Tuesday, December 04, 2007
Malta binoculars update
The recent book raffle which raised £215 for binoculars for the ALE on Malta appears to have captured one or two people's imagination and there are now other fund raising projects in the pipeline (watch this space!). With this in mind we have decided to wait until any further funds are raised before sending binoculars out to Malta. I have recently received an E mail from Andre Raine who has passed details of our efforts to the local Maltese Police who have in turn asked for their thanks to be passed on, hopefully with these extra fund raising initiatives we will have some decent optics to pass onto them. In recognition of the support and sponsorship given to the Bird Club I have asked Gordon Denison to open dialogue with Pennine Optics in Rochdale with regard to supplying the binoculars when we are ready to buy.
2 comments:
Nick, just a couple of thoughts on getting them to Malta without having to use some of the funding. Perhaps one of the local travel agents who book people onto Malta trips might be able to courier them out on one of their trips in return for some publicity from the Halfax Courier, etc ? Or perhaps the Halifax Courier would pay to ship them out in return for a story on what its all about ?
Thanks to the efforts of Pete Grice (aka "The Guru") the word has been spread around Lancashire birders with a view to anyone donating old bins, one pair promised already!
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