Our Shareholders, W&R Barnett Ltd, are celebrating their 125th Anniversary and to celebrate this occasion they have arranged a Dragon Boat Spectacular which is to be held in Belfast on Wednesday 15th September. This event will bring together all divisions of their businesses to participate in the race and also raise much needed funds for well-deserving charities. In total there will be 10 teams of 12 racing. The UM Group have 2 teams, a total of 24 people, from across all parts of the UM Group.

*** BEST OF LUCK TO TEAM UM DRAGONS - bring home the overall winners prize please ***

Team members are:-

Boat 1 - Ben Macer, Jill Pask, Sarah Cripps, Andrew Creasey, Simon Markham, Adam Pierce, Sophie Ryan, Agnieszka Sriskanthan-Reksa, Robbie Flynn, Niall O'Donnell, John Weglarz, Philip Irvine

Boat 2 - Fionn Beech, Vic Brodrick, Geraldine Carroll, Isabel Conde, Nigel Jones, James Ramsden, Karl Pass, Ben Maynard, Bastian Duesing, Lewis Chambers, Bryan Davies

We are raising money for the British Heart Foundation and we'd be so grateful for your support. The BHF has helped halve the number of people dying from heart and circulatory disease in the UK but sadly every day hundreds of people lose their lives. It's only thanks to support from people like us that the BHF can create new treatments and discover new cures. £24 could pay for two hours of research by an early career scientist, but every pound helps so please give what you can to help us hit our target. Thanks!