On Saturday 11th May 2019, Pink Champagne Breast cancer Survivors Dragon Boat team set off along the River Stour to paddle 27 miles. The team were fund raising to help with ongoing costs of such things as boat storage and maintenance and kit. Due to tides it was...

Our first BDA event of the year hosted by Worcester Dragon Boat Racing Club, an early start and a cold easterly wind blowing all day. We were honoured to be assigned a dragon boat provided by Worcester Dragons, named 'The Spirit of Helen', named after one of their...

July 2018 Pink Champagne BCS Dragon Boat team participated in the IBCPC Dragon Boat Festival in Florence, Italy. This is a shorter clip of some of the highlights of that event.  https://youtu.be/B9BKjR7Yhs0   A full length documentary by Peter John Cooper,  about the...

Mr Les Carvell of "Heaven Can Wait, I'm Busy" kindly donated £500 to Pink Champagne to start off his new campaign called "Get it  Checked."  He is spreading the message to the public at large, to get checked if there are concerns over mental or physical health and to...

Pink Champagne took part in the 2nd race of the Henley Winter Series, organised by Henley Dragons and held at their base on the banks of Henley on Thames. It was a perfect November day with blue skies and sunshine, and not to cold once we started racing. There were 16...

  In August 2018 we had a picnic for our supporters and friends to celebrate, Pink Champagne's 10th year anniversary. We also had a dotting of the eye ceremony for our 2 new boats. The ceremony also called 'Awakening the Dragon' or 'Dotting of the Eye' traditionally...

Pink Champagne hosted their Annual Dragon Boat Festival on Sunday 16th September 2018 at Hengistbury Head Outdoor Centre,  Bournemouth BH6 4EN. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mb74wxAN6PA&t=31s  

Pink Champagne travelled to the  Canal Olympic Castelldefels for the 1st Hong Kong Dragonboat Festival in Barcelona. Pink Champagne won the Breast Cancer Survivors race. Afterwards we joined together for a moving flower ceremony, with BCS teams from France, Spain,...

After a 6am start the team arrived at Surrey Docks, London - a new venue for us to a beautiful day. We had a full days racing, consisting of 6 x 200m races and 3 x 350m. We now feel  we are competing with the other ladies teams , none of whom race as a breast cancer...

Pink Champagne Breast Cancer Survivors Dragon Boat is regularly seen on the River Stour at Christchurch on a Saturday morning – a pink boat occupied by ladies and men who celebrate life after their diagnosis, support one another and like the occasional challenge! We...