Flicka News Up Until 2012
Flicka's Christmas Carol Concert
The Carol Concert was a great success, with over a hundred of you coming along to listen to Kate & Sue - or as they're better known 'Bedlam Bess' and Friends in Harmony, the choir from Constantine, thank you so much for wonderful song and music. Thank you to everyone who came along and enjoyed the Carols, warm mead, mince pies and pasties, the evening raised and amazing £500!! Some of the donkeys joined in with some well timed brays!!
Various Stores Support Flicka throughout 2012
We have been so fortunate with the support of various stores last year, as their chosed charity 'The Factory Shop' at Redruth raised £307.00, thank you all so much to all the staff and customers who gave so generously.
We would like to thank Camborne 'Pets at Home ' for the fantastic £471.59 they raised for The Flicka Foundation during their National Fundraising Event for the Support Adoption for Pets Charity’ throughout October 2012– thank you to the staff and customers so very much.
Another huge thank you to Corby (Northants) 'Pets at Home ' for the fantastic £504.92 they raised also for their National Fundraising Event for the 'Support Adoption for Pets Charity’ . Support Adoption for Pets have been an amazing support to the Flicka charity and have made such a difference to many aspects of the sanctuary!!
We would like to thank Camborne 'Pets at Home ' for the fantastic £471.59 they raised for The Flicka Foundation during their National Fundraising Event for the Support Adoption for Pets Charity’ throughout October 2012– thank you to the staff and customers so very much.
Another huge thank you to Corby (Northants) 'Pets at Home ' for the fantastic £504.92 they raised also for their National Fundraising Event for the 'Support Adoption for Pets Charity’ . Support Adoption for Pets have been an amazing support to the Flicka charity and have made such a difference to many aspects of the sanctuary!!
Flicka & the Donkeys December Fundraising.
We would like to extend a huge thank you to Baileys COuntry Store for inviting us to their Christmas festivities day on 1st December, we raised just over £200! Thank you to everyone who visited and met Jasper and Minstrel.
Thank you to Trelissick Gardens where we spent seven dates throughout December with an assortment of donkeys taking it in turn to meet visitors - the week brought £600, a wonderful amount towards desperately needed winter haylage funds. We must thank Donna Watson who spent 90% of the time with the donkeys at Trelissick meeting and greeting everyone, thank you Suzanne, Barry, Val, Mike, Annie, Kerry, Alex, Seb, Naomi and Chloe for your invaluable help.
Another thank you to Sainsbury's, once again in Helston, on the 4th December - customers came and said hello to Jasper & Minstrel and raised £300, thank you everyone - it is such a help and great to meet you all!!
Thank you to Trelissick Gardens where we spent seven dates throughout December with an assortment of donkeys taking it in turn to meet visitors - the week brought £600, a wonderful amount towards desperately needed winter haylage funds. We must thank Donna Watson who spent 90% of the time with the donkeys at Trelissick meeting and greeting everyone, thank you Suzanne, Barry, Val, Mike, Annie, Kerry, Alex, Seb, Naomi and Chloe for your invaluable help.
Another thank you to Sainsbury's, once again in Helston, on the 4th December - customers came and said hello to Jasper & Minstrel and raised £300, thank you everyone - it is such a help and great to meet you all!!
The Trivia Night at The Ferryboat Inn
The evening raised £150 towards the winter hay appeal - enormous thanks to Kate Bateson for orgainising and running the whole evening. We will post prize donators here shortly.
Fund Raising Day at Sainsbury's Tuesday 23rd October 2012.
We had another fund raising 'supermarket day' at Sainsbury's in Helston, despite being a week day (a wet grey one too), we raised an amazing £380.00 with the invaluable help of 'Lonely' and 'Primrose' who were so good and patient all day. Our heartfelt thanks to Sainsbury's staff and customers, and to Suzanne Kelly and Donna Watson, who spent the day chatting to lots of people interested in the Flicka Foundation.
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Fun Dog Show & Cream Tea Open Day Saturday 8th Sept 2012
Saturday afternoon 8th September we had glorious weather and a huge turnout for our afternoon. The event raised a staggering £1175.97!! A huge amount towards the very costly winter hay and feed, these funds were raised with dog entry classes, a tombola, raffle, the teas and cakes and donations. Thank you to everyone who came along to support 'Flicka' two-legged and four-legged! We will post the 'doggie' winners here shortly.
