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SHAPLA BALTI Shapla Balti has been awarded a certificate of excellence three years running!

NATIONAL PET MONTH Let’s show our furry friends some love and raise money for local animal charities!

HOOFBEATS SANCTUARY Hoofbeats is a small sanctuary run entirely by donations and unpaid volunteers

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Editor’s Note...

April is here, which means we are well and truly into Spring (you would never think it- two lots of snow in one month?!) But warmer weather is just around the corner.

This month we have some great editorials for you to get stuck into, something that we’ve all been excited about is National Pet Month. Take a look at the teams furry friends and a little about the national charity on page 12.

I would like to take this opportunity to say a massive thank you to Becca Smith, who has been my assistant for the past few months. She has been a fab addition to the team and I wish her every success at University!

Enjoy this issue and have a great month!

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GA Solicitors

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Smeaton Homes

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Helping Hands

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St Lukes Hospice

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National Pet Month

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Evans Harvey

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Shapla Balti

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Stress Awareness

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Vegan Warrior

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What’s on Guide

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APRIL IS NATIONAL PET MONTH!

National Pet Month is a registered charity dedicated to encouraging animal lovers to celebrate their beloved furry friends.

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DID YOU KNOW: In 2016, the total expenditure on pets and related products in the UK reached a massive 4.58 billion pounds?!

Pets can be a burden on your personal finances, especially when accounting for unforeseen costs, such as unexpected vet bills. Whether you want to share your home with a cat, dog or smaller critter, your pet will require feeding, entertaining and health checkups.

Adopting an animal, rather than buying from breeders, can often have many surprising benefits. By adopting, you also can save money, as shelters often microchip, vaccinate, spay or neuter pets before they are brought into your care. When you adopt, any fees will be reinvested into the shelter, ensuring that unwanted pets receive the love and respect that they deserve.

If you already own a pet, you’ll already be aware of the happiness they can bring to your life, but did you know that they can also benefit your health? Pets can have a positive influence on individuals who suffer from depression and other debilitating mental illnesses, offering motivation as well as relaxation.

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2017 saw the first year of Cats Protection’s Pawsome Afternoon Tea. With thousands of cat lovers from Penzance to Shetland hosting afternoon teas for their nearest and dearest, thousands of pounds was raised to help unwanted cats and kittens.

This year,to join the celebrations of National Pet Month,Cats Protection is asking supporters to host their afternoon teas again throughout April.

You can sign up now for your free pack full of everything you need to make your event the cat’s whiskers at www.pawsometea.org. National Pet Month is a fantastic opportunity for pet lovers across the country to celebrate our furry friends. You can get involved by attending one of the many events taking place across the country, or by arranging your own!

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There are a number of great charities in and around our city that do amazing things for animals in need. We couldn’t possibly outline every single one, (even though we would love too!) so we have highlighted a few below. Charities wouldn’t be able to function without kind donations, so why not do something great this month and raise money for a charity of your choice.

Woodside sanctuary

Tom our Graphic Designer with Boo

Starting in 1977, a group of like-minded friends decided to do something about the rising numbers of unwanted pets in Plymouth. Fast forward through some challenging times, Woodside became a fully fledged, registered charity. Its original aims have been built upon to now embrace animals other than cats and dogs. Woodside’s ethos is that caring for abandoned and abused pets within the sanctuary is, and always will be vital.

Gables Farm

Our office dogs Stevie and Bella

Gables Farm dogs and cats home is a non euthanasia rescue and rehoming centre that has been helping the regions unwanted and abandoned dogs and cats since 1907. They take in and care for over 1000 animals every single year. Their aim is to provide all the love, attention and veterinary care their lovely animals need and find them all new loving forever homes.

Hoofbeats equine rehabilitation sanctuary

Becca our Intern with Bella, Lady Lou and Sealark

Founded by Sharon Vieira, who has been taking in unwanted horses and ponies for over 30 years. Hoofbeats’ horses and ponies run as a herd which enables them to interact, socialise and groom each other just as they would in the wild.

Their primary aim is to re-home on a permanent loan basis, to

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Take Your Pet To Work Day: What better excuse than National Pet Month to encourage your boss to allow your pets to work!

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SHAPLA BALTI DONATE £500 TO LOCAL CHARITY SEEKING TYPE 1 DIABETES CURE

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Along with the help of Becky Moore, who is running the London Marathon on Sunday 22nd April also in aid of JDRF, the curry evening helped raise a magnificent £850- £500 of which was generously donated by Mr Ali and his team at Shapla.

The night consisted of a five course set menu and fundraising in the form of a raffle.

Mr Ali said - “It was a brilliant night, we thank Becky, Karen and Martin for all their hard work organising it, and we look forward to hosting something like this again soon. we are very pleased to be helping the local community”.

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Plympton What’s On Guide 24th March-8th April

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Cadbury Easter Egg Hunt Go on an Easter Egg Hunt around Saltram’s beautiful garden, spot the clues and solve the mystery. Each hunt gets a chocolate reward. The second week of the Easter holidays we will have a second trail to keep the kids busy! The even costs just £2, and normal admission charges apply.

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Doggy Spring Charity Fete An exciting ‘Doggy Spring Charity Fete’ is to be held at Chaplins in Plympton.This pawesome Charity Spring Fete will be host to a huge range of activities and fun for all the family, particularly the four-legged members, with dog shows, workshops including canine first aid, agility classes, a doggy tea party, grooming demos, pet photobooth, raffle and a range of stalls. Entry costs £2.50 per person, U16s free, with all proceeds being donated to Woodside and Hearing Dogs for Deaf People.

