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Date

January 18 2021

Written By

Team Willberry .

December's Fundraising Round-Up!

Written By Team Willberry . - January 18 2021

In December a grand total of...

£10,040.68

was raised by the following incredible people and their donors:

      

Georgianna had not had her hair cut for 10 years, she decided that she wanted to have it cut and donate her hair to the Princess Trust and have the donations to HWWP.
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Our good friends at Equiratings did an exclusive eventing podcast available for a limited time period for everyone who donated to HWWP. Thank you to Equirating and all those who supported the fantastic idea. 

Carolyn arranged in memory of Rakel Price who would have had her 50th birthday an auction, raffle and show jumping competition, they raised a fantastic amount.

Catriona, along with her daughter, made flourescent t shirts to ride in, this was done in memory of Rakel Price. In Catriona's words "they are bright vibrant and glorious like her red headed friend Rakel" what an incredible lady Rakel was and such generous friends.

Yvonne donated to the charity from the Eventing Team Rot-Weis from Germany. Thank you for your support!

 

Sarah Gray from Riders Eye kindly is continuing to support us by donating a proportion of her sales to #kickingcancersbutt. She's even recently launched these awesome headbands with lights! Follow the link below to find out more. 

If you're in need of some new HiViz then head HERE.

 

Debbie made some delicious looking Christmas cakes. Some lovely supporters managed to not only buy these yummy cakes, but donated to Hannah's Willberry Wonder Pony in doing so!

Our brilliant Amazon buyers have been going through SMILE and making sure that HWWP have a donation, this is of no cost to the buyer so worth doing.

 To set HWWP up on your AmazonSmile account follow this link HERE.

Thank you also to all those who donated through JustGiving or Paypal! Not forgetting a huge happy birthday to the following awesome supporters Isobel, Amy, Jo, Jane and Vickie! Team Willberry hope you had a great day!
 

  Thank you so much!!

Please email fundraising@willberrywonderpony.org if you would like to fundraise for Hannah’s Willberry Wonder Pony so Willberry knows how great you are and can include you in our fundraising news.

Date

December 29 2020

Written By

Team Willberry .

Benzion Riding Free

Written By Team Willberry . - December 29 2020

Benzion’s mother Leah contacted Willberry’s Wish Fairies to ask for a wish to be granted to her son, who suffers from brittle bone disease.  Benzion had been going to a local riding centre for group riding sessions, and one of her original wishes was to have some private riding sessions on his favourite horse Jazz.

Of course Willberry was delighted to help, and the fairies began making enquiries with the riding centre.  Unfortunately this wish was not possible in the circumstances, and so the fairies started thinking about Plan B....

They came up with the idea of a horsey mural being painted on the garden fence outside Benzion’s window, so that he could look at it every day.  Leah was thrilled with the idea, and so Willberry’s team started asking for any artists who might be interested in helping create this wonderful gift.  Onto the stage steps the most talented and generous artist that Willberry has been privileged to meet – Amy Goodman!  Amy instantly jumped at the opportunity, and began liaising with Leah about the style of the mural over the following weeks.  All seemed to be going full steam ahead, until a curve ball was thrown at the exciting plans.. The next door neighbours decided to have some building work done, which would involve the adjoining fence, and it was unsure whether Leah’s fence would be affected.  After several months of waiting without any clear answers on the building plans, the Covid pandemic took over and the whole project was put on hold for the first half of 2020.  Once we were safely out of lockdown, the fairies decided that time was of the essence, and it was time to go to Plan C and give Benzion a much needed boost!  They chatted to Leah and Amy once more, and it was decided that Amy would create a painting that could go on the wall inside the house.  Leah was so thrilled with the idea and said it was her dream to have a painting which could be cherished forever.  Amy was excited to be able to get to work at last, and started sketching....

    

At last, just in time for Christmas, Amy completed the most incredible painting that Willberry has ever seen.  Willberry galloped to Amy’s, he was so excited to see her masterpiece, and was overjoyed when he saw it, and keen as mustard to get the parcel to Benzion.  All in a mad rush to get this amazing painting to Benzion in time for Christmas, Willberry packed up the painting and waited patiently for the courier.

FINALLY, Benzion has his ‘Willberry’s Wish’ and he was thrilled.   Leah, Benzion’s Mum said ‘Benzion is delighted with the magnificent painting. He studied it and couldn't take his eyes off it.’ 

     

Amy has portrayed Benzion riding along his favourite beach with Bournemouth pier in the background, a beautiful and inspirational vision of an exceptional young man.  Amy said ‘I wanted to show him galloping free on Bournemouth beach, emerging out of the sea mist to create a magical atmosphere’ and this is exactly what has been created.  Heartfelt thank you to Amy Goodman www.amygoodman.co.uk

 

Date

December 23 2020

Written By

Team Willberry .

Novembers Fundraising Round-up!

Written By Team Willberry . - December 23 2020

In November a grand total of...

