Mancunian Mutt Strutt for Nowzad
Been asked to give this a plug - came in too late to go in the magazine:
A fun sponsored walk has been organised in Manchester to raise funds for the local RSPCA branch and the animals of Iraq and Afghanistan.
The 2nd Nowzad Dogs and RSPCA Manchester & Salford Branch Mutt Strutt takes place on Saturday 18 September between 11am and 1pm.
The walk is a gentle 5km in the beautiful surroundings of Boggart Hole Clough, Manchester. Participants are required to raise a minimum sponsorship of £10 or make a one-off donation of £15, and all money raised will be split equally between the two charities. Nowzad Dogs rescues stray and abandoned animals, such as dogs, cats, horses and donkeys, in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The event is sponsored by James Wellbeloved, all walkers will receive a goody bag and there are prizes for raising over £50. Free microchipping is also available for Manchester residents courtesy of Manchester City Council, and the Nowzad and RSPCA stalls will be stocked with merchandise.
To register please email: helene@whopawswins.co.uk
A fun sponsored walk has been organised in Manchester to raise funds for the local RSPCA branch and the animals of Iraq and Afghanistan.
The 2nd Nowzad Dogs and RSPCA Manchester & Salford Branch Mutt Strutt takes place on Saturday 18 September between 11am and 1pm.
The walk is a gentle 5km in the beautiful surroundings of Boggart Hole Clough, Manchester. Participants are required to raise a minimum sponsorship of £10 or make a one-off donation of £15, and all money raised will be split equally between the two charities. Nowzad Dogs rescues stray and abandoned animals, such as dogs, cats, horses and donkeys, in Iraq and Afghanistan.
The event is sponsored by James Wellbeloved, all walkers will receive a goody bag and there are prizes for raising over £50. Free microchipping is also available for Manchester residents courtesy of Manchester City Council, and the Nowzad and RSPCA stalls will be stocked with merchandise.
To register please email: helene@whopawswins.co.uk
Comments
In return for that we get a grant of £12,000 from them, plus the opportunity to raise money by participating in RSPCA week (aka tin rattling) proceeds from which go entirely to the branch.
It's a myth that HQ doesn't run any animal shelters of its own - most of the larger ones are run nationally not by the local branch, as are most of the large animal hospitals.
After the PDSA the RSPCA is the largest provider of help for owners on low income. By knocking us you are directly helping to prevent large numbers of animals getting veterinary care.
(but remember that's 10% of money given directly to the National Society. Any legacies etc. given to a branch stay with that branch).
Arguably it ought to be 0% since the original purpose of the branches was to raise enough money to fund an inspector's salary, with HQ paying for his training.
Things have moved on a bit since then, mainly because:
a) We now expect most rescued animals to live whereas in Victorian times they would nearly all have been humanely killed.
b) Developments in veterinary science mean animal owners can reasonably be held to account for neglect if animals aren't treated, and if we're going to do that it puts the onus on us to make it financially possible even for those who are not well off.
As a result the role of the branches morphed from paying for the inspector into providing the support services that make the inspector's job possible. At the same time, the National Society's role expanded from just education, campaigning and prosecutions to include a whole raft of practical welfare services, like clinics, hospitals and shelters.
you obviously have no idea of the work the RSPCA do.
Who do you think pays for the care of dogs, cats, chickens, horses, pigs and wildlife etc etc in head quarter run centres?
Who funds crucial campaigns to stop things like battery farming, fox hunting, badger culling?
Who pays for prosecutions on mindless idiots who kick their dogs to death, starves their horses or illegally fight their dogs?
Please tell me anonymous?
as we all have read, there are bad stories but also good stories with the RSPCA.
I do not know the full details on specific cases so keep an open mind. I am personally against the use of captive bolts in small animals and some wildlife.
You however continue to focus on the negative.
So OK I'll ask you again...
Who do you think pays for the care of dogs, cats, chickens, horses, pigs and wildlife etc etc in head quarter run centres?
Who funds crucial campaigns to stop things like battery farming, fox hunting, badger culling?
Have you actually been to a HQ run hospital or wildlife centre and seen for yourself what fantastic work they do around the clock?
All the staff that work at these places work extremely hard and care very much for what they do. Many do alot of their own fund raising in their own time too.
It is at the end of the day the public who pay through donations, fundraising legacies etc. So the RSPCA must be doing something right.
Of all the money given to or raised by the RSPCA "family" including branches, roughly two thirds is spent by the National Society and a third by the branches. Roughly ten percent of the money spent by the branches was given to them by the National Society.
The national society runs animal homes and hospitals in addition to the inspectorate.
For that money (which totals roughly ten times the income of Battersea + half the income of the PDSA) the public is getting ten times the number of animals rehomed in comparison with Battersea and a little under a half of the number of treatments that the PDSA does.