Amazon Smile, Easy Fundraising and the Weather Lottery

Due to lockdown, a lot of the fun ideas we would normally embark on haven’t been possible. But it’s not all doom and gloom!

There are three things that are easy (two are even free to do) that help us out massively to provide the level of care and support our rescue’s have grown accustomed to receiving.

EasyFundraising

Easyfundraising is a free add-on while you’re shopping that you might not even notice – choose our cause, visit shops and retailers online (something many people are doing right now, especially with restrictions) and shop as normal BUT Easyfundraising will donate a small amount with every purchase you make. They add up quickly and people have managed to raise a whopping £5,600 so far.

To set us as your charity follow this link and click “Support this cause” on the right of the page: https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/ridgebackrescue/

Amazon Smile

Do you use Amazon regularly? In the same way Easyfundraising works Amazon Smile will donate to us for every sale they make with you from the entire Amazon site.

All you have to do is follow this link, click the yellow “Get started” button and slect “Ridgeback Rescue (Eckington, EW)” as your designated charity and start shopping: https://smile.amazon.co.uk/gp/chpf/homepage?orig=%2F%3Ftag%3Dgooghydr-21%26hvadid%3D232361766627%26hvpos%3D%26hvexid%3D%26hvnetw%3Dg%26hvrand%3D13448881245658210391%26hvpone%3D%26hvptwo%3D%26hvqmt%3Dp%26hvdev%3Dc%26ref%3Dpd_sl_88t6ja85j9_b

Weather Lottery

We are part of the weather lottery: a small lottery with a not so small prize! You have a chance to win the top prize of £25,000. Step one is signing up and step two is getting lucky! Part of the money for entries comes directly to us so every person who enters is helping us.

The lottery results are calculated by using the temperatures from selected destinations around Europe on a particular day each week, players are assigned 6 numbers when registering that are then checked against the last 6 digits of temperatures in Fahrenheit that are published in the Daily Mail on the day of the draw.

Entries are just £1 with a max payout of £25,000, sounds like a no brainer!

Click here to join: https://www.theweatherlottery.com/charitiesHomepage.php?client=RIDGE_OTHER&NoOfLines=1

EASY FUNDRAISING

Please keep collecting easyfundraising donations – it means A LOT to us!

2020 has been challenging in so many ways, money has been tight, and fundraising has been difficult. Stepping into 2021, hasn’t changed the situation much and it looks like times will stay tough a little while longer. 

So, please keep supporting us through easyfundraising, a great FREE and SAFE way to help us receive donations – at NO cost to you!

Whenever you’re buying pet food, picking up a fantastic January sale or taking out a new insurance, use easyfundraising so we will receive an easyfundraising donation to help us keep looking after the animals. These donations make a HUGE difference to us as a small charity.

How it works? Over 4,000 retailers will give us a little “thank you” donation whenever you shop with them through easyfundraising, incl. Amazon, M&S, eBay, John Lewis, Pets at Home, Currys, ao.com, Photobox, Just Eat, Screwfix, Petplan, Booking.com, Boots, JD Sports, Etsy, Wayfair, EE and many more…

You can collect the easyfundraising donations for us through the free easyfundraising App or use the easyfundraising website – So easy, So why not?

Find out more and start collecting: https://www.easyfundraising.org.uk/causes/ridgebackrescue/?invite=43TQOL&referral-campaign=c2s

JOANNA RIDES FOR RIDGEBACK RESCUE​

CONGRATULATIONS & THANK YOU
To the lovely Joanna Charters. Joanna rescued Ziggy from us in January and has just completed the My Prudential Ride London-Surrey 100 which is a bike ride over 100 miles (and considering Joanna is a runner and really NOT a biker, this is a massive achievement.) We are very grateful that Joanna decided to take on the challenge to raise money for Ridgeback Rescue and, so far, she has managed to raise 75% of her target total. We ecstatic to announce Jo did reach to her target of £200 raised having put in so much effort. If you would still like to donate to her page, even just a couple of pounds, that would be amazing. Even if you can’t donate, I’m sure you’d love to join me in thanking Jo and giving her a huge Ridgie Round of Applause. xxx

HAND SANITISER CHALLENGE

Our supporters are just THE BEST! Seemingly never afraid to get involved in anything we throw at them – no matter how crazy it might be – and the Hand Sanitiser Challenge is just the latest of our mad projects.

Enjoy the lighter side of Corona Virus … and wash those paws!!!

