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Only one week to go until the UK's first ICF SUP World Cup! Save the full schedule!🏆🙌

SUP, sip and soak up all the coastal vibes on the English Riviera.

🗓️ World Cup Dates: 26-28 June 2026
📍 English Riviera | South Devon

Why not make a weekend of it? Come and soak up the festival atmosphere, explore the beautiful bays, try paddleboarding, take part in relaxed races, enjoy fantastic local food and watch the world’s best paddlers battle it out on the water 🔥

💙 Join in the free AquaPaddle UK on the 26th at Torre Abbey Sands. Finish off the week with a social timed 5k paddle with a beautiful backdrop!

🌊 Enjoy free 45-minute paddleboarding sessions in the marina with Yak Shack from 27th to 28th.

👥 Take part in the SUP1000 on the 28th. Join in an attempt to set a new World Record with 1,000 stand-up paddlers on the water at the same time. Sign up on our website by the 25th!

Can't wait to see you there!

For further details and to enter any of the ICF and SUPER Festival races, visit our website 👉https://superfestival.paddleuk.org.uk/

Top tips to this summer 🦺 Always wear a buoyancy aid or personal flotation device (PFD) when paddling. It will help keep you afloat if you get separated from your craft.

If stand up paddleboarding, a waist-worn personal flotation device may be a suitable option for you.

For more advice on choosing and fitting a buoyancy aid, and how to keep safe, visit our website 👉 https://orlo.uk/sI3Gt

🌿 Invasive Species Week Giveaway 🌿

To mark Invasive Species Week starting next week, we’ve got 50 Bio Mate portable cleaning kits to give away!

BioMate's kits help you check, clean and dry your kit wherever you paddle, helping paddlers stop the spread of invasive species between waterways.

💬 To enter, simply comment 'check, clean, dry' on this post.

50 winners will be chosen at random. Entries close at midnight on Thursday 18 June.

We’ll contact winners directly and arrange delivery.

Let’s keep our blue spaces clean and protected 💧Good luck!

That’s a wrap on another fantastic year of action!👊💙

Over the past two weeks, thousands of paddlers and volunteers from all corners of the UK have come together to protect our waterways. From rivers and canals to coastlines and lochs, you've removed thousands of tonnes of litter and junk.

If you went on a cleanup, don't forget to log it with us on our map here so we can see the impact 👉https://orlo.uk/pKUs7

As a thank you for all your efforts and for logging your cleanup, you can redeem a £5 voucher from Decathlon UK 🙌

📷 Photo by Parkinson Pickers on the Great River Ouse

What a week for Great Britain at the European Freestyle Championships in Lieksa, Finland 🙌

Four medals. One European title.

🥇 Math Cradock – Junior Men's K1 European Champion
🥉 Matthew Stephenson – Bronze Medal, Men's C1
🥉 Isabella Wormall – Bronze Medal, Women's K1
🥉 Ottilie Burrill Smith – Bronze Medal, Women's C1

👏 Congratulations to the whole team on an outstanding Championships!

Victory for Joe Clarke in Augsburg! 🥇

He now sits just a point off the overall World Cup lead, while Ben Haylett made it through to his first senior kayak cross World Cup final 👏

First career KL3 European gold - and a win for Scotland at the World Cup! 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

A Sunday to savour for Hope Gordon 🙌

Silver for Stuart Wood! 🥈

Plenty of confidence taken after another strong display 💪

Birthday gold for Emma Wiggs! 🎉

Her second medal of a brilliant weekend 👏

Kerry and Emma Christie win bronze in the women's canoe doubles at Wildwater World Cup 3 🥉🥉