88 Autumn 2014 Price £2 (free to members) animalwa ch PUTTING ANIMALS ON THE AGENDA OF THE CHRISTIAN CHURCH INSIDE THIS ISSUE LIVE TRANSPORT: KENT, UGANDA AND AUSTRALIA RABBITS – THE FORGOTTEN ONES NATIONAL OFFENDER MANAGEMENT SERVICE WILDLIFE AWARD 2014 ASWA.ORG.UK | 1 IN THIS ISSUE A WARM WELCOME 3 LIVE TRANSPORT: LIVE EXPORTS FROM KENT 5 5 LIVE TRANSPORT: CATTLE TRANSPORT IN UGANDA 7 LIVE TRANSPORT: AUSTRALIA 9 7 NATIONAL OFFENDER MANAGEMENT SERVICE 11 WILDLIFE AWARD 2014 RABBITS – THE FORGOTTEN ONES 11 Cover image and photo of sheep p5 ©Compassion in World Farming. Used with permission. 9 Sunday 5 October Animal Service, Raglan Group of Animal Welfare Sunday Churches, Monmouthshire. DORIS’ DIARY Contact: 01291 690330 for further ASWA Annual Service, St Woolos details. Hello! My name is Doris, and I Cathderal, Newport, Wales, 10.30am. Preacher: The Rt Revd Dominic Walker, Blessing of Animals, St Paul’s Episcopal am a Border Leicester ewe with OGS Church, Fayetteville, Arkansas, USA very large ears! I was rescued by Please note that this is NOT an animal Time TBA. blessing service. ASWA secretary Sam Chandler, Sunday 9 November as I had outlived my usefulness Animal Blessing Service, St Michael’s, ASWA service of Remembrance at the Sheerwater, Woking, Surrey, 3pm. Animals’ War Memorial, Park Lane, as a breeding ewe. London, 3pm. Pet Blessing Service, Kirton Church at St Andrew’s, Kirton-in-Lindsey, North Monday 18 to Thursday 21 May, 2015 Below are some great events ewe Lincolnshire, 3pm. Annual Ecumenical Animal Welfare may enjoy! Further details from Revd Kathy Colwell, Retreat, Noddfa, North Wales. For more [email protected], information, please contact Mrs Irene 01652 640552 or via the church website Casey, [email protected]. Sunday 7 September www.the-umc.org.uk. Animal Service, St Mary’s Church, Childwick For further details of events, please visit Green, nr St Albans, Hertfordshire, Animal Blessing (Pets) Service, Great the website: www.aswa.org.uk. 11.15am. Malvern Priory, 3pm. Animals and people both welcome. For further details please contact the Priory Office on 01684 561020 via email Monday 19 September [email protected] Animal Welfare and Blessing Service, or via the website Egleshayle Church (St Petroc), Wadebridge, www.greatmalvernpriory.org.uk. Cornwall, 3.30pm. All Welcome. Service of Blessing for Animals, 3pm. Saturday 4 October At St Andrew’s Church, Jarrom Street, Animal Blessing and Thanksgiving Service Leicester (near the LRI). for Pets, St Martin’s Church, Mortimer Road, Music by Badgerbrook County Primary Kensal Green, London, NW10 5SN, 2pm. School. Service led by the Revd Graham Noyce. Free refreshments after the service and All well-behaved pets welcome. For more the opportunity to browse around a information, phone 07958 950 137 or email variety of animal welfare stalls. [email protected]. The church is a 10 minute walk from Kensal Green station, and is on the no 18 bus route. Ecumenical Animal Blessing Service, Arundel Cathedral, 2.30pm. Refreshments in the Cathedral Centre following the service. All animals and their owners welcome. For more information please phone 01903 882 297. Pet Service, St Thomas à Becket, Pagham, West Sussex, 3pm. 2 | ASWA.ORG.UK HELLO AND WELCOME TO EMAIL ADDRESSES PLEASE! ANIMALWATCH ASWA is updating its membership records to include email addresses. Welcome to Animalwatch. Our focus in this issue is the transport of animals This will keep the ASWA membership for slaughter. While we recognise that readers may find this subject distressing, better informed of our activities and it is a serious issue, and an area in which welfare is often compromised. expand our influence to help animals. Consequently, we feel that it is a subject that we need to cover. You will also Just put “ASWA email address (and find in this issue a survey and postage paid envelope − we would be grateful if your name)” in the subject line and our readers would complete and return the survey. We want to know what you send it to: think about Animalwatch and how we can make it better. [email protected] 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 Thank you to all those who have events. Please do make a note of the dates in Doris’ Diary – especially the already done this in response to the annual service in October. We hope to see you there. appeal in previous issues. Please send any items for consideration for Animalwatch to Revd Jennifer Brown, Editor, PO Box 7193, Hook, Hampshire, RG27 8GT. Email is even ASWA NEWS better – [email protected]. Please note that, owing to space restrictions, it may not be possible to print all contributions, and that letters and A new approach to Animal other contributions may be edited for