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Alfie and George’s winter hay fundraiser

Alfie Smith is raising money for The Retreat Animal Rescue
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100 mile bike ride · 15 October 2025

The Retreat Animal Rescue is entirely voluntary and rescues farmed, domestic and wild animals. All donations go directly to the welfare of the animals in its care and to those needing help in the future. Thank you for helping them to help abused, sick, injured and unwanted animals.

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100 mile bike ride

Hi all It’s Alfie and George here raising much needed funds for the animals this winter.

The Retreat is very much struggling to raise running costs and are in desperate need of our help.

By us doing this bike ride we are hoping to raise money to help with on going hay cost’s for the animals.

Each round of hay at present costs £50 due to a shortage of hay this year. They are expected to go up again to £75 (not sure when this is).

The animals are eating 2-3 of these a day (£100-£150 per day) at the moment and will increase once they are all in their winter quarters.

£150 per day x 31 days is £4650.00 per month

We would love to raise one month’s hay bill. So please donate and share this far and wide and let’s see if we can do this for Billy and the animals.

We will try and do a live at pit stops, I will post out route so if anyone wants to join us or just come out and support us as we pass this would be amazing and very motivational.

The Retreat has relaunched Patreon to help raise funds for our running costs so go take a look it starts from £3 per month.

We have 53k followers on Facebook if everyone donated £1 by direct debit or £3 per month patreon it would be amazing 🙏 (I’ll let you do the math on that one 🤓🫢😁).

Any requests for the last mile?

Donation summary

Total
£5,190.00
+ £1,011.25 Gift Aid
Online
£4,495.00
Offline
£695.00

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