News

January 2012

BULGARIA


	We have sent a further £50 to Margarita Atanassova in Bulgaria, who is trying to rehome her 76 rescued street animals whilst battling cancer.

January-December 2011

END-OF-YEAR TOTAL


	The Sanctuary Angels are proud to say that in 2011 they raised/donated £2,560 for various individuals and groups around the world working on behalf of our animal friends. These include, amongst others: Algernon Trust; Tower Hill Stables; Egyptian Society for Mercy to Animals; NOWZAD; Ai Kansha Cat Sanctuary; Green Meadow Animal Sanctuary; Hillside Animal Sanctuary; Freshfields Donkey Village; IWCT...

December 2011

BULGARIA


	The Sanctuary Angels received a donation from a supporter/friend and in recognition of this, they have sent £25 to Margarita Atanassova, who is battling cancer whilst trying to find safe homes for her 76 animals rescued from the harsh streets of Bulgaria.

November 2011

BEDFORDSHIRE


	Not content with trapping, neutering and rehoming Patch and Dumpling, we've also managed to trap the colony kitten (born summer 2011), who we named Pudding, spayed and delivered the little beauty to her new (domestic) home in Hunts. She has been renamed Lily and is doing really well.

November 2011

BEDFORDSHIRE


	The Sanctuary Angels were finally successful in trapping Patch and Dumpling (neutered earlier in the year but no homes were available at the time) from our beautiful feral colony in Sandy, Bedfordshire. They have been relocated to a small farm in King's Ripton, Hunts, where we hope they will enjoy their new life, which should provide a combination of freedom and also regular food and a warm place to sleep at night. We're delighted that they've been homed together as they are sweethearts! Thanks once again to St Neots CPL for helping us with this.

November 2011

THAILAND


	The Angels sent £25 to the Soi Dog Foundation (www.soidog.org), who work to help dogs and cats in Thailand. They are currently undertaking lifesaving work to help animals affected by the floods in Thailand.

October 2011

BEDFORDSHIRE


	The Angels were delighted to be able to trap, neuter and home a beautiful ginger stray we called Garfield to a new life on a farm in Gamlingay. Thanks to St Neots Cats Protection for helping us find him a safe place to live and for funding the neutering/blood tests.

October 2011

NORFOLK


	The Angels have sent a further £15 to Hillside Animal Sanctuary following their desperate appeal for help with offering refuge to animals from the Quality of Life Sanctuary in Devon after the bailiffs have started to move in. If you can help at all, please visit www.hillside.org.uk.

October 2011

ROMANIA


	The Sanctuary Angels sent £30 (the proceeds from Christmas card sales so far) to Deissima Roxana and her tireless work for the Romanian street dogs, in particular for Blanca, the injured white dog.

October 2011

PHILIPPINES


	The Angels raised £70 in Hitchin for the International Wildlife Coalition Trust for their work saving dogs from the meat trade in the Philippines.

September 2011

ROMANIA


	The Angels sent £10 to Anda Murgu in Romania to help her feed the stray and starving animals in her care.

September 2011

GREECE


	The Angels sent an emergency donation of £15 to the Trikala Shelter in Greece as they are in dire need of funds to feed all the strays in their care.

September 2011

WOLVERHAMPTON/NORFOLK/THAILAND


	The Angels raised £50 for the Green Meadow Animal Sanctuary in Wolverhampton, who are facing severe financial difficulties, £10 for Hillside Animal Sanctuary in Norfolk after their charity shop was robbed, and £10 for the wonderful Baan Unrak Sanctuary in Thailand in honour of one of their little street dogs, who was shot this week.

July 2011

THAILAND/IRELAND


	The Sanctuary Angels raised £50 for Baan Unrak Animal Sanctuary Thailand and £10 for the Ai Kansha Cat Sanctuary Ireland in a last-minute collection for emergency funds.

July 2011

IRAQ/AFGHANISTAN


	The Sanctuary Angels raised £50 for Nowzad (www.nowzad.com) at the Chalgrave Games 2011 in Tebworth, doing their fantastic Lush hand and foot massages. Nowzad helps stray and abandoned dogs, cats and donkeys in need of attention overseas, mainly in Iraq and Afghanistan.

June 2011

IRELAND


	The Sanctuary Angels sent £10 to the Ai Kansha Cat Sanctuary in Ireland towards a relocation project to safer premises.

June 2011

TURKEY


	The Sanctuary Angels sent a £20 emergency donation to the Turkish Animal Rescue Oranisation to help with feeding the large number of hungry stray and street dogs.

