Fundraising

WEST CORK ANIMAL WELFARE GROUP

Can you help us to look after the many stray, unwanted and abandoned animals that come into our rescue centre by raising funds?

We are extremely thankful to everyone who supports us by organizing fundraisers and are often amazed at the ideas people think of to raise money. It's especially encouraging to see young people who love animals helping to make a difference to the lives of the dogs and cats in our centre by using their talents and abilities to raise funds.

Below are some of the fundraising events that have taken place in 2010

Siobhan is doing a Parachute Jump to raise money for us in September 2010. This will be her fourth Skydive, two previous jumps have been in Ireland and one in Cape Town, South Africa last year. She loves the thrill and challenge of the jump and we're delighted she's chosen to sponsor our rescue centre. Siobahn is an animal lover and is seen here with her Boxer, Spud.

If you would like to sponsor Siobhan, click on the donate button below and enter parachute jump in the message box.

Please log on to www.pedigreeadoptiondrive.ie for details on the launch of the 'Dog Walk Home' scheme in support of the Pedigree Adoption Drive. The scheme seeks to encourage families around the country to hold sponsored dog walks to raise extra funds for local dog charities in addition to the €100,000 that Pedigree has already committed to donating.

A few months ago we assisted in re-homing two dogs, Cocoa & Purdy and two cats, Bumble and Twinkle for the Fallon family whowere moving to the USA. All four found lovely homes have settled in well and are absolutely thriving. As a thank you Leigh and her two daughters, Chloe and Megan had a going away party and requested that people make a donation to The West Cork Animal Shelter. They raised a much appreciated €106.

Susan Hackett and John Pettersen organized a music quiz on Monday May 5th at Hackett's Bar in Schull and raised €306.

John Goode who owns the Mill Cove Gallery, Castletownbere invited us to the exhibition opening and award ceremony at the Gallery on Sunday April 4th. The entry proceeds to the Sculpture Garden for the day were donated to us and raised €367. We were accompanied by two of our dogs, Murphy, an English Mastiff and Golly a Deerhound.

On Saturday March 20th the Animal Science Class of 2009/2010 from St John's College, Cork organized a Rescued Animals Day to raise the awareness of the general public to the work that is undertaken by animal rescue groups in County Cork. It was a very encouraging day sponsored by Maxi Zoo and much appreciated by the many different charities and groups working with animals who were represented.

Catriona and Shannagh are sisters who both love animals and were very keen to raise some money for the dogs at our rescue centre so they set about collecting items to take to a car boot sale on January 24th in West Cork where they raised €100.

The O'Donovan family lost their son Ross in a tragic accident involving a forklift truck this year. As Ross was a young man who loved animals, the family made a video during the funeral which they sold raising €1000. We were given the cheque at an evening presentation in Bandon which was very well represented by friends and family.

Maeve D'Alton from the ESB in Wilton, Cork presenting Jennifer Headlam, chairperson of West Cork Animal Welfare with a cheque for €500 in November 2009.

Suzanne, wearing number 9052 raised €650 running the Dublin Marathon in October which she completed in 3 hours 54 mins. Suzanne adopted a wiry terrier Doffo from us and says "Doffo has been my training partner so it's only fair that the sponsor monies raised go back to where he came from! He's done all the training but unfortunately he's not allowed to enter the marathon!! There's no rabbits to chase anyway, so he would have found it a bit dull!"

The Cork Mini Marathon took place on September 28th 2009 and Mary Morrish who adopted Sid, a golden Labrador from us in June 2008 raised €205. Jennifer O'Sullivan raised €540

Alice Crowley whose black Labrador Billy enjoyed running with Alice whilst she was in training raised €652.

Catherine and Aoife O'Connor entered their dog Sean who they adopted from us in April 2009 and raised €260. Sean is pictured here looking very proud wearing his number on his back.

Charity Busking at Schull Sunday Market & Music evenings at Hackett's Bar has raised €3500 in memory of Teddy & Jack

A sad warning to dog lovers

On Sunday March 8th 2009 we took our dogs Teddy and Jack for their usual walk which they thoroughly enjoyed and by 11pm that night they had both died from poisoning despite every effort from our vet to save them. We are devastated that two lovely dogs should die in this way.

Christine Thery an artist who lives on Heir Island raised €1150 in July from the sale of her painting "Poppit and the Seal" which she donated to us in memory of her dog Poppit. The painting was sold at the Morris Gallery in Skibbereen and we would like to thank Christine for donating the proceeds of the painting and the gallery owners, Aidan & Brenda Morris for donating the gallery's percentage of the sale.

Liz Mahony a dog behavioural therapist who comes to our rescue centre each week to help us re-habilitate some of our more challenging dogs with behavioural problems gave a talk called Animal Solutions in Bandon which raised €232.

Edie and Maisie from Co. Kerry who adopted Doffo, an adorable shaggy terrier almost 2 years ago wanted to help the dogs still at our rescue centre who haven't been as lucky as Doffo in finding a home yet. They asked their friends to give money to our charity instead of buying them birthday presents and came to visit us at Easter to bring us the €180 they had raised.