Photo from McTumshie
Another year, another Oxford & Cambridge Goat Race. Lots of media coverage this year, nationals, web, press, etc, and a great turn out – over 900 people. Lots of learnings for next year too. If you’d like to join in and do an activity, sell something, make something, perform or otherwise entertain for next year’s race, contact me on info@thegoatrace.org
Photo from Manic Street Preacher
Here’s the official blurb from Anne and Simeon:
Now that the dust (/mud) has settled and both goats have had time to reflect on their performances, we are thrilled to announce that the 2010 Oxford & Cambridge Goat Race has raised almost £3,400 for Spitalfields City Farm!
With a bumper crowd of around 900 of you lovely lot, we made just a whisker shy of £3,000 just from tickets and bets alone. A further total of £400 was kindly donated by all of the folks at Tete-a-Tea, Delamere Dairy, Billy Goats Stuff, Bruncheon Club and Emma, our facepainter. Thanks also to Abelha Cachaca for sponsoring the after-party, allowing the fun to carry on late into the night.
Huge thanks again to our extended Goat Race family who helped us make all of this possible: Cookie & Nicky for designs and sock monkeys, Ben ‘Pigsnoots’ Pearce for his tunes, Paul Stephany for his felt hatted bet taking, Charles Owen and Dave Huggins for chipping in on the gates when things got hectic, and Caroline at Delamere Dairy for her help with PR.
And, of course, huge thanks to the victorious Bramble (Cambridge), the ever-handsome Bentley (Oxford), and to everyone at the Farm for providing such a wonderful venue and being brave enough to believe in this event!
Finally, thanks to all of you for joining us, we hope you had as much fun as we did.
See you again in 12 months,
Simeon, Ant and Anne.
Record turnout! Photo from McTumshie