2007 Manchester Community Charity Dragon Boat Race

After the success on Sunday 20th August this year Manchester Oriental Organisations Alliance is hosting the 2007 event on Sunday 22nd July 2007 at Salford Water Sports Centre (next to Lowry Outlet Mall).

We had 36 teams which was the maximum number of teams for a one-day event. This will remain unchanged next year but due to the rise in overall costs, fees and charges, the enrolment fee will be revised to ￡300.00 per team in 07. This fee will contribute to the overall operating costs including hiring of the event company, insurance and also the venue hire expenses.

Each boat can accommodate a maximum of 16 crew members and a drummer. The Event Company staff will be responsible for the steering. You can enrol more than 16 so that people can take turn to row and each team will have at least 3 races in the preliminary rounds. Teams with best timing will then proceed to the knock out stages until we have the final six.

The event will start from 0900 hours until 1730 hours. There will be food stalls serving different ethnic cuisines and drinks at reasonable prices.

There will be traditional cultural and contemporary performances from various community groups and exhibition stalls set up on the landside.
It has been an excellent opportunity as an organisation's team building exercise and will definitely be an enjoyable fun-filled family day.

Cancer Research, Red Cross, Help the Aged and Manchester United for UNICEF are the preferred Charities of the event. They form part of the Preparatory Committee. To support your charities you may:
1. Collect sponsorship form through us
2. Agree with them on the fixed amount which will be collected together with the enrolment fee i.e. any amount above ￡300 will go to your charity.
3. Make a separate donation and send it to the charities.

Please note that the Charity's sponsorship form will only be distributed when your team has been enrolled to ensure the forms are used correctly.

You can certainly choose a charity of own as long as they are declared and reported to the organisers of this event so that everyone will have a clear idea of where the money has gone to.

A register has been created to record the enrolments. It will be on a first-come-first-serve basis. The deadline for Enrolment fee is 31st May 2007. Any team failing to meet the deadline, their reservation will be cancelled and the place will be offered to the teams on stand-by.

The 2007 register is now open and we already have 10 teams on the list. Please send me an email providing your contact details: telephone number, email, correspondence address and your team's name/organisation. I'll confirm with you as soon as possible.

Next year we will expand the sponsorship of the event by introducing the following classifications:

￡1500 A team in the race, Corporate logo included on all posters, promotional leaflets, a banner at the venue on the race day and the provision of an exhibition stall if required.

￡1000 A sponsored boat in the race (WITH OR WITHOUT rowers from the organisation) with the name of organisation, Corporate logo included on all posters, promotional leaflets

￡500 Corporate logo on the posters and leaflets.

￡300 Just to enrol a team

￡200 Exhibition Stall (1 X 6' table and 2 chairs)

Please give this the widest publication.

Please feel free to contact me direct for any further enquiries.

Kin

Kin Cheng JP
CEO
MOOA
Room 2.1 Ethnic Minority Foundation Building
12 Charlotte Street
Manchester M1 4FL
Office Tel: 0161 245 3232
Office Fax: 0161 245 3321