Guernsey

A week back Friday a young lady from the Youth Commission North Youth Centre joined the GSPCA team on the Bumblebee boat to Jethou to release Bonnie the grey seal pup.

Bethany became a very lucky lady after the winner of a competition to join the release was unable to come and he donated it to a young deserving person.

Steve Byrne GSPCA Manager contacted the Youth Commission to see who they thought would benefit from this once in a life time opportunity and they asked Bethany to join the team.

Finally the documents are in place to fly Olivia south and we are appealing for donations or for a plane to help transport her to the Canaries in the next few weeks.

Olivia who nearly died in March is the first ever loggerhead sea turtle to visit Guernsey and they are so rare there are only 40,000 breeding females in the wild.

After months of rehabilitation she is now strong enough to endure the journey back to warmer waters and a rescue in Gran Canaria and we are appealing for donations or a plane to help fly her to where she belongs.

The Insurance Corporation are an amazing, caring and wonderful company that puts so much into the community.

Last month they gave out thousands of pounds to conservation projects across the Channel Islands and at the GSPCA were lucky enough to receive The Peter Walpole ‘People’s Choice’ Conservation Award Guernsey which came with a prize of £500 to help with the conservation work on site.  The Insurance Corporation are also one of our Build Partners who are part of our newest build project which has some very exciting news coming very soon.

The Insurance Corporation are an amazing, caring and wonderful company that puts so much into the community.

Last month they gave out thousands of pounds to conservation projects across the Channel Islands and at the GSPCA were lucky enough to receive The Peter Walpole ‘People’s Choice’ Conservation Award Guernsey which came with a prize of £500 to help with the conservation work on site.  The Insurance Corporation are also one of our Build Partners who are part of our newest build project which has some very exciting news coming very soon.

Last night the GSPCA greeted 12 new faces wanting to help out at the Animal Shelter and 24/7 work that is carried out

Present were 2 interested in carrying out their Duke of Edinburgh with the others wanting to help with dog walking to reception, cat pen cleaning to helping with the wildlife, fund raising to volunteering to gain experience for their CV and some to help gain life skills.

On Monday night a very upset member of public arrived with what was believed to be a dead cat that had been found and kindly placed into a box wrapped in a blanket.

The member of public arrived out of hours and was greeted by GSPCA Manager Steve Byrne who was on night duty.

The kind individual was asked to take a seat and for details while the GSPCA Manager checked in the receiving room what was thought to be a dead cat for any identification or microchip.

Yesterday the GSPCA welcomed another wonderful group of volunteers from the fantastic team at Northern Trust.

The GSPCA once again joined in what was a lovely Taste of Guernsey Seafront Sunday on the weekend.

Our stall at the Taste Seafront Sunday was just outside Marks and Spencer with all of our fun games and tombolas which helped raise £614.49p for the animals in our care.

Steve Byrne GSPCA Manager said "We had a lovely day at the Taste of Guernsey Seafront Sunday and it was amazing to meet and chat to many of the lovely visitors off the two cruise liners that were in the Little Russell."

On Sunday over 150 visitors joined the GSPCA volunteers, Guernsey Floral Group and St Andrews Group with a walk around a stunning garden with amazing views.

It all took place on Sunday 26th June 2016 between 14:00 - 17:00 and despite a busy Guernsey with many other events taking place crowds flocked to visit the amazing garden with fantastic views.

The GSPCA and a fantastic supporter nominated in the Pride of Guernsey Awards and there are a few days left to nominate.

You may have recently read in the Guernsey Press recently that our amazing Volunteer Wardens and also amazing Geoff George Animal Collection Officer are both entered in the Pride of Guernsey 'Emergency Hero Award'. Thankfully the decision isn't down to the GSPCA as all are fantastic but to find out all that are entered please visit - http://prideofguernsey.com/