A Cow for Christmas in the Norfolk Broads
Martin Reed, the Eastern Region Co-ordinator and Gillian Ready, Volunteer Manager from the charity’s Bath head office, will be among nine ambassadors attending the ceremony.
The money has been raised through the sale of bags of animal feed, which visitors buy to feed the cows, ponies, sheep, goats, ducks and chickens as they walk around Junior Farm. The bags of feed cost just 40p, with 5p from each sale going to Send a Cow, a Christian charity that assists poor farmers in Africa by providing them with livestock, training and advice.
Almost 1,000 has been raised in the past 12 months and Wroxham Barns’ Director Ian Russell has donated an additional sum to bring the total to the full 1,000. This will not only enable Send a Cow to buy a cow at a cost of 750, but leaves a further 250 to buy, for example, two goats, six beehives, eight fruit trees or a complete irrigation system.
Ian Russell said "This shows that every 5p donated to charity really does help. We have over 90,000 visitors to Junior Farm a year, so even if only a small percentage of these bought the bags of feed, the amount can build up very quickly."
For further information about Send A Cow, or to see their selection of gifts for Christmas, visit their website at www.sendacow.org.uk.
Junior Farm at Wroxham Barns is open every day from 10am until dusk, closing Dec 25th, Dec 26th and Jan 1st. The farm will then be closed for major refurbishment, reopening on Saturday February 11th, in time for half-term. Entry to Junior Farm costs 2.85 with under 3s free.
