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Help us to support our local Riding for the Disabled groups in 2009/2010

RDA Milton Abbas

Last year we raised £2,500 for Dorset children's hospice Julia's House. Dike & Son's new chosen charity is our local Riding for the Disabled. Now in its 40th anniversary year, the charity supports more than 500 member groups throughout the UK to provide an unforgettable exerience of riding or carriage driving for more than 24,000 children and adults.

We have chosen the local Milton Abbas and Henstridge Groups to support for their fantastic work enabling helping children and adults with disabilities to ride, including the use of Bob the mechanical horse. You can find out more about the groups on our news page.

Here's how you, as a customer, can help:

More than 50 of our suppliers have signed up to the Making a Difference Locally charity, which keeps a running total of what our customers have saved into the kitty for our chosen local good cause. These suppliers will donate anything from 2 pence to 15 pence for every packet sold of, say, dried pasta or cereal.

Products supporting the MADL campaign are marked with a purple smiley house symbol, so watch out for them around the store. For more information about our new charity and how to support the fund-raising campaign, ask in-store or visit the RDA website

Our reusable bags raise £1,000 for Stalbridge School!

money bags

CASH FLOAT: Dike & Son director Andy Dike presents Stalbridge Primary School head teacher Michael Allen (left) with a thousand
£1 coins raised from selling our reusable jute bags. Year 5 swimmers Hollie Allen, Dylan Stockley, Sam Ball and Rachel James celebrate the huge boost to funds for the school pool. See full story on our News Page...

Charities benefit from our bins

Unwanted books, CDs, and DVDs and videos can now be recycled in our car park in the big red recycling bin for the British Heart Foundation. And you can put all your tidy and clean items of clothing into our clothes bin to raise money for the Somerset and Dorset Air Ambulance.

We're supporting our community

Since opening our new store, we have helped numerous good causes and organisations, both local and national, to the tune of over £8,000 to date, including:

Blackmore Vale Lions Link to site
Cancer Research UK
Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance
Dorset Arts Weeks Link to site
Dorset County Cricket Club Link to site
Dorset Gardens Trust Link to site
Dorset Wildlife Trust Link to site
Finlay Gibson (London Marathon)
Guggleton Gallery
Help for Heroes
Henstridge Women's Institute
Hill View Riding Centre (Breast Cancer Care and Dorset & Somerset Air Ambulance
Julia's House Children's Hospice Link to site
Keith Wise (charity cycle across America) www.acrossamerica.co.uk
Macmillan Cancer Trust
Marie Curie Cancer Care
Marie Curie Nurses
Royal National Lifeboat Institution
Save the Children
Spinal Muscular Atrophy
St Gregory's Primary School, Marnhull Link to site
St John Ambulance
St Nicholas C of E Primary School, Henstridge
Stalbridge Cricket Club Link to site
Stalbridge Library Link to site
Stalbridge Pre-School Link to site
Stalbridge Church of England Primary School Link to site
Stalbridge Toddler Group
Stourton Caundle Events Committee
Stourton Caundle Strawberry Fair
Sturminster Newton Boxing Club
Sturminster Newton Young Farmers Link to site
The British Retinitis Pigmentosa Society
The Choral Scholars of King's College, Cambridge
The Dorset Federation of Young Farmers
The Eve Appeal (Gynaccology Cancer Research Fund)
The Poppy Appeal
Two Castles Youth Band
Yeatman Hospital
Yeovil Opportunity Group
Zest for Zimbabwe

Community events

If you have a community event you'd like to publicise here, please email your information to info@dikes-direct.co.uk