The Grape Stomp Festival is a famously fun event and a highlight of things to do in Williamson County, year in and out. This annual festival takes place in the fall, bringing all supporters of A Vintage Affair together for an exciting and unforgettable day! There’s no other charity event where teams and attendees enjoy food and wine tastings throughout the day listening to upbeat music and watching grapes get pulverized by feet — all in the name of raising money for women and children. Hilarious team costumes and friendly local faces make this an event unlike every other.
About Wine Down Main Street
- Enjoy more than 170 wines
- Taste food from 30 restaurants
- Enjoy live music on the square
- In 2014, attendees were from 35 Tennessee cities, 15 states, England, France and Japan.
- Voted Best Fundraiser/Event in Williamson County eight consecutive years including 2014
- All proceeds benefit over 2,800 kids served locally at seven Boys & Girls Clubs in Davidson & Williamson Counties
To get your tickets, click here.
For more information on Wine Down Main Street, contact Denise Carothers at 615.794.1106 or dcarothers@bgcmt.org
About Boys & Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee
For more than 112 years, Boys & Girls Clubs of Middle Tennessee has enabled all young people, especially those who need us most, to reach their full potential as productive, caring, and responsible citizens. Annually, more than 2,000 youth walk through the doors of the five Middle Tennessee Boys & Girls Clubs. Clubs are located in Davidson & Williamson counties. Clubs provide a safe place, professional caring staff, fun and friendship, and high-impact youth development programs on a daily basis during critical non-school hours. Priority programs emphasize academic success, good character and citizenship, and healthy lifestyles. Learn more at www.bgcmt.org or follow us at www.facebook.com/
Chukkers for Charity Polo Match & Classic Car Show, Franklin TN
1:00 pm | Saturday, Sep 12th
For the third year in a row, Nissan will present Chukkers for Charity, a polo game and outdoor event held in Franklin, Tenn. Roldan, a world-class polo player and one of Town & Country’s Top 50 Bachelors will be a highlight of the September 12 event.
Chukkers returns for the 19th year to raise funds and awareness for the Rochelle Center and Saddle Up! This year the honorary co-chairs are Lexie Armstrong and Cathy Brown, and Patron Party co-chairs are Mary Kate Brown, Lisa McInturff, and Kim Williams. Auto Week is also a returning sponsor for the event as well as Lipman Brothers.
The event will also feature a vintage car show parade during half time, a silent auction and tailgating competition. The theme, selected by the co-chairs, is “Vintage French Circus.” Guests are encouraged to participate in celebrating the theme through the décor of their individual cabana tailgating headquarters, which will include black and white stripes with a pop of red.
The gates for the event will open at 1 p.m. for tailgaters and 2 p.m. for general patrons. The opening ceremony will be held at 2:45 p.m. with the polo match beginning around 3 p.m. Following the polo match, the Patrons’ Dinner will begin at 6:15 p.m.
For event day information and to purchase tickets please visit Chukkers for Charity.
ABOUT ROCHELLE CENTER
In 1968, long time area educator W.R. Rochelle, began the foundation for the agency to offer supports for adults with developmental and intellectual disabilities. These supports would enhance skills necessary for these individuals to become as independent as possible in our community. Today’s Rochelle Center continues that mission with on-campus day programming in addition to residential services. For more information, call 601.254.0673 or visit the rochellecenter.org.
ABOUT SADDLE UP!
The mission of Saddle Up! is to provide children and youth with disabilities the opportunity to grow and develop through therapeutic, educational and recreational activities with horses. Saddle Up! has served more than 1,300 children with disabilities, provided more than
50,000 hours of services, and cared for more than 130 noble horse since incorporating in 1991. Saddle Up! offers recreational therapeutic riding, physical and occupational therapy (called hippotherapy), a school-based equine assisted learning program, the Saddle Up! Equestrian Club, and workshops/seminars. More than 500 volunteers gave over 17,000 hours of service in 2014. Saddle Up! is a PATH Intl. Premier Accredit Center and the only member center in Tennessee of the American Hippotherapy Association. For more information, please visit saddleupnashville.org.
Franklin TN – Femme Fido is a bicycle ride celebrating women and supporting local non-profit animal rescues.
This ride is an established event (Formerly Femme Fondo), in operation since 2005, and drawing between 200-400 women annually. In 2015, Middle Tennessee Boxer Rescue is partnering with Gran Fondo Cycles once again to organize the Femme Fido ride being held in beautiful Leiper’s Fork, TN. This is a charity event supporting three well deserving local 501(c)(3) non-profit animal rescues. 100% of all proceeds will be split evenly between Middle Tennessee Boxer Rescue, Snooty Giggles Dog Rescue and Nashville Pittie. This year’s ride will consist of approximately 20 and 50 mile distances starting and finishing in the “Spin Zone” providing food, fun and community presence.
Where:
Leiper’s Fork, TN, just outside Nashville
Start:
Hillsboro Elementary School 5412 Pinewood Road, Franklin, TN 37064
Distances Offered:
About 20 and 50 miles
Start Time:
8:00 am,
Packet pickup beginning at 6:30 am
We have a simple Registration process – you will not need to allow very much time.
ABOUT: Nine years ago, a unique local bicycling event was created to give women a chance to ride together in support of the fight against breast cancer. Called Hope on Wheels, this annual ride raised money and awareness, and benefitted Nashville’s Minnie Pearl Cancer Foundation. Though the foundation is now directing its efforts to other events, women bicyclists throughout Middle Tennessee continue to seek opportunities to ride together.
Femme Fido formally Femme Fondo provides that opportunity—a women’s ride in the tradition of Hope on Wheels. Femme Fido is a celebration of the joys of riding a bike for women. It is just that simple.
Femme Fondo was changed to Femme Fido in 2014. After directing the race for 9 years, Vida Greer has decided to take a step back. Femme Fido will continue to be sponsored by Gran Fondo Cycles along with Middle Tennessee Boxer Rescue. The ride will give riders the opportunity to raise funds(or just ride) for local 501c3 Animal Rescues. Each year 2 deserving rescues will be recipicents of the funds raised along with Middle Tennessee Boxer Rescue. With so many small rescues struggling to raise money the idea of Gran Fondo and Middle Trennessee Boxer Rescue giving back to other rescues would AWESOME!!! Gran Fondo employee Vida Greer served as HOW100 Event Director for the initial 5 years of the event’s history. Middle tennesee Boxer rescue board member Suzanna Dever will now be the aciting Event Director. Gran Fondo Cycles continues the tradition as the event promoter for Femme Fido.
According to former Femme Fondo Director, Vida Greer, “The time spent helping to create and direct Hope on Wheels was some of the most gratifying hard work of my life. Every year, I was moved by the special spirit of hundreds of women, coming together to ride their bikes. I saw hundreds of women achieve what they’d never imagined they could. I watched new friendships blossom. I heard women encouraging each other up hills, over long miles, and in weather that wasn’t always perfect. I ride a lot, but there was always something unique about that day when our beautiful Middle Tennessee country roads were filled with women on their bikes. Gran fondo Cycles and Middle Tennessee Boxer Rescue is committed to continuing the fantastic tradition of celebrating women on bikes and helping save the lives of animals.”