Join us for this spectacular annual shipping industry showdown where 30 elite teams battle for the win, all while enjoying delicious food, refreshing drinks, and lively quayside entertainment - that has proudly contributed over £2.5m to the OSCAR Campaign's impressive £3.6m total.
Resources, Downloads & Everything Else!
We've curated a number of resources and downloads that will help you along your fundraising journey! Please use these as a starting point, and feel free to add your own flare and branding to enhance your sponsorship opportunities.
Here you will find all things OSCAR Dragon Boat Race. How to get there, order of events, some top tips for the day as well as any resourses you may need for fundraising and your justgiving page.
Downloads
Looking to download logos and other key information?
2025 Teams Include
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Oscar's Story
So many more children now survive leukaemia than don't. Thankfully, after 5 years of treatment, my son Oscar was one of the lucky ones.
But they don't all make it.
With your support, the medical teams at Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children are working on groundbreaking new research projects which aim to develop treatments for the children we still can’t save. Oscar was saved by just this kind of experimental new treatment.
Every September, Spinnaker host 30 shipping teams messing about on the water at the OSCAR Dragon Boat Race in London Docklands to help raise funds to support this vital work.
One of the current challenges is to find out why the new CAR-T cell therapy which has saved the lives of so many children with otherwise incurable acute lymphoblastic leukaemia doesn't work in about half of the children who then relapse. By solving that problem we can save those children.
Why wast the OSCAR Campaign created?
Lots of children are diagnosed with incurable conditions. It is only because of individual medical professionals, who dedicate themselves to researching these niche illnesses, that these children have any chance of survival.
Funding for childhood illness and research is surprisingly limited, meaning that progress relies heavily on charitable giving.
What has changed in recent years is the speed at which new theories can be tested on living patients. So what the OSCAR Campaign has been funding and will fund again in the future is what’s known as bench-to-bedside treatment. This approach gives children with no other hope access to expert doctors who are willing to trial experimental treatments. Many of these treatments have proven successful and, in Oscar’s case, have gone on to be developed further, saving the lives of countless other children.
Setting up your JustGiving
You have signed up. Now what? Below are some instructions to set up your JustGiving Page. These make sure you are linked to the main GOSH event so everyone can keep track of how the fundraising efforts are going, help spur on a little bit of competition and help us and GOSH keep track of the total amount raised.
Feel free to use any of the pictures to the right or any pictures of videos from our albums to share on your JustGiving Page.
Photos & Videos
On our Flickr we have all the albums from all Dragon Boat Races dating back to the very first in 2014! Below you will find the most recent of resources. Photos, videos as well as shorter videos suitable for Instagram, LinkedIn or any other social media you may use.
2024 Video
2023 Video
2018 Promo Video
2023 Instagram Short Videos
2024 Short Videos
Fundraising Tips
By signing up to the OSCAR DragonBoat Race you pledged to raise £6,500. In the last few years we have had one company that has really raised the bar, raising over £800,000 in 2 years. Last year we also introduced the Fundraiser Award for the top fundraiser, so get those competition hats on, it is all to play for!
In case you were struggling with inspiration, here are some fundraising ideas that could help your efforts.
Email Templates
Team Recruitment
Save the date & a brief history of the OSCAR Campaign
Sponsorship Request Email 1 (incl. Video)
The OSCAR story on why we paddle every year
Sponsorship Request Email 2
Use this to request sponsorship for your boat
Sponsorship Request Email 3
Please sponsor our team
Sponsorship Request Email 4
Please sponsor our team - with facts and figures
Information for Teams & Rowers
Everything you need to know for the big day
Important Information
Before the big day, there are a few things you should know.
Spectators are welcome – those who are not having the BBQ can just turn up subject to us not exceeding health & safety regulations. Those who are having the BBQ can register and pay below. If you are bringing along more than a handful of spectators, please contact Megan Duckworth at GOSHCC directly and she can organise this for you.
We are here - its time to GO GO GO!
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6:00pm
6:30pm
7:00pm
Registration & Health and Safety Briefing
Heat One
BBQ Served and Heat Two
Grand Finale
Medal Ceremony and Speeches
Music and Drinks
Useful Contacts
Have a questions we've not answered? No problem! Speak to Phil or Beth, their contact details are below:
We love this event. The whole office gets behind it and looks forward to taking part every year. It’s good for shipping. It’s good for London. And it has made a difference by funding the development of new treatments and techniques that are already in use.