£1.2 million for Twycross from HSBC…
JRA is delighted that, as a result of close teamwork with Twycross Director Suzanne Boardman and her management team, we have helped secure a grant of £1.2 million from global banking giant HSBC. This was the fruit of many months of negotiation, and Twycross’ informal ‘Advisory Board’, set up by JRA, was crucial with a special debt owed to member James Ross, former MD of BP.
To the best of our knowledge this is the second largest instance of corporate support for a UK zoo ever (ranking after Jaguar Cars sponsorship at Chester Zoo see next…)
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Hi John – Just saw your name on Michelle Desilets FB page. Would love to know more about your work.
I am the CEO of nuubiachocolat – a chocolate company with a social mission. We are a fine artisan chocolate producer in the San Francisco Bay Area. Our passion is to produce fine chocolates, using a portion of our proceeds to fund wildlife sanctuaries throughout the world.
We just launched last week and yesterday we did our first fundraiser at the Oakland Zoo – who in turn is raising funds for the Bodongo Snare Removal project in Uganda. Just our little donation netted them $400 — which will remove a lot of snares and help a lot of chimpanzees ( 25% of whom are maimed from these snares)
Our next project is for the orangs…having worked with them when I was just out of grad school.
Sounds like we have a lot in common
my website is http://www.nuubiachocolat.com.
Nice to meet you. I’d love to share some ideas with you. Perhaps we can work together to get some more donations from companies like HSBC.
Kind Regards,
Alexandra Saunders
alexandra@nuubiachocolat.com
Alexandra Saunders
Hello Alexandra – well as I hope our site explains we are an agency that fundraises at a senior level for large audience nature sites – zoos, botanic gardens, aquariums etc