Plumpton is a winner!
This week we were delighted to do the charity collection at Plumpton. It was a fantastic win for the group as an amazing £605 was collected!! After a misty March morning a classic Spring turnaround saw the weather turning brighter giving the perfect opportunity to soak up the sun as well as the atmosphere of a day at the races. Thank you to the group’s wonderful team of volunteers, armed with buckets in hand, their energy was as high as their smiles! Grateful thanks to the racegoers, trainers, owners and bookies who really stepped up to support LFRDA, their generosity made all the difference and turned a good event into a winning one. A huge shout out to Plumpton Racecourse who looked after us so well and lived up to that extra furlong community spirit!
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Terrific Tombola Total
We are pleased to announce our tombola at the Charities Fair was a roaring success and we raised a brilliant £406!! Massive thanks to our wonderful team who helped before, during and after and brought everything together in such a fantastic way. Thank you to everyone who visited our stall, some returning several times. It was lovely spending time with familiar friends and some new connections were made as well as a few folk interested in volunteering with us. Many people had lots of fun entering into the tombola spirit and trying their luck, well done to the winners we hope you enjoy the prizes you won. A huge thank you to our amazing community, your support means a lot to us and you have played an important role in making this fundraiser really special – already looking forward to next year!
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Fun & Fundraising
Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo! There was certainly plenty of magic on Saturday at Ashington Festival and we are thrilled to announce we raised an amazing £1006! Massive thanks to everyone for taking part and without all the donated bottles we would not have raised so much. Special thanks to the terrific team of helpers throughout the day – you know who you are! What a stellar bunch full of heart and enthusiasm. Grateful thanks to everyone who bought a ticket, some coming back to our stall several times, and well done to everyone who won a prize, we hope you had as good a day as we did. The fair was a perfect setting to enjoy the company of new and old friends and their canine companions all enjoying a traditional afternoon, the laughter was contagious and we sparked some new interest in joining our group. Once again, we honestly can’t thank you enough for supporting our fundraising, in addition we would like to thank the organisers for welcoming us back again. We are still utterly blown away by the community spirit, generosity and kindness you’ve shown us which means so much. Same again next year?! 🤩
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Hold onto your hats, we have a winner!
Well folks, this week we made our RDA sessions egg-stra special and it’s an absolute pleasure to announce that our Treasurer and coach Sarah-Jane was our very worthy winner of the raffle. Rider Jayne, who won the raffle last Easter, picked out the winning ticket. On receiving the basket SJ declared “I never win anything” well SJ, let it be said you have now! Congratulations, we are so happy for your win, you totally deserve this treat. Huge thanks to volunteer Denise who organised the raffle and donated such an epic basket choc-full of Easter goodies. Thank you to everyone who entered the draw, you are the best. Another successful fundraiser for the LFRDA collective and everyone should be totally proud of themselves as together we raised an amazing 🌟£200!!🌟 From the look on the Easter Bunny’s face, AKA our horsey hero fabulous Flynn, he would agree it doesn’t get much sweeter than that.
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Winning at Brighton Races…
We are extremely grateful to Brighton Racecourse who invited us to fundraise at their Spring Racing fixture this week. Our team of brilliant collectors were thrilled to raise an amazing £266! The racegoers, staff and bookies were very generous with many stopping to chat to our volunteers and take an interest in the therapeutic benefits of our work in bringing people and horses together. Thank you so much to everyone who supported this event by either shaking the buckets or putting cash in them!!
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Success at South Downs…
Last Saturday we held a very successful bucket collection at South Downs Nurseries which is the largest centre run by Tates of Sussex Garden Centres. We’re thrilled to announce we raised £313.03 and thank you to our fantastic team of volunteers for holding our charity buckets and for representing LFRDA so brilliantly. To every single person who generously donated money to our cause we’d like to say a huge thank you. We met so many lovely people (and dogs!) who chatted with us and took an interest in our work. Grateful thanks to the South Downs management team and staff for welcoming us, especially Sarah for letting us have the pitch and making this fundraiser possible. We were blown away by the support we received from everyone and a heartfelt thank you from team LFRDA 💜
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