The Salford Dragon Boat Festival has been set up as an 'Open festival', in which each team entering nominates the charity they will be supporting. Teams can either support one of the charities under the 'charities' tab by downloading an entry form from that charity's webpage, or enter by using the blue Entry Forms button at the top of this page.

Dragon boating is highly progressive in that the skills and techniques very quick to pick up, which makes it ideal for novice teams. For that reason, no previous dragon boating experience is necessary as full instruction will be given on the day. Each team must have a nominated charity to support and the entry price per team is fixed, irrespective of the eventual number of people in the team.

Planned Race Program for the 2012 Festival:

09:30 – Team Captain’s briefing.
09:40 – First teams to be called up for their safety briefing.
10:00 – Round 1 start.
12:15 – Round 2 start,
13:15 – Round 3 start
14:20 – Qualifying races completed.
14:30 – Finalists loaded and making their way up to the start.
14:40 – Grand Final Race
14:50 – Award Ceremony
15:00 – Festival End

How to enter:

Existing Charity in our 'Charities' list:
Each charity listed in our 'Charities' list has entry forms that can be download direct via the red 'Entry Form' button on their page.

Other charities not in our 'Charities' list:
The list is not exclusive and only features charities supported by teams in the past. If your team's nominated charity is not on our list, download a blank entry form via the blue 'Entry Form' button on this (or any other 'non-charity' page) and when we get your completed Captain's Entry Form, a webpage for your team's nominated charity will be written.