Charity News

Date

October 30 2018

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Team Willberry .

The Wonderball!

Written By Team Willberry . - October 30 2018

Thank you so much to everyone who came to Hannah's Willberry Wonder Pony Ball or placed a bid in our online auction. Orchardleigh is such a beautiful venue and The Enrichments certainly pulled in a crowd on the dance floor, Willberry danced the night away so much his legs were pretty sore..!  Jacob who was kindly buzzing around with his camera took lots of lovely photographs, which will be available in the next few days from gallery.jacobboodrie.co.uk/wonderball/.
A huge amount of companies and individuals generously donated prizes for the WonderBall which enabled us to hold two auctions, with a staggering 126 lots in total. There was also lots of gorgeous prizes in our WonderBall Draw which was a sell out, literally!  Not forgetting, the incredible lots in our live auction.  We as a team are so amazed and grateful to everyone that supported us which has enabled the Charity to raise a phenomenal amount of money.......just over £35,000 from our WonderPony Ball.  
 
So although we had to postpone, we got there in the end and have raised a huge amount of money, without support from yourselves this would not be possible so we cannot thank you enough.
 
Thank you from the bottom of our hearts.
 
Team Willberry x

Date

October 19 2018

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Team Willberry .

Amelie's encounter with dressage royalty!

Written By Team Willberry . - October 19 2018

Willberry recently received a wish for Amelie - at just 12 years old she has already taken part in one of the biggest battles, facing a malignant brain tumour. 

A girl after Hannah's heart, Amelie’s first choice was a visit to see Carl Hester. Willberry certainly didn't blame her for wanting to meet the main man himself.  

Willberry couldn't wait to get going with this wish and sprung into action. With a bit of his Wonder Pony magic he got in touch with Carl who (as ever) kindly opened the doors for Amelie to come and visit.

Once Carl was back from winning medals in WEG, a date was set in the diary...16th October.  Amelie and her mum, Lisa, excitedly made their way to Glewstone Court Hotel near Ross-on-Wye, after all the last thing Willberry wanted was for them to have to face a long travel on the morning of being granted a special wish!!

After much anticipation the day of the wish finally arrived. Much to Willberry's relief his mission was a success, Amelie had an absolutely fantastic time.

Lisa kindly wrote - “I have to say, we had the most magical time, Carl, Alan and Valegro were just brilliant, Amelie could not believe her luck when Carl asked if she would like to ride Valegro! If you’re going to ride bareback for the first time, do it with style!!!  Needless to say, Amelie has been on cloud nine ever since”. We reckon there was two Wonder Ponies working their magic with this wish... 

Willberry would like to extend a massive thank you to Carl, Alan and Valegro for making Amelie’s day so special.

Date

October 17 2018

Written By

Team Willberry .

