-Thank you to all the visitors and Lake Farm helpers and the NMMMunicipality who sponsored the event.

Thank you to Sherwood Garden Centre who organised the event and selected Lake Farm Centre as the chairty to benefit from proceeds of the event.

Organic Farming and Sustainable Energy - BBC Movies

Please contact us if you are interested in movies that explains why we all should start with activities that protect the environment, water, soil and use alternative energy resources. If you need more information, please contact Pierre-Louis at 076190 6384 or our LFC office at 041-3791555 or 0713650221 after –hours.  

 Pierre-Louis from the Renewable Energy Centre will present this special opportunity not to be missed.

 Our friends or stakeholders involved with Lake Farm Centre could benefit from this exciting and informative event.

 We saw nr.1 of the series, but, ironically, had a power cut and could not continue with nr.2.

Now we have a better understanding of why we should continue and improve on our current attempts such as our organic veggie garden, recycling water and  waste and sewerage, solar geysers and alternative energy, nature conservation, earth worm farming(started recently), etc.

 If you need more information, please contact Pierre-Louis at 076190 6384 or our LFC office at 041-3791555 or 0713650221 after –hours.

 

Sherwood Garden Centre 

Garden Festival 2009

SA Kirstenbosch Chelsea Exhibit

This year we are proud to announce that we will be hosting the SA Kirstenbosch Exhibit at the Sherwood Garden Centre Garden Festival 2009.

Lake Farm Centre is the chosen charity to benefit from the event and will be involved with the programme.

Although we have not got corporate sponsorship for this year, we have funds allocated to us from the Municipality, and we have enough budgeted to go ahead and host the Chelsea Exhibit in order to maintain momentum.

Last year was such a success, attracting over 20 000 visitors over the 10 day period. This year we endeavour to offer a Festival of the same standard and high value to the visitor. 

 

Theme:                Sustainable Splendour 

Dates:                   30^th October – 8^th November

Entrance fee:      R20 into exhibit hall only

R15 for pensioners and no charge children under 12

 Proceeds to a selected charity

 

This year we have changed the focus to  “gardening is for all” .

 

Launch of the 2009 Landscape show gardens      The Chelsea exhibit        Societies

Children mini gardens                    Tablescapes- bring the use of garden plants and accessories to your function (10 professionally decorated stands)

NMMU involvement – Creative Art dept                              Bands                    Wholesome Market

The Gardener magazine Reader’s Day                    Coffee Shop and Food stalls

 

 

Gardening is for all!

 

Best regards

 

Carmel Wolf

Sherwood Garden Centre 

074 179 5955

Fundraising Programme  2008 

Lake Farm has the following projects or benefit from projects organised by organisations.

Please support us and all the mentioned projects. 

• MBA Golf Day on 30 November 2008- Please support this project! 041-3651835
• Monthly Jumble Sale at Lake Farm- Every last or second last Saturday of the month.

The dates of the following events will be confirmed later:-

• November: Carols-by -Candle-Ligtht has been cancelled!

Sorry, you missed the following events:-

• 31 December 2007 - New Year's Ball organized by Mrs. PE 2007
• February 2008 - Valentines Auction of Bachelors organized by Mrs. PE 2007
• 29 March 2008: The annual Charity Run 25 km and 10 km Road Race and 5 km walk.
• 1 April 2008 - Men's Breakfast @ Sunset "No Joke!" with The SA Rugby Team Manager as special guest speaker. This was a very special event.
• Saturday 3 May 2008 - Mother's Day Function organized by Mrs.PE 2007 and sponsored by The Willows Resort. Sorry, you missed it.
• Father's Day with Barry Hilton. Sorry, you missed it.

• June / July: Riverside Hall Winter Ball-still in planning stage. Do you want to help?
• Street Collection on 6 September organised by Tarryn Massyn (Please phone Tarryn if you can help: 084 2081842)
• Open Day & Farm Fair on Saturday 18-10-2008 from 8 am to 2 pm. 
• Lake Farm Cookbook - "Favourite Recipes from the Friends of Lake Farm" in now available @ R 50 . Please phone our Lake Farm office at 041-3791555 for more information or visit the One-Stop-Body-Shop in Mount Pleasant, Coleen. 

• November: Lake De la Vie Xterra Race - this cross-country race on the well-known Game Estate is a must for all cyclists, swimmers, runners, nature lovers and for families to come for an outing. Come enjoy the view of the lake, veld and sweat with the wild animals.

• We thank all volunteers, sponsors and organizers who have committed them to support the residents of Lake Farm.

2007 XCROSS TERRAIN CHALLENGE

Lake de la Vie, P.E

DATE           :  Sunday 18 NOVEMBER 2007

The date of this years event is Sunday 18th November 2007.

