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Make FAB your charity of the year for 2008

A plea for help! At FAB we have the usual problems facing all charities of raising funds for our work. Sometimes it is easier to motivate people to support you if you are saving animals on the front line – doing rescue work and finding homes for those which have been abandoned or cruelly treated.

Providing information to improve care, be it in the veterinary, rescue, breeding or cattery arena or simply for owners to care better for their cats actually affects millions of cats. However, it is harder to elicit an emotional response except if people understand the value of good quality information and raising standards through knowledge.

When FAB began 50 years ago the cause of cat flu was not known, there was no vaccine available and many other diseases were killers for cats. By investing in cat health, highlighting problems which need to be addressed and making good information on treatments widely available, FAB has made a huge difference.

Likewise FAB catteries in the UK are the highest standard in the world and breeders have good information about their passion because of our work. Every time owners take their cat to the vet something FAB has done will help that cat.

Inevitably of course FAB is preaching to the converted here – our members and web users do understand the value of our work, but it does take a certain intelligence to do this! We are asking all our supporters, and the companies we work with to think of FAB when they decide which charity to support for 2008.

So make FAB your Charity of the Year. We have so much to do during 2008 and lots of cats to help, so your help is vital.

For details of how you can help, please see below

make a donation

Online:
Click on the 'donate' button below to make your payment with PayPal - it's fast, free and secure

By post:
Please complete the donations form and send with payment to FAB

By phone:
Call us on 0870 742 2278 from the UK (or +44 (0)1747 871872 from overseas) with your credit/debit card details

gift aid

All donations made by UK tax payers to charities such as fab, now attract Gift Aid tax relief. Currently this is 28p for each £1 you give.

Please consider gift aiding your donation by completing the ‘Gift Aid Declaration’ on the bottom of the donations form or by sending us a separate Gift Aid Form

Gift Aid Notes

•		You must be a UK taxpayer and pay an amount of income tax or capital gains tax at least equal to the tax we reclaim on your subscription/donations.

•		If in the future your circumstances change and you no longer pay income tax and/or capital gains tax equal to the tax that the Feline Advisory Bureau reclaims, you should cancel your declaration.

•		You can cancel the declaration at any time by notifying the Feline Advisory Bureau.

•		Please notify fab if you change your name or address while the declaration is still in force.

•		If you are unsure whether your donations qualify for Gift Aid tax relief, ask your local tax office for leaflet IR113 Gift Aid or contact the Inland Revenue on their helpline, 0151 472 6056/6038/6055

Please send completed form and payment to:

Feline Advisory Bureau
Taeselbury
High Street
Tisbury
Wiltshire
SP3 6LD
UK

remember fab in your will

By including fab in your Will, you can be assured that you are making a contribution towards the ongoing improvements in the health and welfare of cats in the future. We rely heavily on legacies to fund our work and are always extremely grateful to be remembered in this way.

To find out more about making a will and leaving a gift to fab, please click here or email info@fabcats.org to request our free leaflet. Alternatively give us a call on 0870 742 2278 or send your request to the address below.

Feline Advisory Bureau, Taeselbury, High Street, Tisbury, Wiltshire, SP3 6LD

fund a post in feline medicine

You may wish to donate all, or a substantial amount towards the cost of funding a post at a veterinary school exclusively in support of feline medicine. This can be for either a veterinary surgeon or a veterinary nurse and you will be able to choose a name for the post, eg. The FAB Smith Residency/Lectureship in Feline Medicine.

If you would like to donate in this way, please be aware that the posts needed in future years, or what they will cost, cannot be forecast accurately. The cat population and the diseases affecting them do not follow a constant pattern so we need to retain the flexibility to apply our resources where and when they will do most good for cats and their owners. We would therefore ask you to contact the fab Office to discuss your wishes for the funding of a feline post.

For further information on giving to FAB, please do not hesitate to contact us




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