As some of you may be aware from previous posts, I keep my horse on a livery yard in Charlesworth. The livery clients at the yard organise an annual horse show in June to raise money for various equine-related and other charities and, for my sins, I have been on the committee for the last 4 years. The show is in its 24th year this summer. We raise around £2,000 every year and have donated to charities such as the NW Air Ambulance; The Elisabeth Svendsen Trust for Children & Donkeys (a charity which is now merged with the Donkey Sanctuary and which provides donkey-assisted therapy for children with special needs); Dobbinz & Co (a small local Not For Profit equine welfare organisation); Help for Heroes; Make A Wish, The Mare and Foal Sanctuary and the Mark Davies Injured Riders Fund, among many others. Charities under consideration for the 2013 show include Peak District Mountain Rescue and NW Blood Bikes, (a charity which provides a free-of-charge medical courier service ferrying blood and blood products, breast milk, etc., to NHS hospitals out of hours).
As many of you know, the organisation of events like this can be an absolute nightmare. We would find the logistics greatly eased if we could set up a simple web-site with basic information and a few pictures which would enable interested parties to find out about the show, view the show schedule, print off an entry form and obtain contact details for the committee. Unfortunately we are all complete techno-numpties. I have struggled with a couple of do-it-yourself build-a-web-site things on the internet but have not been successful in setting anything up and there is no-one one the yard who is any better at it than I am!
Would anyone be able to help us to set up such a web-site? Obviously, the object of the exercise is to raise money for charity so we wouldn't be able to pay very much above the actual cost of the web site itself but we would be happy to place a free full page advertisement for a business or event of our helper's choice in the Show Schedule which comes out in about March and there could be a link on the web-site.
We can be contacted through the show's email account - hargatehillcharityshow@yahoo.co.uk
