Charities - animal welfare and protection

Our pets bring us so much joy and thankfully you can do something very special for them in return; include a gift in your will for the Royal Veterinary College Animal Care Trust.
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 and their wide range of activities, aimed at improving animal health and care.

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.

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.

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.

About our work:
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.

‘Friends of the Animals’ helps: dogs, cats, horses, donkeys, farm animals, wildlife and birds.

Your wish to help animals will be assured by including a gift in your will to “Friends of the Animals”. The primary objective of the Charity is to help animals NOW we do not ‘sit on funds’. Concentrating on ‘preventative’ work such as: spays, neuters, inoculations, boosters and free engraved discs; we never destroy a healthy animal and keep admin costs to a minimum.

At International Animal Rescue we do exactly what our name says: we save animals from suffering around the world. In India our clinics sterilise and vaccinate stray dogs and cats to regulate their numbers and protect them from disease. Our vets also treat cattle and wildlife.

The Lord Dowding Fund for Humane Research (LDF) supports, sponsors, and funds better methods of scientific and medical research for testing products and curing disease, which replace the use of animals. We also fund areas of fundamental research which lead to the adoption of non-animal research methodology.

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.

A non-profit making company, limited by guarantee. Reg. No. 3098847.

N.E.D.D.I. is established to offer care and safety to donkeys (and to a lesser degree ponies) within Britain and Europe at risk from neglect, cruelty or mal-treatment. We offer rescue to such animals from undesirable situations, with the financial and practical constraints prevailing at the time, whilst working at all times to try to change attitudes and to educate donkey owners to better practices.

Redwings Horse Sanctuary was established in 1984 and has grown to become the largest horse sanctuary 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.

The Sebakwe Black Rhino Trust was formed in 1989 to help save the endangered black rhino in Africa. The Trust supports the Midlands Black Rhino Conservancy in Zimbabwe, where the rhino are free to roam an area of 95,000 acres and are protected from poachers by our Conservator and his rhino guards. Farmers and National Parks have provided this wildlife haven for a group of black rhino.

We've been helping sick and injured dogs and cats, with no other hope, since 1928. Every case is URGENT. So please help us NOW with your donation. Please also help us with a gift in your will, and your legacy will be to save more lives.

Specialising in hedgehogs, Tiggywinkles has been working for over 30 years rescuing, treating and rehabilitating sick, injured and orphaned British wildlife. We have proved beyond doubt that most wild animal and bird casualties can be saved and returned to the wild.

The Wildfowl & Wetlands Trust (WWT) was founded in 1946 at Slimbridge, Gloucestershire by naturalist and artist the late Sir Peter Scott. It is the only UK charity with a national network of specialist wetland visitor centres. It works to save wetlands and their wildlife by identifying and acting to counter the threats that affect their survival. It is also dedicated to enhancing people’s lives through learning about and being close to nature, and to inspiring people to take action for wetland conservation.

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.