Oliver Lodge
Surrey&Hants Animals Asia Support Group Page
Fundraising for Animals Asia Foundation - UK
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UPDATED October 1st 2019:
Update: This page is to close as of this week but do not worry a new page will come for our next major event... Thank you, as always, for your support xx
Hello Moon Bear Friends, welcome to our JustGiving page where you can read about what the Surrey&Hants Animals Asia Support Group is doing, where you can buy tickets to our events, donate directly or get involved with the Group - we will always love your help.
An enormous thank you to all who attended, donated and helped at yesterdays event "The Gig In The Garden 5". It was hosted by Ian and Mariana in their beautiful home in Leigh, Surrey and was a wonderful joyous evening, great company, great food, great music...
At the moment, the evening of 1st September, I do not have the final total but I do know we raised over £4,000 for our favourite charity to help the bears especially, but towards all animal welfare throoughout the world. Through all the programs that Animals Asia operates themselves and with co-operation with other animal welfare groups around the world.
UNTIL THE CRUELTY ENDS, your editor - Oliver xx
More info about the Group: The Surrey&Hampshire Borders Animals Asia Support Group are here to raise money for and awareness of Animals Asia and their tireless work against bear bile farming and raising animal welfare issues.
We started April 2014 and we've so far raised over £50,000 for Animals Asia. We had pledged to adopt one of the bears on a bear farm in Nanning, Southern China, which is being converted into a sanctuary by Animals Asia. We reached that particular £12,000 goal in a year (2015/6), the cost to NameABear, equivalent to a year of health checks, operations, rest, recouperation and general rescue!
Our sponsored bear, "Tranquility Kay" is now around 6 years old, she has a dark brown muzzle and a beautiful orange-y crescent. She was once a tad thin and had some bald patches from bar rubbing but AA are taking fantastic care of her and her fellow bears and she is already way more healthy - and her hair is growing back!! :-) Wonderful news...
Bear bile farming is cruelty in a league of its own. Not only are these bears confined to tiny cages, unable to move or stand on grass and tortured daily but this can go on for decades. Oliver, a brown bear rescued in 2010, spent the first 30 years of his life in a cage, unable to move or even grow properly. If we stop for a second and think about what we did in those 30 years it puts things into perspective a little. For anyone who is unfamiliar with bear bile farming please have a look at Animals Asia's website. Find out what it is and how Animals Asia is making a real difference www.animalsasia.org/uk/our-work/end-bear-bile-farming/
This page was set up by Oliver and the members of Surrey&Hampshire Borders Animals Asia Support Group and we will from time to time put up competitions, individual challenges and there will also be off-line donations and events. We hope that you will visit this page and maybe even come back more and more times as we endeavour to raise funds. We started the page in April 2014 with a £12,000 target which was achieved in 15 months. We then have continued to raise more and more money and of course, awareness of Animals Asia, from all our events; to end vile bile bear farming, to enhance the welfare of animals in zoos and parks, to end the cruel dog and cat meat trade, and, to make animal welfare a big issue across the world!
Please be part of the change, help us help them and donate whatever you can - and please share our page.
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