SSY to compete in OSCAR Dragon Boat Race 2024

In September, SSY will be competing in the 2024 OSCAR Dragon Boat Race, raising much needed funds for the Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and the UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (ICH). The race will take place at the Docklands Sailing and Watersports Centre in London, on Friday 13 September 2024.

The race is named after Oscar Parry, son of Spinnaker Chairman Phil Parry. Oscar received life-saving care from GOSH between the ages of 3 and 8. He endured two forms of leukemia, two bone marrow transplants, the first ever childhood mesenchymal stem cell transplant in the UK, over 100 blood transfusions, five brain hemorrhages and five years of chemotherapy. Thanks to the pioneering work of the bone marrow transplant team at GOSH, Oscar is now 25 and the shipping community continues to help save the lives of other children by supporting more and more new treatments for children with previously incurable diseases.

We’d greatly appreciate it if you could find it in your hearts to support us, and more importantly GOSH, ICH and OSCAR, by donating whatever you can through our Just Giving page (link below).

https://www.justgiving.com/page/ssy-oscar-dragon-boat-race-1723103528102

Speaking on SSY’s participation, Robin Hudson, Partner, Dry Cargo & Captain of the SSY OSCAR Dragon Boat team comments:

“SSY is honoured to compete in this year’s OSCAR Dragon Boat Race. Not only will it be a thrilling event, but it also provides a vital opportunity to support Great Ormond Street Hospital. The funds raised will directly benefit the care of sick children and advance life-saving research, making a real difference in their lives. We look forward to the contributing to such an important cause. A huge thank you to the SSY paddlers involved and to all of those who donate. Let’s help give seriously ill children the best chance, and the best childhoods, possible.”