Charities - animals and birds

The RVC’s animal hospitals provide specialist veterinary care to thousands of animals each year, pioneer new treatments and train the next generation of veterinary professionals. The Animal Care Trust is the College’s registered charity and raises funds to support these hospitals by purchasing vital equipment – enabling our vets to save the lives of more animals.

The AHT is a charity dedicated to improving the health of dogs, cats, and horses by addressing the problems of disease and injury – the largest threats to animal welfare today. With the help of its supporters, the Trust achieves this by advancing veterinary science and providing specialist clinical services for animals in need.
The AHT has successfully pioneered major breakthroughs in many areas including the treatment of cancer and eye disease, as well as the development of vaccines against diseases such as canine distemper, equine influenza and strangles.

Formed in 1993, and named after St Francis of Assisi, Patron Saint of Animals, Assisi Animal Charities Foundation is a consortium of five charities that work in a variety of ways to improve animal welfare both in the UK and abroad.

The Barn Owl Trust is a small charity working hard to conserve one of the most beautiful birds on earth. Anyone who has ever watched a Barn Owl hunting at dusk has surely been touched by the experience but in recent years these magical birds have become increasingly rare – and the reasons are all man-made.

Established in 1897, The Blue Cross is responsible for the welfare of thousands of dogs, cats, horses and other animals who need our help every year.

Founded in 2003 by Jane Howorth, The British Hen Welfare Trust is the only national charity in the UK committed to hen welfare. The charity re-homes ex commercial hens, saving tens of thousands from slaughter each year. It also works to educate the public about making a difference to hen welfare by opting for free range eggs, and encourages support for the British egg industry.
Its ultimate aim is to see consumers and food manufacturers buying only UK produced free range eggs, resulting in a strong British egg industry where all commercial laying hens enjoy a good quality life.

The BUAV works to create a world where nobody wants or believes we need to experiment on animals.

We are a charity dedicated to training dogs in the detection and recognition of human disease by odour.

Cancer and Bio-detection Dogs
Our first study that was published in the British Medical Journal in 2004 showed that dogs can be trained to identify the odour of cancer within urine. This potentially unknown finding indicated the potential for a new method of diagnosing cancer which would be simple, quick and non-invasive. Clinicians and scientists are studying the data collected to help them in the development of an electronic nose.

The Cat Action Trust consists of a national network of branches working to save feral cats from a life of hunger, hardship, and abuse. Feral cats are ordinary domestic cats living wild because they have been lost or abandoned. And they multiply. Kittens grow up without contact with humans and are therefore ‘feral’ i.e. living without contact with humans, and terrified when they do encounter them. They form colonies wherever they can find food – the grounds of hospitals and other institutions, farms, disused buildings: they are the inhabitants of dereliction. The traditional answer to this is for a pest control firm to trap and kill the whole colony – leaving a vacuum which will soon be refilled.

Thousands of healthy cats and dogs, kittens and puppies will die today and every day. Why? They were born into a world where there are not enough homes to go round.

Compassion in World Farming is the leading charity dedicated exclusively to farm animal welfare.
At the very core of Compassion in World Farming is our belief that animals should not and need not suffer. And with more than 40 billion farm animals raised in industrial systems worldwide every year, we believe that factory farming is the biggest cause of animal cruelty on the planet.

The Donkey Sanctuary is a registered charity and the largest of its kind in the world. We provide specialist care and refuge to donkeys in the UK, Ireland and Europe. We also work in Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Kenya and Mexico to improve donkey welfare with donkey-owning communities through education and veterinary work.

The Dr Hadwen Trust (DHT), the UK’s leading non-animal medical research charity, funds and promotes the development of techniques and procedures to replace the use of animals in biomedical research and testing. We are consulted internationally for our expertise in replacement research methods by scientists, governments, education, animal welfare organisations and industry.

Four Paws has been working for the well-being and protection of animals since 1988. Originally founded in Austria to campaign against fur farms and the battery egg industry, Four Paws started working internationally in 1994. We now have offices in nine European countries and one in South Africa.

The Friends of Animals League (FOAL) is based at Foal Farm Animal Rescue Centre in Kent. The Charity was founded in 1960 and since then has cared for tens of thousands of needy animals.

England & Wales’ meadows, streams, forests and wildlife need tender loving care too

Everyone who loves being outdoors, appreciates landscape or thrills to the sights and sounds of wildlife, will find they have a lot in common with Game & Wildlife Conservation Trust.
Alert to the risks of climate change, increased food production, declining populations of once-common wildlife, over 40 Trust scientists are hard at work. They are researching different ways of balancing modern life with the needs of wild creatures and our living, changing landscapes.

How can you help a hearing dog become a deaf person’s ears?

For more than 28 years Hearing Dogs has been the only UK charity to provide deaf adults and, more recently, deaf children, with specially trained dogs in life-changing partnerships.

