SWALLOWFIELD SHOW 2025
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 £30,506 for donation to local charities and good causes.
Below are listed the organisations receiving our donations of the funds raised by our 2025 event. We have included links to website (and pictures ) with a few more details of those organisations so you can see the value of the donations we make.
Alexander Devine Children’s Hospice Service
We provide specialist care and support to children with life-limiting and life-threatening conditions, and their families, across Berkshire, South Bucks and into surrounding counties.
Alexander Devine Children’s Hospice
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.
BeKind Rescue
Founded in Aug
ust 2018, they are a foster-based dog and cat re-homing 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.
Building for the Future ‘Our House’ Wokingham
Pictured is the SHS assistant Treasurer at the presentation of the cheque to this worthy cause.
Building for the future is a Berkshire based charity providing activities, support and therapy for children with disabilities and/or additional needs and their families.
CLASP
(Caring Listening and Supporting Partnership ) Wokingham
Eco Skills Learning Centre
The Eco Skills Learning Centre is a Berkshire based volunteer-led community of passionate individuals dedicated to empowering youth with practical eco-friendly skills for a sustainable future.
Forget me not Dog Rescue
Forget Me Not Reading Rescues is a small, foster-based dog rescue service in Caversham, Berkshire. We’re dedicated to helping dogs in need from both UK and overseas by providing safe, loving foster homes and tailored support. Our work goes beyond re-homing, we carry out community outreach to support dogs at risk of losing their homes, providing food, behaviour advice and in some circumstances veterinary support. 
We are a foster-based rescue and only use kennels in exceptional circumstances.
Every dog is treated as an individual and we work closely with adopters, fosters and professionals to ensure the dogs long-term wellbeing and success.
Guide Dogs Wokingham
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
The Link Visiting Scheme – Wokingham
The Link Visiting Scheme is an award-win
ning charity bringing connection and community to older people and volunteers in Wokingham 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.
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 680km 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.
Peter Samuel Charitable Trust
Pictured are two of the SHS Team 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 supporting PhD students researching cancers along other ventures such as heritage and forestry restoration and the quality of life in the local area.
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.
Reading Men’s Shed
Previously known as The Silvers’ Workshop, we recently decided to change our banding to reflect that we are a men’s shed.
At our workshop, we make and mend things together, work on our own projects and use our skills for the benefit of the community.
Ridgeline Trust Therapeutic Garden
Helping people to improve their mental and physical health in our beautiful garden in Reading
Since 2003 we’ve helped people access the benefits of horticultural therapy at our accessible garden, to enable them to recover and develop their skills, boost their confidence and enjoy time with others.
Russell Players
The Russell Players are a well-established amateur dramatics society with a membership covering all ages and with some of our founder members still very active within the group.
We are based in Swallowfield and our productions are generally performed at Swallowfield Parish Hall. We aim to stage three shows a year, a pantomime in late January or early February, a play in late spring (May) and a play in early autumn (September/October)
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 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