Charities We Support
ReikiFriend.com donates 10% of every subscription to the following charities:
Bumblebee Conservation Trust
The Sound and Sight of summer: Bumblebees are among the most endearing and familiar of our insects. Sadly, changes to the farmed countryside have not been kind to our bumblebees. The number of species found in most of lowland Britain has halved since 1950. Within the last 70 years two bumblebee species have become nationally extinct. Further extinctions may follow in the near future unless we act quickly. The reason that bumblebees have declined in the countryside is simple. Bees feed exclusively on pollen and nectar, and there are far fewer flowers in the countryside than there once were.
So much more than a gardener’s friend: Bumblebees are fascinating and beautiful creatures that deserve conserving in their own right. However, there are also pressing ecological and economic reasons to halt their declines. Bumblebees are major pollinators of a majority of our wildflowers. If this wonderful little invertebrate continues to disappear, a vast number of our native wildflowers will set less seed which will result in sweeping changes to the countryside. Bumblebees are keystone species and they should be a conservation priority. Bumblebees are also of enormous commercial importance. Many arable and horticultural crops depend on bumblebees for pollination to varying degrees. In total the value of Europe's insect pollinators is estimated at €14.2 billion!
What BBCT is doing to help this fantastic little insect: The Bumblebee Conservation Trust was founded in response to growing concerns about the 'plight of the bumblebee'. We aim to prevent further declines, and to raise awareness of the problems bumblebees face. We need to create a mosaic of suitable habitat across the whole of the UK. Bumblebees need small patches of wildflowers here and there in field corners, margins, gardens, waste ground, roadside verges and motorway embankments. Alongside working to restore the bumblebee’s natural habitats, The Bumblebee Conservation Trust also places great importance in education and awareness, reaching out to all generations and people from all walks of life.
Worker
£10 can buy a 200m strip of pollen and nectar mix for use on field margins
Nest
£100 can buy 30 square meters of a bee-friendly wildflower meadow mix, providing long-term benefits for many nests and species.
Queen
£25 supports initiatives to rear local provenance wildflower seed, targeted at our rarest species
Campaign Whale
Campaign Whale is dedicated to protecting all whales, dolphins, and their habitats and is a respected advisor to the UK Government on whaling policy.
Despite a ban on commercial whaling, Japan Norway and Iceland will slaughter around 2,000 whales between them this year and now the International Whaling Commission is planning a compromise deal that would lift the whaling ban altogether. Meanwhile, around 20,000 dolphins and porpoises will be killed by Japanese fishermen alone this year. These small whales receive no protection from hunting at all.
Campaign Whale is fighting to preserve and strengthen the ban on commercial whaling. Campaign Whale is a respected advisor to the UK Government on anti-whaling policy and is also campaigning to stop the cruel slaughter of dolphins in Japan and elsewhere. For further information please visit our website at www.campaign-whale.org.
Cool Earth Charity
For every £60 passed on by ReikiFriend.com one acre of rainforest in the Ashaninka project will be protected.
