Newbury on March 3rd

Our Newbury day is a huge thing to organise and I started working on it in July last year. Probably the most difficult thing to achieve are the sponsors for the races, but we are so thankful to Ladbrokes who have sponsored us now for quite a few years. Betfair supported us again and we were delighted to welcome William Hill for the first time.
All at Newbury Racecourse, were, as usual, totally committed to ensuring that our main fundraising day was a success and I must thank in particular, Caroline Fleming (nothing is too much trouble) - Caroline even managed to secure a new sponsor at the last minute when we were horribly let down at the last minute.
We had some wonderful auction lots this year (totalling over 60 fantastic silent auction lots) and although I had been worried for weeks before that we weren't going to manage any main auction lots at all, they came in and in the end we auctioned off seven fabulous items.
The success of the day owed quite alot to the expertise of Henry Beeby who ran the auction, he was ably assisted by Kay Burley, Henry Hannon and Rishi Persad. It was not only entertaining but also lucrative.
We owe a great deal of thanks to many generous people who were involved in achieving the staggering sum of £50,000!! This support is overwhelming and we can't survive without it - thank you all.