OurJay Festival raises £20,000

Right, I’m going for it! I’m sorry it’s taken me so long, but it’s been a big week for OurJay. All funds and donations from OurJay Festival 2025 are now received and we are so so blown away to let you know that over £20,000 was raised last weekend!

I was going to do an overall ‘THANK YOU’ but then I thought, every single person who supported us and became part of our team to actually pull this off again, deserves a personal thank you…so here goes!….

Jem (volunteer festival manager, Craft/inflatable/food vendors booking and overall grafter!), Tracey (volunteer Band booking/hospitality admin and festival manager), Gillian & David, Simon Ward, James & Gemma (hours and hours of work over 4 days!), Xavana & Ben Bexaco Beauty, Callum & Freja, Tasha & Terry, Lilly, Julia & Charlotte, Kaydon, Mum & dad, Tiphanie & Dexter, Jess & Debbie, Jess & Jo from Crewe, Steve, Lucy, Fred, Jean and Sam Bouncing Ben Inflatable Hire, Billy & Charmaine, Emma (NRFC), Rob, Simon & Ellis (MC/sound techs), Kev Starkey (DJ), Pramac (generator), Spiro (Green rooms), Brandon tool hire, Newbold-On-Avon RFC Car park attendants, SWC (sponsor), STAR selfstore Rugby, Amanda & Jim ID Genie, Event Medicare, Robin & GPS Security team, Terry Morgan, The Alpaca Pals, Christine Tyler, Gavin and Myla, Chris, Rachel, Isabel and Olivia, Michelle, Phil, Jacob and Millie, Fay & Jacqui and everyone at Rugby Urgent care services (for a huge amount of bottle donations and raffle tickets purchase), Jo Jackson & the Police cadets, Rugby Saturday Breakfast Rotary Club, Rob and Dave NRFC, Matt and all at St John’s ambulance, Andy, Faye, Megan & all the Wincanton team, Aiden & the team from Tesco CCTV hub, Iqy and the ladies from NatWest, Chantelle and Daina from CDW, Gill from John Lees Hall (chairs and tables), Kelly, The Barley Mow (Gazebo loan), Lewis (help with cables for generators), Britvic Soft Drinks/Wincanton (for keeping us hydrated!), Nigel Jones, Maria Maule, All businesses who donated bottles, prizes and sold raffle tickets, All supporters who sold raffle tickets, All craft vendors, All food vendors…BUT MOST OF ALL, YOU! EVERYONE WHO CAME ALONG, SUPPORTED, DANCED, TOOK PART, PARTIED, HAD FUN AND MADE THIS ANOTHER FANTASTIC YEAR FOR OURJAYS FESTIVAL AND FOR JAMIE! 💙🩵💙🩵

We are doing a seperate post for all our musicians and bands (so please don’t think I’ve forgotten them!) 🎶🎤🎸

I’m sure you’ll all agree, these amazing photos have really captured the atmosphere of Jamies special day, so thank you (as always) to Mark Hurst Photo