Thank you, of course, to everyone who worked so hard to make the day such a huge success, Kerry Taylor, Emma Turley, Val & Mike Carpenter, Donna Watson, Esmie Ken & Alison Richards, Hazel Cooper, Claire Stacey and our fantastic judge Sarah (sorry Sarah don't have your surname yet)! Plus all our young helpers who did the afternoon pony rides thank you so much for your hard work - we couldn't have done any of it without you all......and a special thank you to Val, Claire and Emma, for delicious scones and cakes - all with zero calories of course!!
Thank you, of course, to everyone who worked so hard to make the day such a huge success, Kerry Taylor, Emma Turley, Val & Mike Carpenter, Donna Watson, Esmie Ken & Alison Richards, Hazel Cooper, Claire Stacey and our fantastic judge Sarah (sorry Sarah don't have your surname yet)! Plus all our young helpers who did the afternoon pony rides thank you so much for your hard work - we couldn't have done any of it without you all......and a special thank you to Val, Claire and Emma, for delicious scones and cakes - all with zero calories of course!!
Fund Raising Day at Asda - Saturday 28th July
We raised a fantastic £571.46 when we took Lonely & Primrose to meet the customers and staff at Asda, Penryn on a lovely sunny day. Thank you so much to everyone who contributed to a very successful day, including Steve (Asda manager) Bernadette and Rachel of Asda for allowing us to spend the day in the huge trolley park area. A huge thank you to our own team of volunteers, Jess, Donna, Chloe, Alex, Sophie, Naomi and Seb.
Of course an extra big big thank you to 'Lonely & Primrose' for their time, standing on ceremony and behaving impeccably when we know they would rather have been out in the paddock with Marybelle and Jasper!!
Not only did we have our day at Asda, but 'Flicka' won the token count and has been awarded a £200 cheque from Asda - thank you very much to everyone who voted!!
Of course an extra big big thank you to 'Lonely & Primrose' for their time, standing on ceremony and behaving impeccably when we know they would rather have been out in the paddock with Marybelle and Jasper!!
Not only did we have our day at Asda, but 'Flicka' won the token count and has been awarded a £200 cheque from Asda - thank you very much to everyone who voted!!
A Baudet Du Poitou comes to live at 'Flicka'
Bertie arrives on 6th July - read his story here
Thank you to All who took part in The Fun Run & Cream Tea Day Sunday 10th June
Thank you to everyone who took part in the Fun Run, despite the start of the day being 'mizzle' (Cornish mist and drizzle) - it dried up in time for the actual 'run'. Having completed their excursion runners put back all the calories with a cream tea!!!
10 km - 1st Peter Jenkin, 2nd Seb Yeomans, 3rd Donna Watson
5km - 1st Isabel Cooper, 2nd Aspen D'arcy Evans, 3rd Julie D'arcy Evans
Thank you to everyone who supported and helped particulary to Claire, Rosemary, Dawn, Hazel, Emma, and Kerry.
Despite the weather, cream teas brought in £140 and the sponsorship for the runners raised £377.50 - thank you to all of you for taking part and helping 'Flicka'!
(photos courtesy of Emma Turley)
10 km - 1st Peter Jenkin, 2nd Seb Yeomans, 3rd Donna Watson
5km - 1st Isabel Cooper, 2nd Aspen D'arcy Evans, 3rd Julie D'arcy Evans
Thank you to everyone who supported and helped particulary to Claire, Rosemary, Dawn, Hazel, Emma, and Kerry.
Despite the weather, cream teas brought in £140 and the sponsorship for the runners raised £377.50 - thank you to all of you for taking part and helping 'Flicka'!
(photos courtesy of Emma Turley)
URGENT APPEAL
27.4.12
Tabitha's foal is weak and not suckling - she needs to be rushed to the Veterinary Hospital at Wadebridge. Please will you help us fund thistreatment to save her life?
27.4.12
Tabitha's foal is weak and not suckling - she needs to be rushed to the Veterinary Hospital at Wadebridge. Please will you help us fund thistreatment to save her life?
TAMMY GIVES BIRTH 3.30 pm 12.4.12
Isn't she gorgeous?? A Beautiful Mum and Daughter.
