Father Paul Matthews, the artisan behind Holywood Designs, works with us, creating wonderful, personalised, wooden doves to provide a lasting memory of your dove release. Each booking receives an inscribed dove – additional doves are available from Holywood Designs for a small fee.
Holywood Designs can personalise almost anything wooden (except MDF!) with names, images and words of your choice. Just ask and Father Paul will try and help!
In life we have friends and we have family. Here at Lambert’s White Dove Release, family comes first, so our first and biggest shout goes to Viv’s cousin, Clive.
Clive started Lambert’s White Dove Release in London several years ago and helped set us up here in Brighton when Viv realised there was no fully-operational WDR company in the whole of Sussex and felt our County was missing out! He advised us on shed building, dove feeding, breeding and care, as well as every aspect of business set up …. You name it, he supported us and got us going, he even brought down our first few babies from his flock in London.
Clive, we owe you!
We’re so pleased to support Pat Harding, who we met several years ago when we did a dove release at her husband’s funeral. A retired professional seamstress, when she came across some pretty white dove material she started making tote bags to raise money for St Wilfred’s Hospice as her thank you to them for the care they gave her husband. She’s now made hundreds of bags and widened her range to include hand bags, wash bags, peg bags, pinafores, and cushion covers – all lined and beautifully made in fabulous fabrics with all proceeds going to St Wilfred’s. We love and highly recommend her work and have purchased a wide range for ourselves and as presents.
“Sadly my husband Len died last year and at the funeral we had Lambert’s White Doves, I found it a wonderful comforting experience, it was very spiritual cradling the dove and releasing it with my thoughts and prayers.
I contacted Viv after seeing some beautiful fabric with white doves in flight and told her I was making Dove Tote Bags in memory of my Husband, proceeds going to our local hospital for all the wonderful care and support my husband and I received during his stay there and for making a very stressful time so much easier for us both.
I am pleased to say Viv has offered to put them on her website and I had received a several orders for which I’m very grateful to her.”
Pat Harding
Tiger started Sussex Doves several years ago and when we started Lambert’s White Dove Release, Brighton, we met up with him and started working collaboratively.
Tiger’s a really smart cookie and a born entrepreneur, with a huge love of birds, animals and nature in general. We’re hugely grateful for all sorts of support he gives us but first and foremost, he’s our ‘go to’ person when it comes to understanding and caring for our doves. He not only still keeps doves but also now has racing pigeons and a peregrine falcon named Saffie, he’s raised from birth!
Always keen to help educate and connect people with nature, he is currently busy helping people feel more freedom outdoors with adventure experiences on the South Downs, which include everything from outdoor cooking and camping to paragliding with Saffie!
You can find more about Tiger on his website tigercox.com
Being a sole trader can be lonely but here you’ll find a very supportive network as well as a great market place at MNC. We’ve done many releases at MNC meetings or events over the years and worked with and for members, including working with Kate (see below) who now owns the club.
We met Kate through the MNC Network. An animal loving photographer with an eye for detail, she quickly proved herself to be a fast shooter too, capturing shots of our fast flying doves that escaped many in her profession.
The first big photo shoot she did for us was our 50 dove New Year release at Devil’s Dyke for those who wanted to release 2016 and fly high in 2017. It was a fabulous day, loads of fun and she managed to take some brilliant photos – it was also absolutely freezing and how she kept her fingers functioning for several hours in that icy wind I will never know!
The images she sent us after though were beautiful, really capturing the feelings of those releasing doves as well as the birds in flight.
Kate is available for weddings and all special occasions and specializes in capturing the moments that create great memories:
katehenwoodphotography.co.uk
FB: Kate Henwood Photography