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kickyerbutt · Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 134 Location: Hertfordshire

There will be a one off appeal shoot to be included as part of Lea Valleys 20 shot rested competition on Saturday 25th April, in aid of Hearing Dogs for Deaf People. Kick off approx 12.30.

Entry £4 including golden bunny.
There will be an optional golden egg shot which will cost you £1 to enter, and a couple of side shoots, also £1 a go.

There will be a raffle, prizes to be announced soon, tickets for which will be available from this Saturday.

For those pistol lovers, there will be the usual HW40 comp @ approx 10.30. 50p a go. If you dont own an HW 40, there will be a club one available to borrow.

Normal £5 visitor/£2 member range fees apply.

Come along for a fun day, and help raise money for a worthy cause.

Thanks
Gretel & Katie

kickyerbutt · Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 134 Location: Hertfordshire

RAFFLE PRIZES UP FOR GRABS

Ridgelight verminator hand held spotlight kit.

includes -
Handheld 12v-55w spotlight
7amp/hr 12v gel cell battery
12v gel cell battery charger
Battery carry bag
Adaptor cables
(Kindly donated by Park street guns)

1 Hour shotgun lesson
(kindly donated by Tim Tilley)

3 x prizes of a free air fill
Kindly donated by Diversity, in Potters Bar

Bottle of Baileys Irish cream

Pellet pouch

Free Gutbuster voucher

plus more.

If anyone has anything they would like to donate as a prize, please see me tomorrow.
Hopefully the weather will stay nice.

Gretel & Katie

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BANGALOOR · Guest

looks like we got the running deer as a side shoot, also a couple of other shoots,
dave l, and mike a, have a idea or two, so we could have up to five side shoots if we can get some volunteers to help.

vic

kickyerbutt · Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 134 Location: Hertfordshire

On behalf of Katie, I would like to thank everyone that helped make todays fundraiser a great success. We are so glad the weather stayed fine despite the forecast rain.

A special thanks to Vic Chytry who right from the start bent over backwards to help organise this event, and Alison for her help and support.

Thanks to Vic & Dave for setting the course, and Dave, James & Malcolm (not even a member) for helping Katie run 3 very successful side shoots.

I believe Joanne from hearing dogs enjoyed her time at LV. It opened her eyes to shooting, in how well organised and safe it was, aswell as how friendly airgunners are. Thankyou to all who made her and Joe Joe her dog feel so welcome.

I will post a total raised for the charity on here later today when the collection box has been counted.

Once again, thanks all.

Gretel & Katie
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kickyerbutt · Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 134 Location: Hertfordshire

Sorry for the delay in posting the total, damn pc playing up.

Total raised yesterday was £160.00 !! Very Happy

This was made up of

£64 (50% of rested comp entry fees.)
£32 side shoots
£64 Raffle

There was also £36.65 in the collection box.
So in total, £196.65

Most of you will know that Katie was looking for someone to sponsor her as a finalist of Miss Hertfordshire. Well the members of LVSA (shotgunners
sponsored her with £100 and also donated in excess of £60 to the charity.
A great effort from the members of both the Airgun and Shotgun sections
of Lea Valley.

Thankyou once again to all that supported Katie. Her final is this Sunday, so fingers crossed.

Gretel

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kickyerbutt · Joined: 29 Jul 2005 Posts: 134 Location: Hertfordshire

Im sorry,I should have posted this much sooner Embarassed

I have not received a letter from hearing dogs, however, I contacted them to say how the event went and how much money we had raised.
They were very pleased that our event was successful and joanne and jo jo enjoyed their day.
Katie handed over £303.40p on the day of the final, and altogether, the 40 finalists managed to raise over £6000 between them for the charity. I think they said it costs in the region of £4000 to fully train one hearing dog!

As most will know by now, Katie was not crowned Miss Hertfordshire this time, but bearing in mind there were over 300 entries, she did very well to get into the final 40 and we are very proud of her for that. At least she will know what to expect next year Wink

Thanks once again to all who supported Katie.

Gretel

mikkybukky · Joined: 04 Nov 2006 Posts: 160 Location: WGC

Photos of the charity shoot are now in the gallery

http://leavalley.fotopic.net/c1709001.html