SWALLOWFIELD SHOW 2024
Charitable donations
Run for the benefit of the community, the two-day Swallowfield Show aims to provide high quality traditional family entertainment whilst raising money for local charities.
Organised by volunteers who are members and friends of the Swallowfield Horticultural Society (SHS), the 2024 Swallowfield Show attracted an impressive 8,000+ visitors and raised a record sum of £29,939.
The following pages provide details of all the local charities and good causes who received a share of the funds raised by the 2024 event.
Peter Samuel Charitable Trust
Pictured is SHS Secretary Steve Peake meeting with the Viscount Bearsted of Farley Estate. 
Viscount Bearsted very kindly allows the Swallowfield Show to be hosted in Swallowfield Park, part of the Farley Estate in exchange for a donation to the Peter Samuel Charitable Trust, which is chaired by Lord Bearsted. The Trust is interested in medical sciences, heritage and forestry restoration and the quality of life in the local area.
The Cowshed
The Cowshed is a compassionate and communit
y-driven charity dedicated to providing support to individuals of all backgrounds during times of personal crisis. Their mission is simple yet impactful: to offer good quality, cleaned, and ironed clothes and other essential items free of charge to those in need. They firmly believe that everyone deserves access to basic necessities, regardless of their circumstances.
Babies in Buscot Support (BIBS)
BIBS (Babies in Buscot Support) is a registered charity that supports babies and th
eir families in the special care baby unit (Buscot Ward) at the Royal Berkshire Hospital in Reading. The committee and the supporters are all parents/carers of ex-Buscot babies who have been through the experience of having a premature or full term but ill baby. BIBS fundraises to help supply the latest technology and equipment that will aid in the care and development of babies on Buscot Ward.
Rainbow Trust Thames Valley
There are an estimated 86,625* children in England with life-limiting or life-threatening conditions. This number has trebled over the last 17 years and is rising. 
Thousands of families have to face the very real possibility that their child may die and struggle to cope on a day to day basis. Our Family Support Workers provide a lifeline to these families and children. They support the whole family including parents, carers, the unwell child, brothers, sisters and grandparents. Support is hugely varied and depends on the needs of the family.
BeKind Rescue
Founded in Aug
ust 2018, they are a foster-based dog and cat rehoming rescue run entirely by volunteers. They work tirelessly to rescue and rehome animals in need. At BeKind Rescue, animal welfare is at the heart of everything that they do. They believe that all animals deserve our compassion and consideration, and always strive without discrimination to do everything to help an animal in need.
THRIVE
Beech Hill based charity THRIVE uses gardenin
g to bring about positive changes in the lives of people living with disabilities or ill health or who are isolated, disadvantaged or vulnerable. Thrive has been using social therapeutic horticulture and gardening to change people’s lives since 1979.
Saving Abandoned Fly-Grazing Equines (SAFE)
SAFE supports local landowners to legally rescue and re-home abandoned and neglected horses in the Berkshire and Surrey areas. Rescue, Rehabilitate and Rehome are the three fundamental objectives of the charity which currently cares for approximately 30 horses.
The Loddon Fisheries & Conservation Consultative
The LFCC was formed in 2007 and is a voluntary group made up of individuals, clubs, businesses and organisations. Its aim is to represent and coordinate interests in fisheries, angling and conservation in the Loddon catchment. The Loddon catchment covers an area of 680km2 across Hampshire, Berkshire and Surrey. The River Loddon arises from chalk fed springs at Basingstoke, and flows north easterly over chalk and clay, joining the Thames just west of Wargrave.
Berkshire Search & Rescue Dogs (BSARD)
BSARD is a volunteer Lowland Rescue search dog team. On call 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, BSARD supports the Police and other Emergency Services to search for, locate and reunite high risk vulnerable missing people with their loved ones.
The team is made up entirely of volunteers who (together with their dogs) undergo constant training and must meet rigorous standards in order to obtain operational status.
SSAFA
SSAFA helps the armed forces community in a number of ways, though their focus is on providing direct support to individuals in need of physical or emotional care. Addiction, relationship breakd
own, debt, homelessness, post-traumatic stress, depression and disability are all issues that can affect members of our Armed Forces community. Many of these problems only become apparent when an individual has to leave their life in the Forces and join ‘Civvy Street’. SSAFA is committed to helping our brave men and women overcome these problems, and rebuild their lives.
The Link Visiting Scheme – Wokingham
For over 25 years, The Link Visiting Scheme has brought vital, life-enhancing social connections to older people and volunteers in Wo
kingham Borough. Through the work of the charity, lives have been transformed, adding thousands of hours of friendship, laughter and fun to people who had felt forgotten.
Lambs Lane Repair Café
The Repair Cafe at Lambs Lane Primary School is a friendly group of expert volunteers that run a session once a month at Lambs Lane Primary School. They will try to repair any household items that may otherwise be destined for landfill. 
Their ethos is very much reduce, reuse, recycle and volunteers are happy to share their skills so that you can learn how to fix your own items.
The Newbury & District Beekeepers Assoc
iation
Newbury Beekeepers Association has been running for over 60 years and is a registered charity, run entirely by volunteers. They currently have over 180 members covering Newbury and the surrounding area. They are passionate about sharing knowledge on topics from having bees at the bottom of your garden to highlighting the pressures our pollinators are under.
Berkshire Animal Connection C
entre
The Swallowfield based Berkshire Animal Connection Centre provides a sanctuary to animals who are unwanted, abused or abandoned as well as a safe space for people of all ages, ethnicities and identities to experience and benefit from therapeutic interaction with them.
www.animalconnectioncentre.org
Saints Sled Dog Rescue
A regular and very popular presence at the Show, Saints Sled Dog Rescue is a charity dedicated to rescuing, rehabilitating and re-homing unwanted, neglected or stray Siberian Husky and Alaskan Malamute breeds.
The Happy Hedgehog Rescue
The Happy Hedgehog Rescue is a self funded animal sanctuary based in Yateley which rehabilitates hedgehogs in need before releasing them back to the wild where they are happiest.
All hedgehogs are released back into the wild, normally as close to where they were found as possible, and many friends and volunteers are closely involved with this process, helping ensure that the return is as quick, easy and stress free as possible
Arborfield Royal British Legion
Farley Hill PTA
The Swallowfield Show
Thanks go to the team of dedicated volunteers who organise the Swallowfield Show and to traders, sponsors, exhibitors and visitors for supporting our local community event and making it such a success!
www.swallowfieldshow.co.uk