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Urgent help
We urgently need you to urge your MP to sign up to an Early Day Motion (EDM 2495), before the end of this parliamentary session (18 December 2008). Click here to link through to the information and contact details.
How you can help the wild Tiger
- Fund or part-fund a project
- Check out the events page for forthcoming events
- Scroll down this page for the various offers such as holidays, books, artwork etc, and greetings cards all of which benefit Global Tiger Patrol when you make a purchase.
Please see our Annual Newsletter
Ways to donate
Global Tiger Patrol always tries to ensure that funds are spent in the most constructive way possible. Our advisors in India work hard keeping up with ever changing developments. We would rather hold funds in hand until we are sure of their destination and impact, although we do attempt to get funding out to the field rather than hold large reserves in the bank.
GTP does not have a membership scheme, preferring instead to let our supporters contribute in whatever way they feel able. If you have colleagues or friends who may be interested in supporting GTP's work, please pass on our details or a copy of the standing order form.
Standing Orders
Please consider whether you are able to make a regular commitment to support GTP's work. A standing order of just a few pounds a month would help us to plan funding for ongoing projects. Its also cuts down our small administration costs even further. To print off the standing order form click here, fill in the details and return the form to:
Global Tiger Patrol
87 Newland Street
Witham
Essex
CM8 1AD
Cheques and Postal Orders should be made payable to Global Tiger Patrol and sent to the address above
Match Funding
Does your company match any funds you raise for charity? This is an easy way for you to double the benefit of your efforts.
Giving Through Self-Assessment Tax Returns
From April 2004, it is possible to nominate Global Tiger Patrol to receive your tax repayments as a donation on your 2003/2004 Self-Assessment tax returns. Global Tiger Patrol will be named on the Inland Revenue's website under The Ranthambhore Society and our unique code is TAE46QG.
This new scheme does not replace the existing Gift Aid scheme.
Gift Aid
GTP can benefit from the tax relief, if you are a UK tax payer. If you wish to send GTP a donation, please include a signed and dated note, with your address, stating that you are a UK basic tax payer and that you wish this and any future donations to Global Tiger Patrol to be treated as Gift Aid, until further notice. The Gift Aid Scheme means that GTP can recover the basic rate of tax back and for every £10 donated, GTP recieves an extra £2.28.
Two Simple and Free Ways to Raise Money for GTP
Switch2help
If you are considering checking out that you are getting the best deal from your electricity and gas providers, you can also benefit Global Tiger Patrol.
Simply log on to www.switch2help.com and check out the options. If you decide to switch providers, Switch2help will donate £5 to a charity of your choice. We would be most grateful if you selected Global Tiger Patrol to be the beneficiary. You can carry out comparisons as often as you like. There is no obligation to switch and it is absolutely free.Everyclick
You can raise money for Global Tiger Patrol every time you search on the internet and it won’t cost you a penny. www.everyclick.com is an internet search engine with a big difference – it donates half its revenue to charity.
One sixth form student raised £8.90 in a month just by surfing the net for his studies.
Please consider making www.everyclick.com/uk/globaltigerpatrol your home page and use it whenever you search the web.
Shop and Support
A few individuals and companies give a percentage of their profits to GTP for items purchased from them. Why not take a look at what is on offer and think how it can benefit the conservation of tigers each time you purchase a greetings card, gift, artwork for your walls, beer or a holiday.
Art for Tigers
GTP is very fortunate to have the support of a number of wildlife photographers and artists. If you are interested in purchasing any of their work, please ensure that you mention GTP, as they are all donating a percentage for every purchase:
Wildlife Photographer
Pete Cooper is generously donating 50% of sales of his photographs to GTP. They depict just some of the magnificent tigers he has captured with his camera during the last 18 months, so please take a look at his website at http://www.lionscape.co.uk/. He is donating a percentage of sales to GTP supporters, so please let him know when making a purchase
Pete spent the first twenty years of his working life in Finance and Management. Picking up a camera for the first time in December 2000, he began to combine a lifelong appreciation of wildlife with photography. Turning professional in 2002 he now sells his work at craft fairs across the country and via his website (as above).
Pete's particular love for big cats has repeatedly drawn him to the tigers of India. He is currently writing a book about Bandhavgarh National Park in Madhya Pradesh. His latest visit was filmed by the BBC and will be shown as part of the Inside Out Extra Series on BBC One this autumn.
Those who remember Christian Pearson's captivating photographs of Bengal tigers, which were auctioned at our charity gala evening at the IMAX® in 2002, may be interested to know that Christian Pearson is selling them through his website. There is the opportunity to purchase them in the knowledge that a percentage of the purchase price will be donated to GTP. Visit http://www.misheye.com/ to take a look at Christian's gallery of photographs on offer. Please don't forget to tell him that you are a GTP supporter when placing your order.
Wildlife artist, Lynn Cordell, is selling signed limited edition prints on her website. "I try to specialise in endangered species and want to put something back into conservation - Global Tiger Patrol is the perfect choice," she said. Lynn graduated from Ravensbourne College of Design & Communication, where she studied graphics, but her love of painting animals won through. Contact Lynn on telephone: 020 8293 7160, email: wild@artist73.fsnet.co.uk or visit her website http://www.wildlifearrtist.com/.
Photographer Chris Brunskill has produced a book, entitled 'Tiger Forest' (ISBN 1 904744 00 1), which is a visual study of Ranthambhore National Park. "In it I aim to celebrate the wonders of this tiger forest in this Indian wilderness," says Chris. Apart from pages following Machali, her mates and cubs stalking, hunting, scent marking and playing, there are beautiful colour plates depicting Ranthambhore's unique landscape and other inhabitants - muggers, langurs, chital, nilgai, painted stork, eagles and other birdlife.
Launched in Australia, India and the UK, the book recently won an award for the best self promoted book of the year 2004. http://www.chrisbrunskill.co.uk/
Tiger Study Tours to India
Discovery Initiatives has had a hugely successful tiger-watching season. They set up a new Tiger Study Tour in cooperation with Dr Raghu Chundawat in Panna. Visitors on these two small group tours where able to get a unique insight and actively participate in the tiger research, doing prey counts, radio tracking and walking in what Discovery Initiatives hopes will become a new community funded conservancy, seed funded by these tours. Another tour to Madhya Pradesh was led by writer and film producer, Stephen Mills, which saw about 15 tigers in total. Discovery Initiatives also took numerous people on their own tailor-made wildlife and cultural safaris and other small group tours last year. For 2004/5 period they will be running some new tours including a 'Wildlife of India' course based in Pench, a tour incorporating Bandavgarh, Panna and Dudhwa, once again with Stephen Mills, who will also be leading a tour to the lions of Gujarat and the Runn of Kutch. Please call Discovery Intiatives on +44 (0)1285 643333 or view the website for details http://www.discoveryinitiatives.com/
Tiger Greetings Card by Rose Corcoran
You can tell that talented wildlife artist, Rose Corcoran, has really studied the tiger and the other subjects of her paintings. Rose has generously donated one of her drawings, working with the Clowes Group to produce a tiger greeting card to help raise funds for GTP's work in India.
Rose Corcoran's card 'Machali', depicting a Ranthambhore tigress, is blank inside to allow it to be used for all occasions. Look out for them in the shops (RRP £1.99) or you can send GTP a cheque for £11.94 (made payable to Global Tiger Patrol) for a packet of six identical cards with envelopes (postage and packing included).
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