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  • River Cottage Charities and Fundraising

River Cottage Charities and Fundraising

> Charity policy
> River Cottage charities
> What we're funding

River Cottage Charity Policy

We prefer to give our support to just one or two charities per year. This allows us to devote the time and resources to forming real partnerships with the charities, who we believe are making a real difference to the causes we believe in. It also means we can commit the money we raise to specific projects that we believe are particularly worthwhile. And, as we are hoping to enlist your help in supporting such projects, it means we will be in a position to give you detailed and meaningful reports of our progres

Fundraising

In March 2005 we launched an "on-line, after-show auction" where we offered you the chance to bid for some unique experiences connected with the Beyond River Cottage TV series. These included a private dinner party cooked by Hugh and Gill, and a day’s filming with the River Cottage film crew. We raised a total of £8,970.

At Christmas we held an on-line Christmas raffle, in which the first prize was Hugh’s lovely red, soft-top Landrover, as seen in the last two series. It did need a serious amount of work to get it back on the road, but that didn’t deter the many hundreds of River Cottage fans who joined in the auction. The raffle raised just over £6,000.

Fundraising 2006

Let it Grow CD. At the end of 2005 we released the River Cottage compilation CD, ‘Let it Grow’. This was a collection of tracks chosen by Hugh and inspired by the River Cottage experience. It featured Eric Clapton, Paul Weller, Lemon Jelly, Snow Patrol, Jack Johnson, Turin Brakes, JJ Cale, The Clash, The Who and many more. All royalties were divided between Rural Revival and Care International, an independent humanitarian organisation working to end world poverty.

Badger Beer. In 2006, in partnership with Badger Brewery, we launched the first River Cottage beer: Stinger. A premium bottled beer that includes organic Dorset nettles, it is a delicious and refreshing beer which is slightly spicy with a light bitterness and a subtle tingle that comes from the nettles. A proportion of the profit of each bottle sold goes to Rural Revival.

Boat auction. In April 2006, Hugh put his boat ‘Sea Fox’ up for auction, the proceeds of which went to Rural Revival. The auction was run by our friends at Essex Boatyards and the successful bid raised £4,100.

Bath and West Show. At this year’s Bath & West Show in late May, River Cottage teamed up with Rural Revival to promote our ongoing relationship. River Cottage also took charge of the show’s cookery theatre, running a large programme of events and courses all on the theme of seasonal cooking.

We have several other exciting projects planned with Rural Revival which we’ll keep you updated on here and through the newsletter.