Hello
Welcome to yours2share's July 2010 newsletter.
- Help Disney to join the Horse Rangers
- Special offer for boat share advertisers
- Partners wanted for new syndicates
Plus the usual selection of recent ads to whet your appetite.
Help Disney to join the Horse Rangers
A good friend of mine, Jackie Bryans, runs the Horse Rangers,
a children's charity based at Hampton Court in south west London. As my parents live nearby,
I had heard about the Horse Rangers, but until recently didn’t know how they were run or that they are a charity.
I don’t normally write about charities or ask for help or donations, but this story struck so many personal and
yours2share chords,
I thought I’d write about them to see if you can help.
Over 350 young people attend the Horse Rangers each week - many of whom are from disadvantaged backgrounds.
In addition, they operate a Riding for the Disabled section throughout the week during term time and in the school holidays
there is a 'Horse Ranger for a Day' experience for Young Carers to help ensure that these vulnerable young people
have at least one positive day away from their commitments at home.
However, it is not just about learning to ride and look after horses, rather it is a very positive tool
for personal development. The older Rangers are encouraged to mentor the younger children resulting
in many of them growing up to become volunteers and leaders, thereby giving back to the charity.
During the current climate everyone's budgets are really tight:
Horse Rangers relies on volunteers to deliver most of its activities and therefore has a very small staff
so the main costs are feeding and looking after their 30 horses and ponies.
Unfortunately a number of their horses are getting rather old:
one (who is over 30 years old) is not expected to last the winter and several others are ready for retirement.
Because of tight budgets this year the Trustees are unwilling to take in any new horses to replace those that are lost,
unless they can raise the funds to feed them over the next year.
Finding the right horses and ponies is never easy, but the Horse Rangers has been offered a pony called Disney
who was rescued from abuse at Spindles Farm.
Disney was nursed back to health by the Horse Trust
where the Horse Rangers retire their horses. Disney is only 5 years old and at 14.3hh he is the perfect size
and build for the majority of children to ride. Moreover despite all the abuse he has received in the past,
he continues to have a very gentle nature and the Horse Trust think he will therefore be the perfect pony for the Horse Rangers
and he should be able to give a good 20 years of service before retiring (so a great long term investment!).
If you are in a position to make a donation, please go to Virgin Money Giving,
or if you know someone who may be interested in helping with fundraising, the Horse Rangers would be extremely grateful for any help.
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Disney, fully recovered, looking forward to a new home. |
Special offer for boat share advertisers
yours2share’s boat share listings have been hugely successful
with over 100 boat share ads currently listed. If you want your boat share ad to get noticed,
the easiest way of ensuring people see your ad is to sponsor it so it stays at the top of the listing with any other sponsored ads.
Usually the cost of sponsoring your ad is £50 per ad. But for the next week
if you follow us on Twitter
or become a fan of our Facebook page,
we’ll give a whopping 40% discount so sponsoring your boat share ad costs just £30.
To take a advantage of the offer:
Once we have received the payment, we will amend your ad so it appears at the top of the boat share listings.
Offer ends 8th August 2010. Only available to boat share advertisers. If you don't have a Facebook or Twitter account, just give me a call on 0208 133 1234 and I'll see what we can do.
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Partners wanted for new syndicates
When I am writing the newsletter there are often great ads that I can’t feature because by definition they have no pretty photo to go with them. These are the ads where the member is looking for partners to share a boat, property, aircraft etc that has yet to be bought.
Often these advertisers post an image of the type of yacht or house they are interested in, but it has always seemed wrong for me to put this into the newsletter as it rather implies that there are shares available in this specific asset and the current owners might not be happy about that!
And yet these are often the ads I’m most keen to encourage. For example, there many boat syndicates
and thus it is easy to find a boat share in the areas below:
But many marinas in the UK and across the world have few or no boat syndicates. The more people have a go and post an ad saying:
“Is there anyone out there who wants to buy a "very particular kind" of boat with me and then moor it in a "very particular" place?”
the more perfect boat shares there will be for a wider range of people.
It's free to post an ad with yours2share, so you've got nothing to lose.
Here are a few great examples of members currently looking for partners to share boats, horses and property:
One great advantage of being part of a new syndicate is that you can ensure that the time allocation, management, maintenance, location, and specification are what you want. Obviously this has to be agreed with the other partners, and these discussions are a key part of your assessment of your potential partners, but you have more chance of getting what you want if you are in the discussions at the outset. The disadvantage is that the whole process of gathering partners, agreeing the contract, buying the asset and setting up the management and maintenance, will take longer than simply buying a share from an existing syndicate. But this may still be quicker that waiting for the perfect share to come available for sale.
So what are you hankering after, but can't justify buying on your own? Post an ad, find yourself some like-minded partners and enjoy!
And finally, here are a few of yours2share's recent ads that I really
like.
Selected ads are entirely my choice, but the quality of the pictures is the key factor. Remember this if you are posting an ad! |
