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WHAT'S ON Updated 25th November 2011 We have split this section into smaller areas. Please use the links below to access your area of interest:
Current NewsletterP.E.P.A. January, NewsletterThe holiday season is over, and now we are back to our regular schedule! Although, not quite! On February 14th (Valentine’s Day), being the second Tuesday of the month, Jaine Thorne is organizing our monthly lunch at the La Visteta restaurant on the Barx-Simat road, and as you will see from the attachment this will be a very different occasion because she has arranged for us to have a very special attraction of a Gypsy Flamenco Show. So please come and enjoy Leo’s hospitality and win the free lunch donated by Leo, plus enjoy some memorable dancing. The January luncheon at the L’Irlandes restaurant in Castello de Rugat had a rather small crowd of 22 people but we had an enjoyable get together after the busy holidays and everyone was very generous to P.E.P.A. and we raised 90 euros with the raffle. Our financial status has improved over the last quarter of 2011 and we are back financing feral cat sterilizations. Call Joe at 962808332 if you have a feral cat problem. If you are returning to the UK soon be sure and look up on the P.E.P.A. website the information on the easing of taking your pets with you. The laws were eased on January 1st 2012. If you have any re-saleable clothes or bric a brac you would like to donate, please telephone Anne Goodwin 96 478 3541 or Janet Carpenter 96 213 2960 for the L’Olleria shop or Jan Barker 96 280 0395 for the La Font shop. Both charity shops need your materials in order to support our costs in re-homing abandoned animals and sterilizing feral cats. Also, if you would like to donate a raffle prize please contact Janet Goodwin on 96 280 8332. Last year more and more people saved their small change which they very kindly donated to us. Remember every little bit counts, so we would certainly appreciate more people joining this ‘savers campaign’. It is surprising just how quickly the amount adds up and is a big help to our projects. Another fund raiser is the link on our website (www.pepaspain.com) to Amazon.co.uk. P.E.P.A. receives a 5% donation from Amazon for purchases you make using our website link. Tell your friends and relatives in the UK to purchase through our website when they purchase anything from Amazon.co.uk! Foster carers for the abandoned animals are always at a premium and we never have enough carers! Of course, we lose carers who adopt the animals in their care, but although we lose a foster carer the animal they adopt receives a really loving new home with someone who would never think of giving up the animal. In my opinion the highlight of giving time as a volunteer to P.E.P.A. is the number of animals who have had their lives turned around from being a throw away object into being a loving and loved family member. Lastly, when you receive this letter would you please give a thought of how much help you would be giving us by becoming a member of P.E.P.A. The membership fee is really very small – just 12€ a year for a single person and if you are a couple the membership you make a saving by paying only 20€. Please help us to help all these abandoned animals which are increasing yearly. Hope to see you at the February luncheon. Have a good time and stay healthy.
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NoticesWE NEED YOUR HELP! We are asking you to give us just a few hours of your time - from 10.00a.m. until 5.00.p.m. just one morning a week to help find good homes for abandoned dogs. Because every day we are receiving more and more calls about abandoned, starving and often cruelly treated dogs, we need to expand our Homing Team. Just a few hours of your time – for this very rewarding work – is all that we ask! Another area where we need your help is for you to become a P.E.P.A. Foster Carer. To create a temporary, warm, loving haven of safety for some terrified dog who has been endeavouring to live off its wits for weeks in a never ending battle to survive, can be very rewarding. Have you always had a pet in the past, or lost a favourite friend? Do you now hesitate about permanently having your own dog? Fostering an abandoned dog for a few weeks, could help fill this gap. If you are able to help us, please call 650 304 746 (10.00a.m. - 5.00p.m.) **************************************************** Another way we desperately need YOUR HELP Is in raising money! In this, we need all the help we can get to help us pay for our feral cat programme which is expanding all the time and to pay for our dogs whilst they are in foster care. To pay for their vaccinations, medications etc. etc. All these expenses are continuous and so we continually need to raise money! Thoughts how you could help is by organising just one event, for example .... Would you like to organise a coffee morning on behalf of P.E.P.A.? Would you like to organise a market sale? Would you like to organise a Fun Run (perhaps with dogs and/or fancy dress)? Would you like to organise a car rally, or a lunch with a guest speaker? Perhaps a line dancing or other type of competition? Or how about a picnic, or