June 2011

CAMBRIDGESHIRE


	The Sanctuary Angels massaged hands and feet all afternoon using delicious Lush (cruelty-free) products to raise £40 for the St Neots branch of Cats Protection.

May 2011

DUNSTABLE


	The Sanctuary Angels reunited Roxy, a beautiful female staffordshire bull terrier (see photo gallery), with her owners. Having escaped from her home, Roxy found her way to our fundraising stall in town. We bought a lead from a nearby shop (she was only wearing her collar and no identity tag) and walked her to the nearest vet's surgery to have her scanned for a microchip. Luckily she was microchipped, so she was reunited with her family within a matter of hours. The moral of the story: please get your animals microchipped!!! It is a lifesaver if your beloved animal goes missing/escapes/gets lost.

March 2011 onwards

SANDY


	The Sanctuary Angels are in the process of trapping, neutering and releasing a colony of feral cats living on an industrial estate in Sandy, Bedfordshire. We are working with two sisters who have a business on the estate and who have been tirelessly feeding these wonderful cats for at least three years. We are grateful to the Cats Protection (Sandy and St Neots branches) for their invaluable help and neutering vouchers. You can see photos of the cats we have neutered so far in the Photo Gallery.

April 2011

THAILAND


	The Sanctuary Angels sent £25 to the Baan Unrak Thailand Animal Sanctuary for their incredible (and underfunded) lifesaving work with street dogs. You can find out more about their work at www.thaianimalsanctuary.org.uk.

March 2011

JAPAN


	The Sanctuary Angels sent £20 to the Japan Cat Network (www.japancatnet.com) and Heart Tokushima (www.heart-tokushima.com) in their endeavours to help the animal victims of the Japan earthquake/tsunami.

February 2011

EGYPT


	The Sanctuary Angels sent an emergency donation of £50 to ESMA (the Egyptian Society for Mercy to Animals). The period of political transition in Egypt has created an animal welfare crisis, and ESMA urgently needs donations to cover the many extra burdens they now have.

January-December 2010

END-OF-YEAR TOTAL


	The Sanctuary Angels finished the year having raised a fantastic £3,607 for various UK and overseas animal rescue groups.

December 2010

KENT


	The Sanctuary Angels sent £50 in response to an emergency appeal from the Horse Refuge in Ashford, Kent.

12 September 2010

BEDFORDSHIRE


	The Sanctuary Angels raised £90 for Bedfordshire-based Stray Cat Rescue (SCRATCH) by offering fabulous hand and feet massages (using cruelty-free/vegan products) at SCRATCH's Open Day in Tingrith, Beds.

17 July 2010

CAMBRIDGESHIRE


	St Neots' first ever Cruelty-free Fundraising Day for Animals on 17 July was a resounding success. The total raised was an amazing £1,990. Despite two short downpours around lunchtime, the 150 brave souls who turned up were not to be put off enjoying all that was on offer and spending money to help animals. The highlights of the afternoon were the vegan barbecue (which carried on even during the downpours!); the vegan wine bar; the Healing Tent (which offered reiki, reflexology, Indian Head and aromatherapy massage, tarot and runes and was fully booked very quickly) and the Beauty Tent (Evonne was massaging feet and hands non-stop from start to finish and afterwards, and Ruby was painting nails all day!); and the vegan cookery demo and tasting (delicious spicy lentil and coconut healing soup). The Vegan Vintage boutique (with vegan clothes, beautiful handmade jewellery, books, DVDs and CDs, and plants) was a big hit, as were the most delicious vegan cakes, coffee and ice creams! All of this was accompanied by the soothing music of Stella Hensley and Chris Newman. The £1,990 raised on the day and afterwards has been split between the following: the Sanctuary Angels; New Life Parrot Rescue; the Mama Cat Trust; Stray Cat Rescue and the Naturewatch Sponsor a Ukrainian Dog Appeal. There are more details about all these groups on the Links page. The Cruelty-free Fundraising Day for Animals is set to become a regular event in the Sanctuary Angels' calendar, as it is a fantastic opportunity to open minds to the possibilities of a more cruelty-free life whilst raising vital funds for those rescuing, rehabilitating and rehoming abused and abandoned animals. Watch this space for details of the next one... Finally, the Sanctuary Angels would like to thank all those who helped to make the day such a success. We would also like to mention the following groups/companies, who either donated fabulous cruelty-free raffle prizes or vouchers or provided us with literature and goody bags to give to people: Lush; Beauty without Cruelty; Neal's Yard Remedies; Marks & Spencer; Love Thy Makeup; Montagne Jeunesse; Naturewatch; Redwoods; Goodness Direct; Veggieworld. For a selection of photos of the day (kindly taken by Jeremy Owen), please see the Photo Gallery.