Polly’s Ultra Challenge for Orangutan Veterinary Aid

16/08/2021

URGENT APPEAL! Please could you help save the lives of the brave vets & staff Kabul, Afghanistan who need to get their Afghan vets to safety in the U.K. urgently. The Taliban are 10 mins away and they have female vets and staff on site! Please can you help them?

Our immediate concern is for the safety of the NOWZAD vets, staff and their families (as well as the animals in their care). Only Boris Johnson can allow them to enter the U.K. as refugees.

Please could you use your social media to message your MP and Boris Johnson, hashtag

The Devon based charity was set up by ex British Marine Commando Pen Farthing so with the charity being a U.K. charity helping U.K. servicemen home dogs they befriended whilst on active service and the Taliban having a total ban on keeping any pets, both animals and staff maybe only hours away from an unimaginable fate 😣

We would never normally ask our supporters for such help, but we cannot imagine being in their dire situation and as a veterinary charity who work overseas ourselves, we want to do all we can to help them. You can check the NOWZAD charity out on their fb page and at www.nowzad.com

Also hashtag the charity vets and staff based in Kabul as they too are in the same dangerous situation.

Thank you ❤️‍🩹
www.ovaid.org

10/08/2021

Thank you so much everyone!!! With the donations that were matched and gift aid, I raised an incredible £1526.25 for Orangutan Veterinary Aid!!! 🦧🧡

25/07/2021

23/07/2021

Off we go!!! Steve Carter and I are on our way to Minehead for an early start tomorrow 😱

22/07/2021

Packing my bag!! 😱 🦧🥾🧡

Absolutely bricking it now 💩

Don’t worry Steve Carter I’ve got the cocodamol and the plasters!!!

21/07/2021

A bit of bribery at work today so try and get those last few donations!! Only 3 days to go!!

If you haven’t had chance to donate and would like to sponsor me, here’s the link: https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/PollyMartin3

Any donations will be DOUBLED by a very kind couple supporting OVAID!!!

16/07/2021

Amazing news from OVAID!!!

DOUBLE YOUR DONATION!

🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧🦧

🧡We are raising funds for an incredibly important veterinary training project currently happening in Borneo at one of the largest orangutan rescue centres in the world at BOS Foundation.

📣🧡As of today ANY DONATIONS WILL NOW BE DOUBLED 📣!! Meaning your £5 donation will now become £10 & £20 donation will become £40!! 😍

🧡We need to raise £7,000 to help support this project, our sincere thanks go to an incredibly generous and supportive OVAID donor who has made this double your donation happen🧡

This centre cares for over 100 rescued orangutan 🦧 and 70 sunbears 🐻 so the project not only benefits the vet teams skills, but also the longterm welfare of many rescued animals. Vets from several other centres are also attending so this truly is a positive and collaborative project 🧡🩺

Please click on the link to learn more about the project: http://www.ovaid.org/ovaid-bosf-training-programme

🧡Thank you🧡

Dr Nigel Hicks & Sara Fell Hicks
(OVAID Co Founders)

15/07/2021

It’s here!!! 😱😱😱

06/07/2021

I got all the weather today on my walk!! 🌧🌦🌬🌤☀️
There are only 17 days to go now until the Ultra Challenge 😱 Thank you so much to everyone who has sponsored me so far; you have all been so kind and generous 🥾🦧🧡
I still have a long way to go before I reach my fundraising target so if anyone who hasn’t already sponsored me would like to donate I would be so grateful 💕 https://uk.virginmoneygiving.com/PollyMartin3/1

06/07/2021

Off I go on a mizzley morning walk along the Clarendon Way 🥾🦧🧡

03/07/2021

Gorgeous walk today on the Avon Valley Trail 😍 I missed my little walking buddy Steve Carter who was working hard looking after peoples’ teeth.
I’m so grateful to everyone who has sponsored me so far. Thank you 🥰

29/06/2021

The route we will be walking… 😨