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Conscious conferencing: Your event makes a difference
MARCH 23, 2015 | From our auditorium to the Manor House, Spier is able to cater for events both large and small. But by conferencing at Spier, you're also doing your bit to make a positive social and environmental impact – through a host of different ways.
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Earth Hour at Spier
MARCH 10, 2015 | On Saturday 28 March between 20.30 and 21.30, people around the world will switch the lights off to celebrate Earth Hour 2015, an initiative aimed at creating a more sustainable future for our planet.
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Beef for a better world
OCTOBER 16, 2014 | The pastured-reared beef from Spier not only tastes delicious – it also benefits the environment by helping to reduce the levels of carbon in the atmosphere.
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Gemma goes hunting
FEBRUARY 24, 2014 | Recently Gemma, one of Eagle Encounters' more adventurous spotted eagle owls, was found hiding behind the delicious monsters in the owl enclosure. We discovered that she was hiding a baby olive house snake in her beak.
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Spier Volunteers contribute to Stop Hunger Now
MAY 28, 2013 | According to the World Hunger Day website, 90% of deaths can be attributed to “hunger and poverty related illnesses” especially in developing countries. This is more than the AIDS virus or any other disease. The aim of World Hunger Day is to raise awareness about this state of affairs and to encourage organisations to get involved and contribute, not only by sponsoring food parcels or helping with the distribution thereof, but also through educational efforts. The idea is to teach people how to fish rather than simply giving them fish, as the proverbial saying goes.
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London-based Thomas's Clapman School students donate 20 bicycles to Tree-preneurs
APRIL 04, 2013 | On Monday, 25 March, 20 girls from Thomas’s Clapham School, London, handed over 20 bicycles to the Spier/Wildlands Conservation Trust/PSG Consult funded Tree-preneur Project. The girls, visiting South Africa on a hockey trip, each undertook to raise £100, which they did successfully with an onesie bicycle rally being the key fundraiser.
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