"Can I Check If You've Had My Donation?"
Yes; that's a very good idea!
If you are unsure if we have received your donation PLEASE email to ask.
- We're the only pedigree/Persian cat rescue who's giving vital funding help to deserving cases outside of our care!
There is NO other rescue, UK wide, offering the spectrum of services we give, especially in terms of funding aid to other organisations and low-income individuals.
Standing Order/Internet Banking
To Sponsor by regular standing order, please set up your payment as follows:
Bank: Barclays Plc
Chapelhouse Persian
Rescue
Sort Code:
20-53-77
Account:
90008079
That is all you will need. Give these details to your bank and state the amount you wish to pay, and the frequency. You can also send an online payment, via internet banking, with these same details.
How Can I Give?
Send all sponsorship enquiries to:
ask@chapelhouse-persians.co.uk
Sending a Cheque?
Naturally, some people prefer plain old postal mail and cheques, rather than paying a donation online.
Please send your cheque to:
Chapelhouse Persian Rescue
Swythamley Chapel
Swythamley
Macclesfield
Cheshire
SK11 0SN
Your cheque must be made payable to 'Chapelhouse Persian Rescue'.
Thank you.
Donations
I'd like to set up a monthly automated payment, or an online payment, to you; how do I do it?
Email to:
ask@chapelhouse-persians.co.uk
We have actually set up a few links which enable you to either make a one off gift or, make a monthly donation.
- To make a one-off gift click here...you'll find the links for some suggested sums, on our Home Page.
- To set up a regular monthly subscription, click here. Again we have set up some links for pre-set suggested sums.
- If you find you're having any problems with our links on the website, or if perhaps the amount you'd like to give is not actually listed in our links, drop us an email at ask@chapelhouse-persians.co.uk
We have several payment methods which are more easily described to you directly, depending on your own needs.
If you would like to donate using a debit or credit card, just email me and I will set up a special link for you to pay through.
E-mail: ask@chapelhouse-persians.co.uk
Please do not think that the sum you can afford to donate is 'too small' or insignificant. Our lowest donation is £3 a month, and the highest £100 a month. Every sum, no matter how small, is HUGELY important to me in the furtherance of my work. The small sums like £5, now amount to over £300 each month.
New Donations
The Figures and Facts
- Tragically, we have had to REJECT some £3500 worth of requests for veterinary funding, from vet practices UK-wide (see centre column) within the last 3 months approximately.
- We haven't received much in sponsorship aside from the small sums coming from our loyal standing order donors!
- It is our desire to provide funding help for Persians whose owners cannot afford vet bills, and for abandoned Persians who end up at vets. We are the ONLY UK RESCUE that is offering such services. We can offer these much needed services only through donations.
- The only sponsorship funding we receive at present, amounts to a tiny amount by regular standing order or counter credit, from fewer than 20 sponsors - but to their absolute credit (and I'm SO grateful) this same handful of people have supported the Rescue for several years now.
If you want us to survive (and God knows, Persian owners and would-be owners all over Europe are always asking for help - I still get over 1000 requests a week for advice!!) - then please GIVE so that we get something back.
Those people who actually use our cat health and behavioural advice services, are, ashamedly, all people who have never given a penny. Isn't that shocking.
If I ever ask for a donation for my help, their 'urgent request', which I will have been asked to answer fully and immediately, suddenly goes away and they disappear!
And this - winter time - is when nearly EVERY cat coming in is unceremoniously dumped on us requiring a major dematt under general anaesthetic. We are just a dumping ground for most owners.
Note to 'Rehomers': You ought to be ashamed of yourself if you have delivered a badly matted Persian, or a cat with bad teeth, to any rescue centre, unless you have paid for the vet care in full. Sadly 9 out of 10 cats we receive is in an APPALLING state. And that's from owners like YOU!! Who claim to have loved their pets. I'm thoroughly disgusted.
Where are we supposed to get the funds for YOUR cat's urgent care? If we get (as we did this month) 9 cats needing GA and dematt - that is going to cost us over £2000. Disgusting. SORT OUT your pet's coat and teeth BEFORE you pass them on. Have some sense of responsibility!
Message to Sponsors, February 2008
For more detailed news of our sponsorship and funding issues, and stories of individual cats, see our 2008 Newsletters.
All gifts are very welcome indeed. If you are an existing sponsor, a BIG THANK YOU!
You will all see, if you are used to reading this page, how very frustrating and worrying is the constant battle for funds. It gets very wearing.
How Funds Are Used (Feb '08)
Some of the ways in which your funds are used:
- Cats at the Rescue need veterinary treatment and/or behavioural help.
- Cats often have to stay a long time and are very expensive to keep.
- Ongoing daily care costs for food, hygiene products, and litter are high.
- Veterinary bills can be paid or part-funded by CPR, on behalf of the elderly, disabled and those who on low incomes.
- I've never charged the Rescue for electricity over the last 4 years. But I didn't realise the Rescue was accruing a massive fuel debt. British Gas has ignored my own readings AND has failed to take their own, until now. An unexpected bill for over £4000, all incurred by the Rescue section, has finally arrived.
- Many funds go to pay the vet bills for cats who have been abandoned or who are lost, and then taken to a veterinary practice for treatment. Vet practices will usually only treat 'found' or road injured animals, if someone is picking up the bill! Bet you didn't know that. Our rescue is the only one UK wide who will pick up veterinary bills for the treatment of Persian cats, by vets who make a request for funding.
Send sponsorship/gift enquiries to:
ask@chapelhouse-persians.co.uk
- It is of critical importance that rescues have sufficient funds to address all eventualities in the care of those animals they take. Otherwise all we are doing is perpetuating their misery.
- Many rescues (or single rescuers) 'collect' vast numbers of animals, and can't afford to treat them. And now, we unexpectedly can't afford to either :-(
Chapelhouse Persian & Pedigree Cat Rescue . Swythamley Chapel . Swythamley . Macclesfield .
Cheshire . SK11 0SN E: ask@chapelhouse-persians.co.uk
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