Event

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 18^th 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.

Tomorrow from 11.30am until 2pm why not pop along to the Town Church for a soup lunch.

Every penny spent will be supporting the GSPCA and Bridge 2 Sri Lanka.

There will be over a dozen soups from top chefs from around Guernsey who need your vote to choose your favourite and the one with the most votes will be the 2012 Big Soup Kitchen Champion.

The 2011 winner was Dave Matheson with his Caribbean Spiced Vegetable Soup with Chicken Jerk Strips.

This year we are pleased to announce that Waitrose are sponsoring the event and we are very grateful to them.

The GSPCA would like to thank OSA Recruitment for there wonderful Pop Up Charity Shop initiative which started on the 23rd November with Communicate having the first week in the shop.

The Pop Up Shop situated on Smith Street has 4 charities taking part each week in the run up to Christmas including Communicate (who are rebranding as GO), The Red Cross, Bridge2Sri Lanka and the GSPCA.

From next Tuesday the GSPCA are proud to launch a new initiative with the Link Centre at the Animal Shelter in St Andrews.

Every Tuesday up to and including the 18th December between 10.30am and 12pm students and staff from the Link Centre will be running coffee mornings at the GSPCA as part of the students Duke of Edinburgh to help raise funds for the Animal Shelter.