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PAINT THE PURR-FECT PICTURE FOR PALS WITH PAWS
THE store Pets at Home in Southport, is urging local pet owners to get their pads and colouring pens out and get creative, all in the name of charity!
The store is teaming up with charity Dogs for the Disabled again to help raise more money for the Pals with Paws scheme, which trains dogs to help disabled children, by launching a nationwide Draw Your Pet competition.
The Draw Your Pet competition will run in every Pets at Home store, with a regional and then national winner chosen. Regional winners will receive vouchers and a goodie bag for their pet and the national winner will get their drawing framed and exhibited alongside drawings already done for the charity by celebrities including Joanna Lumley, Tracy Emin, Sara Cox, Julian Clary, Wendy Richard and Shane Ritchie. The celebrity pictures will later be sold by Brandler Galleries to help further boost funds for the charity.
To date in the UK, assistance dogs have not been trained to help children. But using Dogs for the Disabled’s experience of working with adults, the new Pals with Paws scheme is helping disabled children to gain independence, like
11 year old Tom Harris who has cerebral palsy and was partnered with his dog Viggo last summer.
Budding animal artists can get involved and help raise money for Pals with Paws by simply pledging £1 at their local Pets at Home store and collecting an entry form. They then complete the form along with their work of art and simply return it to Pets at Home head office for judging. Regional winners will be announced at the end of June.
Linda Whiting from Pets at Home said:- “This competition has been designed to be a bit of fun for pets and their owners and help raise vital money to enable Pals with Paws to continue to help disabled children. By simply pledging £1 Pets at Home customers will be helping an extremely worthy cause and, you never know, they might be hailed as the next Rolf Harris!”
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DO YOU HAVE WHAT IT TAKES FOR A SKYDIVE CHALLENGE?
IF you are the kind of person who likes a challenge then this could be just the thing for you. A charity which funds research into a cure for muscle diseases is now offering readers the chance to really reach for the sky!
Throughout the coming summer months you could experience the exhilaration of a skydive parachute jump
FREE OF CHARGE! The Muscular Dystrophy Campaign is giving you the chance to enjoy this incredible opportunity just by raising the minimum sponsorship (from £280 depending on the type of jump you choose).
Imagine standing at the edge of an open doorway in an aircraft at 10,000 feet – the wind is ringing in your ears with only the outline of distant fields below. Then its go, go, go as you start to freefall at over 120mph! You’re harnessed to a professional parachute instructor who helps you to glide safely back to the drop zone below, so you don’t even need any previous experience.
Charles Horton, Regional Fundraising Manager for the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign says,
“You can make a difference by helping to raise funds forour continuing work into a cure for muscle disease – and enjoy a life changing experience at the same time”.
Dates are now available for the next few months at various parachute sites around the UK and an information pack is available by ringing the Muscular Dystrophy Campaign office on 01244 403012
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