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Tickets for Troops Stakes Monday 16th May
Windsor Race Course Tickets for Troops

The Apprentice serving up stakes for the Troops

If you enjoy this meaty story then hopefully we’ll see you Monday evening at Windsor races or Tuesday for some beginners LinkedIn training at the MacDonald Hotel, or maybe a bite of lunch with our Apprentice.

Social Media Directors first approached Raleigh Addington last October when we were looking for interesting people for our 2020 Social Media event. Unfortunately Raleigh wasn’t able to join us but Dan Harris, the sausage King, was and did a brilliant job of inspiring the 100 strong audience. (see below for video link)

Since then we have pushed out PR stories for Raleigh as he sends them through and the latest press release around “Tickets for Troops Stakes” grabbed my attention as it related to Windsor directly.

Since my preferred communication media is the telephone I instantly called Raleigh and we talked about the race meeting on Monday 16th May and he asked about our “How to use LinkedIn” workshop to be held the following day. He’s been enjoying our newsletters and so knows what we’re getting up to next ;)

Social Media Directors are happy to support Raleigh in his learning as he will then, if we do our job well, spread the word amongst his piers about the quality of our training.

Only slight issue was around accommodation and so we put the word out, we needed help for this hero who is serving our troops…

Macdonald Windsor Hotel bedroom

Within minutes Windsor had rallied around to support us and make it possible for Raleigh to enjoy a “most comfortable” evening, after a great night at Windsor Racecourse, ensuring he will be relaxed and refreshed for an inspiring days LinkedIn training.

Obviously we have advised some of the local media, Carla Delaney will be there representing the Maidenhead Advertiser, Maureen McLean may well be there taking photos for Berkshire Life and once we’ve pushed out this press release others, that could be you, may well be inspired to get down to Windsor Racecourse on Monday evening and join in all the fun… after all it's only £10 a head and kids go free!

You may even be lucky enough to back the winner of the 8:30 Tickets for Troop Stakes ;)

A BIG THANK YOU

to Liz Dax from the MacDonald Windsor Hotel for providing us will a very competitive room rate and to Catherine Sutton of Waterloo Brown for picking up his tab.

Don’t you just love it when a plan comes together… even better when it happens like magic within a few hours of conception!

Thank you.

Jon Davey
Social Media Director
01753 852904

P.S. If you know you need to learn more about LinkedIn then please take a look at www.howtouselinkedin.co.uk

P.P.S. Enjoy Dan's winning presentation at our 2020 event www.youtube.com/2020socialmedia


Here is the press release from Raleigh that explains more:

Tickets for Troops Stakes press release

Windsor Racecourse is to host a race called The Tickets For Troops Stakes to highlight the charity, which is providing thousands of free tickets for members of the Armed Forces for big sporting, theatrical and music events, it was announced today.

The race will take place at the Monday evening meeting and will be the last race on the card at 8.30pm.

Fifty servicemen will attend the race as part of the partnership between the Tickets For Troops charity and the British Horseracing Authority which has supplied 40,000 free tickets for racecourses all over Britain.

Lance Corporal Johnson Beharry, recipient of the Victoria Cross and star of Dancing on Ice, Warrant Officer Class 2 Kim Hughes, who was awarded the George Cross for carrying out "the single most outstanding act of explosive ordnance disposal ever recorded in Afghanistan" and Christina Schmid, a Patron of Tickets For Troops and widow of of bomb disposal expert Olaf Schmid, who was awarded a posthumous George Cross for his courage in defusing 70 Improvised Explosive Devices (IEDs) will attend.

Jump Jockey and Patron of Tickets For Troops Richard Johnson said “I am absolutely thrilled at the level of support that British horseracing has shown to Tickets for Troops, even more so to play a personal role in backing this initiative. Hopefully this pledge goes some way to showing our brave service men and women how much we appreciate the incredible work that they do every day on our behalf.”

Chairman of Tickets For Troops Lord Marland said “We are enormously grateful to Windsor Racecourse and the British Horseracing Authority for their support of Tickets For Troops. It makes a real difference to the troops who are doing such an extraordinary job during these difficult times.”

Daniel Clark the Managing Director of Royal Windsor Racecourse said “Royal Windsor Racecourse are delighted that the inaugural Tickets for Troops Handicap Stakes takes place at our meeting on Monday 16th May, with the forces such an integral part of Windsor we are proud to be able to assist in any way that raises levels of awareness for this worthwhile cause.

Not only are we offering 50 tickets per raceday for troops as part of our commitment, we are also working closely with the Irish Guards and have donated 1,000 tickets for returning troops for our race meeting on 4th July when we also look forward to welcoming 500 additional service men and women to exclusive hospitality areas."

For more information about Royal Windsor visit http://www.windsor-racecourse.co.uk/

Troops are encouraged to register for top tickets at www.ticketsfortroops.org.uk


Raleigh Addington
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