Campaign for 'Animal Relief'

A campaign has been launched to urge the BBC to hold an 'Animal Relief' event just like Comic or Sports Relief.

Barbara Nock, a trustee at Willows Animal Sanctuary in Scotland, told me why she decided to launch the campaign and why it is so important to all of us.

"With 10 million UK pet owners, a vast percentage keeping them as companions thus making them family members, as licence payers it would be fair to redress this imbalance by adding a third event in support of our non-human relatives, be it animal sanctuaries or others caring for animals, unwanted or abused pets, ex-race dogs, ex-race horses, unwanted farm animals, injured wildlife and more. We need our country to show we care by supporting this."

Barbara funds the care of around 300 unwanted animals and other charities and believes a country wide campaign was needed to help support the continual assistance given to these vulnerable animals.

The BBC has so far replied that they have to remain biased and cannot distribute funds but Barbara and her supporters are not giving up.

In addition to a successful ongoing campaign on social networking giant Facebook, Nock has also written many letters to companies in support of animal welfare including The Body Shop, Viva and PDSA to raise awareness of the campaign.

If you would like more information contact campaignbbcforanimalrelief@googlemail.com or joing the campaign on facebook http://www.facebook.com/#!/group.php?gid=108673725833441&v