1976 – SSPV launch Animal Welfare Year (AWY) with SSPCA

The collaborative project had Clive Hollands as Chairman, and Lord Houghton as the AWY president.

Clive Hollands, Chairman of

Almost 70 national and local animal welfare organisations came together to mark the centenary of the Cruelty to Animals Act 1876 and to express concern about the welfare of animals in the increasingly technological society.

It ran from August 1976 to August 1977.

Photo: Clive Hollands, Chairman of AWY greets TV personality, Johnny Morris at an event organised by the Surrey and Hampshire AWY Group. Also in the picture Mrs Chapman, Secretary of the group, Mr Richard D Ryder, Chairman of the RSPCA Council, Dr Gordon Latto, Mr David Paterson, Chief Education Officer of the RSPCA and Miss Anne Douglass, Chairman of the group. (Photograph: J Malecki, ARPS)

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