We have just received some brilliant news. William Hill have kindly agreed to sponsor our Open Day on June 14th. We are now being helped and supported by Ladbrokes, Blue Square and William Hill. I think that it is tremendous that despite these gloomy and difficult times these bookies think enough of our work to dig deep into their pockets. It is of particular value to us because our donations are down about 40%.
So it is all systems go to arrange an Open Day that William Hill can be proud of, we are already training a few of the racehorses to perform some unusual moves...so watch this space to see what we can come up with......
We had so many visitors yesterday, Honda came up with 8 volunteers to set up the poly tunnel in the orchard. A very generous couple, Mr and Mrs Abrahams kindly supplied the poly tunnel, so that our visiting children may learn how to grow plants and vegetables. We then had a visit for the morning, from Filton College accompanied by Jerry Watkins, Welfare Manager of Horseworld in Bristol. It was an enjoyable visit and it was good to explain about our work to the students, and also to welcome Jerry here for the first time. It is important that we keep in touch with other welfare charities. Interestingly enough, Jerry told me that like us, he was expecting to have to take in alot of welfare cases, so far, the situation has not been as bad as he feared.
Our neighbouring farmer kindly comes over each week to move our large bales of straw and haylage about so that we may get to it easier, unfortunately a bit of an error of judgement resulted in the tractor grab making a gaping hole in the roof...so we then had a visit from a roofing contractor to try and fix it. Andrew Poynton, our consultant farrier came to shoe a couple of horses with difficult feet. The electricians came to sort out some dangerous wiring, we had a number of deliveries, and then finally the monthly visit from our vermin control officer.
A busy day indeed.
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