Add orange to your life on Wednesday 16^th November

Next week is Orangutan Caring Week.  It runs from 13^th to 19^th November in 2022.

The aim is to raise awareness of the challenges orangutans and their rainforest home are facing.   And to help people take part, there is one very easy activity we can all do on #Orange for Orangutan Day ©.  And that is to add orange to your life on the 16^th November!

On the 16^th November, please #GoOrange

The idea is that we all make a big ORANGE SPLASH on the day by finding anything orange to wear to raise awareness and funds for the critically endangered orangutan.

The Orangutan Foundation has an INFORMATION PACK you can download and a POSTER you can put up.

You could also do a cake sale, have an orangutan themed tea party, dress in orange, eat baked beans – and go on social media with the hashtags

#OrangutanCaringWeek

#OCW

#OrangeforOrangutanDay

#GoOrange.

This is a great chance to have a bit of fun and raise awareness of the orangutan. 

Ways to support the Orangutan Foundation:

You could adopt an orangutan as a gift for a nature lover
Image © Orangutan Foundation 

Buy a calendar for 2023 from the Orangutan Foundation
for £12.00

Other ways to help include:

• #GoOrange to raise awareness of the plight of the orangutan – join in on the day.
• Sponsor an acre of orangutan habitat from £2.00
• Make an online donation
• Become a guardian of the Lamandau Wildlife Reserve (that’s £200) and actively protect 158,144 acres of tropical peat forest in Central Kalimantan, Indonesian Borneo.  There are 600 orangutans, and their number will go up as more are rescued and released, and also thousands of species under threat such as gibbons, pangolins, clouded leopards, sun bears and proboscis monkeys.  You can pay this monthly (£16.50)
• Become a member
• Spread the word about Orangutan Caring Week and find out more about it
• Find out more about orangutans and why they are critically endangered here

Visit the Orangutan Foundation’s online shop

You can find other orangutan charities here

Cost of Living Crisis Advice from Cats Protection

As more and more people are struggling to care for their pets, national cat charity Cats Protection have got lots of cost of living budget friendly advice.

The charity’s waiting list is growing, and so is the demand to provide warm and cosy homes for cats in need.

It has information on:

• Help with neutering costs
• Help with vet costs
• How to keep vet bills down
• Help with the cost of cat food
• Help with every day costs of cat ownership
• Giving up your cat

View the Cost of Living Crisis advice from Cats Protection
Image © Cats Protection

Meantime, if you think you would like to help Cats Protection help cats, please visit their website.

Ways to help cats

You could buy something from their online shop,  donate or volunteer – there are plenty of different sorts of volunteer roles such as helping out in a Cats Protection charity shop, helping in a branch (there are 200 branches in the country so they are very widespread), or volunteering in one of their 34 centres.

Volunteering is a great way to meet like-minded people, to do something meaningful with your time and to do something to help cats!  You could also look at fostering a cat while the cat is looking for their forever home.  And you could of course look at adopting a cat, too, and giving a cat a much needed home.

There's lots we can all do to help cats.  For example...

Get crafting for cats!

One thing you can do if you love cats and crafts is to join in the Craftalong on 26 November 2022.   Cats Protection have teamed up with The Makerss to bring you a new needle felting project: cat angel tree toppers!

Find out how to create your own needle felted cat angel for your Christmas tree!  The cost is £20 and half of this goes towards a Cats Protection centre or branch of your choice!  Pounce on more information here

Miaow for now!

Whilst the UK politicians try to work out what they are doing (!), Compassion in World Farming have been busy asking us all to sign the Parliament petition demanding that the Government progresses the Animal Welfare (Kept Animals Bill) so that it urgently becomes law.

CIWF point out that it’s been almost a year since the UK Government took any meaningful action to ban live exports from Britain, even though Minister after Minister has insisted that they are committed to ending live exports, whether for fattening or slaughter.  The bill would ban this terrible trade so it would make a big difference.

The petition is asking Parliament to find the time to take the Kept Animals Bill through Parliament and make it law.

Please sign the petition here before January 2023
Don't forget to click on the vertification the Parliamentary website
will send you, or your signature won't count..

Thank you!

98,000 people have signed it so far and once that figure reaches 100,000, the Bill must be debated in Parliament.  We need to show our MPs that we care about animals and want them to get this bill through.

Please spare a minute to sign the petition if you’ve not signed it yet.  After you’ve signed it you’ll receive a verification email from the Parliament website which you need to click on, to ensure your signature counts.

Image © Compassion in World Farming

The petition is open until January 2023.  Please sign today if you haven’t already!

Visit Compassion in World Farming's website here  Please take some time to have a look around it - they are doing amazing work.  They have Christmas cards for sale, which could be a great way to get some preparations for Christmas done!