Costa Animal Society, Nerja – volunteer help needed for animals and committee

This beauty with special eyes is Strella – she is one of 6 hunting dogs which the owner didn’t want, so he left them all tied up, starved of food and water. The owner wants rid of them asap so foster homes are urgently required.

CAS is appealing on their behalf. CAS is the Costa Animal Society based in Nerja
on Spain’s eastern Costa del Sol. It was founded in 1986 as a registered charity for
the sole purpose of helping abandoned and maltreated animals.

Besides appealing for homes for animals, the Costa Animal Society will have several Committee based voluntary positions available from the end of 2011 beginning of 2012.

Treasurer

We will need a new Treasurer from 1st January 2012. This position requires the person to be a Spanish resident and have a good knowledge of accountancy procedures, preferably be computer literate ( we currently use Microsoft Money) and be prepared to give monthly financial reports to the committee and prepare the annual accounts for submission to our auditors. In addition money with have to be collected from the CAS shop in Nerja weekly and banked, together with any funds raised from our events. Invoices received to be paid monthly.

Fundraiser

This position, available from 1st January 2012, requires someone to take overall responsibility for the fundraising necessary to produce the funds we need to ensure CAS continues to help the abandoned animals that come into our care. This involves organising our monthly events together with our two major dinner/dances in June and November, plus the two annual Scruffs Dog Shows. They would also be responsible for obtaining sponsorship for the major events from local businesses. This will not be a “cold start” as the current fundraiser has many contacts and a well organised system.

President

The current President will be retiring in March 2012. Her main role apart from “President’s Duties” is to be responsible for he rehoming of the dogs in our care and organising the many pet fosterers we have. This mainly involves telephone and email contact, responding to general enquiries from our press announcements and from our website from which the majority of enquiries are received. Also dealing with telephone calls received concerning dogs lost or abandoned. Once again, we have a tried and tested system for dealing with most situations, together with overseas contacts with whom many animals are rehomed. We currently home between 40/50 animals per month.

In all cases we would like people to come on board as soon as possible so that they can work with the retiree to ensure a smooth handover.

If you are interested in any of these positions please contact our existing President Wendy Thorne on (+34) 95 203 7095 / or (+34) 660 271 984 or any committee member.

If you live in the area, please get in touch.