Bristol And Wales Cat Rescue

We will be hosting a number of events over the year to raise money to help provide the high standards of care that our cats and kittens currently receive. We are always looking for volunteers to help us with fundraising so if you could spare a few hours please let us know : bwcatrescue@hotmail.com or phone no:  08442573525.

2009
SATURDAY FEBRUARY 28TH

We are hosting a series of coffee mornings in Staple Hill Methodist Church on Saturdays from 10am to 12pm, our first one is this weekend so please come along for a slice of home-made cake and a chat.Well our cakes were obviously alright as we made £83!

Saturday April 11th  Street collection 10am - 2pm Staple Hill

Our first street collection this year and what a gloriously sunny day - lots of people were away for Easter but we still collected £163.89 and Toby, 14 weeks black labrador pup made his fundraising debut!

Saturday April 25th AGM & Skittles

It's our birthday!  We celebrated our first birthday in style, with a skittle evening at the Railway Tavern in Fishponds.

Saturday May 9th Coffee morning 10am-12pm Staple Hill Methodist Church £52 collected

Saturday May 30th Street collection 10am-2pm Kingswood

£135.69 collected

Saturday June 13th Coffee morning 10am-12pm Staple Hill Methodist Church

£40 collected

Saturday July 11th Coffee morning 10am-12pm Staple Hill Methodist Church

£30 collected

Sunday July 12th Holly Hedge Family Fun Day and Dog Show

Ashton Court (Long Ashton entrance)

Following the success of last year's event Holly Hedge Animal Rescue have invited us to join in with the mayhem again this year.

Come and join us for a fun-packed family day, sponsored walk and novelty dog show - the fun starts at 10am!

All the bottles on our stall went within 3 hours and we raised £186..and the sun shone!!

Saturday July 25th Street collection 10am-2pm Staple Hill

Saturday August 1st Street Collection 10am-2pm Portishead

Saturday August 22nd Street collection 10am-2pm Kingswood

Saturday September 26th Street collection 10am-2pm Westbury-On-Trym

May 29th: GET READY FOR SUMMER function at Bawa club Southmead Road 6.30-9.30pm
The 2008 'Get Ready for Summer Fair’ will take place at the BAWA Leisure Club on Southmead Road, Filton from 6.30-9.30pm.Following the success of a similar event last year, which raised more than £1430 for a chosen charity, over 30 stall-holders are expected to attend, offering a range of products and services with plenty of ideas for pampering yourself or your family as you prepare for the summer sun!  Ideas for health and beauty, holistic therapies, gifts, jewellery and clothing are all amongst the wares on offer and there will be a bumper raffle with lots of prize treats too.

Entry to the Fair is £3 per person. Contact details above.

A huge thank you to all the stallholders and everyone who came - we had a great night and raised a magnificent £1268.68 !! Some of this money will  help buy a new pen to foster even more pusscats - so thank you from the cats too!

Sunday 1st June  10.00 to 4.00pm  Holly Hedge Animal Sanctuary  WET NOSE DAY at Ashton Court.(Dovecote entrance)
We are pleased to be joining Holly Hedge at this Ashton Court event, we will have a stand selling goods and look forward to seeing you there.
They have Agility dog displays, Bric a Brac, BBQ/Refreshments, Stalls, Swings, Slides, Tarot reading, Pet Photography, Face Painting, Tombola, Bouncy Castle, Charity Auction, for details ring 01275 474719 or 0117 9695332.

We had a fun afternoon amongst hundreds of dogs but still managed to sell a few scratch posts! Thank you to Holly Hedge for letting us join in - we raised £113.

Summer Fayre

Unfortunately we had to compete with 2 other fetes close by and didn't get as many people pop in as we'd hoped but we still raised £500 which will enable us to buy the new pen we wanted, so thank you to everyone who came or helped or donated goods for us to sell.

Street Collections

Henleaze Tuesday March 25th 10am-2pm - Well, it was freezing cold and like a ghost town but we raised £92.74 and met some lovely people so huge thanks to the generous folks of Henleaze - sorry if our balloons ended up in your garden but it was a bit windy!

Staple Hill  Saturday April 26th 10am - 2pm - The sun shone for the first time in ages, lots of people were out and about and we collected an incredible £198.40. We also swapped a lot of cat (and dog!) stories with fellow animal lovers - thank you Staple Hill!

Bedminster East St  Thursday May 29th 10am-2pm - A shorter collection today as we had to dash off to organise our 'do' at BAWA , but in 3 hours we still managed a creditable £83.12 - not bad at all. Plus we have hopefully found a lady who will foster for us so well worth doing for that alone.

Westbury-On-Trym Friday June 27th 10am-2pm - Another miserable day weather wise but what a lot of nice people! We had a few enquiries about re-homing dogs so were able to point people in the direction of Many Tears our sister rescue in Wales so hopefully some lucky dogs will find lovely new homes and we collected £161.50  - brilliant.

Kingswood High Street Saturday July 26th 10am - 2pm - A gloriously sunny day and we took our dogs along to raise awareness of our sister rescue Many Tears who rehabilitate and rehome puppy farm dogs. Archie, Ruby, Paige and Buffy worked very hard giving cuddles and having their bellies rubbed (it's a hard life - they even had sausages donated for their lunch!) and we collected a wonderful £186.29.

The Galleries  Saturday August 2nd and Sunday August 3rd all day - We had to compete with the Harbour Festival and the sunshine but still collected a creditable £188.48.

Gloucester Rd (Zetland Rd end) Saturday August 23rd 10am-2pm - A very short collection due to holidays and illness; Buffy the Staffie was a star greeting everyone and singing! Paige aka 'Fluffy rug' just lay on her back and accepted cuddles for two hours - £62.56 raised.

Morrisons Cribbs Causeway   Monday October 20th and Tuesday October 21st all day-Wow - amazing couple of days, everyone was so generous and we raised £446.69 plus some food too. We will definitely be back!

Tesco Thornbury Saturday November 29th and Sunday November 30th all day

It was a bitterly cold weekend but there were lots of warm hearts in Thornbury - £548.37 was donated plus at least £50 worth of food plus we found homes for 3 kittens - what can we say, they did us proud THANK YOU!!

Christmas collection at Tesco Bradley Stoke  Saturday December 20th and Sunday December 21st all day

Archie Phillips, aka Santa Paws - star fundraiser!!

No-one could resist that sad face and those cute bootees and along with Ruby and Paige, Archie raised a staggering £1002.13!! Plus enough food to keep us going for weeks.

What a wonderful way to end the year -  thanks to Scott the manager and his great staff for all their help and all our brilliant volunteers who braved a cold and windy weekend: Lesley, Pete, Anne, Suzanne, Dan, Alison, Margaret, Louisa, Jenny, Danni, Terry and Santa's little helper 8 year old Molly.

But most of all a HUGE thankyou to all the generous, kindhearted shoppers at Bradley Stoke - their Christmas spirit was truly amazing.