Adopters’ Day 2011

This year’s Adopters’ Day, hosted at our Looe based Monkey Sanctuary, got off to a great start with glorious sunshine and clear skies greeting guests as they arrived onsite.

As well as Campaign talks, monkey updates and tours to ‘meet your monkey’, adopters were able to get more ‘hands-on’ and experience an important part of a Keeper’s work; keeping the monkeys entertained and mentally stimulated by creating enrichment, which was then handed out by a Keeper to our Woolly monkeys, much to their delight.

To reflect our commitment to native wildlife, guests were invited to take a ‘Sensory tour’ of our extensive Wildlife Gardens and our younger guests could also be spotted creating crafty hedgehogs from natural materials.

Guests also had the chance learn about the diets of our monkeys and were able to have a taste of our famous Monkey Cake, made of fresh fruit, oats, nuts and seeds. They still had plenty of room left for our much anticipated buffet lunch, this year, hosted at our Treetop Café and consisting of an array of yummy vegan food such as sosage rolls, Chicken-style satay and barbeque skewers, falafel, chorizo salad….and of course, traditional Cornish Pasties!

A huge thank you to those who donated food for our buffet including Beanie’s Healthfoods for their Fry’s products, Redwood Healthfoods, Essential Trading, Plamil, Cornish Farm Produce and Rock’s Organic Cordials. Also to the Co-op, Morrison’s and Trago Mills in Liskeard, for vouchers.

Our raffle was as popular as ever with prizes this year provided by the Eden Project, Theatre Royal Plymouth, Cornish Coffee, Carnglaze Caverns, Goldenbank Nurseries, Health and Happiness, Lost Gardens of Heligan, Cornish Orchards and Luscombe Drinks, amongst others.

We were happy to say we raised almost £200 in the raffle and over £2000 across the day, highlighting the importance of this event as a way of saying ‘thank you’ to our supporters but also for raising much needed funds for our conservation and rescue work.

Thank you to all our adopters once again; this day is all about you and we hope you enjoyed yourselves. If you did not manage to make it to this year’s event, Adopters’ Day is held annually so we look forward to meeting you next year. Or if you cannot wait until then, put your Adopter’s pass to use and visit us this Summer season.

Thanks to all once again and we look forward to your support in the coming year.

Nicola

Adoptions manager