From: World Animal Day <n...@worldanimalday.org.uk>
Date: Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:45 AM
Subject: World Animal Day - Let's Celebrate - please Get Involved (wan)
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*WORLD ANIMAL DAY – 4th OCTOBER 2008 – WHERE WILL YOU BE?*
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*Show the animals you care and be part of something special.*
*Help make World Animal Day 2008 the Biggest and Best Yet!*
Dear Friends
A few weeks ago we wrote encouraging you to get involved in World Animal Day
celebrations this year and it would appear that, to date, we've not received
a reply.
World Animal Day is only about 12 weeks away so it really is time to start
thinking about how you're going to celebrate World Animal Day this year.
Even if you don't have a lot of spare time, there are plenty of ideas on
the website that don't take much organising. Also, you could always
consider enlisting the help and support of a few friends to help spread the
workload. The sky's the limit!
For some additional inspiration, take a look at the Roundup of some of the
World Animal Events that took place in 2007. Simply click on the link at
the end of this paragraph which will take you to the World Events Overview
page and from here you can click on links to Africa, Asia, Australia & NZ,
Europe, South America, UK and USA (link to additional image gallery at the
bottom of each of these pages). From the overview page you can also click on
a link that will allow you to view all the events listed with World Animal
Day in 2007, and in previous years.
http://www.worldanimalday.org.uk/2007/EventReports/2007_overview.asp
As you may already know, the aim of the World Animal Day website is to
encourage everybody interested in animals to use this special day to express
their love and concern for all creatures by doing something special in
celebration of our relationship with the animal kingdom. I'm sure you will
agree that building the World Animal Day initiative is a wonderful way to
heighten public awareness of animal issues and unite the animal welfare
movement. It's something that everyone can join in with whether they are
part of an organisation, group, or as an individual.
www.worldanimalday.org.uk is full of ideas to inspire visitors into getting
involved and includes everything needed to help organise a successful World
Animal Day event.
I would like to highlight the fact that World Animal Day is not linked to
any one individual, organisation or campaign, but belongs to everyone. The
official World Animal day website was created and is sponsored by
Naturewatch in the UK but the organisation does not benefit from this in any
way, shape or form.
The website features an online 'Events Diary' to provide free publicity to
any group or individual who is doing something special connected with
animals on or around 4th October (events need to take place within 2 weeks
either side of World Animal Day). As soon as you have an outline plan,
please send a paragraph or two about your event to be added to the diary. When
it's 'live' I'll let you know so you can check your entry and, as plans
progress during the lead up to World Animal Day, your entry can be updated
simply by sending me an email. Organisations that get involved will also be
added to the website list of participating organisations.
After your event has taken place we'd like to give you some extra
publicity. All you need to do is send me a short report about it with
photographs and we will show the world what you have achieved in the roundup
of World Animal Day events.
I look forward to hearing from you very soon and sincerely hope you decide
to get involved this year.
Please help us spread the word about World Animal Day by including
information in a newsletter and/or by creating a website link. Full
instructions for a number of different styles of weblink are available in
the 'Resources' section of the website where you will also find the World
Animal Day logo in various formats.
*This initiative to raise public awareness of animal welfare issues
throughout the
world is endorsed by World Animal Net <http://www.worldanimal.net/>.*
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Caroline Barker
Project Manager, World Animal Day
Tel: +44 (0)1242 252871
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