How you can help
Six easy ways to help raise money by recycling:
1. Collecting towels or other textiles such as blankets, for use with the cats or we can recycle them and earn money, which goes towards helping the cats.
2. We can also take old clothing, shoes, handbags and belts. The better quality items we sell at our events and the not so good items go for recycling, where again we can get money for.
3. Collecting old mobile phones for recycling.
4. Collecting used ink cartridges, but not Epson cartridges for recycling.
5. Collecting aluminium drinks cans for recycling.
6. Collecting foreign coins.
7.Bringing in music CD's as we have an outlet for making money by selling them on.
.Other ideas
Why not organise a 'dress down day' and charge colleagues £1 to come to work in casual clothes, to wear a silly tie or an outrageous pair of earrings!
Is it time to have a clear up indoors? how about doing a boot sale with the proceeds coming to us, or if you do not have any items we can sort some out for you.
Maybe you have good quality items that we can use, such as bric a brac, toys, clothing etc.
Are you good with computers and could maybe sell items for us on ebay? We can provide items for sale.
Could you organise a coffee morning or maybe a garden open day?
Contact us and ask what activities we have planned - you can help us by putting up a poster on your staff notice board to help us with publicity.
Sign up with "Spend and Raise" if you shop online, details on our home page. A percentage of your spend will come to us, but it will not cost you anything.
How about getting sponsorship for your next challenge, maybe now is the time to throw yourself out of a perfectly good plane! complete with parachute of course and all for a good cause.
We have organised street collections throughout the year, and desperately need people to help, can you offer a couple hours to help for one of our collections?
To our younger supporters, why not bake some cat shaped cookies and sell them to friends and family.
Meet our volunteers.
My name is Kieron and I have been at the centre for 2 years. I help with the cleaning and this is the purrfect opportunity to have a cuddle with the cats. I help out wherever I can around the centre and mainly come in in the afternoons helping with a variety of tasks from mopping the cattery floors to getting the litter trays ready. I have been coming in twice a week and really enjoy the work, recently I have started a new job, which is great for me but I will still be helping once a week.
Hi my name is Becky, I have been voluntering at the Cats Protection for a year now. I help with the cleaning on a Monday. After the cleaning I spend time with the cats giving them a cuddle, I especially enjoy spending time with the timid cats as it gives you a great sense of satisfaction when you see them coming out of their shell. I have adopted three cats from the centre, I took on Snowdrop and Twix just after I started volunteering, and have recently taken on a young cat called Tinkerbelle. In the picture I am giving Blanche a cuddle, she has been at the centre for a while now and has had no interest, which is a shame as she is a lovely cat.
Our volunteer roles include:
Helping with the daily cleaning of the pens.
General cleaning around the centre.
Cat cuddling and Socialising.
Gardening
Helping at Events
Street Collections
Collecting items for our events or recycling
Fundraising
If you feel you can help us in any way please call us at the centre 01245 478389 and ask for Kieron.
If you would like to tell us anything at this time, please use the box below
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