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2009 RSPCA Maidenhead & East Berkshire Branch

Animal Antics

Quarter 2 (2009)

issue 5

Maidenhead & East Berkshire Branch

Registered charity no. 251481

www.rspca-maidenheadandeastberks.org.uk

News Update

Fundraising –

We’ve had a great quarterso far with Tescos’s week raising anamazing £1187.83 plus at least 6 trolleysof pet food. The Maidenhead streetcollection in May raised £369 and the onein June raised £456.01, the Cox GreenFair brought in £129.15, the BCALambing weekend helped raise £316.50

and

the Dinton Pastures sponsored dogwalk in May raised £657 (there will bemore sponsored walks through the yearfollowing this success). Our Holyportsummer fayre rose over £450 which wasamazing considering the very poor turnout of people.Our amazing Quiz Night in April (picturedabove) rose over £1000! It was such asuccess we’ve booked another one on17

October!

AGM

– our Branch AGM took place on 3

June 2009, during the meeting two of ourdedicated volunteers received awards(Sarah and Jill receiving their certificatesand flowers from our ChairpersonRebecca in the below photo). During thismeeting we also heard a very interestingpresentation from Carolyn Southwellabout Pet Retreat which we mentioned inthe last newsletter.

Barn dance

- On Saturday 20

June 150peopledescendedon the Braygarden andhome ofbranchtrustees Nick and Sarah Howe to have afantastic fun evening including a BarnDance and a Rodeo Bull all in aid of theMaidenhead and East Berks branch ofthe RSPCA. With funds being muchneeded, through hard work and somefantastic sponsorship from Nick’s industrycolleagues every penny raised went tothe branch. The generosity of friends andneighbors raised £4000. As you can seefrom the photos mastering the some ofthe dance steps was a challenge formany as was staying on the bull, bothproviding loads of laughs to everyonewatching.

Animal Corner

Dogs

– We’ve been very successful withrehoming many dogs such as Stella,Shelby, Molly, Ziggy and Jerry Lee. Youcan see more about Ziggy’s new life andadventures on our website under theNews section.

Cats

– We’ve managed to re-home anumber of cats so far this quarter,including Max & Tara, Sparky, Precious,Millie, Reggie, Domino, Bobby, Pixie,Casey, Thomas and Scooby.If you’d like to read some of our successstories please visit our website, go to theRehoming page and click on the ‘Here’button in the rehoming section.

Fostering

– We are always on the look-out for people to help foster animals for aperiod of time to help them have a nicerhome out of the kennels until they findsomething permanently. If you’reinterested in helping please contact therehoming line on 07852 481079.

VolunteerSpotlight

Each quarter we’ll have a quick interviewwith a volunteer of our branch. Thisquarter our featured volunteer is one ofour Branch Trustee’s Sarah!

Why did you decide to get involved?

Adopted a Lurcher from the branch andwas asked if I could do some collecting-next thing I knew I was on the committeeand 10 years on still am-so be warnedeverybody!!

What have you enjoyed most so farabout volunteering?

Making a difference to the animals livesmainly and more recently seeing thebranch get lots of new volenteers andhow fantastic and passionate they all arehelping to modernize the branch andimprove the animals quality of lives whilstin our care.

Have you learnt anything about theRSPCA since volunteering?

It`s a very complex organisation thatrelies totally on volunteers and voluntaryfunding. I was very surprised that itrecieves no funding from the governmentand yet it is the first place the public andlocal authorities turn to when there is aproblem with any type of animal.

What animals do you have?

2 Lurchers an Airedale terrier a pony and4 kids if they count.

What else do you do in your time?

My biggest love in life is riding horseswhich I try and do a couple of times aweek. I walk my dogs for a couple ofhours everyday. Most of the rest of mytime is either RSPCA work and sortingout kids etc.