What with the credit crunch and the world teetering on the edge of financial meltdown, its probably not the best time for asking people to contribute to the plight of endangered species throughout the world, but then again with everything else going down the pan, why not offer what you do have in a truly altruistic gesture!
This fund-raising lark is proving hard, I will admit. SO hard that the finances aren't moving foward very far. It hasn't helped that I have been enormously busy of late, work which has come to flower in the new Hedgerows for Dormice Project at PTES for which I have been appointed Project Officer.
But excuses won't help me scale the heights of Kili and get much-needed funds into the coffers of PTES and out again to deserving projects around the world.
Right now I need your help. Got any good books sitting on your shelf that you mean to get off to the charity shop. Well don't, send them to me! I will sell them on Amazon! I'm looking for natural history books, text books, self-help books or instruction manuals. No novels thanks. And if you are an author, even better-send me a signed copy and I will put it in my auction pot for a future All-Star Celebrity Charity Book Auction. Watch this space!
Send books to Jim Jones, PTES, 15 Cloisters House, 8 Battersea Park Road, London SW8 4BG.
Don't forget to check out the PTES website at http://www.ptes.org/index.php?cat=102 to read portraits (penned by our own Hannah Stockwell) about some of those excellent projects.
Thankyou!
Jim
