Adopt a rhino and help rhinos

Posted on 5:00pm Tuesday 26th Jan 2021

If you are looking for a gift for a rhino lover, why not adopt a rhino or an anti-poaching dog from Helping Rhinos?

Adopt a rhino!

Helping Rhinos is a charity. They LOVE rhinos, and their aim is to help the species survive at sustainable levels in their natural habitat. It works with a few partners, mostly in Africa, who:

Preserve or develop new habitat for rhinos and other species
Protect rhinos from poaching
Provide information and education on the importance of the sustaining the rhino population to local communities and broader populations
Sustain the species via other sustainable and scalable projects

Adopt a Northern White Rhino from Helping Rhinos
image © Helping Rhinos

Adoptions are a great way to help the charity’s partner programmes continue their work caring for rhino, including baby orphans, training anti-poaching dogs and sponsoring the work of South Africa’s only all-female anti-poaching unit. Visit Helping Rhinos’ Adoption Centre here.

Adopt a rhino orphan
image © Helping Rhinos

Help rhinos with a donation

On Channel 4 on 26 January 2021 at 8pm, don’t miss Secret Safari – Into the Wild.

It’s telling the stories of the animals in the Ol Pejeta Conservancy in the eyes of their rangers, the very people who are working so hard to protect these animals.

One of the organisations partnering with the Ol Pejeta Conservancy is Helping Rhinos. You could make a donation on behalf of the rhino lover in your life either directly to the Ol Pejeta Conservancy through their website, or through their Global Giving fundraising campaign.

Divine Chocolates at Natural Collection

Posted on 9:00pm Thursday 19th Nov 2020

Want to stock up on some delicious chocolate coins ready for Christmas?

Take a look at Natural Collection! They have dark chocolate and milk chocolate coins, plus thins, and hot chocolate too.

Chocolate treats from Divine are made with Fairtrade cocoa grown by farmers in the Kuapa Kokoo co-operative in Ghana. They also own 44% of Divine, sharing in the profits and company decisions.

They also have hampers though these are not included in the offer.

One of the things I love about Divine Chocolate is that they don't use palm oil in their chocolate. Divine does not use any palm oil in its chocolate and aims not to use any additional ingredients that contain palm oil. This helps reduce human impact on the rainforests on which both animals and people depend.

Take a look at the Divine Chocolate available from Natural Collection!

Take a look at the RSPB Shop - support nature while you go shopping!

Posted on 8:55pm Monday 26th Oct 2020

The RSPB has an incredible range of goods you can buy,
not just for you and family members but for the wildlife you love too!

There are puffin gifts

They have everything you need for bird care – bird baths, bird food, bird tables, bird boxes – and wildlife – things for hedgehogs, bees and butterflies so that’s animals that fly, crawl, hop, walk and trot covered.

Watch the birdee!

There are lots of gift ideas for him, for her and for children and there are also bird ornaments and hare ornaments, gifts for the home, the kitchen and the garden – and clothing. Don’t forget their binoculars and scopes, and range of books and stationery.

Fly off to the RSPB here

Treat a garden lover to an RHS Gift Membership

Posted on 8:00pm Monday 26th Oct 2020

Give an RHS Gift Membership

As well as running a membership scheme, the RHS has a Gift Membership which is perfect for anyone who loves gardens! It’s £65 for a year’s membership.

There are five key benefits..

Your giftee will receive these current member benefits:

• Free entry to the four RHS Gardens and over 200 Partner Gardens** for the member plus a family guest or 2 children
• A monthly subscription to The Garden magazine, worth £4.95 a month, full of tips, interesting articles and stunning photography
• Unlimited, personalised RHS gardening advice
• Exclusive access to RHS Flower Shows and savings on tickets

I took my parents to Hampton Court and we had an amazing day out. (Tip: I booked us in for a sit down lunch as an extra treat, so that they could have a good rest and that worked a treat.)

Members receive The Garden magazine every month - worth £4.95 in itself!

The RHS is known for many of its campaigns to get everyone involved in gardening, whether they have their own gardens or join in campaigns such as Britain in Bloom, Community Gardening, Greening Great Britain, Wild About Gardens and National Gardening Week. They do a great deal with schools too, which is vital if we are to have generations to come of people who care about gardens and who are active in them, both their own and their neighbourhood.

There are a range of memberships available such as Individual and Joint, Gift, Life and Senior Life, Students and RHS Fellows.

Give a gift membership to the RHS today!

Dog related gifts from Emma Bridgewater

Posted on 7:00am Wednesday 26th Aug 2020

It's Intenrational Dogs Day on 26 Auugst (which originally started as National Dog Day in the USA) and the idea is to raise awareness of the need to rescue dogs from rescue shelters and give them a home.

As someone said recently and I can't remember who it was, buy a dog from a breeder and that leaves one in rescue kennels still waiting for a home.

So it's a good opportunity to tell you that Emma Bridewater has dog related gifts, including a bags, an extra large caddy, mugs and an insulated bottle,

There's a Dog Insulated Bottle Dogs Inuslated Bottle for £25.00

Dogs Extra Large Rectangular Caddy for £12.00
Store your dog's biscuits in it! Woof woof!

Take a look at the other gifts for dogs (and cats) here - there are large and small personalised pet bowls with a couple of different designs (polka dots, pink hearts or blue starts or wallflowers) so you could put your dog's name on one!

Dig for more information at Emma Bridgewater

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