Charity

We are very excited to announce that we are supporting the Cash For Kids Mission Christmas Project! Their aim is to ensure those less fortunate children in our local communities all have a gift to open on Christmas day.

Our shop in the Tower Centre in Ballymena in an official drop off point for gifts. You can pop in anytime with a gift of any value, big or small and we will make sure and pass it onto Santa in time for Christmas. Some of our wholsalers from all over Northern Ireland have already got on board including B. McNamee and Co. - Newtonstewart M. Beattie and Son. - Newtonstewart Montgomery's - Newbuildings Fane Vally Stores - Omagh McIlderry's - Ballymoney NC Engineering - Hamiltonsbawn, Armagh Thank you from the team at Grassmen to all those who have helped support this project so far!

We caught up with Ciaran from SJG during the week to learn more about a very special project they are running next weekend for all the family - Project Santa.

The entire warehouse is turned into a winter wonderland for children, with proceeds going to a great cause. Rumour has it the big man himself, Santa Claus, will be flying in for the event... Food, bouncy castles and entertainment, inside a heated building, ensure the whole family will have a great day out.

To raise funds for a local primary school this year we are hosting a Dyno Day at the barn, bring your machines big or small for a good cause!

The Donnelly Group along with The Young Farmers Clubs of Ulster is organising the first ever Pick Up run in aid of the Northern Ireland Air Ambulance
We called in and spoke to Raymond Donnelly himself to learn more about the event.

Grassmen will be in attendance on the day so come along and enjoy a great day out for a very worthy cause.

We caught up with Kevin Gribben @ McElderrys - who have supported us through the years, especially last season on the bale challenge, when they supplied us with a Massey for our Nicolle to drive for the week.

We are working on a short series of videos from our week on the Bale Challenge last year - getting owner and dealer perspectives on machines used throughout the challenge.

First up is 'Wee Pete' who drove the Kubota and his own Kuhn baler on the challenge, a machine that took a surprising amount of oil flow and genuinely tested the Kubota. What were his honest thoughts on the tractor now that it's all said and done?

On the 8th December 2017 we finally put closure on our 18 month project to raise over £200,000 for Make-A-Wish. On this night at GRASSMEN HQ, we held a small tractor run for Kirkinriola Primary School with the intention to raffle off the TW-35 and runner up prizes after the run was complete.
Despite the snow, this was a massive success; we smashed our target for the Make-A-Wish project, and this video contains some of the machines that came out that evening to support our efforts, the draw, as well as the delivery to the lucky winner, an 11 year old from Co. Antrim. This young man bought a ticket at the Highland Show in June 2017, it could have went anywhere but ended up close to home. We hope whatever he/his family chooses to do with the machine that it serves him well in life.
Thanks to all who supported us in our efforts, not only with the charity raffles, but everyone who buys our products, and we hope to raise the bar again in 2018.

Here at GRASSMEN we are keen to help promote farm safety awareness - this video was produced by CBS Secondary School and when we heard about it we had to do what we could to help spread its message. Be warned, some of the stories featured in this are hard to listen to.

Battle of the Contractors Highlights in Cork

We took a trip down to Cork to chat to Dr Jason van der Velde and Gearoid Hurley about the service West Cork Rapid Response provide in rural communities when unfortunate accidents occur.

Jason is very much a doctor by day, hero by night.

1st Place - Johnny Quinlan
2nd Place - David Poyntz
3rd Place - Donald Finnegan