Events include :

        1. Short distance off-road triathlon comprising a  

      500m lake swim ,15km mountain bike cycle , and a 4km cross-country run ...start time 9am

        2. Long  distance off-road triathlon comprising a 1000m lake swim,30 km mountain bike cycle, and an 8km cross-country run....start time 9am

        3. 8km Trail run through the game reserve....start time 9.45am

        4. 8km canoe on the lake.....start time 10am


Lucky draw prize giving to start as soon as the last person finishes. Even
though there will be no prize money for places, there will be results
posted in the week following the event.


VERY NB: NEW THORN-FREE, SEA-SAND FREE MOUNTAIN BIKE COURSE, with stunning
views and scenery, guaranteed to be a hit with the social entrant as it is
not a technical route, yet challenging for those who want to take it a
little more serious. The route is half gravel and half jeep track.

The Run Route is in the Lake De La Vie Game Reserve and definitely a must
for nature lovers.


See you all there sweating it for charity on the 18th November; it will
make your cool off swim in the Lake De La Vie swimming pool all the more
worth it..also available to spectators and kids while chilling at the
venue.

Anyone is free to contact me if they have any queries.

Yours in sport and fun for charity.


Many thanks


Derek Creed

0828939619

Tel 041-3651200

Fax 041-3651201

derek@501.co.za



Xcross Terrain Challenge 2006:-

On the 3rd December 2006 we held the first Lake Farm Xcross Terrain
Challenge comprising of a short and long distance off-road triathlon which
was held at Lake De La Vie, Lake Farm, P.E, an exclusive wedding and
conference venue set on the shores of a beautiful Lake in the heart of an
immensely scenic game reserve. We concurrently held a trail run through
the game reserve for those who do not swim or have mountain bikes. Later
in the afternoon was held a 5km and 10km canoe race on the lake.


The venue was alive and buzzing with Dj Marcelle providing vibes, Tiger
brands a Jumping castle for the kids, and Simba the Lion that came along
and did face-painting with the kids, a bonus for the moms who were
wondering how to entertain their kids. There were 140 triathlon entrants,
60 trail run entrants and 20 canoe entrants...also an energized crowd of
family and friends of participants that came along to support.


There was a beer and foods tent to quench the thirst and fill the tummy as
well as plenty of gazebos and shade under the trees which provided a much
needed cool and comfortable environment for supporters.

A great day was had by all and many months later still had people on their
morning cycles and evening runs talking about the Xcross Terrain
Challenge.

Feedback that I received from those who did it was that we must definitely
make it an annual event where all funds raised are donated to the Lake
Farm Centre for handicapped people, which currently is the home of around
90 multi-racial people with handicaps, 30 of which are so called
"orphaned" where they have been deserted by the families, the cost per
orphan is around R 3000 a month, and the Centre tries to make do with
donations from companies and other fund-raising events. They get limited support from the government and Bennie Stadler from the
Centre was very appreciative of the R5500 we gave him last year. The
amount was quite small as we put the event together on a shoe-string
budget where only half our costs were sponsored and the rest we had to
cover with the entry money takings. We obviously hope to grow this amount
this year in a big way and trust that word of mouth will be our best
advertisement, besides the 1m x 2m advertising banner we will be rotating
around the three P.E Virgin Active Gyms in the next 2 months, as well as
advertising on the EP Triathlon/Cycling and Running Club web sites and
forwarding to their members on their e-mail addresses as was done last
year.

The event last year was the first of its kind for the Nelson Mandela Bay
area and was held entirely in the spirit of having fun where participants
were encouraged to take their time, enjoy the day and take time out to
appreciate the stunning views and scenery that they would not under normal
circumstances have the opportunity to encounter.


Local Ironman champ Raynard Tissink who won the longer event was
interviewed afterwards by our professional DVD maker and could not stop
commenting on how much fun he had saying that it is far more exciting than
your normal road triathlons which for him are becoming boring, he loved
the mountain bike route where he came across Giraffe running next to him,
zebra and 11 other buck species.



There was no prize money , but the quality and quantity of lucky draw
prizes, as well as the unbelievable array of goodies present in the goodie
bags had people going away feeling that not only did they have a great fun
day, but also got more than they were expecting in goodies and prizes. The
Main prizes last year included a Raleigh mountain bike sponsored by
Raleigh, an Orca wetsuit sponsored by Coimbra Cycles, as well as a more
than expected array of prizes by the P.E Cycle Shops viz. Action Cycles,
Cyclo Pro, Wayne Pheiffer Cycles, Coimbra Cycles and our Ironman Shop,
Triangle Sports, Skechers footwear and Nike products, Cadbury basket
hampers, free week-ends at guesthouses were others in the wide spectrum
that made up the lucky draw complement.

Anyone is free to contact me if they have any queries.

Yours in sport and fun for charity.

Many thanks


Derek Creed

0828939619

Tel 041-3651200

Fax 041-3651201

derek@501.co.za

Thank you to all Volunteers who helped with the Lake Farm Street Collection.

 Crafts and Coffee Shop Volunteers Lunch

 Thank you to all volunteers who joined us for a social lunch on Saturday 12-8-2006 at Lake Farm.