A charity race day at Carlisle Racecourse raised £3,000 for six local organisations.
The racecourse partnered with local engineering firm OEE Container Technology Limited to put on the event on July 2 and the cash was raised through ticket sales, GoFundMe and collections.
The charities were BEE UNIQUE, Eden Animal Rescue, Diff-Ability CIC, Every Life Matters, the Great North Air Ambulance Service, and the Lake District Calvert Trust who each received £500 each.
Sue Jones, managing director of OEE Container Technology Limited, said: “This is our second year running the Great Community Raceday with Carlisle Racecourse and we are thrilled with the amount of awareness we were able to give to these great causes and how much we were able to raise for each of them.
“We are so grateful that the community came together to show support. This is an event that will grow year-on-year and we aim to make it bigger and better in 2023.”
Jennifer Scott, fundraising manager of the Lake District Calvert Trust, added: “We were delighted to be chosen as one of the local charities benefitting from the OEE Community Race Day. As well as the funds donated from this event which are needed now more than ever, the event provided a fantastic opportunity to raise awareness about our charities work with people with disabilities.”
Cristina Bowman, founder of Diff-Ability CIC, said: “To receive this amount of money is huge for us! Everything we do is on a voluntary basis, people don’t realise how much donations like this can mean, some of this money will go towards supplying free welcome packs to maternity units for babies born with Down’s syndrome, signposting new parents to support, some will go towards our events, and some will help us with our day-to-day running, paying for zoom, room rental etc. We can’t thank everybody at OEE enough for their support and helping raise awareness of what we do.”
