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Happy Landings Animal Shelter
is planning a local, fun “extreme
sports” event in May to raise money for its animal rescue
work.
If you can take part (age 18 + only), please contact Carol Vincent,
fundraising manager; 07954 190072
carol.vincent99@tiscali.co.uk
HAPPY LANDINGS is a
registered charity (no. 287194) which rescues & rehomes
hundreds of animals each year from its shelter at Pye Hill, Pylle
Nr Shepton Mallet, BA4 6TG. Tel 01749 860350
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Kat
Baker – Channel
swim for Happy Landings
Animal lover and super-swimmer, Kat Baker from Shepton Mallet is getting geared up for another British Channel challenge this summer in aid of Happy Landings.
But this time she has "upped the anti" and made it even tougher and is looking for your support. In September 2008, Kat made it from Dover to Calais in a six person relay swim, but this year she has organised a repeat of her massive challenge, with half the number of swimmers, doubling the time she will be spending in the water. As if that is not enough, she is now psyching up her team to beat the current three person relay team record!
In the middle of July, Kat will join her team mates in the Solo Wannabees, named because they all hope to swim the Channel alone some day, and they will take to the chilly, busy shipping lanes and raise money for three worthy causes.
The Solo Wannabees are having all their clothing sponsored by Shepton Mallet fish and chip shop, Whitstones, for which they are very grateful and Kat is hoping to raise more than £1,000 for Happy Landings again this year.
If you can help, please send your donation cheque payable to Happy Landings to the Happy Landings postal address with your name, contact details and stating clearly that it is for Kat’s swim. If you are a UK tax payer, please be sure to give us your post code and house number and include a signed slip of paper to say you allow us to claim Gift Aid tax relief against your donation. There will be a sponsor form available in the Happy Landings reception if you prefer to call in with your pledge. Thank you to everyone for your support and we will keep you posted of Kat's attempt later in the year. |
 Staff of Katrina Jones Beauty Salon presenting a £200.00 cheque to Happy Landings.
The money was raised through a Christmas raffle with the winning prize of a relaxing half day package going to Julie Summerhayes.
From left are therapists Zoe Malone and Sophie Woollven, Salon owner Katrina Jones, Lyn Southway and Jo Southway of Happy Landings with Deej the dog” |
Happy Landings Evercreech Sale
The sale was a great success.
We raised £816.40
Jo would like to thank Stu and Mary, Trish and Peter, Gwen and Kate Rogers,
Mary D'arcy,
Lesley, all the kind people who donated items for the sale, and everyone
that came.
Raffle prize winners were -
Stu and Mary
Jean
Kate Rogers
Sonia Boyle
Alanah who has very kindly donated her prize to the staff at
happy landings
Mre Smith
Mrs Adams
Amy Cox
Mrs Crone
James Portingale
Mrs Bartlett
Vanessa Goodwin
Sue Graham
Marion Covens
Mrs Rossiter
Pam and John Gwilliam
Mrs Barclay
Norma Kendell who has very kindly donated her prize back
We hope to have more successful sales in the future!
HAPPY
LANDINGS FUN DOG SHOW & OPEN
DAY 2008
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A RECORD BREAKER!!
Roads and country lanes leading to Pylle were jammed with traffic on
Sunday, as we juggled our car parking arrangements in order to cope with
the surprise popularity of our fun dog show and open day.
Hopes of using the new agility course were
abandoned as every available metre in the agility and dog exercise
paddocks was used for parking and
the volunteers manning the entries tent were swamped from noon onwards
as they took 321 dog show class entries from 144 separate canine entrants.
Opting for one of the rare dry weekends
in recent weeks, we were delighted at the success of the day and the
turnout was “absolutely wonderful.”
The day raised £2,520.89 from a combination
of traders donations, traditional stalls and competitions, dog show
entries, pet photo competition
entries, a raffle and generous donations from visitors and entrants.
Fundraising and PR Manager Carol Vincent
wanted to thank all of the donors, visitors, staff, stallholders and
hard working volunteers who
had made
the day such a success.
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It was a real community and group effort,” she said.
“ We had loads of lovely plants donated
by supporters as well as Rocky Mountain Nursery, Brownes Garden Centre
and Frome Garden Centre, and
lots of supporters had made us wonderful cakes which all sold out
very quickly.