length. Welfare Sunday Most of our members will know that, each year, ASWA produces materials Jennifer Brown, Editor and resources for Animal Welfare The deadline for the Spring magazine is Monday 19th January 2015. Sunday. In the past, a different theme has been the focus of the annual service and the materials and resources made available. This year, we’ve taken ASWA SPEAKERS AVAILABLE a different approach. Rather than focusing on a specific theme, ASWA If you have a group or service that would welcome an ASWA speaker, we would has produced a collection of fact love to hear from you! We often travel a fair distance so please call to discuss sheets relating to a variety of subjects. it. We usually bring a stall and literature and always liaise with our hosts to These fact sheets provide key material ensure the talk is appropriate for their particular audience. Keep the invitations (facts and figures, biblical references, rolling in! etc) that can be used as the basis for sermons, Bible studies, and group discussions. Providing material on a variety of subjects offers churches A Warm Welcome Terence Owen, Buckhurst Hill, more flexibility in how they approach Essex to our new members. Animal Welfare Sunday. Materials We look forward to hearing Susan Railton, London for children and youth on selected from you. subjects are also available. The new Walter Raymond , Monaco, France Animal Welfare Sunday materials can be downloaded from the web site or, Revd Ben Bradshaw, Braunton, Fiona Rosen, Colindale, London alternatively, the complete pack in an Devon attractive display folder is available from the Secretary. Jenny Cossey, Moordown, Dorset To all our new members we extend a warm welcome Jose Maria Ibarguren, Geneve, and, along with our existing ASWA Donation Switzerland members, we would ask that Envelopes Anne Littlefair, Longstanton, you encourage others who share Cambridge your concern for animal welfare If you are to join. Introductory leaflets are planning Judy Mayhew, London available from the Secretary. an ASWA animal service, Ms Hortencia McKechnie , Watford, don’t forget there are ASWA Donation Hertfordshire Envelopes for you to give out at those services. For more information please contact: Ms Karen Menczer, Jemez Springs, Tel/Fax: 01252 843093 NM, USA Email: [email protected] ASWA.ORG.UK | 3 GOOD NEWS Animal welfare campaigner made a member of the Order of Australia Animal welfare campaigner Lyn White was made a member of the Order of Australia in this summer’s honours. Ms White began working for Animals Asia in 2001, and is an active campaigner against live exports. It is definitely good news to see someone of Ms White’s calibre and commitment honoured for the work that she does to bring an end to cruelty. NEWS & NOTICES Don’t forget, you Badger Cull group meets monthly on either Friday or Saturday afternoons at 2pm. The can follow ASWA on The badger cull in Gloucestershire contact for this group is Janice Hoyle Twitter – aswanews and Somerset is due to resume shortly. (01372-842884). ASWA continues to oppose the cull on You can also keep up the grounds that it is inhumane and The Watford group meets monthly. with what’s new via our website – scientific evidence shows that it will Members come from as far as Tring, www.aswa.org.uk. also be ineffective. We would ask our Milton Keynes and Chesham to this Check the website for the latest UK membership to pray about the group. The contact for this group is resources for youth & children. problem of bovine TB and the badger Sarah Dunning (01923-467502). cull, and to contact their local MP to In addition, there is an Ecumenical urge government to abandon the group, the Three Counties Animal Animal Welfare Sunday cull and instead put funds and effort Welfare Prayer Group, who meet for Sunday 5th October 2014 into finding an effective and humane a service at Gloucester Cathedral at means of eradicating this terrible 12.15 on the first Saturday of each New Animal Welfare Sunday resource disease. month. The contact for the ecumenical packs available now via the web site. group is the Revd Helen Hall (01633-677775 or helen.hall123@ ntlworld.com). ASWA Annual Service ASWA Local groups Sunday 5th October, 10.30am Don’t forget that there are ASWA local groups in different areas. The Oxford ASWA’s annual service this year will ASWA is always keen to support the group meets quarterly in different take place at St Woolos Cathedral, formation of new groups. If you are locations around the Oxford diocese. Newport, Wales. The speaker will be interested in starting a group in your The contact for the group is Revd ASWA president the Rt Revd Dominic area, please contact the Secretary. Martin Henig (martin.henig@arch. Walker, OGS.