Croots Farm Shop hands over donation to Derbyshire children's charity Treats

A £1,200 cheque has been handed over to Derbyshire children’s charity Treats after a sponsored walk by staff at Croots Farm Shop, near Duffield.

The staff clocked up 66 miles by walking up and down the farm shop’s driveway to mark the third birthday of Croots.

Now the proceeds have been collected and handed over to Treats, which will use the money to help underprivileged children with support for gifts, holidays and trips away.

“We are very grateful for the support of Croots Farm Shop, its staff and its customers who have donated to Treats,” said Elaine Blount chairman of Treats.

Croots, based at Farnah House Farm, Wirksworth Road, has chosen Treats as its adopted charity for the past two years. It also supports the Shire Horse Society.

“We are happy to help a local charity like Treats, which has been doing good work in Derbyshire for 25 years now,” said Steve Croot, who runs the farm shop. “We wanted to mark our third birthday by giving something to our local community, and we are very grateful for the support received from our loyal customers.”

Since being launched by a group of professional Derbyshire businesswomen more than 25 years ago, Treats has raised more than £500,000 to help local underprivileged youngsters, with some cash also going to community projects.

Pictured left to right, Vicky Ashton, Elaine Blount, Candy Sutton, from Treats children’s charity, and Steve Croot, from Croots Farm Shop.

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Croots Farm Shop birthday raises almost £1,200 for Derbyshire children’s charity Treats

Birthday celebrations at Croots Farm Shop in Wirksworth Road, near Duffield, have raised almost £1,200 for Derbyshire children’s charity Treats.

Staff at the farm shop and kitchen took part in a sponsored walk – clocking up 66 miles between them – and a luxury food hamper was raffled during a family fun day to mark the business’s third birthday.

The hamper was won by Edith Hough, of Hulland Ward, Derbyshire, a regular visitor to Croots’ award-winning butcher’s counter, deli and café.

Treats was set up 25 years ago to help under-privileged children in Derbyshire. It is one of Croots’ chosen charities for 2011.

Farm shop owner Steve Croot said: “It was a great effort by customers and staff. It’s great to have raised so much for Treats.

“The fun day included free face painting and a bouncy castle as well as a barbecue serving some of our award-winning sausages and meats.

“Earlier in the week staff pulled out all the stops, walking 66 miles in relays along the drive from the front of the shop to the main road and back. In all, we raised just short of £1,200.”

Online donations can still be made by visiting www.justgiving.com/Steven-Croot

Croots, based at Farnah House Farm, opened its doors three years ago and has gone from strength to strength. As well as the shop and café, it recently opened a plant nursery.

Its sausages and meat products have won numerous awards. Last year it was a runner-up in the Best UK Independent Food Retailer 2010 category of the Observer Food Monthly Awards. The year before, it was named in The Independent’s top 50 best food shops.

Croots Farm Shop & Kitchen is open Sundays from 10am to 4pm (café until 3.45pm), and from Tuesday to Saturday from 9am to 5pm (café until 4.30pm). It is closed on Mondays.

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Third birthday party fun at Croots Farm Shop in Derbyshire to boost children’s charity Treats

Free face-painting and a bouncy castle will be among attractions as Croots Farm Shop in Wirksworth Road, near Duffield, celebrates its third birthday on Saturday. (June 18, 2011)

The family fun day will include the raffling of a food hamper in aid of children’s charity Treats and a barbecue selling delicious sausages and burgers from Croots’ prize-winning butchers’ counter.

Treats was set up 25 years ago to help under-privileged children in Derbyshire. It is one of Croots’ chosen charities for 2011. On Wednesday (June 15, 2011) staff took part in a 50-mile relay walk up and down the farm shop’s drive to raise money for Treats.

It is hoped that the two events will help to net hundreds of pounds for the good cause.

“In the three years since we opened we have expanded and now have an award-winning butchery, deli and café as well as a children’s play area and our recently opened plant nursery,” said owner Steve Croot.

“It’s great to be able to give something back and we’re inviting our loyal customers who have supported us since June 2008 to come along and join in the fun, and at the same time help us to raise money for Treats.”

Money is being collected in the shop and donations can be made online by visiting www.justgiving.com/Steven-Croot

Croots, which is based at Farnah House Farm, opened its doors three years ago – just as the recession started. But it has gone from strength to strength and attracts customers from a wide area.

Its sausages and meat products have won numerous awards. Last year it was a runner-up in the Best UK Independent Food Retailer 2010 category of the Observer Food Monthly Awards. The year before, it was named in The Independent’s top 50 best food shops.

The family fun day kicks off at 10am on Saturday June 18th.

Croots Farm Shop & Kitchen is open Sundays from 10am to 4pm (café until 3.45pm), and from Tuesday to Saturday from 9am to 5pm (café until 4.30pm). It is closed on Mondays.

