragon boat event clients have been booking our services for more than fifteen years proving how popular and successful dragon boat racing is as a fundraiser and how happy our clients are with the service they receive from Gable Events
  • We work with an enormous array of charities, both large and small, city based and rural, and one of our most regular client groups is rotary clubs
  • For full details of how a dragon boat event could benefit your charity, send for a sample quotation and a copy of our comprehensive free charity or community dragon boat event information pack and video presentation
  • Many of our other corporate activities are also run as highly successful charity fundraising events, particularly It’s a Knockout, School Sports, Human Table Football, Giant 8 lane Scalextric and Treasure Hunts.

Some of our recent charity clients

Charities benefiting from Gable Events dragon boat racing expertise include Addenbrooke’s Charitable Trust, Age UK Milton Keynes, Alzheimer’s Society, Bloodwise, Bristol Breakfast Rotary Club, Cambridgeshire Community Foundation, CLIC Sargent, CRASH, Cure Leukaemia, Designability, East Coast Hospice, Help for Heroes, Keech Cottage Hospice, Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research, LOROS Hospice, MacIntyre, Macmillan Cancer Relief, Manchester Oriental Organisations Alliance, Marie Curie Cancer Care, Martin House Hospice, Miracles, MND Association, Northampton Rotary Clubs, Peterborough SportsAid Foundation, PHASE Worldwide, PROSTaid, Rainbows Hospice, RNLI, Rotary Club of Banbury, Sailors’ Society, SHINE, St Elizabeth Hospice, St Giles Hospice, Sue Ryder-Thorpe Hall Hospice, The Rainbow Centre, Tim Reeve Charitable Trust, WaterAid, Weston Park Hospital Cancer Charity, When You Wish Upon a Star, Willen Hospice, WorldVision