Ascot Racecourse Supports Volunteering Week

During the week commencing 12-16 September 2022, 83 employees from Ascot Racecourse and 1711 (the racecourse’s catering arm) took part in a company-wide volunteers’ week that saw teams help 12 local charities that are already supported by the “Ascot Racecourse Supports” charity and community programme.  The activities included:

• Age Concern, Bracknell: garden tidy and outdoor painting for day centre attendees to enjoy

• Aik Saath – Together as One:  regenerating their outside area and creating veg plots for the charity’s young carers to manage

• Apollo Youth Club: repainting of children’s outdoor play area

• The Baby Bank: sorting donations of clothing & toys for families in need

• Berkshire Womens Aid: gardening help at a refuge home

• Jealott’s Hill Community Landshare: preparing a vegetable plot for a new community group to utilise

• Just Around the Corner: digging up a disused paddock to assist the charity’s equine assisted therapy programmes for children

• Sebastian’s Action Trust: general outdoor gardening work at the charity’s “Woodlands” base in Crowthorne

• Slough Foodbank: sorting and collating food donations for distribution

• Thames Hospice: help with sorting donations at the charity’s distribution centre in Maidenhead

• Windsor & Ascot Carriage Driving for the Disabled: general clean-up and tidy of some hard-core equine areas

• Windsor Homeless Project: helping with lunch service at a drop-in session for the homeless at Holy Trinity Church, Windsor

Ascot along with their charity partners, Berkshire Community Foundation, who also helped bring the work together clocked up 480 volunteer hours.