93 Summer 2016 Price £2 (free to members) animalwa ch PUTTING ANIMALS ON THE AGENDA OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH INSIDE THIS ISSUE YOUNG MEMBERS’ PAGE WINNER OF THE FIRST ANIMAL FRIENDLY CHURCH AWARD ANIMALS AND THE ENVIRONMENT ASWA.ORG.UK | 1 IN THIS ISSUE A WARM WELCOME 3 ASWA AGM 4 4 ANIMAL FRIENDLY CHURCH 7 WINNER OF THE FIRST ANIMAL FRIENDLY CHURCH AWARD 8 YOUNG MEMBERS’ PAGE 9 8 CAN ENVIRONMENTAL CONCERNS GET ANIMALS ON THE 10 AGENDA? BOOK REVIEWS 11 9 Sunday 2 October Sunday 18 October DORIS’ DIARY Animal Welfare Sunday Animal Service, St Mary’s, Childwick, AL3 6JJ, 11.30am. ASWA Annual Service, St Cross This short act of worship (30 Hello! My name is Doris, and I Church, Winchester, 9.30am. minutes) has been especially am a Border Leicester ewe with The preacher will be the shaped to thank God for creation very large ears! I was rescued by Rt Revd Dominic Walker OGS, and to pray for animal welfare. ASWA secretary Sam Chandler, as ASWA President and former Pets welcome to come for a bishop of Monmouth. blessing. For more information, I had outlived my usefulness as a please visit www.stmichaels- breeding ewe. Annual pet service, Great Malvern parishchurch.org.uk/home.asp. Priory, 3pm. For more details Below are some great events ewe contact greatmalvernpriory@ Sunday 13 November me.com. ASWA Remembrance Service may enjoy! at the Animals’ War Memorial, Park Lane, London, 3pm. Sunday 24 to Wednesday 27 July Saturday 15 October Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics’ Animal blessing and thanksgiving annual summer school at St Stephen’s service for pets, St Martin’s for further details of events, House, Oxford. This year’s subject is Church, Mortimer Road, Kensal please visit the website: the ethics of eating animals. Green, London, NW10 5SN, 2pm. www.aswa.org.uk Led by the Revd Graham Noyce. Monday 22 to Thursday 25 August All well-behaved pets welcome. Annual Ecumenical Animal Welfare For further details of the service, Retreat, Charney Manor Retreat please email: animalblessing@ House, Charney Bassett, Nr Wantage, hotmail.co.uk or telephone Oxfordshire. For more information, please contact Mrs Irene Casey, 07958-950137. [email protected]. Friday 26 to Monday 29 August Greenbelt Festival, Boughton House nr Kettering. Sunday 28 August Animal Welfare - a Christian Concern? A talk by Tony Campolo as part of the Eucharist at St James’ Church, Piccadilly, 11am. An audience with Tony Campolo: A Q&A on social justice issues, Oasis Church, Waterloo, London, 6.30pm. To book visit http://eveningwithtonycampolo. eventbrite.co.uk. 2 | ASWA.ORG.UK HELLO AND WELCOME TO ANIMALWATCH Welcome to Animalwatch. Our focus in this issue is animals and the Church. The first Animal Friendly Church Award was won earlier this year by St Peter’s Harrogate, and in this issue we have an interview with church member Helen Ball about winning the award. Also in this issue you will find our Young Members’ Page. 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. We hope to see you there. 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 Autumn magazine is Monday 29th August 2016. PAW A COFFEE AT ASWA SPEAKERS BURRSWOOD AVAILABLE Burrswood Hospital in Kent provided If you have a group or service that tranquil and beautiful surroundings would welcome an ASWA speaker, for a Paw-a-Coffee afternoon to raise we would love to hear from you! We money for ASWA. Twenty people often travel a fair distance so please attended the event, held in the tea call to discuss it. We usually bring a room. As well as coffee and cake, stall and literature and always liaise ASWA literature was on offer, and this with our hosts to ensure the talk was well-received by those who came. is appropriate for their particular audience. Keep the invitations If you’d like to host a fundraising Paw- rolling in! a-Coffee for ASWA, a pack including invitations and ASWA napkins is available. Please contact the Secretary for details. Janet Murphy Janet Yapp, Randlay, Telford, A Warm Welcome Carol Williams, Worcester Park, Shropshire Surrey to our new members. We look forward to hearing Maria Mcgannan, Waterlooville, Justin Luxmoore, Sheldon, Honiton, from you. Hampshire Devon Paul Ashwell, Middlesborough, To all our new members we Valerie Aucouturier, Monti, North Yorkshire Menton, France extend a warm welcome Susan Merril. Beaufort, SC, and, along with our existing Elizabeth Hurry, South Hiendley, USA members, we would ask that Barnsley Sean Callard, Westminster, London you encourage others who Basil Youdell, Bognor Regis, share your concern for animal West