September Round-Up

Written By Team Willberry . - October 17 2018

We were invited to go along to the IAAT (International Association of Animal Therapists) AGM and conference. We took some of our lovely merchandise (all available here).  A quiz took place and all tables donated.  The winning table which were the South West, were presented with the money.  They kindly donated their winnings to us, raising £35.53.
Buckinghamshire County Council, held a 'Dress Down Friday' during May and donated the proceeds of £50 to Hannah's Willberry Wonder Pony charity. Sadly Caroline Tupling lost her dear horse Brookmead Benjamin, but rather than surround herself with misery in such a sad time she decided to sell various items that were his, in aid of Hannah's Willberry Wonder Pony, what a beautiful and caring thing to do. Her kind thoughts were rewarded with raising £500!!
April Gingell, Victoria Barton and Rozanne Delamore had a great time holding a dog show in aid of Hannah's Willberry Wonder Pony helping to keep #kickingcancersbutt and #makingmemories, with a grand total of £165.
West Sussex Riding Club held a Clear Round Show Jumping at Coombelands Equestrian and raised a fantastic amount of money - £820!! Durham Equine Practice held a charity evening, they kindly chose us and raised £160.
The University of Derby Equestrian Club had an online auction and they kindly split the proceeds between us and their club. We are very grateful of the £101 that was sent our way. The Cotswold Hunt held a Ball and donated 50% from their table sponsorship, everyone had a brilliant time, and what makes the evening even better is £500 towards ground-breaking research!
Kathy ran the Great North Run with Runberry and has just run the Yorkshire Marathon in October.  Grace, Kathy's daughter had a Willberry Wish last year at Olympia, and from the money Kathy is raising we will be able to give another deserving person a super special memory to treasure. 
Jem Sargent was so lovely, and raised money at her 18th birthday for Hannah and Willberry's charity. A staggering £500 is coming our way thanks to Jem! Welligogs asked Alice Goring if she would take Teddy to an event they had, she agreed to do this in exchange for them giving a donation to our charity, which they kindly did. £500 came our way- thanks Alice, Welligogs and of course Teddy!
Alice Tollworthy, Debbie Martin, Toni Derrick and Gemma Holdway took on the task of riding in the inter-hunt relay at Frome Show, after a very hot competition they came out victorious and were the overall winners.  They kindly donated their winnings of £400 to Hannah's Willberry Wonder Pony a charity dear to their hearts, with them all being in the same PC as Hannah.
Beth Vernon did a lecture and demo in aid of Hannah's Willberry Wonder Pony raising an amazing £979.93 . Chris from CYO Seeds came to Manor Farm and kindly made a £20 donation to the charity.
Charlie Thornycroft kindly made sure no Berries were going cold at the Pony Club Championships by selling special Pony Club scarves!! Raising a super £32.50. Phyllie is a Wobbleberry and has been raising money for the charity, she was given a cheque of £100 so sent it direct to us. Congratulations on your challenge!
Last year as a year 12 student Abbie who does photography decided that she would do local equine events and private shoots and donate all profits to the charity, not only did she have many happy clients with gorgeous shots but also raised £671 for Hannah and Willberry's mission. 
Mr Morland kindly donated £250 through CAF, to help us continue #kickingcancersbutt in Han's memory. Dumbreck Charity kindly donated a huge £1000 to us at Hannah's Willberry Wonder Pony. Thank you!!
Long Lane Equestrian held a Show and Family Open Day in aid of Hannah's Willberry Wonder Pony - many happy memories were made and £252 was sent our way to help those facing tricky times also have a reason to smile. 

Date

September 19 2018

Written By

Team Willberry .

August Fundraising!

Written By Team Willberry . - September 19 2018

 

 

Mark Corbett and Bryony Crowther ran their Annual Eventers Golf Day and kindly chose to support us again this year. The weather was a lot kinder for all the players and spectators so much fun was had as they raised £500.

Caroline Wilson put on her brave pants as completed her Wobbleberry Challege at Warwick Hall BE! Hannah would be so chuffed and thankful for the £90 donation towards Caroline's challenge.

Ashford Pony Club held a collection at Area Eventing. Everybody seemingly had a good day as the generously donated an awesome total of £384.62.

Jane Hewlett held a stunning exhibition at The Portland Gallery and generously donated £200 from this event.

 

Andrea Burdett and her friends truly did hold The Best Raffle Ever at Aston Le Walls BE raising a staggering £2030.62.

Kitsons LLP staff held a mufty day in July. Everybody was obviously pleased to be wearing their own clothes as they raised an amazing £74.88.

 Gillie and Sean from Hemington, kindly donated £50.00

Another successful ‘Band in a Barn’ was held in Norton St Phillip, thank you to all involved and for choosing Hannah’s Charity again this year. All the singing and dancing led to £1500 being raised!

 

 

 

 An amazing team pulled off another brilliant day at The Hannah Francis One Day Event this year.  People came from far to support this wonderful day in memory of Hannah.  We even had a group of Wobbleberries from the Isle of Wight! A total fund-raise of £4250 more than makes up for the hard work - bring on next year!

Westfield Voices held a musical concert. Willberry was thankful nobody asked him to sing as he's not sure they would have got as good a total as £100 from their event.

 

Bishop Burton College hosted the Pony Europeans in August. Willberry’s very own jump took centre stage at this prestigious event, and so they kindly donated £500 for having it there.

 

Hartpury International Horse Trials kindly donated £5 from every NAF cap that was sold at the event. Resulting in a total of £65 being sent our way.

 

Date

August 29 2018

Written By

Team Willberry .

The Pertemps Champion Willberry Charity Derby

Written By Team Willberry . - August 29 2018

What a Bank Holiday Monday that was! 

10 riders amounted their steeds that they’d be busily practicing upon, to charge around the infamous Epsom Derby track. All that excitement was a result of months of hard graft raising all important funds for two very deserving causes; The Bob Champions Cancer Trust and Hannah’s Willberry Wonder Pony.

 

Everyone did an outstanding job with the final results of:

🥇 - Georgia King

🥈 - Lucia Bottadaile

🥉 - Spencer Sturmey

 

 

 

 

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