Meet The Supporters
TWO
years on from the daring
dawn occupation of Titnore Woods by a group of campaigners determined to save
the woodland from developers’ chainsaws, support for the treetop village
continues to grow.
We are pleased to announce that LUSH cosmetics
have made a handsome donation, plus
the offer of promoting our campaign on their products such as the Charity Pot.
The Lush Charity Pot is Lush's
unique new product where 100% of the money raised by it goes to good
causes. Obviously the more sales there are, the more money is raised for
campaigns like ours. See:
LUSH is headed by Mark Constantine, a passionate cyclist who says he hates cars. He is quoted as being very concerned by the money wasted by the big charities and prefers to donate to small grassroots groups that achieve incredible results on a shoestring.
THEN there are all those of you out there from far and near who have given so generously to our campaign, so many it would be a difficult task to thank each individually, therefore will you please accept this message as an expression of our sincere gratitude. Without you we would have had to give up our fight to save this precious woodland long ago.
However together with LUSH and yourselves there are other supporters we would like to thank publicly.
The first is Dame Anita Roddick. Dame Anita founded the Body shop, however she is equally well known for her support of those who have suffered terrible Human Rights abuses, ill treatment just to think of, makes one shiver. No doubt many of you will have seen in the past green Body shop delivery lorry's decked out with giant posters asking everyone to campaign for the many caught up in conflicts in so many places around our troubled Planet.
Dame Anita - who very sadly died in 2007 - was of course also well known for her campaigning work on the environment. The Body Shop was one of the first to run it's fleet of lorry's on Bio Diesel, a fuel made from crops that contains less of the cancer causing emissions than Diesel. Also her work to save the Rain Forest has been reported on for decades.
The Body Shop may have had a new owner but Dame Anita still campaigned as powerfully as ever right up to her death.
(see http://www.anitaroddick.com) and we were most grateful to her for supporting our cause.
Another is comedian, author and
campaigner Rob Newman. He has been giving proceeds of sales of his
'From
Caliban to the Taliban' DVD to the Titnore tree camp and just before
Christmas we received a most welcome large donation.
For the next few weeks the DVDs are at a special price of £5 including p and p, if you say it's for Titnore, via www.robnewman.com
We would also like to thank Infinity Foods in Brighton for their continuing support.
