Feedback from the charities

Plantlife

The Plantlife logo - a globe and the slogan 'our plants, our planet, our future'

Thanks so much for your kind donation of £450 to Plantlife. Trying to conserve wild plants and their habitats from the pressures they face is an enormous and never-ending job. It is only through the generosity of individuals and organisations such as yours that we can even contemplate taking on such a task.

Plantlife is the only conservation charity in the UK devoted solely to saving wild plants and their habitats. Our 'Back from the Brink' species recovery programme is currently working to protect 101 threatened species, many of which may well have disappeared without this highly successful project. We also own 23 nature reserves across the uk, our newest being the 560 acre botanical hotspot Ranscombe Farm in Kent. These represent a wide range of habitats, helping to protect many species, some of which are locally very rare. Our community-based volunteer project, Flora Guardians, enables practical plant conservation work by hundreds of volunteers across Britain to protect our most threatened plant species.

Thanks again for your generous support of our endeavour, because together we can make a real difference.

Yours faithfully
Victoria Chester

In handscript: Thank you so much for your very generous donation. It makes a GREAT deal of difference to the work we are able to do to protect our rare plants - please pass our thanks onto all members of the Druid Network. Blessed Be!

The Barn Owl Trust

The Barn Owl Trust logo - featuring a Barn Owl in flight

Thank you very much for your generous donation of £450 raised at the Lammas Games. These funds will be invaluable in going towards the ongoing conservation of the barn owl and the environment. I wish you every success for the next year's games.

Best wishes
Fran Kelly and all at the Barn Owl Trust

Helen & Douglas House

The Helen and Douglas House logo - featuring multi-coloured hearts

Thank you so much for the wonderful donation of £1000 raised at the Lammas Games at Braziers Park in August. we will put this money to good use; for example, it could pay for a care team worker for 22 day or for keeping the gardens looking beautiful for six months.

Louise Thomas very much enjoyed coming to the event and said it was a very colourful with a wonderful range of activities from ferret racing to fortune telling.

This year we are all celebrating the 25th anniversary of children's hospice care. Since we opened Helen House, the world's first children's hospice service, on 15 November 1982, the children's hospice movement has grown impressively and there are now 41 operational children's hospice services in the UK.

Please pass my sincere thanks on to everyone who took part in this event.

Ruth Harrison
Community Fundraising Manager