We are as always looking for volunteers who are passionate about animals. Clarence Valley Volunteering has been helping us which has been great. Thank you Trish and those who work with you. Volunteer work can help people get jobs as it looks good on everyone’s CV if an employer can see that while a person was looking for work thy spent time helping the community. It demonstrates to an employer that the person has a good work ethic especially if the charity or community organisation will give a reference in thanks for the good work done. Happy Paws Haven is always happy to give a reference to those who volunteer and work well with the animals. We also give out a volunteer handbook which can be used as reference material not only while they volunteer here, but for students doing animal studies at TAFE or for volunteers to show a potential employer the type of work carried out here. We have some specific needs at the moment as we need someone who has good social media strategy development skills, and or content development skills. Ideally they have their own computer and 3-4 hours a week to help us build the strategy and the content to develop relationships with our donors and our adoptees. This can be done remotely. We are still looking for a new bookkeeper with a love for animals and some knowledge of MYOB. Our current book keeper/treasurer needs to cut down her hours as she is also the treasurer for WIRES. We need people to help with office data entry skills and admin skills. Finally we need people to help with our fund raisers for the love animals. We always need additional volunteers to help us care for the animals, walk the dogs, groom the cats and to share their love. Dress in your oldest clothes, jeans and a T-shirt is good, with work boots or sneakers, bring a snack and a drink! Cuddling and playing with the animals is compulsory! There are all sorts of things that need to be done…. And every bit of help counts! Come and visit to see what we do! Come and help us with the animals and/or fundraising for their care! Happy Paws Haven volunteers and members meeting Our next volunteers and members meeting will be held be on Sunday August 12. The meeting will start at 2.30pm and finishing by about 4.30pm. Bring a plate and something to eat. If you would like to become a member of Happy Paws Haven, contact happypawshaven@bigpond.com to get a membership application to fill out, bring it to the meeting. You will need to bring $10 membership fee. We need new ideas for 2018 and a new fund-raising team, so come and join us and contribute to the team at Happy Paws Haven where all ideas are good ideas. Our adoption rate We are only taking in animals in crisis now, due to our shortage of funds. We balance our intake with our rehoming rate and our capacity to care based on our funding and cash flow. We have already reduced our intake significantly. Our current adoption rate stands at 90% for dogs and 60% for cats. We have no plans to increase numbers at all. We are already down to less than 70 cats and 40 dogs. This will give us the opportunity to rebuild a centre of excellence. Rescues and surrenders We are limiting the number of animals being rescued as you know! No cats or dogs rescued last week. Adoptions We have had no cat adoptions and four dog adoptions last week.   Sally Rogers HappyPaws Haven    140 Tindal Road Eatonsville Phone 0419 404 766 or 6644 9936   www.happypawsgrafton.com.au www.happypawshaven.com.au www.facebook.com/pages/Happy-Paws-Haven-Inc/76224320885 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vtWfy0axBg