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Step Five: Making Contacts in the Animal World
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Our Six Point Plan:
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Find a charity, animal sanctuary, rescue centre, conservation trust, organisation or other which gives you the chance to make that difference to the causes or animals you want. |
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Check your local Yellow Pages on-line (www.yell.com) or the printed version
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Talk to people in the pet industry in your area, such as vets, pet shops, groomers, zoos, pet supermarkets, riding schools, colleges delivering animal care courses.
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Use the link pages on web sites. These are invaluable as they take you to related site and organisations.
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Attend country shows, animal shows, events and competitions, plus craft fairs - many charities will have stands.
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Look for ads in newspapers, magazines, freebees.
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Remembering some small groups exist without the back-up of large organisations. They may not be registered charities, but set up by one person wanting to make a difference. |
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Use Google or another (or several search engines) to do a thorough search for animal charities, sanctuaries, rescue centres, welfare centres etc near you.
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Get in touch with them!
The next stage is to make contact by phone, mail or email. If you get an answer phone or need to speak to a specific person, don't be surprised if the charity asks you to call back. It saves them money on phone calls. Many of them are on an incredibly tight budget and every call they have to make out dives into that.
Some charities will want to meet you, have a chat with you and find out more about you and what you want to do before you can start volunteering. You may also find that some organisations have very specific roles that volunteers fulfil.
Go armed with an idea of what you want to do to help, but it will be a big help if you can be flexible. Be ready to turn your hands to anything.
Alternatively, you may have decided to do your own fund-raising event; check the charity's media pages on their web site if they have one. They may have posters and images you can download to help with your promotion.
Setting up something from fresh
It may be that you are setting something up on your own, in which case networking with others will be invaluable.
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