There are many events throughout the year which you can participate in to help the Ontario SPCA Orangeville & District Branch. For more information about the events listed below, please contact Carol Hulcoop at chulcoop@ospca.on.ca or contact the Branch at orangeville@ospca.on.ca or (519) 942-3140.
If you are interested in hosting your own event with the proceeds going to the Ontario SPCA Orangeville & District Branch to help animals, please let us know by emailing orangeville@ospca.on.ca. We can provide you with more information on how this can be done and we'd also love to thank you! If you are interested in sponsoring an event, or would like to learn more about upcoming opportunities, please let us know!
Please support our events
Our events throughout the year are especially important to us because the Ontario SPCA Orangeville and District Branch relies primarily on the involvement and generosity of the community to care for hundreds of homeless animals every year. Check this page regularly for updates on the many special events that help care for the stray and abandoned animals in this community. Please come out and join us. It's always a great time for a good cause.
FUNDRAISING EVENTS FOR 2012
- Friends for Life! Walk-a-thon 2012
- Give us your beer, wine and liquor bottle empties - year round
- Give us your unwanted jewelry - year round
16th Annual Ontario SPCA Friends for Life! Walk-a-thon 2012
16th Annual Ontario SPCA Friends for Life! Walk-a-thon 2012
Sunday May 27, 2012
In support of the
Ontario SPCA Orangeville and District Branch
Check in opens at 9:30am
Walk begins at 11:00am
Alder Street Recreation Centre, 275 Alder Street
Walk, woof and wag in support of the animals.
Put your best paws forward!
Have fun walking the 5km route on the Orangeville Trailways.
Directions to the Alder Street Recreation Centre, 275 Alder Street, Orangeville
- From Broadway and Riddell, go south on Riddell to Alder Street.
- The Recreation Centre is located on the northeast corner of Alder and Riddell.
- Registration and start are from the Red Rink at the rear of the building.
Online Registration required – if you are not able to register online call the office at 519-942-3140 and we will register you.
REGISTER ONLINE NOW- Click HERE!
Start fundraising now – download a pledge sheet here
All walkers are asked to register for the event online. You may raised pledges online or with a pledge sheet; incentive prizes will be awarded based on the amount raised online.
Each year the Ontario SPCA provides protection, care, sheltering, and re-homing for thousands of animals. The Ontario SPCA also advocates for stronger animal protection laws – provincially and nationally. Your participation will help ensure our continued voice for all animals across Ontario.
The walk is an event to raise financial support and awareness for the protection and care of all animals in our community. The walk begins at the Alder Street Recreation Centre with registration and coffee. The participants, with or without a dog, walk a 5km route along the Orangeville Mill Creek Trailway system and come back to the Recreation Centre for lunch and a fun dog contest. Note: the walk raises money for all animals and we hope all pet owners and animal lovers will participate.
GUIDELINES
- Everyone is welcome, with or without an animal friend
- We walk – even if it’s raining cats and dogs, so please come prepared
- Please stoop and scoop – don’t bend and pretend – this is a Town of Orangeville by-law
- Animals must be leashed at all times. If your pet doesn’t enjoy the company of other animals or people, please leave them at home.
- All participants (or guardians if under 18) must sign in at check-in prior to starting the walk
9:30 am Check in opens
11:00 am Walk begins
12:00 pm Lunch for participants
10:00 am – 3:00pm Pet Portraits by The Photography Studio - Paul George Photographer
10:00 am – 2:00pm Dog Nail Clipping
1:00 pm – 2:30 pm Fun Dog Contest
- You must be registered online to walk
- Free parking
- Enjoy Tim Hortons coffee and Tim Bits at registration
- Begin the walk with a Booster Juice Smoothie
- Enjoy lunch after the walk
- Water for two and four-legged walkers will be available on the route
- Veterinary first aid will be provided during the event
- St. John Ambulance attendants will be on site
FUNDRAISING TIPS
Set a goal for the animals…the more money you raise the more money that goes to helping our furry friends at the Adoption Centre. All participants MUST register online!
- Have your supporters pledge online
- Take the lead – sponsor yourself with a high pledge and then start pawing your friends for pledges today.
- Check with your employer – see if they have a matching gift program or are willing to make a corporate donation. This may double your pledges.
- Get a team together – talk to co-workers, friends and family and walk with your ‘Friends for Life’ Team.
- Raise funds in honour or memory of loved one or pet. · Invite friends and co-workers to participate in the Walk
- Host a fundraiser to support your goal.
- Incentive prizes will be based on pledges raised online
TOP DOG FUNDRAISER PRIZE GIVEN AT THE EVENT
TOP TEAM FUNDRAISER PRIZE GIVEN AT THE EVENT
Raise at least $50 in pledges to receive one lunch ticket and a walk T-shirt. For each family member to receive a T-shirt, EACH member must raise at least $50.
