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Putting Animals on the Agenda of the Christian Church 94 Autumn 2016 Price £2 (free to members) animalwa ch PUTTING ANIMALS ON THE AGENDA OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH INSIDE THIS ISSUE THE UNSEEN LIVES OF MOLES CIWF’S GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION FOLLY WILDLIFE RESCUE ASWA.ORG.UK | 1 IN THIS ISSUE A WARM WELCOME 3 ASWA AGM 3 5 THE UNSEEN LIVES OF MOLES 5 ANIMAL BLESSING SERVICE 7 CIWF’S GLOBAL DAY OF ACTION 8 7 FOLLY WILDLIFE RESCUE 10 BOOK REVIEWS 11 10 Saturday 15 October Saturday 22nd October DORIS’ DIARY Animal blessing and thanksgiving Interfaith Celebration of service for pets, St Martin’s Animals & AGM, Golders Green Hello! My name is Doris, and I Church, Mortimer Road, Kensal Unitarians, 31 Hoop Lane, am a Border Leicester ewe with Green, London, NW10 5SN, London,NW11 8BS 2pm. Led by the Revd Graham AGM at 2pm, Celebration at very large ears! I was rescued by Noyce. All well-behaved pets 3pm. Speaker the Revd Prof ASWA secretary Sam Chandler, as welcome. For further details of the Martin Henig. I had outlived my usefulness as a service, please email: breeding ewe. [email protected] or Sunday 13 November telephone 07958-950137. ASWA Remembrance Service at Below are some great events ewe the Animals’ War Memorial, Park may enjoy! Sunday 18 October Lane, London, 3pm. Animal Service, St Mary’s, Sunday 2 October Childwick, AL3 6JJ, 11.30am. This for further details of events, Animal Welfare Sunday short act of worship (30 minutes) please visit the website: www. has been especially shaped to aswa.org.uk ASWA Annual Service, St Cross thank God for creation and to Church, Winchester, 9.30am. The pray for animal welfare. Pets preacher will be the welcome to come for a blessing. Rt Revd Dominic Walker OGS, ASWA For more information, please visit President and former bishop of www.stmichaels-parishchurch.org. Monmouth. uk/home.asp. Annual pet service, Great Malvern Priory, 3pm. For more details contact [email protected]. Suday 9 October Animal blessing service, St John Vianney Church, Wantage, OX12 8ER, 3pm. Speaker: Revd Hedley Feast. Refreshments for humans and animals provided after the service. For more information, email labcott@ googlemail.com. 2 | ASWA.ORG.UK HELLO AND WELCOME TO ANIMALWATCH Welcome to Animalwatch. In this issue, we look at different forms of advocacy for animals, from taking an interest in creatures often dismissed as ‘pests’ to reports on a rally against live exports, and a talk given by ASWA patron Tony Campolo. Also in this issue you will find a report on this year’s prisons wildlife award. We hope that you enjoy keeping up-to-date with news and information on our website. Do check regularly for resources and information about upcoming events. Please do make a note of the dates in Doris’ Diary – especially the annual service in October and the Remembrance service in November. We hope to see you at both of those events. Please send any items for consideration for Animalwatch to Revd Jennifer Brown, Editor, PO Box 7193, Hook, Hampshire, RG27 8GT. Email is even better – [email protected]. Please note that, owing to space restrictions, it may not be possible to print all contributions, and that letters and other contributions may be edited for length. Jennifer Brown, Editor The deadline for the Spring magazine is Monday 23rd January 2017. ANNUAL GENERAL MEETING 2016 The ASWA committee, members Chandler was re-elected as Secretary which included many ASWA members and supporters met once again in and George Ochola, Sarah Dunning and said that prayer support was St Michael’s Church, Chester Square, and Keith Cottrell were all re-elected vital for the continued success of the London. as Committee Members. society. During her annual report, the Chair, The Chair said that this had been, There were a couple of theological the Revd Helen Hall, thanked the “An important and significant year questions from the floor and a vote committee and the President, the for ASWA.” ASWA had submitted a was taken regarding an increase in the Rt Revd Dominic Walker, together with report on domestic pets to the EFRA annual subscription rate to £20. The the Vice President, the Revd Dr Martin Committee (Environmental, Food meeting was unanimously in favour of Henig, for their continued support and Rural Affairs). She reported on the increase from 1st January 2017. and guidance. She also thanked Keith the progress of the Animal Friendly Concessions for OAPs and those on Plumridge for his tireless support in Church initiative and encouraged benefits will remain. the role of Membership Secretary ASWA members to speak to their own The guest speaker was Dr Brett and in particular for the excellent churches about applying. ASWA is Cochrane from the Dr Hadwen Trust email service he runs to keep ASWA now also a member of the All Party [See the summer issue for a summary members up to date with current