Financing our Group

As with any charity, we are dependent upon the generosity of sponsors, fund raisers, donations and volunteers to ensure that our students can continue to benefit from their regular riding sessions.

Our outgoings are high as ponies and their equipment are expensive commodities. Our Group currently needs to raise £10,000 a year just to cover our everyday running costs, which includes hire of ponies and facilities, insurance, transport of ponies and riding clothing for the children.

HOW YOU CAN HELP: "Be part of something special"

By helping with our lessons. Each pony needs a leader and two side helpers. Every week during term time, some 45 volunteers turn out in all weather, to help either in the indoor school, or in the small 'classroom' we have built, where the children learn about tack and horse care

By sponsoring a rider or a pony

By donating to "Court Meadow Group RDA" funds

By remembering "Court Meadow Group RDA" in your Will you can reduce inheritance tax liability and support RDA

Visit www.everyclick.com and nominate Court Meadow Group RDA as a particular charity to benefit every time you use their search engine - make it your home page!

The RDA National website has these additional suggestions about how one can help -

There are many ways to make a donation. Whichever option you choose, we truly value your support.

Just Giving - create your own web page and collect sponsorship for a fundraising event
Donation in Memory - make a donation in memory of a loved one
Cheques - post a cheque and complete a Gift Aid form
Payroll Giving - a tax free way of giving from your gross pay through Sharing the Caring. Check with your employers who may match your donation!
Standing Order - set up a regular donation and receive tax relief through Gift Aid
Charitable Trusts - support our ongoing work or a special project
Corporate Support - make a donation, run a fundraising initiative or sponsor some aspect of our work

Priors Farm Vets at Forest Row are holding an Art Event on 1st & 2nd October, and Court Meadow has been selected as beneficiaries of their fund-raising efforts. We are hugely grateful to them, not only for raising money on our behalf, but they also look after our loan ponies, Puppet, Banner and Digger!

Michelle is working hard to produce another calendar with the wonderful photographs of our riders taken by Julien Portch. These will go on sale before Christmas at £10 each.

The next fund-raising event being organised by our group will be the annual Bridge Lunch which will be held at the Millennium Hall in Scaynes Hill on 14th February 2012.

Please collect plastic milk bottle tops and bring them along to any of the riding sessions.

Please recycle old mobile phones and print cartridges (envelopes available from the Secretary).

We are grateful to Gatwick Airport Pantomime Society for supporting our charity last year. Their fantastic efforts with Cinderella raised a magnificent £4,300 for Court Meadow Group RDA.

We raised over £2,000 at the Summer Luncheon and made a healthy profit at the Musical Summer Soiree, both events held in 2011.