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| Thank you for all your help during the previous year, including of course the sponsorship of the wheelchair marathon. Stephen and I completed the 7 ½ mile course in 50 minutes (well done to Stephen). Unfortunately this year we did not win, but did manage a respectable second. This was our 18th marathon; I do hope we will be able to make it to the 20th. Edna Baybutt a long time member of our charity has taken part in 24 marathons. A wonderful achievement as I am sure you will agree. Well done Edna. The money we have raised over the years has been a big help to the charity enabling us to buy many things that were needed for the animals and the rescue service. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Kind regards to all of you. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Sylvia Durham MBE | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Personalised A4 sized mats | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| These are washable mats and can be used for cat or dog bowls and placemats with your favourite pictures or photographs on them £2.00 plus post and packing. We can also make calendars £3.99 plus post and packing and business cards that can be laminated. All proceeds to go to the sanctuary. For further details please contact the Field of Dreams at the address given after the next item. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Personalised Pet Paper | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| The A4 animal writing paper depicting dogs, cats or horses has been so popular that we have ordered more! This can be personalised for you with your name and address in fancy writing in the top right hand corner. There is plenty of space for the writing connoisseur and all the proceeds will go to Animals in Distress, which will be printed on the bottom of the page. Ten pages with envelopes cost £3.00 inclusive of postage and packing to members and £3.50 to non members. Also available are trolley coins and lapel badges at £1 each plus P+P of 50p Send your requirements to :- | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| Telephone: 01706 371731 for more details. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Sponsorships | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| If you want any animal sponsorships for presents, please let us know in plenty of time and include the person's name and address that you wish it to go to. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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| All others include chickens, owl, pigs, goats, sheep etc For Paper and Sponsorships please reply (with cheque or PO ) to: - | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
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Irlam | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| With the assistance of some hard working volunteers the sanctuary pond has been given a facelift. It is 12 ft by 16 ft and 4 ft deep. The water was replaced after a gentle clean of the liner and a new pump has been fitted to run the waterfall. A fountain has been added to the pond. About twenty fish have been introduced to the pond and are living happily with the resident family of frogs that have been returning there to breed for the last ten years. This has all been carried out without any expense to the charity and allowed fish to be rescued as otherwise they had nowhere to go. If anyone has any spare filter media for the filters this would be put to good use. The renovation of five units of the outside cattery has been completed, but donations are badly needed to complete the work. Sadly our call out van was involved in an accident and has been off the road Fortunately it is now repaired and back on duty. The Swinton shop is up and running! So far it has been a big success, even though there are not enough helpers. The few we have are very dedicated and hard working. If you can offer some time to help please call Mike at Irlam. Recently thieves broke into the sanctuary yard and stole the security cameras. As ever no-one has been apprehended. They have now been replaced. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Directions to Animals in Distress, 55 Silver Street, Irlam, Manchester M44 6HT. Motorway M62 exit 11 Irlam and Eccles, take the third left from the roundabout heading towards Irlam and Cadishead, straight on past Makro, then take right hand fork to Irlam, carry straight on until you come to the pub on the right hand side called the Nags Head, and the Late Shop. Turn immediately right between the two, straight up the street until you come to a thick privet hedge on the left hand side and there you will find the Irlam sanctuary. If you are going to rehome an animal from Irlam please phone first to check on what items you will need. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Field of Dreams News | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
