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Welly Week round Up Welly Week round up The first ever RABI Welly Week in October proved a great success. Large organised events and small spontaneous activities took place across the country, raising not only funds for the purchase of special items (such as stairlifts and electrically-powered vehicles) to give a better quality of life to those in need in the farming community but, equally importantly, increasing awareness of RABI Over 80 events had been registered and more than £7,000 raised for Welly Week activities by the time R.A.B.I. News went to press. But that number was continuing to grow with many more donations to come. Several activities hit the headlines with at least two groups going for world records. Bicton College, with 208 students and members of staff participating, narrowly missed out on their attempt to perform the longest Welly Conga. Meanwhile, North Beds YFC produced what they hope will prove to be the largest ever pair of wellies, some 12 feet high - we wait with interest to learn if they have made it into the Guinness Book of Records. The Bedfordshire wellies were not the only large ones. Lancashire YFCs transported a nine foot welly on the back of a tractor and trailer from the bottom club of their county in Warrington to the most northern, in Lancaster, where it was welcomed with a welly party. It became renowned during its travels through the county, even getting a mention on BBC Radio One! Welly wanging proved to be the most popular activity during the week, with numerous competitions taking place. The rules tended to vary as did the wanging techniques. At the Cheshire ploughing match, where regional NFU press officer Carl Hudspith was spotted wanging a mean welly, cars parked on the wanging site meant that accuracy rather than brute force was the order of the day. The longest throw so far been notified to us was an impressive 92 feet six inches in Hampshire by Timmy Parsons, Wanging techniques The elegant approach - at NFYFC sports and speaking finals Precision pitch - demonstrated by Carl Hudspith in Cheshire Bicton Wanglers Bicton students warming up before the college wanging competition Preparing for Bicton’s world welly conga record attempt Over arm fling - seen at Dearnford Lake Reverse overhead - at Stratford-upon- Avon Market Giants wellies Welly suited North Beds YFC giant wellies on show at the East of England Autumn Show Land agents, bankers and local businessmen on a guided tour of Stratford market before enjoying a welly breakfast hosted, by local solicitors Lodders, which raised £1,130 www.rabi.org.uk 12
Welly Week round Up Lake winners Ladies of Leisure, from Whitchurch Leisure Club, winners of the Dearnford Lake raft race John and Pat Pimlott of Park Hill Farm Beef, with their welly burgometer, who have donated £100 from their sales at the Dearnford Lake Festival Welly Sunday The Revd Rob Kelsey with members of the Eglingham Church congregation after celebrating their Harvest Thanksgiving. In addition to the collection, £5 was donated to RABI from the Vicar’s Discretionary Fund for every pair of wellies worn at the service You put the right welly in... On the dance floor at Longtown YFC’s welly dance Tractors on a rope Preparing to pull at Bicton College Taking the strain at Moulton College Disco welly Northants young farmers enjoying a welly disco Showing a welly! Entering into the spirit of the occasion at the East of England Autumn Show Welly Supper at the Wellow & District Growmore Club’s annual ploughing match. Fortunately his gun dog was stopped, just in time, from retrieving the welly before the distance could be measured. Together with a generous donation from the Club committee the event raised £250 for RABI. Welly discos, wearing wellies to work or school and decorating wellies were among the most common activities. Longtown YFC, at the very northern tip of Cumbria, pulled out all the stops and proved just how much RABI means to the local community. Their welly dance and raffle raised over £1,900 with the cheque being presented at the Longtown Auction Mart in November. Bicton and Moulton colleges both staged tractor pulling in wellies events. The winning team of nine first year students at Moulton covered the 100- yard course in 30.2 seconds and the college hopes to have raised over £400 in sponsorship. While at Askham Bryan College the welly happenings included a ‘welly sensation’ competition, involving the identification, by touch alone, of mysterious objects in wellies! Also filling wellies, but with sweets for participants to guess how many they held, were Whitby Young Farmers, with the boots as a prize. A number of welly events took place before the week proper had begun. Most notable of these was in Shropshire at the Festival of Fine Foods, Arts and Crafts at Dearnford Lake, Whitchurch. Among a variety of welly orientated activities, a highlight of the day was raft racing with several of the teams, including the West Midlands NFU pirates ably led by regional director David Collier, ending up in the water as their self-constructed rafts came apart. It is expected that the day will have raised several thousand pounds. Another pre Welly Week event was the 13 www.rabi.org.uk
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