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Around the countryWiltshire cream tea survivesdownpourTorrential rain meant a last minute change ofvenue for the cream tea organised by AngelaBowerman and her family, at Pewsey HillFarm, from a marquee to a traditional woodbeamed barn. As well as an excellent tea, the90 guests were treated to a fascinating talkby retired royal dressmaker Mrs Rose,accompanied by occasional bleating from thelambs penned at one end of the barn! A mostmemorable day raised £1,200 for RABI.Lunch and a walk in the valleyCuddystone Hall in the College Valley was thevenue for the annual RABI Northumberlandsummer lunch, which raised over £1,000. Aswell as an excellent meal the 100 guests wereable to walk along the valley and enjoy thebeautiful scenery.DonationsAround the countryCornish CheeseNovelfundraisingin WiltshireIt’s not often thatfarming and crimewriting are linkedon the same menu,but they werewhen Melanie andJeremy Newmanheld a literaryluncheon for RABIin their convertedCotswold barn atWinkworth Farm,near Malmesbury. The 80 guests wereentertained by local authors Matthew Fortand Martin O’Brien (pictured above), and withsigned copies being sold for RABI the eventraised £720.Lunch on the racecourseOver 250 people gathered for the ShropshireNFU Chairman’s lunch at Ludlow Racecourse.With a very tasty welcome drink, a deliciousbuffet and an exciting promises auction, agood day was had by all. NFU chairman RobAlderson and Jen Parry worked extremelyhard collecting £6,000 for RABI.ASDA donationWorcestershire concertThe Curradine Barns at Shrawley, courtesy ofMr & Mrs John Ballard, provided a magicalatmosphere for the Worcestershire RABIconcert. An audience of over 80 were treatedto some excellent musical performances bysoloist Jennifer Simpson and the WorcesterMale Voice Choir. The concert raised £1,045.Ruby anniversary gala eveningA superbly decked out marquee awaited the160 guests who enjoyed the Surrey RABIcommittee’s 40th annual gala evening. Heldat Stumblehole Farm by kind permission, andwith the active support, of Martin andChristina Burton, it was an excellent occasiondespite the pouring rain. With an auction anda fantastic tombola the evening raised over£7,000.Wet day by the lake in KentDespite appalling weather, 90 people turnedup for what has become an annual hog roast,nature trail and fly fishing day at GoddingtonLake, organised by David and AndreeChantler, with the Kent committee.Notwithstanding the conditions, with a silentauction, raffle, and cake and plant stall, theevent raised more than £1,240.Warleggan wedding celebrationsDairy wholesaler Chris Taylor (bottom right)helped to raise hundreds of pounds for RABI bybuying the prize-winning cheeses from the RoyalCornwall Show which were donated to us by theCornish Guild of Smallholders. Chris is picturedhere with (front from left) son Rhys Taylor, guildchairman Joy Cheeseman, and (back from left)Cornwall committee treasurer John Saunter, PhilipStansfield of the Cornish Cheese Company, BryanCox from Davidstow Creamery, and Sam Meadfrom Lynher Dairies.ASDA staff raised an incredible £1,018 for RABIat the Royal Cornwall Show by selling producefrom their stand at the end of the three-dayevent. Pictured are regional officer PhilippaSpackman and ASDA’s senior trader Jim Viggars.Cheque from Devon NFUNFU members inNorth Devon raised£128 for RABI at adinner earlier thisyear and Bidefordgroup secretaryBrian Butlerpresented a chequeto regional officerPhilippa Spackmanat the Devon CountyShow.Customers of Warleggan’s Village GreensCommunity Shop dressed in their finery for aRoyal Wedding Breakfast and television screeningof the marriage of the Duke and Duchess ofCambridge in April, raising more than £200 forRABI in the process. Pictured (from left) areorganisers Liz Cox and baby Eva, Tony Hall, DerekWells and Jennie Dyke.YFC car wash cashRABI deputy chairman Bob Forster (right)received a cheque for £112 from Belper YFCchairman AlexBurrows at theDerbyshire RABISunday lunch. Thedonation had beenraised by a charitycar wash held byclub members.Diners at the lunch,held in the marquee at Alkmonton tractors nearAshbourne, were entertained by a local harpist.www.rabi.org.uk 14
