Sponsors Wanted!
Help Needed To Sponsor
Pets As Therapy Visits
We are currently seeking a kind sponsor for:
Ryde Royal Rehabilitation Unit, Ryde Hospital, Sydney; Ronald MacDonald House, Westmead Childrens Hospital, Sydney and others.
Can you help? Please contact us if you can.
Who Are We?
Where Do We Visit?
What Training Do Our People and Pet Visitors Receive?
Community Spirited Sponsors Needed To Sponsor Facilities!
What Do Sponsors Receive?
“Thank you” To Our Sponsors
Left: Joan enjoying feeding Max and Cinnie
Right: Kristy enjoying a cuddle with Pumpkin (the guinea pig)
Who Are We?
We are a not-for-profit, self-funded group of volunteers who take our specifically trained friendly pets, to visit frail and challenged adults and children, to offer mental, physical, emotional and social stimulation.
Where Do We Visit?
We currently visit children and adults in hospitals, nursing homes, retirement villages, day care centers, and challenged individuals in private homes.
What Training Do Our People and Pet Visitors Receive?
All pets are assessed by a veterinarian for healthiness, a sound temperament and basic obedience specific to “safe” pets as therapy. Our two-legged volunteers take a correspondence course based on safe interaction with frail adults and children, with a pet. The course includes a foundation in the various illnesses and conditions challenged people experience and how best to communicate with them.
After the course, the volunteers accompany experienced trainers on visits, until they have reached an efficient and professional standard. They then receive a ‘pets as therapy’ volunteer accreditation certificate.
Community Spirited Sponsors Needed To Sponsor Facilities!
We are all volunteers and no wages are paid. We need an income to meet our pets as therapy program’s expenses. Any and/or all profit is kept within the program. Our visit fee is $60.50 per visit. We need kind, community spirited sponsors to donate:-
$1452.00 for 24 pets as therapy visits
$726.00 for 12 pets as therapy visits
$363.00 for 6 pets as therapy visits
$181.00 for 3 pets as therapy visits
Please make cheques payable to: Velma’s Pets As Therapy Inc., Assoc. or contact us for our bank details for a transfer of funds. Please send cheques to: PO Box 716, West Ryde, NSW 1685.
What Do Sponsors Receive?
* Regular photos of the volunteer and pet interacting with challenged residents which can be placed on a noticeboard in your reception area or web site.
* Major sponsors will be mentioned in our media interviews and articles. (Please see Current News and Notices for a list of media we have appeared in.)
* Inclusion on our sponsors list on our popular web site. We received 2853 visits and 20,917 hits in March 2009.
* Inclusion on our sponsor’s poster at our stall at pet shows and expos.
* As well as offering a significant contribution of a little happiness and joy into the lives of a frail, challenged and/or isolated adults or children.
Our highly trained volunteers and pets, will go anywhere, where a challenged or frail pet-loving adult or child is living, without a pet, to offer physical, mental, emotional and social stimulation plus cuddles and kisses from a friendly pet.
We Offer Our Sincere Thanks For Services, Products, Sponsorships, Donations and Financial Assistance, From:-
Supercoat Petcare P/L
Greens Genral Foods
Sydney Water
Dr Terry Theakstone, Ryde Veterinary Clinic
The Jolly Pelican Seafood, Wyong, NSW
DR Geoffrey Thompson, Wyoming Veterinarian Hospital
Rotary Club Of Mount Druitt
Blue Star Paper Supplies
Pam Nassis
Jan and Millar McGowan
Stacey and Elliot De Marco
For further details about our program, please contact us below. Thanking you in anticipation of you considering offering us your help.
To discuss this further, please contact:
Velma Violet Harris
Phone: (02) 9418 4343 or 0432 578 210
Email: velma@velmaspetsastherapy.com.au
