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Welcome to WWF s Earth Hour Welcome, and thank you for your interest in WWF s Earth Hour. About WWF s Earth Hour We want a billion people across the world to sign up and switch off their lights for an hour WWF s Earth Hour. By signing up you are sending a powerful global message to world leaders that you care and that you want them to take urgent action to tackle climate change. Checklist: For holding an Earth Hour dinner party. You ll need: WWF s Earth Hour Dinner Party Guide What you re reading now! This has ideas on different ways to raise money; recipe ideas; and advice on collecting funds, generating publicity, and keeping your event green. Invitations Use the invitations in the pack to invite your friends and family to join you for food and fun by candlelight. Candlelit Dinner Party donation form James Alcock In addition, WWF s Earth Hour is an occasion to have some fun. Your support will help our vital work to promote solutions to tackle climate change, an issue which threatens people and wildlife all over the world. The success of our conservation programmes around the world relies on the enthusiasm of incredible supporters like you, so we hope this pack will give you the inspiration and advice you need to organise a really enjoyable and successful candlelit dinner party for WWF s Earth Hour. Good luck!
Have fun for WWF s Earth Hour Claus Christensen What to do now: Plan your party in advance. Look at our party suggestions and try out one of our delicious organic recipes by the celebrated chef Tom Aikens. Use the invitations provided to invite your guests. Check out wwf.org.uk/earthhour to keep up to date about WWF s Earth Hour before your party starts! Prepare your food in advance to give you more time to enjoy your party. When your guests arrive, ask them to fill out your Candlelit Dinner Party donation form and to give you their donation. Take plenty of pictures of your fabulous party and upload them at wwf.org.uk/earthhour/share to share your experience with other Earth Hour supporters. Tell us how your party went email us at ukearthhour@wwf.org.uk Party with a difference Here are a just few suggestions to make your dinner party a success. Why not: Play a murder mystery game in the dark. Challenge guests to do simple drawings in the dark. Award prizes for the best ones. Hold a blind taste-testing session, where participants have to guess the kind of food or drink. Get to know your neighbours invite them over to share in WWF s Earth Hour. Organise an acoustic concert with your friends and invite the neighbours over. Convince your local pub or restaurant to hold a special event by candlelight. Getting noticed How much money you raise is often down to how many people know about your event! There are lots of ways you can publicise your candlelit dinner party. Word of mouth is a great method, so tell as many friends, family and colleagues as possible about your plans. WWF-US istockphoto.com
Recipes Why not try celebrated chef Tom Aikens organic recipes? Watercress soup with cranberry (Serves 4) 4 bunches of watercress, plus a few leaves to garnish 2 onions 25g (1oz) butter small clove of garlic, finely sliced 500ml (18fl oz) white chicken stock 200ml (7fl oz) double cream 200g (7oz) cranberries 200ml (7fl oz) orange juice zest of one orange 1 tsp sugar Chop the watercress very finely from the top of each bunch to the stalks. Discard the stalks. Peel and finely slice the onions. Put a pan over medium heat and add the butter. When it melts, add the onion and garlic with a couple of pinches of salt, stir, and put on a lid so the onions sweat until they are soft but not coloured about four minutes. Then add the watercress and stir until it starts to wilt. Pour on the chicken stock and cream, put the lid back on and bring to a boil. Once boiling, cook for about a minute. Season to taste, then puree in a blender until smooth. Put the cranberries, orange juice, zest and sugar in a pan and cook, over a medium heat, until it forms a syrupy mixture (about 10 minutes), stirring now and again. Pour the hot soup into bowls and dot the cranberry syrup around, then garnish with a few more watercress leaves.
