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Charity Rock
Concert
A fund raising rock concert in
aid of VWR will will be taking place at Evesham Working Mens
Club on 16th August. Tickets are £6 and available from our
Charity Shop or from Vine Music in Evesham..
More details are available
here.
Car Boot Sales
Our weekly
car boot sales will be taking place every Saturday
throughout the summer - ground conditions permitting. It opens at 9am
and is located at our Beckford site
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Location map. Charges
for sellers - £5 private cars, £10 large vans and traders,
free admission for buyers.
Arctic Challenge!!
Two of our supporters, Helen Colbourne & Natalie Gould, have
bravely volunteered to drive a team of huskies 250km across
the frozen wastelands of Norway into Sweden to raise much-needed
funds for Vale Wildlife!! They must be mad!!! But with your
support they want to raise as much as possible to put towards
the building of the Vale Wildlife
Education & Training Centre, a £400,000 project which we
have now been granted planning permission for.
Helen & Natalie are aiming to raise a minimum of £6,000 in sponsorship
for the trek which will take place in April 2009. Obviously
there are costs involved in taking part in this challenge, so
the more sponsorship they can get, the more money comes to the
charity. The girls have set up a fundraising page on the Justgiving
website. If you make a donation online from their Justgiving
page, Gift Aid is automatically paid to us if you confirm that
you are a taxpayer. To see their page & to donate online please
go to http://www.justgiving.com/nataliegould
Alternatively sponsorship can be sent directly to us at Vale
Wildlife Rescue, Station Road, Beckford, Tewkesbury, Glos, GL20
7AN. Please make sure you let us know that it is for the 'Arctic
Challenge'.
We also plan to have sponsor forms available - if you are you
are willing to get sponsors for Helen & Natalie that will help
to boost their total please contact us and we will send one
to you as soon as they are available.
Exciting News—Planning Permission
Granted!!
We have received the great news that
planning permission has been granted by Wychavon District Council
for our proposed Education and Training Centre. For more information
about the new facility please click on this
link
Caroline's Blog
Caroline,
our manager and founder, is now publishing her blog online -
'The Diary of a Wildlife Hospital'. It can be accessed via the
blog link at the left of the page
Discussion Forums
We now have a forums discussion area available
on this site. It can be accessed using the
Forums link on the menu. After you
have registered you can post questions and comments related
to Vale Wildlife and our work, you will also be able to
post back and add comments to other discussions that are taking
place. Caroline, staff and volunteers from VWR will be monitoring
contributing to the forums.
Live pictures on-line
via our web cam
We are very pleased to bring
to you live pictures from our wildlife hospital. Due to
the variety of wildlife in our care the pictures will vary from
day to day. Click on the webcam link on our menu to the left
to go to the webcam page.
 Donate
on-line now using Paypal or a Credit Card
We are now able
to accept on-line donations and payments. We are currently updating
our site and currently only have the donation links available
but hope to have additional features such as sponsorship on-line
soon. Our payment system is processed by Paypal however you
do not need a Paypal account to make a donation. Click on the
'make a donation button' or other payment buttons on this site
to be taken to Paypals secure payment site, then either sign
in to your Paypal account or select the option if you
do not have one to see the credit card payment options.
Vale Wildlife
Charity Shop
Our charity shop is located at 10
Vine Street in Evesham and is within easy walking distance of
the town's shops with parking at the front and rear of the shop.
The charity shop was originally opened in 2001 when we were
unable to undertake many of our normal fund raising activities
due to the foot and mouth crisis and raised much needed funds
to help replace the shortfalls. Initially we were extremely
lucky to be able to obtain an empty shop rent free but it was
only a short term location. However as this venture was so successful
we now have leased a property to fix ourselves at a particular
location. We sell good quality second hand clothes, books and
bric-a-brac so please drop in to snap up a bargain and to support
us.
Visitor Centre closed
Although not actually owned by the
Charity, the Visitor Centre was opened in 1998 with two main
purposes: firstly, education which it has succeeded in to a
certain extent, although we would have liked to do more. Secondly,
its aim was to raise much-needed funds for Vale Wildlife, as
all the profits of the Centre were covenanted to the charity.
Sadly, it failed in the latter, and always struggled financially
– a great shame as we all believed the centre had great potential.
Without financial investment, the Visitor Centre was going downhill
and it was therefore decided to close at the end of August 2005.
This was very sad news for us, and
the decision was put off for a long time, but it was felt that
this course of action had to be taken before the centre became
too neglected.
This of course makes the job of
raising money for Vale Wildlife even more difficult as, although
we didn’t gain financially from the Visitor Centre, it was a
very effective way of raising awareness of the work that we
do, and we therefore anticipate that we will lose the opportunity
of some new supporters.
Charity Auctions
We are now holding
auctions on the internet auction site Ebay of items that have
been generously donated by members and supporters to be used
to raise funds for VWR. Read more about it
here.
Vale Wildlife Rescue
Registered charity
No. 702888
email
info@vwr.org.uk
telephone - 01386 882288 (treatment &
rehabilitation)
Last
updated
20 July, 2008
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