2025 21st Anniversary – Oars & Paws Dog Show

Our 21st Anniversary Fun Dog Show!!!

Saturday 20th September 2025 in Daisy Meadow, Heybridge Basin                                              for Heybridge Basin residents, their family and friends.

This is a very special year!! We can’t believe that we have come so far, from small beginnings to an enjoyable fun filled day for so many. Apart from the tunnel in the agility ring, kindly donated by Mrs Marie Swann, we have made or borrowed all the equipment, because every penny that is spent at our show is passed on to our chosen charity.  This year we have nominated the Chelmer and Blackwater Canal, the newly named Essex Navigation Trust. It is the reason our village came into existence and we all love walking along its banks, watching the locking or just being part of its unique atmosphere.

We run classes for all ages of dogs and their owners, with fabulous rosettes for the winners and a Challenge Shield for the overall winner.

Try our Agility Course and earn a rosette for every clear round. Sample our delicious hot and cold drinks, home made savoury and sweet and frozen delights for dogs and their owners, served by our experienced qualified team.

Registration starts at noon, with the first Class at 1pm sharp.

Since our first show in 2004 we have raised over £14,500 for local charities including Maldon Wildlife Rescue, The Cinnamon Trust, Guide Dogs for the Blind, Row4aReason and Clarks Farm Greyhound Rehoming Centre, British Heart Foundation, Farleigh Hospice, Last Wish, Maldon Sea Cadets and many more. This is all thanks to our fabulous supporters, sponsors and our wonderful helpers. THANK YOU.

We are inviting local businesses and friends to sponsor a class for £20 to help raise more funds for the Charity. Do let us know if you would like to be a sponsor.

Every penny goes to our chosen charity!

Click on the link below for the show’s schedule and entry form:

Entry Form and Schedule 2025

Oars and Paws Fun Dog Show 2024

This is our 20th Anniversary Fun Dog Show!!!

Saturday 14th September 2024 in Daisy Meadow, Heybridge Basin

We are delighted to announce that this year’s chosen charity is Clark’s Farm Greyhound Rehoming Centre, near Maldon https://www.clarksfarmgreyhounds.org.uk/

The emphasis of our dog show is FUN and primarily for the Residents of Heybridge Basin, Friends and Families.

Registration starts at noon, with the first Class at 1pm sharp. There will be homemade refreshments, homemade doggy treats and ice cream for sale.

Since our first show in 2004 we have raised over £13,300 for local charities including Maldon Wildlife Rescue, The Cinnamon Trust, Guide Dogs for the Blind, Row4aReason and Clarks Farm Greyhound Rehoming Centre. This is all thanks to our fabulous supporters and our wonderful helpers. THANK YOU.

As last year, we are inviting local businesses and friends to sponsor a class for £20 to help raise more funds for the Charity. We still have a few classes available for sponsorship, so do let us know if you would like to be a sponsor.

Every penny goes to our chosen charity!

Click on the link below for the show’s schedule and entry form:

Dog Show Entry Form and Schedule 2024

Oars and Paws Fun Dog Show 2022

Best in Show – Benji and Reserve – Bonsai

Thank you, thank you, thank you to everyone who helped make our 18th Annual Oars and Paws fun dog show a huge success on Saturday 17th September ??! Thanks to all our helpers, judges, audience, participants and fabulous dogs???

Congratulations to our Show Champion, Benji and Reserve, Bonsai.

The show was blessed with beautiful sunshine and raised in excess of £600, together with some generous donations from those who weren’t able to attend, for Clarks Farm Greyhound Rehoming Centre, near Maldon, Essex which is a fantastic achievement for a small show!

 Thank you again ?

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Meet the Greyhounds

Meet the Greyhounds

Today, 4th October, we had the welcome invitation to visit Clarks Farm Greyhound Rescue a registered charity based in Little Totham, near Maldon, Essex, the benefactors of our scaled down fun dog show, held last month. We were able to meet the lovely Hannah and had great pleasure in presenting her with the £483 raised from the show together with some other donations! We also had the opportunity to meet some of the gorgeous greyhounds who are waiting to be re-homed.

It was a lovely morning and quite busy, arriving as one of the dogs was just leaving, having just been adopted, then a group of dogs returned from their walk with their handlers.

We normally raise more money from our fun dog shows, but this year due to early days of the relaxation of COVID-19 restrictions we decided to play safe and keep numbers low by promoting it almost exclusively within our village. We hope that next year the world may have opened up again and we can have  a slightly larger show. To this end we intend to support Clarks Farm Greyhound Rescue again.

Save the date of Saturday 17th September 2022!

Huge thank you to everyone who supported our show this year!

Please visit their website: www.clarksfarmgreyhounds.org.uk for more information.

The Oars and Paws Fun Dog Show 2020 update

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Some of you may have been wondering what has happened to our fun dog show this year and it probably won’t come as a surprise to realise that due to the current madness in the world caused by the Covid-19 pandemic, this year’s show has very sadly had to be cancelled.

We’re extremely disappointed to not go ahead, but it just wouldn’t have been practicable or safe for all those concerned in the running of it and for those to attend. It would also have been irresponsible of us to expect everyone, in whatever capacity, to support us at this time.

It is our intention, conditions being favourable and safe, to hold the show next September 2021. We shall keep you updated in good time throughout the coming months and hopefully see you then!

In the meantime, stay safe and fingers crossed that the madness subsides and we can resume a life which somehow reflects what we have enjoyed previously!

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Oars and Paws Fun Dog Show 2019 – Update

September 14th is the date of our fun dog show, so make a date in your diary! This will be our 16th Year!!

It will be held in the usual place, Daisy Meadow, Heybridge Basin with registration at 12 noon and first class starting promptly at 1.00 pm. Lots of fun to be had along with refreshments including home made cakes and biscuits and home made doggy treats.

Free entry to show with £1.50 entry per class for each dog. We are pleased to announce that one of our chosen charities to benefit from the show is the Cinnamon Trust. This is a national charity, which also operates locally, for elderly people (aged 60 and over), the terminally ill and their pets. Their primary aim is to help keep people and their pets together. This can include dog walking and pet care and short term fostering. They also provide long term care for pets whose owners have died or moved into residential accommodation which will not accept pets. Please look at their website for more details, cinnamon.org.uk.

Click on the link below for the entry form:

Entry Form Schedule 2019