This year, competitors from across the shipping world will join together on the last day of London International Shipping Week (15 September) to take part in the famous annual OSCAR Dragon Boat Races.

Having made a significant impact on funding for Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital and founding the world class ‘Ocean Floor’ there, the campaign now focuses on funding research into lifesaving preventative medicines – all of which are cutting edge, world-first, research projects and some of which have already proven to help save the lives of very sick children.

But, more research is needed and therefore more funding, for more details and how to enter this mammoth event see www.gosh.org/get-involved/philanthropy/how-you-can-support-us/oscar