Greenleaf Animal Rescue ( Registered Charity 1143007)
Greenleaf Animal Rescue became a registered charity in July 2011.
Our website is www.greenleafanimalrescue.org.uk
We have been operating as a company since 02/11/2010 but became a registered charity on 21 July 2011. Prior to this we had been rescuing and rehoming animals on a small scale and were personally funding everything.
One thing we observed whilst rescuing is that many of the animals we took in required ongoing or even lifelong treatment. The decision was made that we would have a no kill policy. This meant that our vet bills immediately started to escalate. Some months the bunnies alone would cost £1600 on routine treatments. At the time this was alot- especially since we were personally funding the rescue with our own money.
As time has moved on we moved from just rescuing the smaller animals to rescuing larger animals particularly dogs on death row. The dogs we rescue are from UK pounds where they have 7 days before they are put to sleep. We intervene and pay a fee to take the dog to safety and then either house at one of our sanctuaries, in foster care or in emergency boarding kennels. The cost of kennelling can range from £6-£18 a day depending on area and requirements. We have several dogs in kennels at the moment in need of foster and many animals on our website in need of homes. We work both with the pound and pound helpers and have in excess of 100+ dogs at any one time that need of rescue space or new homes.
Along with the day to day running of the rescue- we also manage events coordination and fundraising. This is something we have only started to do recently and has required alot of time, energy and money. The funds raised go towards helping the animals. Many days see several hundred pounds coming out of the charity account. Some of our costs includes things like transport runs to get dogs to safety, neutering costs, vaccination costs, vet checks, xray costs, medicines, routine treatments like flea and wormer and microchipping, fundraising equipment, phone costs, stall fees, advertising costs and so on.
Each day we receive enquires regarding people in desperate need of help. The enquires come from people in all walks of life and all in urgent need of assistance. We have no limit to the number of animals that we will help, and are solely limited by funds. This pushes forward our fundraising operation as we seek to aid more of the general public. We have also been contacted to assist housing associations, churches, and other organisations who have abandoned animals or animals in distress and need rescue space to be secured.
We seek to help other rescue organisations as much as possible and are thankful for the support and rescue spaces we receive when funds are limited. We recently transported two cats from west yorkshire to cornwall as the owner was moving into a flat where pets were not accepted and these cats would have been made homeless or put to sleep. Today we released a husky from the pound who was under a year old. We are paying for transport from west yorkshire to Redcar to get him to a safe foster home.
This year we have found it difficult to manage to influx of enquires, and are in the process of creating an IT system that will help manage this. We are always in need of volunteers to help with assessing animals, homechecking, fostering, dog walking, advertising animals locally with our materials, people to host awareness days and events, sharing of animals on facebook and other social media. If you would like to help the charity with any of these aspects- please visit
www.greenleafanimalrescue.org.uk and make an enquiry.
As we have grown, we have taken on volunteers to help with all aspects of the rescue. We also have people hosting events for us to raise funds and this has helped us immensely with our high running costs. We have been invited to attend an event in south yorkshire this year on the 25th 2012 between 11am -4pm. This is a family fun day at the Dome in Doncaster which anyone is welcome to attend. It will be a great day with many other charities attending.
If you would like to follow what we are doing on a day to day basis -please visit
www.facebook/greenleafanimalrescue
We now receive generous donations from members of the public and are truly grateful for the on-going support.
If you are a rescue and would like to join our rescue network- please submit details of your rescue and animals you are able to help or have space for via our enquiry form. Once logged into our network you will be able to see animals in urgent need of rescue space. All rescues are vetted prior to being accepted.
Thanks for posting this thread Halfpenny. Between caring for the animals and co-ordinating rehoming, transport, staff and events i have very little time to post on here. If anyone is interested volunteering to post our rabbits on rabbit rehome and on the forum for rehoming- please contact us. We have several rabbits in rescue that have been here for far too long and really deserve to be in their forever home.
To apply to help with fundraising or events- please visit
www.pcfr.org.uk
Jane x
Volunteer