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https://www.cats.org.uk/support-us/events/christmas
Since my Christmas collaboration
with the charity Cats Protection in December 2018, I’ve had
the honour of working on a few more projects with them over the last year;
including, two visits to their Tyneside Adoption Centre
which you can read here
& here,
Tyneside’s Easter Event which you can read here
& their Summer fayre, which you can read here
and two posts for their More Than Just A Cat campaign which you can read here
& here!I’ve talked before about how important it is to stay loyal to the organizations, companies and charities that you collaborate with in blogging and Cats Protection make it really easy to do this. Obviously it helps that the cause is about something I’m passionate about (cats and the benefits pets can have on your mental health) but the Tyneside Adoption Centre staff and the team at the Cats Protection Media Office are so kind and passionate about what they do that it really helps me to invest in the collaborations.
I don’t want to seem ungrateful,
but collaborations are actually really hard work and can be really important to
the reputation of you and your blog. I’m so passionate about blogging and very
proud of my little I’m NOT Disordered and all that it’s achieved, so I’m very
wary about trusting other organizations with its name. It might not seem like
it from the outside looking in but I put a lot of thought and research into
organizations before I collaborate with them to ensure that myself and my blog
are in line with their motivation, aims, beliefs, and general ethics, morals
and decisions. So, it meant a lot to me when the Cats Protection team said that
they’d support the idea of illustrating a pet’s importance to your mental
health and that they agreed me and my little blog could be trusted to get that
message across to readers and followers; I was honoured. Then, to be invited to
the Advanced Screening of their Christmas animation?!! Such a privilege!