Pictured above: (l-r) Steve Croot, Rory Delap and his wife
Helen Delap launching Croots World Cup range for charity
Premiership footballer Rory Delap has launched a World Cup range
of sausages and burgers at Croots Farm Shop to raise money for a
Derbyshire children's charity.
The Bangerooney, the WAG Sausage, the Three Lions Sausage and
the Johanna's Burger have all been created especially to mark the
football World Cup.
Ten per cent from the sale of each World Cup sausage or burger
will be donated to Treats Children's Charity, which Croots is
supporting this year and which donates money to needy causes in
Derbyshire and the surrounding region.
Former Derby County player Rory said: "Treats Children's Charity
is a really deserving cause and I am delighted to help launch the
World Cup sausages and burgers developed by Croots Farm Shop to
raise money for this charity.
"I'm a big fan of Croots sausages - we shop here as a family -
and they are real champions as far as I'm concerned. I really hope
that customers will become supporters of the World Cup sausages and
burgers and help the staff at Croots to raise as much money as
possible for Treats during the World Cup."
Croots Farm Shop at Farnah House Farm, Wirksworth Road,
Duffield, has become renowned for its home-made sausages.
Owner Steve Croot estimates that the butchers, who make the
bangers on the premises using mainly free range pork, have sold
around 50,000lbs of sausages since the shop opened in June
2008.
That's the equivalent of 22 tons of sausages - or 28 miles of
sausages, if they were stretched end to end.
Pictured above: Johanna's Burgers
The World Cup range features the Bangerooney - red and white
sausages linked together; the WAG Sausage, which is made from
chicken, lemon and tarragon; the Three Lions Sausage, a pork-based
banger with a lion's bite but which contains absolutely no lion;
plus the Johanna's Burger, which is a tasty home-made burger
created by the butchers at Croots.
Steve Croot said: "Croots Farm Shop has pledged to support
Treats Children's Charity this year, and we have already made a
couple of donations over the past few months. We hope that our
customers will get behind our latest fund-raising effort which is a
bit of fun during the World Cup tournament."
The World Cup sausages will be on sale at Croots from now until
the end of the World Cup. Croots is also running a draw to give
away 15 World Cup aprons. Anyone who buys World Cup sausages or
burgers can enter the free prize draw for the World Cup aprons.
Treats Children's Charity was launched more than 22 years ago by
a group of professional businesswomen in Derbyshire to raise money
for the children of Derbyshire and the surrounding region. Over the
years, it has donated thousands of pounds to needy causes.