What an incredible day Saturday (12th March) was. Henley, you knocked it out of the park. It’s thanks to you turning up in your hundreds to support our #cookforukraine Henley Hawker House that made it the success it was, along with the support and professionalism of all of our ‘Hawkers’. Thanks to you and all those who gave their time, expertise, food and energy, at the time of going to press, we have managed to raise £5,581.23 for Unicef UK – Children’s charity – For Every Child in Danger.

Images: Chloe Stuart-Bennett

All of you were awesome and it made for a fabulously slick event. So popular was the thought of eating this great food whilst supporting those affected by the awful events happening in Ukraine right now, that we sold out in just TWO HOURS!

Images: Chloe Stuart-Bennett

For everyone who came, your generosity and desire to support was immense and we took £1,000 in the first 30mins of opening the door, to having a queue snaking out of the door of the main hall, down the stairs, out of the front entrance and down the steps for two hours. Incredible.

If you weren’t able to come down to support in person, you can still donate here Henley Hawker House is fundraising for Unicef UK (justgiving.com) and we will keep the Just Giving page open to continue receiving donations.

Image: Chloe Stuart-Bennett

We would like to make loud and very public thanks to all these people below who gave ALL their time, produce and service for free. It is these people whom without their support, the event wouldn’t have happened or been as amazing as it was, so thank you to:

• Crockers of Henley – Food provider, running of the bar, wine donation, supporting Experience Henley in the week run up organising the event and on the day floor team support.
• The Henley Larder – Food provider and sounding board!
• Sonoma Solutions – Technical support, payment system and floor team support
• Geo Cafe – Food provider
• Hotel du Vin – Food provider, donation of wine & glasses
• The Relais Henley – Food provider
• Sage & Squash – Food provider
• Pavilion Fine Foods – Food provider
• Makan Malaysia – Food provider
• HoT WI volunteers – Food provider
• Henley Rowing Club – Food provider
• Stable 34 – Bar unit
• CF Home Services – Floor team support
• Tina Davis – Floor team support
• Chloe Stuart- Bennett of Rithm & Light – Photography
• Atticus & Hope – Balloon decoration
• Rok-Tech – Champagne donation
• The Henley Distillery – Gin donation
• The Henley Florist – Floral table displays
• Rachael’s Larder – Food provider
• Bosley Patch – Food provider
• Tara Neil Kitchens – Raffle donation (value £1k)
• Auroso Chocolate – Raffle donation
• Nicola Baker Bakes – Raffle donation
• Elements Henley – Money Donation
• Henley Town Council – Venue

We’d love to see any photographs you took of the day. Please send any through to info@experiencehenley.co.uk or just tag Experience Henley on which ever social media platform you’ve posted them on. You can check out some that we took on Facebook here, can you spot yourself?

Once again just THANK YOU, we were overwhelmed by your support.

Philippa Ratcliffe – Experience Henley