 The framework for the reptile house and the roof are now erected. The steel stanchions have proved very strong in the wind and inclement weather. The weather took a turn for the worse following the start of Spring with snow and frost. The Shetland ponies had had their rugs taken off as the temperatures had risen. They were caught out and needed somewhere immediately to shelter them. Some panels were erected on the framework from a new field shelter that we were given by one of the members . This made a very quick large shelter for them. It came in extremely useful as we managed to put in most of the sanctuary Shetlands. They lived very comfortably in their makeshift shelter. All the ponies stayed dry and warm until the weather changed again. In addition, whilst the panels of the shelter were held upright the resident handymen at the sanctuary were able to paint them with a wood preservative to protect them from the weather. While the shelter has been painted, an area has been levelled to erect it in and the concrete base is now in place. This should be finished before the end of the Summer and will provide a large stable for another 'inmate'.Directions to Animals in Distress Retirement Home Leach Farm, Swaindrod Lane, Littleborough, Lancs OL15 0LE:- M62 exit 21 Milnrow and Shaw, first left from the roundabout onto Elizabethan Way, right at traffic lights, left at mini roundabout into Kiln Lane, left fork following signs for Littleborough and Hollingworth Lake, at mini roundabout turn right, drive around Hollingworth Lake bearing left at the Fisherman's Inn, follow the road until the T junction, turn right onto the A58 out of Littleborough, drive up the hill for one mile until reaching the Moorcock Inn on the left hand side, turn left and take the bridleway at the end of the car park, drive straight on the track do not turn left or right. The farm is one mile away from the Moorcock Inn. The bridleway is quite passable at a slow speed. Please do not park at the Moorcock Inn and walk up to the sanctuary. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Toner cartridges | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| We can feed the sanctuary animals from collecting your empty toner cartridges and unwanted mobile phones with battery and charging unit (without sim card). Within a certain radius of the two sanctuaries the charity could pick the toners up or the charity can send you pre paid envelopes (these are paid by the company who are collecting the empty toners) so sending the cartridges does not cost you anything. If you get a lot of them we could give you a collection box. The cartridges need to be empty but undamaged and if they come with a lid, that as well please. They can be placed in the plastic bag or the tray that the new toner came in. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Raising Funds | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| You can now purchase items online from many of our well known High Street Shops by visiting http://www.buy.at/AnimalsInDistress where
every purchase will earn funds for the Sanctuaries at no extra cost to you. You can visit http://www.animals-in-distress.net/aff.htm for shopping from Argos, Amazon.co.uk and Tesco. We need your, to collect funds for the sanctuaries. Do you have a day or two to spare to help collect money for the charity. Please call Mell on 01706 371 731 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| We now have a charity shop on the eBay.co.uk site where we hold regular auctions of items from our shops, visit our page at http://www.animals-in-distress.net/ebay_page.htm to see what we are auctioning. If you have an eBay account and you log on via that page then each bid you make will earn funds for the charity. You can also sign up for an eBay account from that page. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| If your still using Dial Up Internet access, why not use a service that helps us for free! Broadband is still very much the buzzword in the world of Internet Access. However, a huge army of people still use dial up (Pay As You Go) for their Internet access. This enforces the fact that a good proportion of people do not require the speed or “always on” features of broadband, especially when the cost of entry is over £180 a year. We are asking all our supporters that use Dial up access to change their supplier to CharityDays as they donate money to us every time they connect to the Internet. So, for the few minutes it would take to sign up for an account, you would be helping us every time you connect to the internet without it costing you an extra penny! For more information and to change your supplier, visit www.charitydays.net | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
Fund Raising Direct | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Animals in Distress have joined Fund Raising Direct. This is a catalogue which sell everything from toys to furniture and comes out twice a year. The catalogue has some excellent buys and good ideas for peoples presents. The charity gets twenty five percent of everything that the catalogue sells. It is easy to order. You can phone or order by post, quoting a reference number on the front of the catalogue to place your order. The charity will be sent a statement and when they have made a certain amount of money it will be sent by standing order to pay into the bank. If you would like one of these catalogues please contact Mel at the Field of Dreams. Telephone 01706 371731 Thank you to all of you who have asked and received one of these catalogues. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
E-mailed Newsletter | ||||||||||||||||||||||||
| It is now possible to have your copy of the newsletter sent to you by Email. This will be a quicker, cheaper and easier service for the charity. So if you would like your newsletter hot off the press, please send your Email address to the Field of Dreams, Leach Farm, Swaindrod Lane, Littleborough, Lancs, OL15 0LE or telephone the Littleborough sanctuary on 01706 371 731. Thank you to all the members who have got back to us to ask for their Newsletter to be sent out by E-mail. |
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