CONSERVATION WEEK

Last week, the EWT held its annual Conservation and Development Week. This event gives EWT staff from all over the country the opportunity to connect, discuss projects, share lessons learnt, revise our conservation strategies, and give back to our community. It was wonderful to catch up with colleagues after lockdown, get our creative juices flowing, and inspire each other to take our conservation work to new heights. The South African National Blood Service also joined us for a day, enabling 21 staff members to donate much-needed blood to their reserves.

CAPE TOWN GOLF DAY

We hosted our very first golf day fundraising event in the mother city on 16 April at the Royal Cape Golf Club. Cape Town was at its most beautiful with perfect weather and no wind to speak of, and all of our players commented on what a great day out it was on an amazing course.

Fundraising is difficult at the best of times and during COVID-19, it has been even more challenging. That is why events such as this one are so important, helping to keep The EWT going and raising much needed funds for our conservation activities.

To host a successful event, you need lots of support, and the EWT had that in abundance at this event. A massive thank you to Jurgens Bekker Attorneys for sponsoring so many of our prizes and our celebrity fourball, and aha Hotels and Lodges for generously sponsoring some fantastic weekends away for our auction.

The Table Mountain Fund, Twizza, Syntell, and Bose Professional all sponsored holes on the day and played a round of golf themselves.

Jurgens Bekker, aha Hotels and Lodges, Q20, Painted Wolf Wines, Miir, Lancewood, Rhino Beetle Gin, Spanjaard, Blue Bottles Liquors, Sherry’s antiques, The Meter Man, Meerlust wines, Rob Little, and Adidas all sponsored some fantastic prizes that helped to make the day a success.

Thank you to all of our fourballs: Table Mountain Fund, Blur Bottle Liquors Paarl, Limecoal, Jurgens Bekker attorneys, Twizza, Allister Rogan, Rian du Plessis, The Meter Man, Alexander Forbes, ALP Investments, Independent Claims, Mission Engineering, Paper Boss, Syntell, Duncan McGuire, Craig Milner, John Lamont, Karen Kearns, Tania Ihlenfeldt, IQ Business, and aha Hotels and Lodges.

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GIVING BACK TO THE EARTH, GIVING BACK TO THE FUTURE

Tammy Baker, EWT Business Development Officer, tammyb@ewt.org.za GivingTuesday is an opportunity for people around the world to use their individual power of generosity to stay connected and heal.

The entire EWT team is humbled by the support we received during our GivingTuesday campaign, and we express our sincere gratitude to each and every one of you. We could not do the critical work we do without your support.

We have received R44,186 of our target of R50,000. This is incredible support and has surpassed our previous Giving Tuesday campaigns. There is still time to donate and help us to reach our target of R50,000. We are only R20,000 away. Any donation no matter how big or small helps us to keep on doing what we do best – Conservation In Action. Giving Tuesday 1 December 2020 by Endangered Wildlife Trust | GivenGain

Thank you for giving back to the Earth and back to the future – helping us to protect forever, together

GOLFING FOR WILDLIFE

Our annual golf day, held on 27 November 2020, was a huge success and, aside from the funds raised from the golf day itself, there were other fundraising activities such as Beat the pro, and an auction, and EWT walked away with a whopping R240,000.

Thank you to our phenomenal MC/Auctioneer Mike the 40-Year-Old Rookie, and to AHA and Thornybush for donating wonderful accommodation packages, Sharry Banner for her donation of exquisite artwork, and Europcar who paired the accommodation vouchers with car-hire offers.