Kia ora We'd like to invite you to the Black Sheep Animal Sanctuary Otaki's first working bee for 2012, on Saturday 28 January (Sunday if wet), from 10 am onwards. All welcome ! Come and lend a hand with building, fencing, gardening and meeting the animals! Please bring clothing for all weathers, gumboots, sunblock, and vegan treats. If you are able to bring a space or garden tools that would be be great too. We will be providing a yummy vegan lunch! Please RVSP to blacksheepotaki@gmail for directions and so we have an idea of numbers. Look forward to seeing you there! 2 Comments Opportunity for Animals is expanding to Porirua and we are looking for a full-time staff member to run our new shop, working from an initial 3 month contract. The shop will raised funds for animal rights and for the animals at the Black Sheep Animal Sanctuary. We are looking for someone with excellent people skills, an understanding of opshops, great work ethics and lots of initiative. If you are interested in applying please email us at: k8_pussycat@yahoo.com and we will forward further information about the Animal Protection Society/Opportunity for Animals and a job description. We require c.v.s from applicants and will conduct interviews as soon as practical, with the appointed employee starting early to mid-January. Please spread the word that Opportunity for Animals is holding a massive $5 fill-a-bag Jumble Sale 10am - 3pm Saturday 5th November Thistle Hall Cuba St, Wellington All proceeds will be split evenly between the Christchurch Vegetarian Centre rebuilding (after being utterly destroyed by the February earthquake) and the Black Sheep Animal Sanctuary Otaki. We have a huge shed full of great stuff to clear out - come along and get some amazing bargains! Thanks! The Black Sheep Animal Sanctuary Otaki's next working bee is Saturday 22 October (Sunday if wet), from 10 am onwards. All welcome ! Come and lend a hand with building animal shelters, planting fruit and shelter trees, and looking after the animals! And meet Sammy our beautiful new baby goat and Miss Piggy the new pig. Please bring clothing for all weathers, gumboots, sunblock, vegan treats. We will be providing yummy lunch! Please RVSP to blacksheepotaki@gmail for directions and so we have an idea of numbers. Look forward to seeing you there! Photos of our wonderful new Newtown shop! 08/03/2011
At the end of June we moved into our fabulous new and improved Newtown shop at 162 Riddiford Street - with much more light and space. Here at last are some photos showing progress through the shop move and then finally the shop opening! It was great to celebrate after all the hard work of painting, decorating, cleaning and shifting mountains of clothes, shelves and supplies. Thanks so much to everyone who helped out! July working bee report! 07/22/2011
After being incredibly busy with the shop move it was great to finally have a working bee at the Black Sheep! The highlighted was hiring a post hole borer to put in posts for lots of new posts! We did all the post holes and rammed them in around the pond and also did holes for the boundary and a small tree protection area - fantastic!! So now once the wire is in place the pond is protected and we can do more planting and we will have a space for future ducks too, yay!! Soon we will have another paddock for Thunder and the cows as well as everything being more secure and moving the animals around being safer ... Come and be part of the ‘Stray Cat Strut,’ a fun fashion show on September 3rd 2011 fundraising for a special facility for wild cats at the Black Sheep Animal Sanctuary! http://www.theblacksheep.org.nz We're looking for animal-friendly people to help out with this fabulous cruelty free event Stylish models of all sizes to showcase cool second-hand clothes from Opportunity for Animals. Stage (dance, drama, etc) experience would be great, but isn’t essential. You will need to be available for at least 3 rehearsals during weekends leading up to the event. Auditions are on 18 July at 5.30 pm at the Whitireia Performance Centre, 25 Vivian Street, Wellington. Please bring cool shoes if you have them ... If you can't make that day, please still contact us as we will be arranging other dates. Check out our website at: www.straycatstrut.org.nz You are invited to a working bee at The Black Sheep Animal Sanctuary Saturday 16th July, 10am till 4pm Our main tasks will be fencing and tree planting - we will be hiring a fence hole digger. If you have a spare spade to bring for the day that would be great! You may also need gumboots - we have some spare if you don't have your own! If the weather doesn't look great please phone to confirm the working bee is still on. We will provide lunch and snacks (yummy Catherine cooking!!!)- if you want to bring anything you are most welcome!! The sanctuary is a human-vegan food space. Please email or phone for directions. Thanks - hope to see you there! The Black Sheep Animal Sanctuary, Otaki 06 364 2241 Keen on dressing up? 07/01/2011
 Come and be part of the ‘Stray Cat Strut,’ a fun fashion show on September 3rd 2011 fundraising for a special facility for wild cats at the Black Sheep Animal Sanctuary! http://www.theblacksheep.org.nz We're looking for animal-friendly people to help out with this fabulous cruelty free event * Volunteer models (sizes 8-16) to showcase cool second-hand clothes from Opportunity for Animals. Stage (dance, drama, etc) experience would be great, but isn’t essential. You will need to be available for at least 3 rehearsals during weekends leading up to the event. Auditions are on 9 July at 2pm at the Wellington Performing Arts Centre, 25 Vivian Street, Wellington. Please bring heels or other cool shoes if you have them ... * Volunteers to help with setup, catering, hanging clothes, ironing, on the door, dressing models etc… * Volunteer hairdressers, makeup artists, wardrobe assistants, sound/lighting technicians ... All volunteers will get a free goodie bag of vegan treats! Helping out with this show offers great experience if you are interested in event organizing... Please register your interest in auditioning or otherwise helping out by emailing us at: blacksheepotaki@gmail.com For auditions, please turn up on the day! Our fabulous new and improved Newtown shop is now open! Come and check us out at 162 Riddiford Street, Newtown, Wellington (next to the Beijing restaurant). All funds raised go towards animal rights and supporting the animals at the Black Sheep! Our new hours are: Monday-Friday 9.30 am to 5 pm Saturday 10 am to 4 pm Sunday 10 am to 2 pm | The Black Sheep Animal Sanctuary blog
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