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ELMER PUTS ST LUKES AHEAD OF THE HERD

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hen it comes to encouraging more open discussion around the sensitive subjects of death and dying, St Luke’s Hospice Plymouth is leading the herd, with a fun and enchanting trail that’s set to add a splash of colour across our city and get people talking.

In collaboration with independent children’s books publisher Andersen Press and creator of public art events Wild in Art, St Luke’s is bringing Elmer the patchwork elephant – the iconic, much-loved storybook character created by Devon-born author and artist David McKee – to Plymouth for Elmer’s Big Parade in 2019, 30 years since Andersen Press first published the Elmer story.

For ten weeks over summer 2019, the eyecatching Elmer’s Big Parade will be adding colour and fun to the city and surrounding areas, where St Luke’s cares for patients with progressive life-limiting illnesses and supports their families and carers.

The project also includes an interactive app to help people follow the herd, detailing the sculpture locations and enabling them to join the Elmer community by uploading selfies as they go.

Running alongside the trail will be an engaging interactive educational programme for Key Stage 2 and 3 school children that will aid their understanding of death and dying in an age-appropriate way.

Elmer’s Big Parade will be formally launched on 21 March 2018 at Ocean Studios, when a bespoke Elmer designed by popular local artist Brian Pollard will take pride of place alongside a ‘classic’ bright patchwork Elmer. Following the launch, artists will be invited to submit their designs from June 2018, with the sculpture trail opening in July 2019.

The 40 unique elephant sculptures, each painted by an established or emerging local artist, will form a trail that will both attract new visitors to Plymouth, curious to see what Elmer is up to, and encourage residents to explore areas they might not have ventured to before.

The sculptures will help people ‘navigate’ the city while increasing awareness of St Luke’s, de-mystifying death, dying and hospice care, and raising vital funds to help the charity look after more patients who need its compassionate care.

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are delighted to be working with St Luke’s and Wild in Art on this project, and cannot wait to see the colourful Elmers around Plymouth. To bring this amazing trail to Plymouth, a place so close to the heart of David McKee, Elmer’s creator, is really the icing on the cake”.

“Here’s hoping we raise lots of money for St Luke’s Hospice, whilst making a fun, inclusive and interactive trail for the public.”

St Luke’s is offering local businesses and other organisations the opportunity to sponsor one of the 40 unique Elmer sculptures that are set to enchant and inspire.

Ultimately, these sculptures will be auctioned off to raise money for St Luke’s, ensuring a fitting legacy for the people and communities of Plymouth and the surrounding areas which benefit from the charity’s outstanding care.

Speaking about the project, St Luke’s Chief Executive Steve Statham said: “An elephant never forgets and that’s a key message for us, too. We want to help people create lasting memories and at St Luke’s we are very proud that we can do this for many patients and their families.

“We’re really excited about Elmer’s Big Parade. As well as being full of fun that will spread a big grin across Plymouth and the wider area, it will encourage meaningful discussion about death, dying and bereavement, subjects we often shy away from but would all benefit from being more open about”.

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“In addition to being a great free and healthy day out for all the family as they walk the trail, it will also attract new visitors to our city, raising Plymouth’s profile and bringing economic benefits, as well as showcasing a wealth of local artistic talent.”

Charlie Langhorne, Director, Wild in Art, added: “By joining forces with Andersen Press and creating a blank 3D canvas inspired by the famous patchwork elephant, we just know that this big parade will have a positive impact on Plymouth’s residents and visitors, and of course St Luke’s.

With similar parades featuring Elmer in Ipswich and Tyne & Wear too, we’re excited to be turning the country patchwork for fantastic causes in 2019.”

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STRESS LESS THIS APRIL STRESS AWARENESS MONTH The focus of April is to get people talking about the common mental illness that affects 44% of us. Stress is the feeling of being under too much mental or emotional pressure, with work related stressors being the biggest cited cause. We outline the reason why you may become stressed, and a number of ways in which you can significantly reduce and manage your stress levels.

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“Our most exciting development is our charity tack shop”, Sharon is excited to tell us. The Farmyard Cafe have recently kindly donated a space for Hoofbeats to use free of charge; allowing the charity to sell any surplus horse equipment donated to raise vital funds.

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Winter Woes According to Sharon, founder of Hoofbeats, “Winter has always been a difficult season with wet and cold weather meaning our horses require extra feeding and waterproof rugs to protect them against the elements.”

With the snow causing havoc across the city just last month, the Hoofbeats’ founder tells us how she was overwhelmed with support from local people. Receiving countless messages offering to help with accessing the horses and carrying out daily checks, Sharon jokes she could “only fit 7 (people) in my truck...but thanks to the volunteers I managed to get to to pick up, it made the jobs a lot easier “.

It’s the help of volunteers like these, as well as charitable donations, that keep the Sanctuary running.

Sharon explains that long-term supporter ‘The Farmyard Cafe’ provides a warm and welcoming space for volunteers to use as a base. “We can also have rehoming meetings with people who are looking at giving one of our horses or ponies a forever loving home - all this by a warm fire and with a hot drink, which is great for wintery days!”

Having as natural a set up as possible, the horses and ponies at Hoofbeats are allowed to run as a herd, enabling them to interact, socialise and groom each other just as they would in the wild. “Come Spring this is a lovely sight to see; all the horses enjoy playing and running through the fields now winter is behind us.”

As Spring emerges, Hoofbeats have even more to celebrate.

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