The Japan Animal Welfare Society ( JAWS UK) was founded firstly in Japan in 1945 by British and other foreign residents who were appalled by the general ill treatment of animals there, in particular the cruelties inflicted upon dogs awaiting unregulated vivisection in the teaching hospitals.

The Trust supports the Veterinary School at the University of Bristol through funding for equipment and clinical facilities for the treatment and hospitalisation of animals. Veterinary science and skills are advancing at the same breakneck speed as medical science but are much more complex, encompassing as they do smaller companion animals, high value large animals such as blood stock and rare breeds and the exotic creatures and stranger species that many of our students encounter both at home and, increasingly, overseas. The most up-to-date equipment needed for new advanced techniques is vital but expensive and facilities for animals undergoing such treatment must be superlative.

Can you help us help them?

The Mare and Foal Sanctuary will rescue any horse in need. We specialise in the rehabilitation of equines with medical or behavioural problems as well as rearing orphaned foals.

We are a charity dedicated to training dogs in the detection and recognition of human disease by odour.

Cancer and Bio-detection Dogs: Our first study published in the British Medical Journal in 2004 showed that dogs can be trained to identify the odour of cancer in urine. This previously unknown finding indicated the potential for a new method of diagnosing cancer. This work is continuing and the data collected will help scientists in the development of an electronic nose for the future.

Unreliable, unethical, unnecessary: every year millions of animals suffer and die in cruel and futile experiments.

The National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS) is the world’s leading group working to end the suffering of animals in laboratories. Working within the law, we lobby parliament, produce scientific reports, educational materials and videos for parliament and public; we conduct undercover investigations and expose law-breaking; we fund non-animal scientific and medical research. We can do more, but only with your help.

Founded in 1917, PDSA is the UK’s leading veterinary charity caring for more than 350,000 pet patients by providing free veterinary treatment when they are sick or injured. PDSA is there when no one else is providing treatment that in many cases literally saves lives. Most animal lovers share our belief that no pet should be left in pain and distress simply because their owner cannot afford to pay for treatment.

Redwings Horse Sanctuary was established in 1984 and in 2009 celebrated its Silver Jubilee.

Over the last 25 years, Redwings has grown to become the largest horse charity in the UK, working to provide and promote the welfare, care and protection of horses, ponies, donkeys and mules. The charity’s work has three main themes - rescue and rehabilitation, specialist sanctuary care and prevention through education.

Modern veterinary surgeons face the challenges of a rapidly changing world, where animal and human health needs are interlinked as never before. We help the veterinary profession, and veterinary teams in practice, to maintain the highest standards of knowledge, treatment and care for all animals.

Secret World Wildlife Rescue is now the only 24 hour wildlife rescue service in the South West of England. The Charity saves wildlife that has been found by the public, often in the worst possible conditions, suffering from illness, left without mothers or in agony from their wounds.

South West Equine Protection specialises in helping and rescuing wild moorland ponies on Dartmoor and Bodmin Moor.

The Sussex Wildlife Trust is the largest voluntary organisation devoted to nature conservation in Sussex. With more than 33,000 members, the Trust owns or manages nearly 5,000 acres of land in 33 nature reserves.

The Cat and Rabbit Rescue Centre is set in 4½ acres of beautiful countryside near Chichester, an idyllic place for both long and short term residents. Established in 1986, the Centre takes in unwanted, abandoned and stray animals, giving them treatment and support to provide them with an opportunity for a better life.
Over 1,000 cats, rabbits and guinea pigs are supported each and every year. This is achieved through a range of provisions such as homing units, indoor and outdoor pens and runs, intensive care unit, veterinary facilities and recovery room.

Tusk Trust, whose Royal Patron is HRH The Duke of Cambridge, was established in 1990 to stem the decline of Africa’s wildlife and natural habitats. The Charity supports projects that not only protect endangered species, but also seek to alleviate poverty through sustainable development amongst some of the poorest rural communities in Africa.

ABOUT VEGFAM
Vegfam “Feeds The Hungry Without Exploiting Animals” by funding sustainable, selfsupporting projects: seeds and tools for vegetable growing, fruit/nut tree planting, irrigation and water wells. Also emergency relief in times of crisis and disaster. Vegfam helps people to help themselves.

Wood Green Animal Charity was founded in 1924 to help alleviate the problem of abandoned and injured animals on the streets of London.

Woodside Animal Centre is run by the Leicestershire Branch of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals and has been based at Scudamore road for 37 years.

Our mission is to promote animal welfare and alleviate unnecessary suffering through education and direct intervention and support.

As a charity dependent on public support, ZSL relies on future gifts in Wills to help to continue its work.

ZSL was founded in 1826 and today we remain committed to protecting our planet’s natural heritage. Our mission, to achieve and promote the worldwide conservation of animals and their habitats, has never been more important.