 

 

RR Club of Scotland Virtual Walk in aid of Rescue

Walkies with the RR Club of Scotland

This wonderful idea comes from the fab folk at the Rhodesian Ridgeback Club of Scotland. Due to all the social distancing guidelines in place just now, the RR Club of Scotland have a plan to bring us all together on a “virtual” dog walk.

So, this Sunday (10th May) wherever you walk your dog, please take a picture, with or without their human, and post it on to their FB wall for them to feature in their virtual dog walk gallery.  When you post it, if you can make a little donation by PayPal at [email protected], that would be amazing.

All the monies collected will be split evenly between Ridgeback Rescue and the RRWT (Rhodesian Ridgeback Welfare Trust), so not only will we be able to enjoy all of your fabulous hounds … but you’ll be doing something incredible to help both our breed Rescue’s at a time when we really are up against it.

As always, we are praying you will get behind us and shower the Club with photos of your dogs from all around the UK and far beyond too (no Ridgeback is excluded, no matter where in the globe they may be).

Thank you to all of you, and of course to the RRCS as well. xxx

LOO ROLL CHALLENGE

The Lockdown of 2020 caused by the Corona Virus really did take the wind out of our sails but as ever, the supporters of Ridgeback Rescue refused to see anything but a silver lining and soon got behind us to produce yet another mad-cap video.

So, without further ado, I give you the Lockdown Loo Roll Challenge – featuring our wonderful supporters and their dogs, from many corners of the globe ……….. thank you all from the bottom of our hearts.

Click here for the Lockdown Loo Roll Challenge Video

Stay safe

The Trustees

RESCUE FUNDAY 2021 – best day of the year​

We are currently taking requests from stall holders, catering vans and ride providers. Should you wish to book a slot for your business to be at the show in September, please email:- [email protected]

** STOP PRESS **

Click here for your message from The Yorkshire Vet

Our Rescue Funday which had been scheduled for September 2020 has sadly had to be cancelled due to Covid 19. We hoped we would get away with it but with all the shifting sands of regulations, I felt we had no choice but to postpone.

So, NEW DATE FOR YOUR DIARY is Sunday 23rd May at 11.00 am

All details otherwise are the same and lovely Julian Norton has still kindly agreed to come along and meet you all.

ANYBODY WISHING TO HAVE A STALL or to SPONSOR A CLASS OR ACTIVITY is still more than welcome so please do get in touch to book your space.

A Special Guest Judge for our 2021 Rescue Funday:

JULIAN NORTON (aka The Yorkshire Vet), has kindly agreed to attend and be our judge for the day!!!! So, if you would like to meet Julian in person and, potentially, be able to say that “YOUR DOG was the one the Judge would most like to take home”, then you better be in it to win it!

Our show will take place in Malton, North Yorkshire, on Sunday 23rd May, 2021 – entry to the show itself is free, but classes and games are chargeable on the day with each dog entered into the show getting his or her own number on a special Funday Rescue keyring to keep 😉

We will have stalls, merchandise, refreshments and a licensed bar. To keep both you, the kids and your dogs entertained, we will also be hosting lots of fun classes and activities such as our ever popular flat and hay-bale scurries, egg and spoon race for dog & handler teams, fastest sausage eater competition (for the dog, not you!), temptation alley, agility demonstration and Have-A-Go agility. Inter-spaced with all the fun and games throughout the day, we will also be running a companion show with classes including: best puppy, best rescue, most beautiful eyes, prettiest bitch, most handsome dog, best ridge and of course the coveted class of “the dog the judge would most like to take home”, for which The Yorkshire Vet will be our Judge for the day.

At the end of the day, all games and show class winners will come into the main ring and compete for BEST IN SHOW 2021.

So please come along one and all – bring your gazebos, chairs and picnic baskets. We’d love to see as many of you there as possible – all breeds are welcome and all proceeds will go directly to Ridgeback Rescue to help us continue the support and rescue work we undertake each year.

If you are unable to come but would like to sponsor one of our classes or donate a prize for the raffle, we’d love to hear from you either on messenger or email at [email protected].

Thank you for your support. We’re gunna have a ball!