£1600.82

was raised by the following incredible people and their donors:

 

Cath contacted us as she was going to do fundraising for the Bone Cancer Trust, one of our long standing loyal supporters decided to buy her Burpeeberry to help her on her quest of doing burpees.
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Sarah Gray from Riders Eye kindly is continuing to support us by donating a proportion of her sales to #kickingcancersbutt. She's even recently launched these awesome headbands with lights! Follow the link below to find out more. 

If you're in need of some new HiViz then head HERE.

 

Zoe Welch put forward HWWP as charity of the year for Old Mill Accountancy, despite the trials and tribulations of 2020, Old Mill still came up trumps for the charity

Our brilliant Amazon buyers have been going through SMILE and making sure that HWWP have a donation, this is of no cost to the buyer so worth doing.

 To set HWWP up on your AmazonSmile account follow this link HERE.

Thank you also to all those who donated through JustGiving or Paypal! Not forgetting a huge happy birthday to the following awesome supporters: Vickies, Jo's, Jane's, Rose, Tanzy, Lorraine! Team Willberry hope you had a great day!
 

  Thank you so much!!

Please email fundraising@willberrywonderpony.org if you would like to fundraise for Hannah’s Willberry Wonder Pony so Willberry knows how great you are and can include you in our fundraising news.

Date

November 14 2020

Written By

Team Willberry .

October's Fundraising Round-Up

Written By Team Willberry . - November 14 2020

In October a grand total of...

£3301.09

was raised by the following incredible people and their donors:

One of Willberry's young supporter, Harper, showed kindness beyond her years when she decided that she wanted to host a online photo competition for Willberry for her 4th birthday. What an unbelievably kind thing to do! With the help of her mum, Eden they used their Heels Down and Kick On page and organised an incredible competition! Thank you Harper and happy birthday! 
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Rebecca kindly helped people out by reading their tests at dressage competitions. With the help of her collection pot she managed to get donations to HWWP in return of her kind favour. 

Lindsay has forever been one of Hannah and Willberry's loyal supporters. Sadly Lindsay is battling her own fight but despite this she heroically did the virtual London Marathon with the help of her precious Ringoberry. Go Lindsay - we are in awe of you!

Sarah Gray from Riders Eye kindly is continuing to support us by donating a proportion of her sales to #kickingcancersbutt. 

If you're in need of some new HiViz then head HERE.

 

Big thank you to all those who donated through Paypal and JustGiving. Including Anne and all the people who donate anonymously.

On Sunday 15th March Frome Young Farmers donated their time and machinery and raised money for Hannah's Willberry Wonder Pony and Great Western Air Ambulance Charity. We would like to thank their sponsors; G.B Turner & Son, Sam Carver Contracting, A J Luke Contracting Ltd, Read Agri Services Ltd, Smart Agricultural Services Ltd., SW Machinery Hire Ltd, WFH Francis and Son, Bollow Farm, R. Pole and Sons, T. Crees.

Monkton Prep School kindly had HWWP as their charity of the year 2019/2020, they did fantastically well, they also did a swim the channel well done kids!
 
  Thank you so much!!
Please email fundraising@willberrywonderpony.org if you would like to fundraise for Hannah’s Willberry Wonder Pony so Willberry knows how great you are and can include you in our fundraising news.

Date

October 20 2020

Written By

Team Willberry .

September's Fundraising

Written By Team Willberry . - October 20 2020

In September a grand total of...

£3457.51

was raised by the following incredible people and their donors:

Hannah's Great Auntie, Valarie Jeffery sadly passed away in July, Cyril, her husband, organised a collection for us at her ceremony.  Valarie a loving, kind, generous lady who supported Hannah's Charity in so many ways.  This is Valerie at our 1st event, Nunney International Horse Trials, with her sister June, Hannah's Grandmother, and her God daughter Sandra - wearing their wristbands with pride ❤️
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Charlotte arranged a charity show with evening performances and kindly choose HWWP as their charity.

Amanda from the BHS F&I Association had the brilliant idea of doing a zoom presentation meeting with Charlie Unwin, a leading performance psychology expert and any profits made at this to be donated to keep #kickingcancerssbutt.

The Greater Manchester Police Mounted Unit kindly donated to HWWP.

Sarah Gray from Riders Eye kindly is continuing to support us by donating a proportion of her sales to #kickingcancersbutt. 

If you're in need of some new HiViz then head HERE.

 

Big thank you to all those who donated through Paypal and JustGiving. Including Alexandra, Anne, Kathryn, and all the people who donate anonymously.

 

Zoe from Old Mill Accountancy kindly had a collection tin at the office's. Thank you so much for thinking of Hannah and her charity. 

 
 

  Thank you so much!!

Please email fundraising@willberrywonderpony.org if you would like to fundraise for Hannah’s Willberry Wonder Pony so Willberry knows how great you are and can include you in our fundraising news.

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