Million Pound Giveaway.

[xsunnysuex]

Did anyone see it last night. For folks that don't know it's a program where 5 filthy rich celebs give their own money away to worthy causes or even to make personal dreams come true. Last night a group from Brixton got £79,000 to build a riding school. They held up a pic of the ground and arches along by Millbrook Rd. We did get a letter a while back asking our opinions on building a riding school there. Looks like I am getting some new horsey neighbours lol.:D

[Minnie_the_Minx]

Lovely. Will it be for little rich girls who go to ballet, singing lessons, tap lessons etc. or for working class kids? :D

[ringo]

I got that letter too, would be good for the area, my littlun would love it. Get some nice manure from them too, 10p a handful.
Is it really only rich kids who go to ballet and singing lessons etc? I'm sure mine will be asking when she's old enough. Didn't know they were that expensive, or do you mean it's solely a class thing?

[kyser_soze]

Is this the one on ITV which is like Dragon's Den, only more like outright, honest to god beggary and abject cravingness? Isn't Archole one of the magnanimou slebs giving their money to people who are happy to beg on TV?

Ahh, here's Brooker's Screen Burn (http://www.guardian.co.uk/theguide/columnists/story/0,,2004785,00.html) review:

The format is simple. Five slick entrepreneurs have a pot containing one million pounds of their own money (£200,000 each, although it's not clear whether they're paid more or less than that to do the show in the first place). They sit in a row, à la Dragons' Den, while members of the public come in and request some of the money. It's televised begging.

On the panel are Duncan Bannatyne (who I quite like), Jeffrey Archer (who I don't), two women who look the same, and Simon Jordan - who performs a mind-boggling miracle each week by coming across as a bigger, smugger arsehole than Archer. He looks like a cross between Gérard Depardieu and a thick waiter, and is one of those people you instinctively dislike the moment you clap eyes on them, presumably thanks to some weird, primordial twat-detector lurking in the evolutionary backwaters of the brain. Consequently, everything he says and does fills you with revulsion. Everything. Last week he raised an eyebrow and I vomited blood for an hour.

Archer, meanwhile, is clearly hell-bent on public rehabilitation, and exploits every opportunity to come across as "the nice one" on the panel. He does this by pulling an expression so earnest it borders on insane, repeatedly straining forward and furrowing his brow so hard he looks like he's trying to screw his face into a tiny, pea-sized ball, then balance it on the end of his nose. Each contortion is accompanied by a hilariously melodramatic proclamation, delivered in the style of the "once more unto the breach" speech from Henry V.

[aurora green]

Lovely. Will it be for little rich girls who go to ballet, singing lessons, tap lessons etc. or for working class kids? :D


I know for a fact this project is for working class kids.
The whole pitch was/is 'horses for hoodies.'

I went to college with the amazing woman behind Ebony horse club, She's pretty much run it singlehanded for years now, done incredible amounts of fundraising.
She's dead local too.

She's very strict about who gets to go riding and it's most usually boys and girls from her estate (one of the most notorious in Brixton) who get to go.
and They have to be well behaved otherwise forfiet their place in the club.
It really shows a different path to a lot of young people.

Ebony horse club provides a unique and valuable service to the communty, often giving underprivileged kids there very first taste of things equine/ countyside.

[Minnie_the_Minx]

I got that letter too, would be good for the area, my littlun would love it. Get some nice manure from them too, 10p a handful.
Is it really only rich kids who go to ballet and singing lessons etc? I'm sure mine will be asking when she's old enough. Didn't know they were that expensive, or do you mean it's solely a class thing?


was joking but I have heard of some middle class mothers who send their daughters to every class going (my friend's a nanny), and obviously some of them cost, so I would imagine that people who have money can afford to send their kids to more classes


Nice to hear Aurora

[ringo]

Yup, I'll stop short of the quilted jackets and green wellies I think.

[kyser_soze]

Shocking, teachign inner city kids to ride horses.

They should all be studying Marx and preparing for the Revolution, not fannying about on rich people's pets...

(PS - think it's a great idea, and more power to this lady's elbow!)

[aurora green]

They should all be studying Marx and preparing for the Revolution, not fannying about on rich people's pets...




I couldn't agree more...:D

[kyser_soze]

1st Brixtonian Revolutionary Horse Guards...

[aurora green]

1st Brixtonian Revolutionary Horse Guards...

:cool:

...think I'm gonna run that one by Ms Ebony.:D

[ringo]

1st Brixtonian Revolutionary Horse Guards...

Great, what are the outfits like?

[Crispy]

Horses are very useful in a riot/insurrection.

[gaijingirl]

Is this not the organisation that PieEye is involved in?

Sounds really good! :)

[Dan U]

The whole pitch was/is 'horses for hoodies.'


:cool: @ the idea and the slogan!

[lang rabbie]

I received this yesterday from the office of Val Shawcross AM CBE:
(along with a helpful list of the e-mails of everyone in her contact book sent en claire)

Fingers crossed for the Ebony Horse Club on TV

My favourite Charity 'The Ebony Horse club' will appear on Million Pound Giveaway ITV1 Tues 13th Feb 8pm. This is a chance to see one of Lambeth's fantastic voluntary youth organisations in action. Ebony badly needs help with its campaign for a new centre and offers of office space, admin support and corporate sponsorship would be gratefully received and well used by Ebony.

The Ebony Horse Club has existed for ten years in the Coldharbour ward of Lambeth and it provides access to top quality horse riding instruction and mentoring for young people aged eight to seventeen years old.

The club targets young people in danger of social exclusion, whether through school exclusion, home circumstances, health, or poverty. The club is now planning a major expansion to build a top class horse riding facility at Loughborough Junction.

The Ebony Horse Club is Britain's biggest provider of access to horse riding for ethnic minorities and the kids trained by the club learn important skills in working co-operatively together. The club provides other experiences for young people and I had fun watching the youngsters canoeing around the London Regatta Centre during the summer holidays.

To find out more about the club, please contact Ros Spearing at:

Ros Spearing
The Ebony Horse Club
214 Southwyck House
Coldharbour Lane
Brixton

[treefrog]

More power to 'em, sounds fabulous!

[zenazena]

Lovely. Will it be for little rich girls who go to ballet, singing lessons, tap lessons etc. or for working class kids? :D

it might seem like it but horse riding isn't (or shouldn't) be exclusively for little rich kids. we hardly had 2 beans to rub together and as a kid in the 80s I used to go to vauxhall city farm for riding lessons - 75p for an hour and we used to get to trot around council estates - it was really good to have that experience cos we certainly couldn't afford trips to the countryside - good luck to them

[Mrs Magpie]

I know the group concerned, Ebony Horse Club...it's definitely not rich kids. It's kids off estates. It's a really good group.

[Mrs Magpie]

Is this not the organisation that PieEye is involved in?

Sounds really good! :)Yup, I put her in touch with them.