Green Island Holiday Trust

Each year the Green Island Holiday Trust provide a week's holiday for 30 disabled people at Holton Lee, staying in The Barn. They come in groups of 5 with volunteer carers between May and August and they enjoy a range of activities, one of which is a carriage drive with us at the Ash Tree Stables. It always gives us great pleasure to take these holiday makers out driving with us.

Today was the last of the six groups to enjoy a carriage drive with us this year. With a skeleton staff we used Marmite in the 4-wheeler to do three drives in the morning, and Charlie Brown did two drives after lunch, and the weather held out reasonably dry. Bank Holiday Monday is a difficult day for us to have enough volunteers, but two of our loyal juniors gave up a day of their school holidays to come in to support us - thank you so much, Jenny and Felicity.

We were missing Wally, our Group Organiser, who accompanied Martin Hiscocks as his carer on a trip to Jackson Hole, Wyoming for a covered wagon trek at the foot of the Teton Range in the Rockies. Martin has Cerebral Palsy and helps us in the yard three days a week and it was in December 2006 that Martin with Wally was invited to No. 10 Downing Street to be presented to the Prime Minister. We can't wait to see them return with their ten-gallon hats!!