Great news!

Hi all,

Thank you to everyone who came along and supported us at Blue Reef last week. The great news is that thanks to your generosity, and that of the people who so kindly made online donations, our total raised do far is.......£1027.68! Brilliant. That means we are over 1/3rd of the way to our target of £3000.

Our thanks also go to the staff at Blue Reef for making last week possible and our amazing volunteers, Caroline, Annabelle, Tabby, Kirby & George who along with me (and my oh so patient children!) talked to our supporters and ran a competition to guess the weight of omiros the resident, blind loggerhead at the aquarium. One lucky winner has won family membership to Blue Reef, very kindly donated by Blue Reef.

Don't forget to contact us if you want to book a place on the Ocean Adventure or fishing trip on March 27th. Should be a brilliant day!

Nicola. xx

Tag a Turtle goes live!!

Dear all

Just a very quick note to say A huge huge thank you to everyone who has supported this project from the very beginning, to everyone that has donated, to Matt Slater and David Waines at Blue Reef Aquarium in Newquay, to It- ngam Nareekarn for donating her amazing turtle photo's and to Annabelle and Chris Lowe of Atlantic Diving in Newquay for all their support, and a very massive thanks from Nicola and I to Tom Mercer from House mouse media and Blue Reef for building our fantastic Tag a Turtle website for us!! You can now view it live at at www.tag-a-turtle.co.uk. and for more info email us at info@tag-a-turtle.co.uk

The Tag a Turtle team is growing by the day with a new team of volunteers headed up by Kirby Moore from Truro College fundraising for us all this week at Truro college and at Blue Reef Aquarium throughout half term week so do pop in and see us if you're about.

For all our latest news and fundraising events watch this space... and again a huge thanks to everyone for all your support, the project wouldn't have been possible without all the generosity and support we've received!

Regards
Nicole

Article, Conference and Donations...

Hi all,

A few updates for you all!

Firstly, we'd just like to announce that the 31st Annual Turtle Symposium will be taking place in San Diego, California between the 12th and 15th April 2011. It may be a long way to go, but if anyone is already in the USA in April, you might like to coinsider it. Students can get a discount on their registration apparently...

There is an article online from the Guardian that shows just how important this cause is (entitled 'Secret Voyages of Leatherback Turtles Revealed Using Transmitters)... it can be read here.

...and finally...

We are very pleased to announce that our efforts have not only raised money specifically for the Tag-a-Turtle Project. We were able to post a cheque today for £32.73 to the Marine Conservation Society, who do a great deal of work helping the conservation of our seas, and support the Tag-a-Turtle Project fully.

We'll be back with more news soon.

Best wishes :-)