How Your Support Helps

 

Each year at the Snowball, our generous guests bring unwrapped new toys for disadvantaged children and these are stacked on top of the sleigh during the evening. These toys are then delivered to various local charities who give these toys as wrapped presents to appropriate children in their care over Christmas. For many years the NSPCC has been the distributor of these toys around the Yorkshire area, but more recently Leeds Children’s Charity at Lineham Farm and Knareborough Rotary Club were delighted to receive them. Here is a link which shows the appreciation from Jenny, head of fundraising at Leeds Children’s Charity. 

 

 

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The other charities who have been supported by the Snowball over the more recent years include:​

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• Stockeld Park RDA

• Leeds Children’s Charity

• Springwater School, Starbeck

• Digibete 

• Throstle Nest Riding For The Disabled Group, Bradford 

• Follifoot Park Disabled Riders Group 

• Children's Cancer Care at St. James Hospital, Leeds

• Leeds General Infirmary Children's Outpatients Department

• Browning House, Leeds

• Eckersley House, Leeds

• Aireborough Supported Activities 

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​A Word From The Charities We've Worked With

 

Melanie Bruzzese, Chair of Throstle Nest RDA was delighted with the donation from The Snowball and she highlights just a few of  of the benefits in her letter here​

 

A message from Knaresborough Rotary Club
The Rotary Club would like to pass on grateful thanks to the attendees at the Snowball who supported our Christmas Toy Appeal.
As a result of the generosity, we were able to support over 20 families in the Knaresborough locality through King James School and also contribute substantially to the Salvation Army collection in York, who worked with Social Services to provide over 1400 children with gifts throughout the wider Yorkshire area. 
Deborah Wilson, Rotary Club of Knaresborough, December 2024



 

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