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New date for 2008! Event Dragon Boat Racing and the Festival Gable Events has joined with Crightons of Peterborough to bring you the tenth charity dragon boat festival to be staged on the River Nene in Peterborough. The Festival is open to everyone and up to 52 crews are expected to battle it out over the 250m race course, watched by several thousand spectators. The central Peterborough location offers a superb venue for racing and a fabulous day is guaranteed with plenty of bankside family entertainment including funfair, Hereward FM roadshow, children’s activities plus food stalls and bar. Entry Includes
Crightons of Peterborough The business, which started nearly 40 years ago, is still family-owned and run by Managing Director Iain Crighton and his wife, Thelma. Their daughter Michelle and her husband Dan also work in the business. Crightons sponsor Nassington Cricket Club’s youth development programme, and have recently planted 1,500 oak trees at Crightons Wood on Thorpe Meadows. It brings the total planting on the new woodland sponsored by the company to 4,500. Visit www.crightons.co.uk or tel 01733 571836 Peterborough SportsAid Foundation The local Foundation is part of the national SportsAid charity which helped medal winners like Sir Stephen Redgrave and Sally Gunnell in their early days. They raise funds from local commerce and industry as well as from individuals through lunches with famous speakers and donations from events run by other organisations as well as the Dragon Boat Festival. More details from david.thorpe8@ntlworld.com Reg charity no: 1070957 Gable Events Limited Tel 01780 470718 E-mail info@gable-events.co.uk Dragon Boat Racing / Corporate Dragon Boat Racing ©Copyright 2004 - Gable Events Ltd You may not alter any of the contents of the Gable Events web site without prior written permission from Gable Events Ltd. You may use and print the information from the Gable Events web site for your own personal non-commercial purposes only. |
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