If you love crafts and you love animals, here’s a great chance to get crafty for animals who need help!

The National Animal Welfare Trust  have 6 re-homing centres in the south of England.  And they also have an NAWT Craft Club.   This is a great chance to join a team of supporters who get crafty to help the NAWT improve facilities at their centres, or to help fundraise by making items the charity can sell at events and open days.

Ideas include:

• Bunting
• Crochet cat balls
• Pet blankets
• Shopping bags
• Home-made cards
• Easter Egg hats

My Auntie Susan (actually in New Zealand) loved to knit and she loved cats so she began knitting blankets and squares for the local rescue centre.   She ended up being a feature in the local paper there and it gave her a real purpose and great pleasure to know her knitting was helping cats in the charity’s care.

One supporter made these lovely greeting cards for the NAWT 
©NAWT

Find out more and how to contact the NAWT here.

I’ve blogged about this before but it needs highlighting again.  Animals Australia have a petition to stop long distance suffering for animals being exported on ships in the most dreadful of conditions.  

Some of the smallest and youngest victims are actually born on board, and according to Animals Australia, the distressed crew are ordered to cut their throats. 

Animals are suffering and being cooked alive on live export ships. 

There is a video you can watch from Animals Australia’s website.   I haven’t included it here – if you want to see it you need to go to their website.   The most important two things for us all to do is to sign the petition and spread the word. 

These sheep need us and they need our action.  Help shut down this illegal activity and get these animals off these death ships 

Be the next person to make a difference and sign now.

 

Do you want to put a stop to sights like this?

Plastic rings holding beer and cider cans can be seen all over the place on land and on the sea, in our rivers and beaches.

They harm and kill birds and fish – and add thousands of tonnes of plastic waste to our planet.

The answer is to get alternatives.  Companies need to ditch plastic rings.  Carlsburg are now going to use recyclable glue instead.

So we need to persuade other beer and cider companies to do the same.   We need to put pressure on these companies to change their ways.

38degrees have a petition you can sign to put pressure on these companies to get rid of plastic rings.  If we can do that, it’s another small step to make a difference.

Every action helps.  Every signature will help put pressure on these companies.  Every signature is a voice for animals.

Sign the petition here