Mum is very proud and exceptionally protective, probably due to having every previous foal she has had taken away from her.....not this one, they will be together for life.
Jewel Gives Birth Today 14.4.12 at 11.45 am - another beautiful little girl.
The birth was a little more difficult for Jewel, possibly as it was her first foal, after keeping vigil we sought 'over the phone' advice from our vet and gave her a very minimal helping hand.
TABITHA GIVES BIRTH TO A GIRL TODAY 26.4.12 AT 7.00 AM
It was a slightly longer and tiring birth for Tabitha, after waiting on the sidelines we had to help a little as baby was in danger of not getting air into her lungs. Happy to say Mum and baby are very well. As you can see from the photo she has a rather distorted right ear, this may or may not come right in the days and weeks to follow. Whatever......she's perfect, her Mum adores her, and so do we!!
We are hopeful now that Tabitha's overall condition will start to improve - she has been looking very underweight, not helped by the fact she has been carrying a foal.
We are hopeful now that Tabitha's overall condition will start to improve - she has been looking very underweight, not helped by the fact she has been carrying a foal.
Our Wonderful New Donkey Barn
Completed Donkey Barn
Work commenced on our new barn back in April 2011 - the barn was complete by October 2011 - a fantastic new donkey barn and huge huge thanks to 'The Gerrick Rose Animal Trust', Jeremy Hobbins, Adoption for Pets - Pets at Home, The Tanner Trust for making our dream become a reality
Donkeys first day in New Barn - October 2011
Donkeys in their new barn
The donkeys loved their new spacious bright barn, their braying was deafening!!
Jasper Arrives at Flicka 19.12.11
Jasper a dear sweet little donkey has been rescued by The Donkey Sanctuary, deciding he was not fit enough to make the longer journey to Devon he has come to 'Flicka' for some rehabilitation.
Here he is arriving in the back of a huge 7.5 tonne lorry, led out by Robbie. Robbie has worked at The Donkey Sanctuary for over twenty years, travelled thousands of miles rescuing donkeys with the late Dr Elizabeth Svendsen. He is affectionately nick named 'Grizzly Adams'.
Jasper has settled in straight away - he is an exquisite little donkey and, despite the life of hardship, loves company and people. We will keep you updated.
Here he is arriving in the back of a huge 7.5 tonne lorry, led out by Robbie. Robbie has worked at The Donkey Sanctuary for over twenty years, travelled thousands of miles rescuing donkeys with the late Dr Elizabeth Svendsen. He is affectionately nick named 'Grizzly Adams'.
Jasper has settled in straight away - he is an exquisite little donkey and, despite the life of hardship, loves company and people. We will keep you updated.
Tom 1977 - 2011
It is with great sadness and a heavy heart to tell you we lost our beautiful 'Tom' at 11.45pm 24.12.11.
Thank you Tom for sharing your life with us and bringing us years of joy, pleasure and love. You will be sorely missed every day xxx
Ben 1975 - 2012
We are so sorry to have to tell you that we lost our lovely little chap Ben this morning 8.1.12 at 9.30 am.
After three vet visits and doing all we possibly could, it would seem that Ben may have had a stomach tumour. It was a privilege to have Ben here, another favourite who will be sadly missed.
Two of 'Flicka's' great characters left withing two weeks of each other.
God Bless Tom & Ben xxx
26.3.12
JEWEL
It would now seem 'extremely' likely that Jewel and Tammy are expecting, Jewel is almost a baby herself.
There is also a possibility that Tabitha is pregnant too, but we are not sure yet. These three girls were in very poor condition, there is a long way to go with them, still timid and now carrying foals is not helping their condition improve as quickly as we would like. Tabitha & Tammy are still quite lame from previous overgrown feet, left to be a chronic problem, they are now suffering the effects of long term neglect and brutal trimming procedures.
So we are now on 24 hour midwifery duties!!!
There is also a possibility that Tabitha is pregnant too, but we are not sure yet. These three girls were in very poor condition, there is a long way to go with them, still timid and now carrying foals is not helping their condition improve as quickly as we would like. Tabitha & Tammy are still quite lame from previous overgrown feet, left to be a chronic problem, they are now suffering the effects of long term neglect and brutal trimming procedures.
So we are now on 24 hour midwifery duties!!!
