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Bestpets & Rangebourne Pet Care Supports Local School With Free Wild Bird Watching Starter Kit

Thursday 8th February 2018

Bestpets and local independent retailer Rangebourne Pet Care has been supporting the local community by donating a Wild Bird Watching Starter Kit to Nursteed Community Primary School.

Bestpets, through its Bristol depot, asked customers to nominate local primary schools who encourage outdoor activities to receive a free Wild Bird Watching Starter Kit.

Andy Sheppard of Rangebourne Pet Care on Park Street in Devizes nominated Nursteed Community Primary School to receive the free kit.

Tim Heath, Head Techer of Nursteed Community Primary School says “We’re delighted to have been given our Wild Bird Watching kit. Children from our Environmental Science Club are taking part in this year’s Big Garden Birdwatch: we hope the kit will encourage lots of birds to visit us. We’ll keep on using it well after this special event and we hope its use will spark an interest that lasts even longer.”

The Starter Kit, which includes products from the Bestpets own label range and in addition to products from partner supplier Supa Petcare, will allow children to create a mini-sanctuary within their school from which to attract, observe and learn more about the wild birds in their area.

Mike Bailey, Head of Bestpets says “We know that children are fascinated by nature and recent TV programmes such as the BBC’s Winter Watch, Spring Watch and Blue Planet has whetted their appetites even further. As the UK’s leading pet wholesaler, Bestpets wanted to make this learning fun and the starter kit, available on request from Bestpets customers, will provide them - and their teachers - with an ideal foundation to build their own Wild Bird Watch area at school. We hope that this will lead to a greater appreciation of the wonders of their environment and catch a glimpse of rare birds as well as increasing their knowledge of popular birds in the wild.”

The Wild Bird Watch Starter kit which includes a nest box, a variety of feeders and a feast of food contains:

1 x Bestpets Premium Wild Bird Feed 20kg         1 x Bestpets Suet Block Berry 8 Pack

1 x Bestpets Suet Block Insect 8 pack                  1 x Supa Dried Mealworms 3 Litre

1 x Supa Seed 12 Inch Feeder                             1 x Supa Suet & Scrap Feeder and Tray

1 x Supa Mealworm Feeder                                 1 x Supa Multi Purpose Nest Box

Bestpets Wild Bird Kit School Presentation

Pictured, back row, left to right Debbie Bishop, Regional Sales Development Manager for Bestpets, Nursteed Community Primary School staff members.