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Get together with your friends and do the ‘WildWalk’ to help British Wildlife this Summer!
‘Challenge24’ is Secret World’s request to individuals, schools, groups and companies all across the area to help keep its 24 hour wildlife rescue and care service going. We are asking the public to dream up fundraising ideas using the number 24! It could be swimming 24 laps, walking 24 miles, baking 24 cakes…anything goes as long as it uses the number 24. Why not take a ‘WildWalk’ this summer – this is your chance to get out into the great outdoors by organising a nature-spotting sponsored walk between July and September 2010. To make your walk even more enjoyable, whether out in the countryside or in a local park, we’ll send you a list of 24 animals or signs of animals to look out for. We’ll also send you a list of links to help you find lovely local walks. Maybe you could all have a picnic or stop for a smashing pub lunch too!
Every penny raised will go to helping animals like ‘Pumpkin’ (pictured below) – just one example of the 4,000 animals rescued by Secret World, the region’s only 24-hour wildlife rescue service every year. Little Pumpkin is a male roe deer fawn that was picked up in Crewkerne, by a concerned member of the general public, after it was thought he was abandoned by his mother. Luckily, Pumpkin’s finder knew all about Secret World and called the 24 hour emergency rescue line late on a Sunday evening.
Pumpkin
The fawn was safely collected by Natalie – one of our volunteer rescue drivers and Sara, our veterinary nurse, is busy feeding Pumpkin every 3 hours – it’s a very demanding schedule with such a small orphan to care for. Now the staff are busier still because ‘Pumpkin’ has recently been joined by a further 4 orphans!
Secret World saves animals found by the public often in the worst possible conditions, suffering from illness, left without mothers or in agony from their wounds – but this all costs money and without public support they wouldn’t be able to go on helping these animals.
Joining in is simple and heaps of fun! So please sign up today for the WildWalk and make sure we can keep on rescuing animals like Pumpkin. Or, if you prefer you could come up with your own fundraising idea for ‘Challenge24’. If you choose to organise your own event we’ve got lots of ideas for challenges – easy, medium or difficult for you to think about, all included in our fundraising pack.
To take part please download the registration form here: REGISTRATION FORM
or email lynette@secretworld.org