Salmon baked on parchment paper with capers and caper beurre noisette (Serves 4) 600g organic salmon fillet sliced very thinly almost carpaccio style (you could also use sea bass, halibut or sea trout) 40g chopped mini capers 2g coarse sea salt 8 turns of fresh black pepper 100ml olive oil 40g butter 1 lemon 4 x 4 squares of parchment paper brushed with olive oil Pre-heat the oven to 200 C, take a baking tray and place it in the oven so it gets very hot, drizzle the olive oil onto the four sheets of paper and sprinkle with salt and milled pepper add half the chopped capers on top of the parchment paper then lay the salmon slices over the top. Season again with salt and pepper, drizzle with some more olive oil and then place zested lemon peel over the salmon and add a little juice. Open the oven and carefully place the salmon directly onto the hot tray and back into the oven for 2-3 minutes until the salmon is just cooked and still pink. Take the salmon off the tray and flip the salmon onto dinner plates; peel back the paper, so the capers are on the top. Spoon over the caper butter. For the caper butter 100ml olive oil 250g banana shallots sliced lengthways 2 bay leaves 4 cloves of garlic finely diced 2 tsp chopped thyme 10 turns of fresh milled black pepper 2g coarse sea salt Cook off 150g butter to beurre noisette until the butter is golden brown 80g whole baby capers 50ml white wine vinegar 50ml lemon juice 50g lemon segments 2g chopped flat parsley In a saucepan on medium heat add the olive oil then the shallots, garlic, thyme, and bay leaf, cook slowly until tender for 2-3 minutes. Add the salt and pepper, brown butter, capers, white wine vinegar, lemon juice and lemon segments, and warm this through, finishing with the chopped parsley. Spiced pears with chocolate and cinnamon sauce (Serves 4) 8 Packham or Williams pears For the poaching liquid 2.5 litres of water 1.5kg caster sugar 15g cinnamon sticks 15g star anise 10 cloves 8g juniper berries 30g fresh root ginger, peeled and sliced 1 x 5g piece mace 2 vanilla pods, split and scraped roughly cut peel of 3 oranges roughly cut peel of 4 lemons 250ml lemon juice 200ml Cognac Place all the ingredients for the poaching liquid into a pan, bring to a slow simmer, and cook for 10 minutes. Add the peeled pears and bring back to a simmer. Cover with a sheet of greaseproof paper and then cook for 25-30 minutes, until the pears are tender. Leave to cool in the syrup and then place in the fridge for a day. For the sauce 170ml double cream 170ml full fat milk 2g powdered cinnamon 250g dark chocolate, finely chopped Bring the milk and cream to the boil with the cinnamon. Pour over the chopped chocolate and stir until the chocolate melts and you get a shiny smooth emulsion. Serve the pears hot or cold with the hot chocolate and cinnamon sauce.
How your fundraising helps WWF Almost 70% of WWF s income comes from donations from individuals through membership, legacies and, of course, independent fundraisers. Every donation no matter how big or small makes a difference to WWF projects across the world. If you invite six guests you could raise at least 90 enough to micro-chip a polar bear and help track its movements on the melting sea ice. Sending your donations to WWF Ensure your guests have completed the Candlelit Dinner Party donation form and given you their donations. If your guests prefer to donate by cheque, please ask them to make it payable to WWF-UK Bank any coins and notes donated into your own bank account and then write a cheque to WWF-UK for this amount to avoid sending cash in the post. Send your completed Candlelit Dinner Party donation form to: WWF-UK, Panda House, Weyside Park, Godalming, Surrey GU7 1XR Here are just a few other examples of what your fundraising efforts could buy: 25 could help us take a blood sample from a polar bear, giving scientists the hard facts to build a convincing case about climate change. Digital Vision 50 could help fund polar expeditions like that currently led by Pen Hadow enabling explorers to bring back evidence of exactly what is happening in the Arctic. 100 could enable us to help nature and communities adapt, where possible, to a changing climate by helping local people to restore and protect their damaged forests, reefs and other environmental resources. 180 could help our work to transform emerging economies like Brazil and Indonesia into low-carbon, sustainable economies and end deforestation. 300 could help us present our research at the climate change conference in Copenhagen and fight for the best possible global deal for people and nature. 500 could help our work to de-carbonise the power industry in the UK by promoting renewable energy that does not damage the environment and by opposing new polluting energy sources.
In aid of WWF istockphoto.com istockphoto.com Please make it clear that your candlelit dinner party event is raising money in aid of WWF, rather than on our behalf, since this implies you are a representative of the charity and the law now says that you cannot act as a representative of a charity unless you have been instructed to do so. If people want to know more about WWF s work, then always try and direct them to our website, wwf.org.uk or ask them to contact our Supporter Relations Team (see details, below) so we can give them the latest, most accurate information on our work. Although it is helpful to give people an idea of what their money may pay for, please don t suggest that the funds you raise will be used for a specific purpose, unless it has been agreed with us first. It is much better for WWF if the money you raise is used for our general funds pot as this allows us to channel the money where it is needed most. Keep it green Remember to keep the environment in mind when planning your WWF s Earth Hour dinner party. For example, you could try encouraging people to use green ways of travelling to the venue, such as public transport, walking or cycling. You can buy locally produced goods and materials for your dinner party which will also cut down your carbon footprint! Opt for organic and fair trade drinks wherever possible. If you have leftover food from your dinner party, why not put it on a compost heap, or you could donate any surplus food to a local homeless shelter. Collect any paper, cans and plastic you use, so that you can recycle them afterwards. Thank you! We really do appreciate your help. Your support enables WWF to carry out our work where it is needed most. If you need any more help or have further questions, don t hesitate to call our Supporter Relations Team on 01483 426333 or email them on supporterrelations@wwf.org.uk Benjamin Ealovega/WWF-UK
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