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Croots Farm Shop celebrates third birthday with 50-mile charity ‘drive’ for children

Staff at Derbyshire farm shop Croots will be stepping forward for charity to mark the store’s third birthday next month.

The team will walk a total of 50 miles up and down their driveway to raise money for their adopted charity Treats, which helps under-privileged children.

On June 15th, they will be celebrating the shop’s third birthday by marching in relay along the quarter-mile driveway at Croots Farm Shop in Wirksworth Road, near Duffield.

Money raised will go to Treats, a charity set up 25 years ago by professional businesswomen to help children in Derbyshire.

“Since first opening our doors three years ago we have had so much support from so many loyal customers. Thanks to them we have gone from strength to strength,” said shop owner Steve Croot.

“We have been able to expand and now have an award-winning butchery counter, deli and café, so we thought it would be good to celebrate our third birthday by giving something back to the community.

“Staff will be put through their paces as they walk from the shop to the main road and back again – all for a cause so close to our hearts. We are appealing to our customers to help support our effort, so that we can raise as much money as possible for Treats.”

The shop has set up a collection bottle at the checkout counter and donations can also be made online at www.justgiving.com/Steven-Croot
Croots’ chosen charities for 2011 are Treats and also The Shire Horse Society. The farm shop is based at Farnah House Farm, which has been the home to Shire horses for many years.

“Our customers have a fantastic history of being generous when it comes to fundraising, and thanks to them we’ve raised hundreds of pounds for these two charities in recent years,” added Steve.

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Croots Farm Shop customers and staff raise cash for charity

Customers and staff at Derbyshire farm shop Croots have raised £450 for local children’s charity Treats over the past 12 months.

The farm shop in Wirksworth Road, near Duffield, adopted the charity during 2010, and raised the cash through a number of initiatives including the sale of Christmas trees, selling carrier bags and the donation of fees given to farm shop owner Steve Croot for talks to local groups.

Customers have also collected around £400 over the past year for the Shire Horse Society, which takes the total raised by Croots for the charity to £1,000 in two and a half years since the shop opened.
Now Croots has announced that it will be supporting both charities again in 2011.

“Our customers and staff are very generous when it comes to supporting these two very different but very worthwhile charities,” said Steve Croot. “I’m delighted that Croots has been able to raise so much over the past year and look forward to helping Treats and the Shire Horse Society again over the coming 12 months.”

Treats Children’s Charity was launched more than 23 years ago by a group of professional businesswomen in Derbyshire to raise money for the children of Derbyshire and the surrounding region. Over the years, it has donated thousands of pounds to needy causes.

Croots Farm Shop is based at Farnah House Farm, which has been the home to Shire horses for many years.

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Put a smile on a child’s face with a Croots Farm Shop Christmas tree

Derbyshire farm shop Croots is raising money for local children’s charity Treats through the sale of Christmas trees.

The Duffield farm shop is donating £1 for every tree sold to the charity, which is its nominated good cause for the year.

The fir trees are grown locally and fit in with Croots’ policy of selling local and regional produce where possible.

As part of its festive selection, Croots is also creating a range of Christmas sausages, featuring mulled wine sausages and fig-flavoured sausages.

The store at Farnah House Farm, Wirksworth Road, is also adding a seasonal twist to its own-brand farmyard range of beers, with a Rudolph ale – a dark ale brewed by Nutbrook Brewery.

Croots, run by Steve Croot, is currently taking orders for turkeys and other Christmas meats.

“We have supported Treats Children’s Charity for the past year and are hoping to raise a little extra from the sale of Christmas trees, which is something we are doing for the first time this year,” said Steve.

Croots is open Tuesday to Saturday from 9am to 5pm and on Sundays from 10am to 4pm.

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World Cup range of sausages and burgers at Croots Farm Shop helps raise cash for charity

A Derbyshire good cause has emerged a winner from the sale of a World Cup range of sausages and burgers at Croots Farm Shop after more than £300 was raised for Treats Children’s Charity.

Stoke City player Rory Delap helped kick off the charity fund-raising effort at the Duffield farm shop just before the World Cup got underway.

Ten per cent from the sale of the Bangerooney, WAG, and Three Lions sausages and the Johanna’s Burgers throughout the football tournament was donated to the Derbyshire-based children’s charity.

Now it’s been announced that £310 has been collected for Treats, which was launched more than 22 years ago by a group of professional businesswomen in Derbyshire to raise money for the children of Derbyshire and the surrounding region.

“Our customers really got behind our fund-raising effort for Treats and I’m delighted that we raised more than £300 for the charity,” said Steve Croot, who runs Croots Farm Shop & Kitchen at Farnah House Farm, Wirksworth Road.

Croots is renowned for its sausages, and created the World Cup range especially to raise money for Treats, which is the shop’s chosen charity of the year.