“ Our hard working Frome fundraising
ladies worked tirelessly in the refreshments marquee serving cream
teas and it was lovely to see so many animal lovers
and families enjoying themselves in the sunshine.
“ We begged and borrowed equipment
for the day and had lovely raffle prizes donated to keep overheads
to a minimum and even the dog show rosettes
were donated, so every penny raised will be going towards the
animals at Happy Landings and will make a real difference to what we
are able
to achieve.
“ I was staggered and delighted when
I saw the number of people trying to get in at the start and also at
the size of the queue building at
the entries marquee and our volunteers Joyce Alford, Annan
Gurowich and Georgina Bown did very well coping with the pressure of
processing the
entries which averaged at 25 per class.
“ It shows what a huge dog loving
area we live in and all of the animals looked fabulous. How our judges,
Roger Lewis from Delaware Veterinary
Group and Emma Greaves from Crown Pet Foods made their
decisions I do not know.
“ Roger had to choose from 31 entries
in the prettiest bitch class and Emma had to choose from 48 in the
final class of the day.
“
We are overwhelmed with how supportive and kind people are and
how much they obviously adore their dogs – thank you to everyone
for supporting us so brilliantly!”
©Phil White Photography |
Did
you take some great pictures or video of the dog show
that you
would like to show us?
PLease get in touch,
we would love a
copy!
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Happy
Landings Dog Show & Open Day Thank-You’s
Happy Landings would like to thank the following
businesses and people for their help & support with ensuring the Dog Show & Open
Day was such a huge success:
- Crown Pet Foods, Castle Cary
- Mulberry fashion, Chilcompton
- Co-Operative, Charlton Rd, Shepton
- Gaymer Cider Co, Shepton
- Moorfield Pet Beds
- Tesco, Shepton
- Chats Coffee Shop, Shepton
- Binegar Welcome Club
- Tony Barham
- Wookey Hole Caves
- CH Penn Jewellers, Shepton
- The Valley Trading Post, Shepton
- Reg The Veg, Shepton
- ThePet Place, Shepton
- Thatchers Pet’s Pantry & Fishing Tackle, Wells
- The Shepton Cobbler
- Winsboroughs Fish & Chips, Shepton
- Parsons Tree Surgery, Wells
- Framptons Ltd. Shepton
- Tor Pet Supplies, Glastonbury
- Beautiful Buffets at Chats,
Shepton
- The Academy Theatre, Shepton
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- Coxley Developments, Shepton
- WG Grinter Pet Shop, Street
- HW Signs, Shepton
- Thorners Farm Shop, Pylle
- Jeff Body
- lies, Glastonbury
- Delaware Veterinary Group, Castle
Cary
- Exeter X-Factors Fly Ball Team
- Speringcourt Springers
- Graham Brown
- Cake bakers
- Frome Fundraising Group
- Rocky Mountain Nursery, Maesbury
- Brownes Garden Centre, Wells
- Frome Garden Centre
- The cat showing couple who donated
the rosettes!
- Pylle Village Hall for the loan of
the refreshments marquee, tables & chairs
- Shepton Mallet Parish Church
for the loan of the entries
marquee
- All 2 and 4 legged entrants,
supporters, volunteers and donors!
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SILVER ANNIVERSARY AND OPENING OF NEW MULTI ANIMAL UNIT
We celebrated the 25th birthday of the Happy Landings charity this year
and our patron, Valerie Singleton of Blue Peter fame helped our founder,
Annabelle Walter open our wonderful new animal unit during our birthday
party.
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registered the charity responsible for all the work at Happy Landings,
and even though the heavens opened in the morning and did not stop
throwing it down all day, we had some hardy supporters trudge across
our muddy paddock to help us celebrate the day. |
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Annabelle and Valerie cut the ribbon
during a brief spell of sunshine, officially opening our new
multi animal unit and Annabelle also revealed a plaque marking
the opening and silver anniversary.
The unit is now home to our rescue
cats and bunnies, and we are very proud of it too! |
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It may have taken us a long time to finish, but we got there
in the end.
A huge thank you is due to all individuals and companies who
donated time and materials to help us get it finished in time for
our silver anniversary, and also a great big thank you to landscape
garden designer, Jason Nosworthy.
Jason had re-designed our memorial garden in his spare time,
and worked tirelessly in all weathers to get it ready for our big
day, and as you can see it looks pretty wonderful too! |
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