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The GSPCA are pleased to announce that the Link Centre staff and students will be continuing the Tuesday coffee mornings with bric-a-brac and pet supplies every Tuesday during term time at the GSPCA Animal Shelter between 10.30am and 12pm.
The students have been helping raise funds at the Animal Shelter and if you have time to spare on a Tuesday morning please pop in to say hello and support them.
Next month the GSPCA will be celebrating 140 years caring for animals in Guernsey and we are appealing for pictures or video clips of the work during our 84 years at our current address or even the early 1900's or late 1800's that anyone that may have.
We have a very good record of our history back until the late 1920's but very few pictures.
Our records include annual reports back to 1929 and even a visitor book from the 1970's with some lovely signatories.
The GSPCA was founded in 1873 and to help celebrate 140 years caring for animals in Guernsey we are asking for your help.
There are many ways you, your school, group, work place, business can help celebrate.
The GSPCA week starts 11th February and celebrations will carry on until the 17th with our anniversary being Valentines Day the 14th February.
Ideas to get involved.......
Today the GSPCA can officially announce that the GSPCA Pop Up Charity Shop will be on Smith Street thanks to OSA Recruitment until and including the 31st December.
The GSPCA has been in the shop since Monday 17th December manned by Helen Holmes and her team of volunteers.
The shop has stock from pet goods to bric-a-brac, kids games to squeaky toys, GSPCA Mugs to t-shirts, cat stockings to dog cracker bones and this morning had a fresh delivery of stock.
Helen Holmes Pop Up Shop Manager said 'It's been great so far, but we are waiting for the last minute panic buyers.'
Only a weekend to go and the GSPCA will be opening the doors in Smith Street to our Pop Up Charity Shop all thanks to OSA Recruitment.
This Sunday staff and volunteers will be setting up from 12pm to get ready for the official opening on Monday morning.
Helen Holmes from the Shelter will open the shop doors at 9am and volunteers will help man the shop 9am until 5.30pm for shoppers to pick up a wonderful selection of pet products, GSPCA goods and bric-a-brac.
On Wednesday the 18th July a group of students from Les Beacamps High Year 10 organised a biathlon to raise funds for the GSPCA Animal Shelter.
Andrew Wilkinson and friends Kieran Torode, Josh Tucker and Sam Le Ray departed on bike from Vale Church and rode to the Imperial Hotel. They then walked the rest of the way to Jerbourg Point.
They left at 10am on the Wednesday got to their final destination around 3pm.
The GSPCA would like to thank the Guernsey Swimming Club who organise the Christmas Day swim for allowing GSPCA supporters to take part in the Swim at the Havelet Bathing Pools.
There are a number of brave souls that will be giving up some of their Christmas morning to jump in the icy water and raise funds to help the work of the GSPCA.
The swimmers so far are -
Steve Byrne
Helen Holmes
Geoff George
Tomorrow night is the second of the Late Night Shopping in St Peter Port.
The GSPCA once again will be on the Pollet with some animal friends so please pop along to see our stall.
This Thursday we have a number of new items on sale which are ideal presents from only £1. But please remember all of these items are on sale at the GSPCA Animal Shelter and will also be available at our Pop Up Charity Shop at OSA Recruitment in Smith from next week.
Today at the Town Church hundreds on islanders enjoyed a wonderful soup lunch from 15 chefs from around Guernsey and one school.
Volunteers from a Bridge 2 Sri Lanka and Haiti as well as staff and volunteers from the GSPCA helped run the fund raiser while staff, chef, teachers and students competed for the 2012 Big Soup Kitchen Challenge winners plate.
The 2011 winner was Dave Matheson with his Caribbean Spiced Vegetable Soup with Chicken Jerk Strips.
The GSPCA have been running coffee mornings and bric-a-brac sales at the Animal Shelter for nearly a month and as a Christmas present to pets each Tuesday between 10.30am and 12pm we are offering free microchipping to dogs and cats.
No appointment needed all the GSPCA ask for is a donation and we will ensure your dog or cat is microchipped.
Microchipping is a permanent form of identification and enables the GSPCA to reunite hundreds of animals every year but unfortunately more than 50% of strays the GSPCA has in at the Shelter have no microchip and often no collar.