The Great Milk (Stout) Ride

Oriium
Based in Harrogate, North Yorkshire, Oriium is a leader in providing IT Support and Computer services to a range of businesses throughout Yorkshire and the United Kingdom. We focus on serving the SME as well as specialised projects and outsourced infrastructure facilities for the larger enterprise. Our business is to deliver high quality IT solutions to enhance companies productivity and return on investment.

Erudine.
Based at Central House in the heart of Harrogate, Erudine is a highly innovative software development company. Started in 2002 by Pateley Bridge born brothers Martin and Phil Rice, Erudine is set to revolutionise the IT industry with its radical new technology - Erudine’s Behaviour Engine. www.erudine.com

Cartridge World with shops at 46 Kings Road, Harrogate Tel 01423 701704, 70 North Street, Ripon Tel 01765 607743 and 46 High Street, Northallerton Tel 01609 771123 are once again supporting the Great Milk (stout) Ride by providing free refills for the printers involved in the production of leaflets and flyers.

Deakin Accountancy Ltd is a small firm specialising in the bookkeeping, accounts preparation and tax work for sole traders and limited companies with a turnover of under two million pounds. Located at 6 Harewell Close, Glasshouses, Harrogate. HG3 5DY Tel 01423 711950 Fax 01423 712753 or Email deakinaccountancy@btinternet.com

Fresh Radio for the Dales from their brand new studios at Broughton Hall, on the A59 south of Skipton, have supported the Ride since 2002, with free promotion before the events via their community service spots as well as inclusion in news bulletins and recorded interviews.
Fresh Radio, now a truly independent radio station owned jointly by Roger Tempest of Broughton Hall and Julian Hotchkiss, is moving with confidence into becoming a local broadcasting force to be reckoned with.

Stray FM
Harrogate's local commercial radio station broadcasting on 97.2 FM are also long-term supporters with regular free plugs and reports of progress in news bulletins, as well as live interviews on their morning programmes.

Ackrill Media Group
Through their district-wide newspapers covering Harrogate, Knaresborough, Ripon, Wetherby, Nidderdale and Northallerton, the group has been supporters of the Ride since its inception in 1993. With regular reports of yearly progress and detailed accounts and pictures of both the day of the Ride itself and the subsequent Presentation Nights, they have recorded the steadily increasing success of this now permanent feature of the Harrogate calendar.

Yorkshire Water will be supplying riders with 500ml sports type bottles after the ride as well as providing water for the drinks stops around the routes.

Yorkshire Water manage the collection, treatment and distribution of water, supplying around 1.24 billion litres of drinking water each day - that's the equivalent of a glass of water for every person on the planet!
They also collect, treat and dispose of about one billion litres of waste water safely back into the environment each day.

Houseman International Transport Ltd are UK and international haulage contractors with depots at Harrogate and Thirsk. They have a wide range of vehicles including 40ft curtain siders, step frames and Hiab equipped trucks and vans. For Harrogate Depot Tel 01423 780369 Email william@hit.gb.net For Thirsk Depot 01845 567080 Email chris@hit.gb.net

Branch Auto Bodies (Ilkley).
A motor vehicle accident repair centre based in Ilkley. Mike Holt, the senior partner, lives in Glasshouses and is Chairman of the Great Milk (stout) Ride committee. Branch Auto Bodies also undertake general mechanical repairs and servicing work. They offer free estimates and free courtesy cars if required. Email connection branchauto@aol.com

EW Smith & Company Ltd
Independent financial advisers, who have served thousands of clients throughout Nidderdale and beyond for over twenty years. Mortgages, Investments, Pensions, Tax planning, Inheritance tax mitigation, Trusts and Will planning. Professional experienced Independent advisers. ed@ewsmith.co.uk

QPS Group of Companies founded in 1972 comprising QPS Plastics Ltd, who provide products and services to the water industry and public health amenity vehicle replacement parts http://www.qps-uk.com/plasticshome.htm Tel:01765 609618 Fax:01765 609619

QPS Environmental Ltd who supply the unique I-Love-My-Dog poop scoops throughout the UK and Eire by mail order www.poopscoop.biz Tel:01765 609618 Fax:01765 609619

Ilkley Round Table have been a long-time major sponsor of the Great Milk (stout) Ride almost from its inception.

AMPS News Ltd of Summerbridge who have provided both vans and drivers to act as "sweepers" following the Rides to pick up any stragglers, supply and deliver newsapapers and magazines throughout Nidderdale, from Pateley Bridge to Hampsthwaite, on both sides of the river. Tel: 01423-780482

The Cheridan Raithby Trust has been a long time supporter the Ride since the early days, quietly making donations. Cheridan Raithby lived and worked in Harrogate for many years and died early in this century. During the 1990s she won the National Lottery and whilst alive set up a charitable trust, The Harrogate Charitable Trust, to support local charities in and around the Harrogate area, focussing on smaller, rather than large organisations. Upon her death her entire estate was left in trust and renamed the Cheridan Raithby Charitable Trust. Since then it has continued to support local charities in the same way.

Birchfield Farm Ice-cream Ltd of Summerbridge, who have long attended the Rides over the years as a trade stand,came aboard as full blown sponsors in 2007. Birchfield produces ice cream, cream, butter, sorbet and yogurt using milk from their own herd of Jersey cows at their Summerbridge farm.