AT THE EVENT COME OUT FOR THE FUN DOG CONTESTS:
Have you been told you’re a dead ringer for your dog? Can your dog do an amazing trick? Prizes will be awarded for the best of show in these Dog Contest Categories:
- Looks most like the owner
- Best Trick for Junior Handler (kids age 10 and under)
- Best Trick for Youth Handler (age 11 – 17)
- Best Trick for Adult Handler
- Best Outfit / Costume
Dress like your pet – any pet; a cat, bird, fish or even your dog. Bring a photo of the pet you are dressed like for the judges to compare.
Prizes will be awarded to many categories
- 2 – 5 years
- 5 – 10 years
- 10 – 17 years
- Adults over 17
Memorial Wall
At the Alder Street Recreation Centre we will have an area for a Memorial Wall, where you can post tributes and memorial thoughts to past loved pets.
VENDORS WELCOME
Do you make or have a pet related product that you would like to promote and sell to 200 plus animal lovers! Perhaps you make your own dog cookies, cat scratch posts, have your own pet clothing line or have your own line of Leashes and Collars…then this is the place for you. Set up a booth of your product and join the cause. Cost of inside 10’ booth space is $50.00 - bring your own table. Call Barb McCreath to reserve your area.
Barb home office – 905-838-4448
OTHER WAYS TO SUPPORT THE ONTARIO SPAC AT THE WALK
Pet Portraits by The Photography Studio - Paul George Photographer Have your pet come to the Portrait Studio set up near the entrance to the Red Rink. Portrait is $15.00, the photo is taken and you pick up the photo from the Ontario SPCA Orangeville and District Branch office when you get a call to say it’s in.
Pet Nail Clipping Booth $10.00 minimum fee per dog
Give us your beer, wine and liquor bottle empties - year round
Your empties can fill bellies.
Please bring in your empty beer bottle cases, wine and liquor bottles, plastic wine inserts from boxes and tetra wine boxes and beer cans. A team of volunteers will sort them and get them ready for the Beer Store truck to pick them up for the refund.
Your empty bottle refund can help us to feed our kittens, vaccinate the animals at the shelter and pay for veterinary procedures such as spay and neuters. Every bottle to refund will help us in our daily care of the animals. Just drop the cases and bottles off to the shelter during opening hours and we'll look after the rest.
For large quantities of bottles, please call the office to arrange for us to collect the bottles. Any event that you're having - weddings, birthdays, company get-togethers, please think of the animals.
Thank you to all that donate towards this program and to the volunteers that make it work. We look forward to even higher volumes next year; keep spreading the news, it works. CHEERS!
A special note – volunteer Dave pulls the tabs from the beer cans and donates them to the Legion, they use them to purchase wheelchairs – this is recycling at it’s finest. Thanks Dave for doing this.
The bottle returns program is AMAZING!
The 2010 bottle return program has been incredible. We have become a Beer Store depot and each week we receive a huge number of bottles, cans, tetra packs and box bladders. The team of volunteers sort and count each week at the shelter and the Beer Store truck collects the many bins, bags and skids of returns. We appreciate each bottle, they help to feed and care for the many animals that we shelter. Thank you to all that donate towards this program and to the volunteers that make it work. We look forward to even higher volumes next year; keep spreading the news, it works. CHEERS!
Give us your unwanted jewelry – your BLING can help care for our animals
You can donate any unwanted good jewelry and name brand watches to the Adoption Centre, we take the pieces to a jeweler for assessment. Gold jewelry will be melted down with cash given to the Adoption Centre. If the jewelry is not fine gold it will go to the Paws and Claws Thrift Store where it will be sold. Everything donated will be of value and help the animals.
The jewelry donation can help us to feed our dogs, cats and many small pets, vaccinate the animals at the shelter and pay for necessary veterinary procedures.
When a piece of jewelry is donated at the office we will have a form to sign over the ownership to the Ontario SPCA Orangeville and District Branch.
Please bring the items to the office at 650 Riddell Road. This program will run all year.
RECYLE PRINT CARTRIDGE, CELL PHONE PROGRAM
Recyling your ink cartridges, digital cameras, cell phones, laptops and MP3 players gives us money for the animals. Bring in your recyle items that we accept and we are paid by Think Recycle for the items. They do all the work, pick up and payment – we just collect your items for cash.
We accept the most makes and models of commonly used electronics including:
Cell Phones
Inkjet Cartridges
Toner Cartridges
Digital Cameras
iPods & MP3 Players
Laptops
Think Recycle has added over 100 popular laptop and tablet models to our list making it easy for you to maximize our fundraising potential!
SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES ARE AVAILABLE WITH ALL FUNDRAISING EVENTS AND PROGRAMS. Please call Barb McCreath to get any information. Tel: 519 942-3140