Sussex welfare to join. Introductory Cheryl Clark, West Des Moines, IA, leaflets are available from the Cass Higgins Gastaldon, USA Llanbedr, Crickhowell, Powys Secretary. ASWA.ORG.UK | 3 GOOD NEWS Compassion a popular lifestyle choice According to the Vegan Society (www.vegansociety.com/whats-new/news/find-out-how-many-vegans-are-great-britain) there are now more than half-a-million vegans in Britain alone. That’s more than three times as many as there were ten years ago, making veganism the fastest growing lifestyle trend in the UK. And the vegans aren’t alone – there are now more than one-and-a-half-million vegetarians in Britain. This isn’t a purely British phenomenon either. It is estimated that as many as 16 million Americans are now either vegetarian or vegan. NEWS & NOTICES ASWA NEWS ASWA AGM Don’t forget, you ASWA Annual Service The ASWA AGM was held at can follow ASWA on This year’s annual service will be held Twitter – aswanews St Michael’s Church, Chester Square, at St Cross Church, Winchester on London on 21st May (Details of the Sunday 2nd October, 9.30am. The You can also keep up business meeting will be printed preacher will be ASWA President, the in the Autumn issue). We were with what’s new via our website – Rt Revd Dominic Walker. www.aswa.org.uk. very pleased to welcome Dr Brett ASWA Local groups Cochrane, Group Head of Science Animal-friendly Church awards at the Dr Hadwen Trust (DHT) as our Don’t forget that there are ASWA local guest speaker. Dr Cochrane gave a Is your church animal friendly? Last groups in different areas. very interesting and informative talk year, ASWA launched the Animal- about the work of the DHT, including friendly Church awards. Churches • The Watford group meets the many different disease areas can apply at any time and those monthly. Members come from in which they are working and the meeting the necessary criteria will as far as Tring, Milton Keynes various techniques that are being be awarded animal-friendly church and Chesham to this group. The pioneered and refined to replace the status. Information is available on the contact for this group is Sarah use of animals in medical research. website or from the Secretary. Dunning (01923-467502). The benefits of DHT’s work are two- Paw A Coffee • There is an Ecumenical group, fold: improving animal welfare by the Three Counties Animal reducing the demand for animals to Paw a Coffee for ASWA will run from Welfare Prayer Group, who be used in research and providing 4th June to 21st August. How about meet for a service at Gloucester more accurate data by using methods holding a gathering for your Church Cathedral at 12.15 on the first that provide human-relevant data. friends with coffee (or tea) and cake? Saturday of each month. The We were all very encouraged to hear We provide invitations, napkins with contact for the ecumenical of the work being done by the DHT, an ASWA logo, literature to give out group is the Revd Helen Hall and the commitment of Dr Cochrane and a disposable money box for any ([email protected]). and his colleagues. donations. This is a great way to raise funds for ASWA, to tell people about • The Revd David Austin has the work that we do, and to remind recently started an ASWA prayer others that God cares about all of his group in the Norwich area. If creatures. For further information, anyone is interested in joining, please contact the ASWA Secretary David’s contact details are 01603 or ASWA Committee Member Janet 469112 or dsj.austin@hotmail. Murphy (07793-748634). com. Tony Campolo coming to ASWA is always keen to support the formation of new groups. If you are London interested in starting a group in your ASWA is pleased to welcome Tony area, please contact the Secretary. Campolo on Sunday 28th August at St James’ Church, Piccadilly as part of their Eucharist service. See Doris’ Diary for more details. 4 | ASWA.ORG.UK St James’s Church, Piccadilly 197 Piccadilly, London W1J 9LL 020 7734 4511 ● www.sjp.org.uk The Anglican Society for the Welfare of Animals warmly invite you to the following service on Sunday 28th August. Animal Welfare – a Christian concern? Eucharist Service with talk by Tony Campolo St James’s Church, Piccadilly at 11am. Enquiries [email protected] or 01252-843093 ASWA, PO Box 7193, Hook, Hampshire, RG27 8GT T: 01252 843093 • E: [email protected] www.aswa.org.uk ASWA.ORG.UK | 5 NEWS FROM AROUND THE WORLD AUSTRALIA for 17 years while I was lecturing at a affirmed a new policy not to kill healthy university, the idea of this project was close animals, (Antwerp and Planckendael, in Dog Olympics but to my heart.