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Battery Hen Welfare Trust

“

Working to inspire a Free Range Future”

Registered Charity No: 1109060

Dear SupportersAs sure as eggs is eggs my passion is the best motivation I could wish for and after six years doing what I love most, I seethe beginnings of success. As well as growing as a charity, we’re influencing and through that influence thousands morehens are permanently leaving behind their cages to enjoy a free range life. Just think of all those hens laying eggs for Hellmans mayonnaise,once they were in cages– now they are freeranging. You helped usachieve that … nicefeeling isn’t it. You’ll seelots more evidence inthis issue of how withyour help, we arechanging commercialegg production -consumer power worksand it’s beginning toshow.As well as highlightingour collectiveachievements, there’s abumper double pagespread of chilly chickenswho have opted for thecosy life now winter isapproaching; we areproud to invite you to join us at the NationalPoultry Club Show for the very first time andwe introduce you to twoof our very youngestcampaigners.All that together withnews of our emergenceon the political scene,your funny ex-bat talesand our 2009 Christmascards and gifts, meansI’d better shut up and letyou get on withreading ...there's evenan extra four pages thistime!JaneX

Newsletter No 21

www.bhwt.org.ukPhone: 01769 580310Email: info@bhwt.org.ukNorth Parks, Chulmleigh, Devon, EX18 7EJ

2009

We like to pop up in all sorts of different places, thatway we reach different audiences. We were thrilledwhen

Joules

clothing company said they wanted toinclude us on their website and in their seasonalmagazine.

Joules

began selling country clothes atcounty shows in 1980; they offer tradition with a twist,practicality and style. Their summer feature onchickens proved popular with their readers so theymentioned us again in the autumn issue.The past few monthshave provided moregreat evidence of our growing influence. For starters we’ve been on Countryfileagain! Adam Henson, Countryfile presenter, was

impressedwith his ex-bats he covered their progress in a follow up showin August. The ex-bats fared incredibly well in their free rangeenvironment and a comparison with their organiccounterparts showed little difference in condition after justa few months. Excellent!We also appeared on BBC Radio Stoke, BBC RadioWales and in the Times.Finally we appeared in Country Life’sprestigious list of 100 most powerful groups inthe UK today. We featured at No 82, just twobehind David Cameron and several ahead of HRH Zara Phillips! We were only animalwelfare group featured and this is what theywrote:

“Battery Hen Welfare Trust, which educates the public about the egg industry in a remarkably sensible and non-hysterical way, seeking tobuild only positive, constructive relationshipswith the egg industry and numbers JamieOliver, the Duchess of Richmond and AmandaHolden among its Patrons.”

Yep, sounds likeus!

Adam Henson

If you would like to find out more about fundraising for the BHWT, please contact Lisa Tate on 01769 580310

The big and rather pleasantsurprise this time around wasthe amazing success of theEveryclick.com Fiat 500competition. Email supporterswho receive our monthly FreshLaid News Bulletin were invitedto buy a £2 ticket to win anadorable retro bubble car (I’vegot one and confirm they’readorable) with £1.90 comingdirect to the charity. Within 24hours nearly £1,200 had beenraised by our fantastic supporters. Thank you ALL so much for taking part,this money will hopefully be put towards a vehicle just a little bigger than abubble car! We’ll show you when we’ve got it! Ali Woodruff, who was kindenough to adopt our 100,000

ex-bat back in August 2008, turned thebig 4-0 this year and raised£100 in birthdaydonations ... much better than unwanted presies!Thank you Ali, we’re reallygrateful.Sylvia Butcher raised £37.95 by adopting 12 ex-bats and challenging her class of school children to choose names– far more healthy than penny sweets! The names the children chose were Miss Chuckles; Hattie; Hendrow;Lottey; Manny; Rosie; Fluffy; Emily; Melody; Miss Einstein; Huw and Grace. A big thank you to Linda Parkinson and everybody at Vertex Data Sciences who manage the National Trustmembership scheme. Their ‘Go Green’ charity initiative recently raised £326 for us which more than covered thecosts involved in getting out 2000 hens in one weekend in October. On behalf of all 2000, thank you.The Screwball Rally (akaThe Chicken Run) was agreat success with PaulLeyfield, Marcus Sticklandand Keith Richings alltaking part to raise moneyfor us. The 2,200 mile tripthrough six countries infive days in a car worth nomore than £750 was a bitof a challenge. The BHWTstickers drew muchattention, including fromthe German police.Having stopped the car tocheck out what they weredoing, they then signedthe stickers and sent themon their way! It seems the girls impressed the German police to the extent thatother cars stopped were asked if they, too, were on the 'Chicken run'! The guyshave raised over £500 and are already planning the next one! FAB!Finally, if you are one of the lucky few to have received a place in the 2010 Virgin LondonMarathon, would you be willing to make it a chicken run and raise funds for the BHWT? If you would, Lisa would love to hear from you and can be reached on 01769 580310 or byemail atlisa.tate@bhwt.org.uk. Thanks!Jeanette Carpenter makes andsells pretty handmade cards onour behalf and recently sent usa much appreciated £30 –lovely!

Regular supporter and car boot sale wizard, LeightonDyer, raised another whopping £151. Leightonnot only raises funds for us,he hands out leaflets,answers questions aboutthe charity

and

writes theloveliest letters to us at HenCentral in Devon! Thankyou Leighton!