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Over £1/2 million raised annually by Gable Events charity dragon boat events
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Dragon boat events are a superb and proven way of raising funds for charity with individual events raising between £5,000 and £100,000
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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!
- Up to 60 crews can race during a day and absolutely no previous experience is required
- Many of our dragon boat event clients have been booking our services for more than ten 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 dragon boat event information pack and CD 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 Alzheimer’s Society, Bristol Breakfast Rotary Club, Cambridgeshire Community Foundation, ChildFlight, CLIC Sargent, CRASH, East Anglia’s Children’s Hospices, Help for Heroes, Keech Cottage Children’s Hospice, Leukaemia & Lymphoma Research, LOROS Hospice, 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, RNLI, Rotary Club of Banbury, Sailors’ Society, St Elizabeth Hospice, St Giles Hospice, The Children’s Trust, The Rainbow Centre, Tim Reeve Charitable Trust, WaterAid, Weston Park Hospital Cancer Charity, When You Wish Upon a Star, Wishes4Kids, Willen Hospice, WorldVision |
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"Thanks for helping make our event a brilliant day, the feedback has been tremendous."
Weston Park Hospital Cancer Charity
Case Study:
British Paralympic Association Dragon Boat Event
Numbers:
From 4 teams to 50+ teams. We usually race one or two sets of two, three or four dragon boats at a time depending on final numbers. Traditional 40’ boats accommodate 12 to 16 paddlers plus a drummer, 30’ boats seat 8 to 10 paddlers plus a drummer
Venue:
Any relatively still river, lake, reservoir, canal, dock, sheltered harbour, marina etc. with good access. We have a comprehensive list of suitable venues nationwide
Package:
Gable Events will provide the dragon boats, ancillary equipment, professional safety cover, buoyancy vests, BDA qualified race officials and helms, BDA permit, medals and trophy for the winning crew(s), PA system and race commentary, race schedule and computerized results, event control unit, authentic Chinese venue decoration, £5m public liability insurance and professional event management. Optional extras include Chinese lion dance, catering & themed entertainment, photographer/video crew, client name/logo on boats, supporting activities and event infrastructure eg marquees, furniture, toilets etc |
