Countdown begins to 2011 Yorkshire Big Breakfast

Organisers of Yorkshire’s Charity Farmhouse Big Breakfast are again preparing for their annual three-day fund-raiser in the New Year.

The 2011 event will take place on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, January 25, 26 and 27, at St George’s Court B&B, Old Home Farm, High Grantley, Ripon, to be hosted by Will and Lindsey Hitchen.

Organisation is again in the hands of Yorkshire members – notably the ladies - of Farm Stay UK, Britain’s biggest network of farm-based accommodation providers.

Over the years, they have served up hundreds of Big Breakfasts and raised thousands of pounds for charity, primarily of late on behalf of the ARC-Addington Fund’s Strategic Rural Housing Scheme, which provides housing for farmers and their families who have to leave their farms for a variety of reasons.

The 2011 proceeds will be split between the ARC-Addington Fund and Yorkshire Air Ambulance.

Hearty Yorkshire farmhouse breakfasts – the food is sourced as locally as possible in support of local suppliers – will served over two sittings on all three days between 10.30am-12.30pm and 1.30-3.30pm.

A number of sponsors for the Big Breakfast feast are already in place, among them regular supporters Barclays Bank, Bleikers Smokehouse at Glasshouses, Harrogate, and accountant Brian Elsworth, of EuroAudit in Ripon. Others sponsors and food donators are welcome, with Lindsey Hitchen again the contact.