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Will you stand up for animals? SAFE is heading towards our most significant fundraising day of the year. It’s our annual street day appeal on Friday 22 December (and 23 December). We need your help to make this year’s appeal another resounding success. Last year we raised over $165,000. This year our team is aiming for a staggering $200,000. Another record-breaker perhaps! Achievable? Well with your help, we could very well achieve this amazing goal.

Only a few years ago we were ‘staggering’ (and quivering) at the mere thought of trying to raise $100,000. Now the team has boundless confidence and is in awe of you, if you’re one of the hundreds of supporters who help collect in their area. An amount like this offers SAFE such a huge opportunity to speak out against animal abuse. I can’t stress enough what raising $200,000 would mean to us. Even more important, what a tremendous gift to be able to give to the animals of New Zealand who need our voice.

This year has been a fantastic year. These fortnightly bulletins and our magazine continue to proclaim victory, success and our achievements. Now we have one last stand for the year. Help us end the year with our largest achievement yet by helping us raise $200,000 for our work for 2007. I urge you to register today.

Anthony Terry
Director







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CRUELTY FREE CALENDAR LAUNCHED
SAFE has combined forces with the international cruelty free cosmetics company Lush for its new glamourous fundraising initiative, featuring a stellar cast of New Zealand female talent. Twelve of New Zealand's most prominent female television personalities, entertainers, actors, musicians and politicians are backing calls for cruelty free living. Each of the women appears embracing an animal in the 2007 Choose Cruelty Free calendar photographed by internationally acclaimed photographer Rachael Hale. Order your calendar now. more...

LOVEPIGS WEBSITE LAUNCHED
SAFE has launched a new website as part of its new campaign against factory farmed pigs. Aside from facts and figures about how pigs are kept in New Zealand it also allows you to email your local MP asking them to help ban cruel pig farming practices. Visit www.lovepigs.org.nz

OPPOSITION TO CIRCUS CONTINUES
Kapiti Council has finally made a decision on SAFE’s submission calling for a ban on circuses with exotic animals using council land. The Council decided to retain the status quo and continue to allow any circuses that had exotic animals prior to December 2006 to use Council land. more...

GREY LYNN FESTIVAL
Despite the bad weather and terrible rain SAFE’s vegetarian food stall at the recent Grey Lynn Festival in Auckland still managed to achieve sales of $2,000. According to SAFE’s stall organiser, Caro Warburton, the 17 volunteers were fantastic, serving up mouth-watering burgers and bangers in record time. “People enjoyed our food so much that many came back several times during the day. We were by far the most popular stall at the event with a constant flow of people throughout the day,” says Caro.

UPCOMING EVENTS
APPEAL COLLECTORS NEEDED
Compassionate New Zealanders in 27 cities will collectively raise funds next month as part of SAFE’s national collection day. Can you help collect in your area?

SAFE is aiming for over 900 collectors to help raise over $200,000. This is an important time for SAFE, which is why we need your help. We ask that collectors commit to a minimum of 2 hours but if you can collect for longer that would be great! In most centres the collection will run from 8am to 7pm on Friday and from 9am to 4pm on Saturday. As a special bonus for your hard work for every $50 that you collect we will give you a $5 music or The Body Shop voucher! more...

STICKING UP APPEAL POSTERS
SAFE is currently placing thousands of collector recruitment and appeal posters around the country. If you can assist with placing these in your area or workplace let us know. Email safe@safe.org.nz

RISE AGAINST STALL
SAFE has been invited to have a stall at Rise Against’s only New Zealand concert at the St James Theatre this week. The selfdescribed hardcore punks from Chicago have a passion for animal rights. They are vegetarians and actively support US-based animal rights group Peta. Their music video “Ready to fall” highlights environmental degradation, factory farming and sport hunting. “We are really excited about this opportunity to be at an event with such a well-known and highly regarded international band,” says Caro. Tickets available at www.ticketdirect.co.nz

ST KEVIN’S CRAFT FAIR
SAFE is also having a stall at St Kevin’s Craft Fair on Thursday 7th December from 6pm-9pm. This is a great opportunity for some Christmas shopping while enjoying live music, food and wine, and a lively crowd and atmosphere. The SAFE shop will also be open late on the night.

  

27 November 2006 #21



By registering now to collect for SAFE’s appeal three lucky people will have a chance to win SAFE’s gorgeous new 2007 Choose Cruelty Free calendar. Fantastic! Will you be the lucky winner? Only one way to find out… enter now.

Congratulations to Toni Donohue, Pauline Cowan and Annie Cooper for winning the Living Nature Pet shampoo. Happy doggy washing!

CARO’S MOIST DARK RICH CHOCOLATE CAKE

SAFE’s Auckland shop manager serves up one of her favourite cake recipes:

I have tried many vegan chocolate cake recipes and this one comes out perfect every time. Enjoy.

125g margarine
1 1/4 C sugar
2 C plain flour
2 tsp baking powder (slightlyheaped)
2 dsp cocoa
2 dsp golden syrup
2 C soya milk
2 level tsp baking soda

Melt sugar and margarine together. In a large bowl sift flour, baking powder and cocoa and pour in golden syrup. Add melted margarine and sugar mixture and whisk. Add baking soda to warm soya milk and whisk for 2 minutes. Add to mixture. Grease cake tin, dust with flour (1 tsp) and bake at 175 degrees Celsius for 35 minutes.