DonationsLloyds TSB support in southwestColchester Agricultural ClubTractor run chequesLloyds TSB managers for Devon and Cornwall,David Platt and David Fowler, continued theirmuch-appreciated support by raising hundreds ofpounds for RABI from raffles at their corporateevents at both the Royal Cornwall and DevonCounty Shows. Pictured at the Royal CornwallShow is regional officer Philippa Spackman witha hamper presented by David Platt and MarkThomas.Sentry shoot chequeColchester and District Agricultural Club made adonation of £500 to RABI during the club’s'Summer Gathering' on Mersea Island, whichincluded a trip to the Mersea Island Vineyard andBrewery, followed by a BBQ at East Mersea Hall.Pictured is club member Tom Bradshaw (left)presenting the cheque to RABI regional officerBob Archibald.Ton for a TonThe £1,576 raised by the highly successfulannual East Yorkshire YFC tractor run, organisedby Jenny Sleigh and her parents, was sharedbetween RABI and Yorkshire Air Ambulance.Pictured receiving the cheques are RABI regionalofficer Sally Conner (left) from County YFCchairwoman Ellie Dawson and a Yorkshire AirAmbulance representative from Jenny Sleigh, withMr & Mrs Sleigh.Bank staff’s ongoing supportBlustery conditions ensured that Sentry’s annualCharity Flush Shoot at Chatteris in May proved achallenge for the 14 teams that took part. Thecompetition, which included a 50 bird sportingclay shoot, was won for the second consecutivetime by The Conservationists from Ixworth, nearBury St Edmunds. Pictured is the cheque for the£2,100 raised for RABI being presented at theRoyal Norfolk Show with (from left) Garry Sallis ofNatWest, RABI regional officer Bob Archibald,John Hall of Sentry, RABI regional welfare officerSally Hubbard, and John Barrett of Sentry.Lambing day donationThe annual lambing day held on Nigel and JanetRome’s farm at Morborne, raised over £450 forRABI. Pictured is Janet Rome presenting thecheque to the chairman of the RABICambridgeshire committee, Arthur Gee at theEast of England Show, with (from left) NigelRome and RABI Cambridgeshire committeemembers Christine and Stuart Bish.In 2010 Adams and Howling, grain merchants innorth east Norfolk, organised a ‘Ton for a Ton’grain donation to mark RABI’s 150th anniversaryand raised £4,500. Cyril Adams visited the RABIstand at the Royal Norfolk Show and presentedthe donation to Norfolk RABI committeemembers Carolyn Gay and Sally Mitchell.Derbyshire solicitors donatefeesRaising money by raffling a hamper was not theonly support that BRM Solicitors of Chesterfieldgave RABI at the Bakewell Show. They werepromoting a ‘Make a Will Campaign’ andundertook to donate to RABI the fees of anyonemaking a will during the campaign week.Lloyds TSB’s farming ambassador, Adam Hensonof BBC Countryfile fame, was on hand at theRoyal Welsh Show for the presentation of£6,000, the result of a number of fundraisingactivities so far this year by Lloyds TSB Agricultureand AMC staff. Pictured (from left) are AdamHenson; Erys Hughes, RABI regional officer;Julian Sayers, RABI chairman; and Gareth Oakley,Lloyds TSB Agriculture Director.Tapestry donated to RABIA beautiful tapestryof a pheasant hasbeen generouslydonated to BeaufortHouse by ElizabethOakes, from SouthPetherton. Therewere two reasonswhy Elizabeth, whoskilfully handstitched it herself, particularly wanted it to beused to raise money for RABI. Firstly she and herhusband David are retired Somerset farmers andsecondly because she went to Beaufort Housewhen it was a school some 65 years ago.Elizabeth said: “It was at the school that I learnttapestry, and it seemed appropriate for it to goto RABI to raise money for the residential homeat Burnham-on-Sea’.15www.rabi.org.uk
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