November 2011 Our first ever film night was featured before and after in the Dorset Echo, with a full feature in View From Dorchester
Photo (left to right): Compassionate Dorset's Co-ordinator Anna Celeste Watson, Mayor of Dorchester Tess James, Anya Pearson from
Photo (left to right): Compassionate Dorset's Co-ordinator Anna Celeste Watson and the Mayor of Dorchester Tess James cut the vegan chocolate birthday cake made by member Sandra Hood Compassionate Dorset held our first ever film screening which we hope will be the first of many film nights. The evening was officially supported by the Mayor of Dorchester Tess James and we also celebrated our group's 2nd birthday and raised £70.00 to fund more events. We hosted the film 'Pig Business' in Dorchester, a film which follows Tracy Worcester, a mother and campaigner, as she confronts the giant meat corporations that sweep across the world undermining rural communities, human health, the environment and animal welfare. It explains how we can take back control by buying meat raised to high animal welfare standards from the local producers. For more information visit www.pigbusiness.co.uk. We also showed the short film 'The Big Idea' by Compassion in World Farming which you can watch online here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuHaH1LaJwQ
October 2011 Compassionate Dorset held 2 yummy homemade vegan cake sales in aid of Compassion in World Farming to celebrate BAKE WITH COMPASSION WEEK (22nd - 30th October during Dorset Food Week) in Dorchester and Bridport, raising over £200.00 for the charity.
September 2011 We are thrilled that local celebrity Philippa Clunes, successful TV producer and wife to comedian Martin Clunes, has become a member of Compassionate Dorset and "loves" our charity t-shirts in aid of Compassion in World Farming. We are very proud to add her name to the celebrity fans of our t-shirts, along with Cosmopolitan magazine's Fashion Editor Shelley Vella, and hope she wears her 'Chook' t-shirt by Becca Thorne with pride!
September 2011 We are very excited that local ethical fashion label Frank & Faith who are members of Compassionate Dorset and now stock our 100% Organic Earth Positive range of t-shirts, have been shortlisted for the RSPCA Good Business Awards 2011. We think they thoroughly deserve to win the award for Best Small Fashion Business for their impressive Animal Welfare Policy. Cosmopolitan magazine's Fashion Editor Shelley Vella, who is a fan of our "gorgeous" charity t-shirts, is one of the judges for the award. We wish Frank & Faith the very best of luck at the awards ceremony on October 5th. Go to Frank & Faith's website >>
June 2011 Our 100% Organic Earth Positive range of t-shirts are now stocked by Dorset based ethical fashion label Frank & Faith who are also very generously donating 100% profits to Compassion in World Farming. Go to Frank & Faith's website >>
June 2011 Four new amazing winning designs from our t-shirt design competition were launched in our new integrated charity Tee-Shop for Summer on www.compassionatedorset.co.uk/shop with 100% of all our profit continuing to be donated to Compassion in World Farming.
May 2011 A HUGE THANK YOU to everyone who entered our competition in support of our mission to end factory farming and promote compassionate living, and especially to our winners: Joe Coleman, Ruth Burger, Rachel Wallis and Becca Thorne, whose fabulous t-shirt designs will be launched in our online shop on www.compassionatedorset.co.uk/shop on 1st June 2011.
May 2011 Our farm animal charity t-shirt design competition in aid of Compassion in World Farming featured in Dorset Echo
April 2011 Compassionate Dorset member Sandra Hood's marathon for Compassion in World Farming featured in View From Dorchester
April 2011 Compassionate Dorset member Sandra Hood's marathon for Compassion in World Farming featured in Dorset Echo
April 2011 Compassionate Dorset has teamed up with South West Artwork and Meetdraw to look for talented designers and artists to design more farm animal themed t-shirts to add to our online t-shirt shop. The deadline is Monday 16th May 2011. Click here for details and to enter the competition >>
April 2011 Compassionate Dorset feature in Compassion in World Farming's Farm Animal Voice Magazine (UK)
April 2011 Compassionate Dorset member Sandra Hood ran the legendary London Marathon in aid of our favourite charity Compassion in World Farming and has raised nearly £1,000. While Sandra pounded the streets of London, Compassionate Dorset members held 'Change for Change' street collections in Dorchester and Weymouth and raised a further £200 for the charity. SPONSOR SANDRA AT JUST GIVING >>
February 2011 Compassionate Dorset has joined Ploink.com where people can donate small change to charity online. We are also in the process of applying for charitable status so we can receive Gift Aid on these donations. Click here support us on Ploink >>
January - February 2011 Compassionate Dorset T-Shirts featured in Cosmopolitan Magazine (UK)
January 18th 2011 Dorset creatives at Meetdraw held a print sale on the theme of 'Digital Animals' in aid of Compassionate Dorset and Compassion in World Farming at The Sherbert Lounge, Bournemouth just before Christmas - for Compassionate Dorset Co-ordinator Anna's blog post response/report visit www.meetdraw.com.
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