Premiership player kicks off World Cup range of sausages at Croots Farm Shop, Derbyshire

Premiership footballer Rory Delap has launched a World Cup range of sausages and burgers at Croots Farm Shop to raise money for a Derbyshire children’s charity.

The Bangerooney, the WAG Sausage, the Three Lions Sausage and the Johanna’s Burger have all been created especially to mark the football World Cup.

Ten per cent from the sale of each World Cup sausage or burger will be donated to Treats Children’s Charity, which Croots is supporting this year and which donates money to needy causes in Derbyshire and the surrounding region.

Former Derby County player Rory said: “Treats Children’s Charity is a really deserving cause and I am delighted to help launch the World Cup sausages and burgers developed by Croots Farm Shop to raise money for this charity.

“I’m a big fan of Croots sausages - we shop here as a family – and they are real champions as far as I’m concerned. I really hope that customers will become supporters of the World Cup sausages and burgers and help the staff at Croots to raise as much money as possible for Treats during the World Cup.”

Croots Farm Shop at Farnah House Farm, Wirksworth Road, Duffield, has become renowned for its home-made sausages.

Owner Steve Croot estimates that the butchers, who make the bangers on the premises using mainly free range pork, have sold around 50,000lbs of sausages since the shop opened in June 2008.

That’s the equivalent of 22 tons of sausages – or 28 miles of sausages, if they were stretched end to end.

The World Cup range features the Bangerooney - red and white sausages linked together; the WAG Sausage, which is made from chicken, lemon and tarragon; the Three Lions Sausage, a pork-based banger with a lion’s bite but which contains absolutely no lion; plus the Johanna’s Burger, which is a tasty home-made burger created by the butchers at Croots.

Steve Croot said: “Croots Farm Shop has pledged to support Treats Children’s Charity this year, and we have already made a couple of donations over the past few months. We hope that our customers will get behind our latest fund-raising effort which is a bit of fun during the World Cup tournament.”

The World Cup sausages will be on sale at Croots from now until the end of the World Cup. Croots is also running a draw to give away 15 World Cup aprons. Anyone who buys World Cup sausages or burgers can enter the free prize draw for the World Cup aprons.

Treats Children’s Charity was launched more than 22 years ago by a group of professional businesswomen in Derbyshire to raise money for the children of Derbyshire and the surrounding region. Over the years, it has donated thousands of pounds to needy causes.

Festive fund raising for Derbyshire children's charity by Croots Farm Shop customers

Generous customers at Derbyshire farm shop Croots raised £175 for local children’s charity Treats during festive fund raising.

The farm shop at Farnah House Farm, Wirksworth Road, Duffield, picked Treats Children’s Charity as its chosen charity for 2010, alongside the Shire Horse Society, which it has supported since opening in June 2008.

Croots kicked off its support with a £500 donation to Treats in December. Now customers have raised an additional £175 by buying 2010 Croots calendars and taking part in a draw for a chocolate Santa, which was won by 13-year-old Amelia Hand, from Allestree.

“I am delighted that Croots’ customers have generously supported Derbyshire Children’s Charity Treats, and that we raised such a tidy sum over Christmas,” said Croots owner Steve Croot.

Treats Children’s Charity was launched more than 22 years ago by a group of professional businesswomen in Derbyshire to raise money for the children of Derbyshire and the surrounding region. Over the years, it has donated thousands of pounds to needy causes.

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Children's charity support from Croots Farm Shop

Derbyshire children’s charity Treats is to benefit from festive fund-raising at Croots Farm Shop.

The farm shop at Farnah House Farm, Wirksworth Road, Duffield, has picked Treats Children’s Charity as its chosen charity for the next 12 months, alongside the Shire Horse Society, which it has supported since opening in June 2008.

Croots has kicked off its support with a £500 donation to Treats and has launched its fund-raising effort with a draw for a two-foot high chocolate Santa and the sale of 2010 Croots calendars.

A late night opening with 10% discount on shopping from 3pm to 8pm on Thursday December 10th is to be a focus for fund-raising.

“We like to raise money for charity at Croots, and have decided to support Derbyshire children’s charity Treats for the next 12 months, beginning with a £500 donation and a festive fund-raising effort,” said Croots owner Steve Croot.

“We will be donating £1.50 from the sale of each Croots calendar to Treats, as well as all the proceeds from the draw for the chocolate Santa. We are expecting that our late night opening discount evening on December 10th will be popular and that customers will dig deep to support this very worthwhile charity.”

A Christmas cheese tasting event will also take place at Croots on December 10th from 2pm, featuring five different festive cheeses.

Treats Children’s Charity was launched more than 22 years ago by a group of professional businesswomen in Derbyshire to raise money for the children of Derbyshire and the surrounding region. Over the years, it has donated thousands of pounds to needy causes.

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