27/07/2026
💚The biggest THANK YOU from all of us at Ridgegate Home!💚
Now that the celebrations are truly over, we wanted to take a moment to say the biggest, more detailed THANK YOU to residents, relatives, friends, neighbours and supporters come together to celebrate our charity was incredibly special.
Behind the scenes, there were SO many wonderful people who gave up their own time to make the day such a success...
🍽️ Lea & Ivy, our amazing chefs, thank you for producing such a beautiful afternoon tea. The food was absolutely delicious and received so many compliments!
🩵Sue, thank you for everything you did to help coordinate the event, and a huge thank you to your lovely daughter Lou for giving up her time to come and help on the day.
🤝Lucy & Em, our fantastic long-standing volunteers, thank you for helping us set up, supporting our residents throughout the afternoon and providing companionship to those whose families weren't able to attend.
💪 Fian, thank you for rolling your sleeves up wherever you were needed - helping in the kitchen, setting up, entertaining our guests and generally being an extra pair of hands all afternoon!
♾️Thank you also to members of our Ridgegate team - Angie, George and Kanika - who came along on the day to help us host, serve, chat with guests and make sure everything ran smoothly despite not being on shift.
🎈In the lead up to the event, we'd also like to thank Brendan, Steve, Marcia and Jackie P for all your hard work putting together decorations and helping transform Ridgegate ready for the celebrations.
🌸 And a very special thank you to Clare, who spent her own free time knitting beautiful flowers onto hair clips for our residents to wear. It was such a thoughtful gesture, and they looked absolutely lovely.
💷🩶Financial Contributions
We would also like to extend a heartfelt thank you to those who very kindly made financial contributions towards the day.
A special thank you to Keith, a local resident (hero), to David (Maureen’s son) and his partner Alice, to Stoneman's Reigate, and to Bill, wonderful husband of one of our residents, for their generosity.
Your support truly helped us make this celebration as special as it was, and we are incredibly grateful.
🎟️Our Charity Raffle
Wow... what can we say?!
A HUGE thank you to every single individual and local business who donated prizes towards our birthday raffle. It was an incredible success with a total of £396 raised via the raffle (and £370 gifted to us as mentioned above) thats a grand total of ✨£766!!✨ We simply couldn't have done it without your generosity.
We'll be tagging everyone below, and we'd love to ask one VERY IMPORTANT favour...
🆘 Please give the below businesses a follow, like their pages, engage with their posts and, where you can, support their businesses!! 🆘
Small acts like these really do make a difference, just as their generosity has made a huge difference to our charity.
Your kindness means more than we could ever put into words.
🍰 Our Amazing Bakers
A heartfelt thank you to our wonderful local bakers who so generously donated an incredible selection of cakes and sweet treats for our birthday celebration.
Sugar Fix
The Overflow Kitchen
They were absolutely delicious - there weren’t many leftovers!
🎂 Project Cafe Horley
Thank you to Project Café Horley for creating our primary spectacular birthday cake!
This incredible chocolate and Biscoff masterpiece took pride of place during the celebrations and tasted every bit as good as it looked.
Project Café does so much more than bake amazing cakes. Please do support their fantastic work whenever you can - they are making a real difference.
Local businesses who kindly provided a prize towards our raffle;
Tesco Hookwood, wagamama, Everyman Cinemas Reigate, GXH Barber Studio, Zoe Mills Photography, The Pheasant at Buckland, Cloonys Bar Reigate, RDO Kitchens & Appliances, Bell Street Barbers, Charlie Brown Hair Reigate, The Rose Room.
From the bottom of our hearts... thank you.
We are incredibly lucky to be surrounded by such a kind, generous and supportive community. Here's to the next chapter of Ridgegate's story. 💚
