WILDCAT ONE SPONSORSHIP
Wildcat One has always had a policy of supporting a number of charities and sponsorship projects.
Scholarship
Aberdeen University
A Wildcat One scholarship has been established at the University of Aberdeen for Entrepreneurial Studies students. One student will receive additional financial assistance for the duration of their four-year degree course. Wildcat One also funds an annual prize for the most successful Management Studies student of the year.
Aberdeen University Entrepreneurial Studies Course >
Last of the Scottish Wildcats
Wildcat One is sponsoring a film called Last of the Scottish
Wildcats,
it will be 50 minutes long and intended for television. The film is a documentary
looking at both the natural history of the Scottish Wildcat and the substantial
threats facing it today, estimated as only having 400 pure examples of the
cats remaining in the wild extinction is highly likely within the next 10 years. Release
date will be in 2006.
Coffee Films who are producing the film are a British independent film production
company recognised last year as one of the UK's leading production teams, our
projects
have played
at festivals all over the world. It is their first project dealing with the
natural world.
Trailer: Last of the Scottish Wildcats (3Mb .wav file) >
Highland Wildlife Park
Wildcat enclosures
Wildcat One enabled an innovative project to go ahead at the Highland Wildlife Park, part of the The Royal Zoological Society of Scotland (RZSS), near Aviemore in the Scottish Highlands.
A series of aerial wire-mesh 'tunnels', leading from existing animal enclosures, allow the Park's Scottish wildcats and Pine Martens to explore the tree-tops in a more natural way. These 'tree-spans' had not been used for small predators before, but proved a great success: the cats use the spans to play and sleep in, and allow visitors to get a much better view of these very secretive animals.
Scottish SPCA
In the spring of 2001 Wildcat One became a Corporate Friend of the Scottish Society for the Protection of Animals and presented them with a new and fully equipped horsebox. The horsebox will enable the safe and secure transportation of weak, sick or injured animals, ensuring they get the treatment they require as soon as possible. The sponsorship package also included a donation to help run the newly opened Animal Welfare Centre in Inverness.