Group for Animal Welfare (APGAW) of Dr Chochrane’s talk]. issues and events. If you are on email and an ASWA representative attends and would like to be included in this their meetings at the House of list, please contact the Secretary. Commons. There had been no need for a The Chair also commented on the postal ballot for the election of great importance of prayer both for committee members as the number of the society and for animal welfare candidates did not exceed the vacant issues in general. She praised the posts available. Therefore, Samantha prayer group run by Sarah Dunning Philip Guyott, Chard, Somerset A Warm Welcome St James’s Church, Piccadilly, London to our new members. Mary Hall, Bideford, Devon Christ Church with St Philip, We look forward to hearing Sheila Hargreaves, Alresford, Worcester Park, Surrey from you. Hampshire Carolina Bowie, Anstey, Nicola Peters, Gilwern, To all our new members we Hertfordshire Abergavenny extend a warm welcome and, along with our existing Philip Mark Bullock, South Shields, Julie Pleass, Marlow, members, we would ask that Tyne and Wear Buckinghamshire you encourage others who Brenda Forrester, Chester-le-Street, Valerie Reisenman, Leasowe, share your concern for animal Durham Moreton, Merseyside welfare to join. Introductory Rev Dr Jan Goodair,Huntington, Barbara Robson, Stape Pickering, leaflets are available from the York Yorkshire Secretary. ASWA.ORG.UK | 3 GOOD NEWS Important US marine reserve extended At the end of August, President Obama extended the Papahãnaumokuãkea Marine National Monument off the coast of Hawaii. This is an area of vital marine habitat, and the extension of the National Monument will provide protection not only for coral reefs, but also for whales, sea turtles and other species. President Obama’s action means that this protected area now covers more than half-a-million square miles of ocean and is the largest marine reserve in the world. NEWS & NOTICES Don’t forget, you Animals in War Service of ASWA is always keen to support the can follow ASWA on Remembrance formation of new groups. If you are Twitter – aswanews interested in starting a group in your The annual Remembrance Service area, please contact the Secretary. at the Animals’ War Memorial, Park You can also keep up Lane, London, will be on Sunday 13th with what’s new via our website – November 2016 at 3pm. This service www.aswa.org.uk. has been growing year on year, and TALKING POINT Animal-friendly Church awards provides an opportunity to remember What happens to our rubbish? animals who have given their lives in If you live in the UK, you will Is your church animal friendly? Last war and those who continue to serve undoubtedly have heard recent news year, ASWA launched the Animal- in our armed services and police reports about plans to ban the use of friendly Church awards. Churches forces. can apply at any time and those plastic microbeads in cosmetics and meeting the necessary criteria will ASWA Membership Fees other products. The USA already has such a ban in place. Why have these be awarded animal-friendly church From 1st January 2017, the microbeads become a problem? status. Information is available on the annual subscription rate for ASWA Because they are used in cosmetics website or from the Secretary. membership will increase to £20. This and cleaning products, microbeads increase was agreed by unanimous end up in water systems and, vote at the 2016 AGM. eventually, in the oceans. There, they ASWA Local groups are consumed by marine animals. Not only do fish fill up on these tiny Don’t forget that there are ASWA local beads instead of real food, the beads groups in different areas. also collect toxins, causing them to • The Watford group meets become concentrated, potentially monthly. Members come from harming the animals that consume as far as Tring, Milton Keynes them. There is concern that as these and Chesham to this group. The toxins work their way up the food contact for this group is Sarah chain, they are eventually consumed Dunning (01923-467502). by humans, with unknown but Animal Welfare Sunday potentially harmful effects. Even if the • There is an Ecumenical group, the ban comes into force, there will still Animal Welfare Sunday is Sunday Three Counties Animal Welfare be a huge problem with plastic waste 2nd October 2016. Resource packs Prayer Group, who meet for a in our oceans. How much effort do are available to download from the service at Gloucester Cathedral we put into recycling our plastics? ASWA website, or in hardcopy from at 12.15 on the first Saturday of Do we know where they go when the Secretary. each month. The contact for the the recycling is collected? Should ecumenical group is the Revd ASWA Annual Service we, as consumers, start demanding Helen Hall (01633-677775 or alternatives to plastics in our products This year’s annual service will be held [email protected]).
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