a barbecue, or even a marathon? These are just some of the ways in which you could help. If you don't want to do the actual organising can you help in other ways? If you can, please telephone Janet on 96 280 8332. **************************************************** OUR FERAL CAT PROGRAMME We are looking to expand our feral cat programme and need your help! Being a cat lover, you will know just how heartbreaking it is to have kittens dumped on your doorstep, or to find them tied in plastic bags having been callously thrown into a basura bin. Or finding them writhing in agony from a dose of poison. In this part of Spain, all along the eastern coast, it is almost a daily occurrence to find abandoned kittens, alive and dead, during the months of April/May and September/October. In other words, breeding time for the feral cat population! By sterilizing both males and females we are able to save some of that terrible suffering. To learn how to trap feral cats is neither difficult, nor time consuming. We will give you full instructions and supply you with the traps. All you will need is a bit of patience along with the satisfaction that you are really doing something to help. I assure you it can be very rewarding because you are allowing the adults to live quietly in their own environment. The females not being constantly attacked by randy males and the males themselves not having to prove their 'manhood' by fighting with other males. And helping to put an end to the suffering of all those kittens. This non-lethal method of controlling the feral cat population is the recommended procedure by all leading countries who are concerned with animal welfare. It is a procedure known as TNR (Trapping, Neutering and Returning). Please have a think about it and if you are interested, **************************************************** P.E.P.A. 2012 CHARITY CALENDARS Available from the P.E.P.A. charity shop, rastros, the book sale **************************************************** Volunteers We are hoping to increase our Help Team by recruiting volunteers to ‘staff’ a telephone for seven hours a week on a Sunday (from 10.00 until 5.00). By sharing the task between seven people means nobody is overburdened. So, again, we appeal to your good nature – just 7 hours on a Sunday would mean so much to us and could be really rewarding for you knowing that you could be saving some poor creature! Please call 650 304 746 if you can help! **************************************************** Membership Subscriptions All memberships are now due for renewal, with the exception of those members who joined in either November or December Please see Sean Hall-Smith, at the next luncheon or mail to PEPA, Apartado de Correos 298, 46700, Gandia. The subscription price is €12 for the year.
WHENEVER YOU SEE A P.E.P.A. COLLECTING BOX DON'T FORGET TO DROP IN A COIN, HOWEVER SMALL. EVERY CENT YOU CONTRIBUTE GOES TOWARDS GIVING SOME WRETCHED ANIMAL A BETTER LIFE. P.E.P.A. ARE ALWAYS LOOKING FOR VOLUNTEERS CAN YOU PLEASE HELP???WE URGENTLY REQUIRE FOSTER CARERS FOR DOGS. We have foster carers in many areas from Valencia down to Torrevieja, but we always need more in order to cope with the increasing number of abandoned dogs. If you are interested in participating in this very rewarding work, please call the following number: 650 304 746 Click on the FOSTERING button at the top and bottom of each page for more information. **************************************************** PERHAPS YOU WOULD LIKE TO HELP US IN OTHER WAYS? We are looking for someone who is bright, intelligent and wanting to have something to do other than sit in the sun! Why? Because we urgently need someone who is able to look after P.E.P.A. fund-raising. Preferably someone who lives in the Gandia area and someone who has a computer. Ideally, that someone would be able to recruit volunteers to help with the organizing of fund-raising events, such as Fun Day, Petanca competitions, Lunches with talks, Concerts, etc. Car Rallies, Treasure Hunts etc. It is hard work, but it is also very rewarding and a lot of fun and all the time you are meeting lots of people with the similar interests. **************************************************** We are also looking for volunteers who can help with our Feral Cat programme, with a view to actually running the programme after a suitable training period. If you are a cat lover this may really interest you. The work is not hard, or difficult, mainly taking and making telephone calls, keeping updated sheets and organizing the placements of traps up and down the coast. At the moment we have traps in several areas from Gandia down to Murcia, so there would not be too much running around. This, like all our work, is very rewarding and you would benefit from the knowledge that you would be doing a really good service to the community. **************************************************** Would you like to have a P.E.P.A. stall at any of the large weekend markets in your area? P.E.P.A. will give you full back-up. In order to expand our activities we need volunteers in all these areas. Please telephone 96 280 8332 to find out more. Click here to email us |
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