REGGIE’S MESSAGES DURING THE CORONA VIRUS LOCKDOWN​

During this very scary time, Reggie Ridgeback has decided to step up and send us a message each day – they can be helpful, funny, cheeky or constructive but they are all intended to be uplifting.  If you have any questions for Reggie, let us know and we’ll see if we can get him to answer them.  He started from day 9 of the Corona Lockdown so click the list below to hear what our golden boy has to say

Reggies Message Day 9

Reggies Message Day 10

Reggies Message Day 11

Reggies Message Day 12

Reggies Message Day 13

Reggies Message Day 14

Reggies Message Day 15

Reggies Message Day 16

Reggies Message Day 17

Reggie & The Yorkshire Vet Message Day 18

Reggies Message Day 19

Reggies Message Day 20

Reggies Message Day 21

Reggies Message Day 22

Reggies Message Day 23

Hmmmm now where on earth did Day 24 go?? Reggie!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Reggies Message Day 25

Reggies Singing Message Day 26

Reggie’s Message Day 27

No Reggies Messages from 28, 29 & 30th days of Lockdown as Reggie had a few days off!

Reggies Message Day 31

Reggie’s Message Day 32

Reggie’s Message Day 33

Reggie’s Message Day 34 

Reggie’s Message Day 35

Reggie’s Message Day 36

Reggie’s Message Day 37

Reggie’s Message Day 38

Reggie’s Message on Captain Tom Day (D39)

Reggie’s Message Day 40

Reggie’s Message Day 41

Reggie’s Message Day 42 – Agony Uncle!

Reggie’s Message Day 43

Reggie’s Message Day 44 – The deer hunters!

Reggie’s Message Day 45

Reggie’s Message Day 46 – Agony Uncle Post Bag

Reggie’s Message Day 47 VE Day

Reggie’s Day 48 Message & Postbag

Reggie’s Message Day 49

Reggie’s Message Day 50

Reggie’s Message Day 51

Reggie’s Message Day 52

Reggie’s Message Day 53

Reggie’s Message Day 54

Reggie’s Message Day 55

Reggie’s Message Day 56

Reggie’s Message Day 57

Reggie’s Message Day 58

Reggie’s Message Day 59

Reggie’s Message Day 60 and farewell to Tau

Reggie’s Message Day 61

Reggie’s Message Day 62

Reggie’s Message Day 63

Reggie’s Message Day 64

Reggie’s Message Day 65

Reggie’s Message Day 66

Reggie’s Message Day 67

Reggie’s Message Day 69 (no Day 68 Im afraid)

Reggie’s Message Day 70

Reggie’s Message Day 71 – Tyler the Trustee’s 21st

Reggie’s Message Day 72 – The mammy’s birthday

Reggie’s Message Day 73

Reggie’s Message Day 74

Reggie’s Message Day 74 … again!

Reggie’s Message Day 75

Reggie’s Message Day 76 

Reggie’s Message Day 77

Reggie’s Message Day 78

Reggie’s Message Day 79

Reggie’s Message Day 80

Reggie’s Message Day 81

Reggie’s Message Day 82

Reggie’s Message Day 83

Reggie’s Message Day 84

Reggie’s Message Day 85

Reggie’s Message Day 86

No Message Day 87

Reggie’s Message Day 88

Reggie’s Message Day 89

Reggie’s Message Day 90

Reggie’s Message Day 91

Reggie’s Message Day 92

Reggie’s Message Day 93

Reggie’s Message Day 94

Reggie’s Message Day 95

Reggie’s Message Day 96

Reggie’s Message Day 97

Reggie’s Message Day 98

Reggie’s Message Day 99

Reggie’s Message Day 100 … last one so tek care

Exchange Students! Here’s Geordie George

Geordie George & the egg 

Geordie George & the Metaldetectorist

Geordie George & Dice under the bed

Geordie Georges’s Tribute to Jack Charlton

Geordie George says ByeBye

Vladimir Comes to Yorkshire

IT’S PUB QUIZ TIME!!!!!!!!!!​

Join us this Friday for Ridgeback Rescue’s Pub Quiz:

The Ridgeback Arms welcomes you to our Lockdown COMPLETELY FREE Pub Quiz, OPEN TO ALL – wherever you may be in the globe. We have space for the first 50 Teams who would like to take part. The “Pub” will be open from 7:45 pm on Fridays, and questions start at 8pm UK time, so make sure you are nice and early to pour your drink at the bar, as once all 50 places are taken, the doors will be closed lol.

If you would like to take part on your PC or Laptop, you will need to have Google Chrome installed, then simply type the following link into the address bar to access the session:

https://8×8.vc/rhodes2safety/kerry.9h6

If you would like to take part on your tablet or mobile device, you will need to have the 8×8 Video Meetings app installed. Once done, just use the link above to gain access to “The Ridgeback Arms”.

To play the Pub Quiz you will need:

Team Name
Pen & Paper
Alcohol or beverage of your choice
Sense of humour

Best of luck …….. and see you at the Pub!