On the 21st September 2024, a team of 8 Rowers from our club will take part in this marathon rowing event in London.

They will be rowing our Cornish Pilot Gig Dasher in an epic 21.6 mile race down the River Thames in The Great River Race to raise funds for the Mermaid Centre at Treliske Hospital in Truro.

They will go head to head, or bow to bow with over 300 fixed seat craft in this magnificent spectacle along with 2,500 competitors competing for 37 trophies.

As breast cancer has affected many of our club members lives we saw this as a great opportunity for us to support such a worthwhile local charity.

Please help us to support The Mermaid Centre by sponsoring our team.

Supporting The Mermaid Centre Fund, part of Royal Cornwall Hospitals Charity will help them to provide additional equipment, enhance their environments and provide additional training for their staff, all to provide the very best care that they can for their patients.

The Mermaid Centre is home to the Cornwall Breast Screening Programme (NHS BSP) and the Oncoplastic Breast Unit. They also monitor patients with a family history that maybe at higher risk of developing breast cancer.

It was one of the first units in the UK to have a fully digitalised mammography screening service. Their commitment to providing the highest possible quality screening programme was judged the best screening programme in the region in 2008, and among the best in the UK by the South West Screening Quality Assurance team. In October 2011, the Mermaid Centre was one of the first breast units in the country to be endorsed by Breakthrough Breast Cancer for their Service Pledge commitment to the patients of Cornwall.