Rain postpones the Donkey Derby

Heavy overnight rain prevented the Donkey Derby from taking place on 26 May. The Committee will now have to consider the options for running the event later in the year. That requires a number of things to be available:

• the fields themselves
• donkeys
• a funfair

Running the Donkey Derby later in the year has never been as successful as running it on the late May Bank holiday, but I think we are obliged to put on something. Maybe this year we can break those rather gloomy statistics, but it will require resource and good publicity.

Last year we didn't manage to run it on a different date, but these kinds of events are part of the glue which helps to keep the community together apart from the £10s of thousands of pounds which it raises for local and national charities.