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Registered charity
No. 1094779
Animal Cancer Trust

It is totally committed to funding the fight against cancer in our pets. Its aims are to provide education and information; facilitate research development and improve our understanding and treatment of cancer; and work with partners at home and abroad to pursue the fight against cancer in our pets.


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Registered charity
No. 209642
Animal Health Trust

The Animal Health Trust is a charity specifically dedicated to improving the health and welfare 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, it can achieve this by advancing veterinary science and providing specialist clinical services for all companion animals.


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Registered charity
No. 1086903
Animals Asia Foundation

Animals Asia is working to end the barbaric practice of bear bile farming. Its Moon Bear sanctuaries in China and Vietnam are helping to educate consumers not to buy bear bile. Animals Asia is also working to end the suffering of millions of cats and dogs in the brutal food and fur trades.


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Registered charity
No. 1068222
Animals In Need Northamptonshire

It does animal rescue and rehoming in the Northamptonshire area, and wildlife rescue


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Registered charity
No. 1012361
Bat Conservation Trust

The Bat Conservation Trust is the only national charity solely devoted to helping the UK's bats. The charity is working towards a world where bats and people live in harmony, to ensure bats are around for future generations to enjoy.


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Registered charity
No. SC023039
Bighearted Scotland

Bighearted Scotland is a consortium of 7 Scottish Charities; Alcohol Focus Scotland, Clic Sargent, Epilepsy Scotland, Momentum, Penumbra, Scottish Native Woods and Sense Scotland. By supporting Bighearted Scotland you will be supporting 7 Scottish charities with 1 donation.


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Registered charity
No. 1110252
Boon Lott's Elephant Sanctuary (BLES)

Boon Lott's Elephant Sanctuary (BLES) is a UK registered charity. It was founded in 2005 to help rescue abused elephants throughout Thailand. Our sanctuary is located in Sukhothai, north Thailand and is currently home to eight rescued elephants. BLES is a small family run organisation trying to make a positive difference to the lives of mistreated animals and we need all the help we can get.


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Registered charity
No. 205858
Bristol Dogs Home

The Bristol Dogs Home was founded in 1887 and has been caring for Bristol's stray dog and cat population ever since. The Home also accepts animals from owners who are unable to care for their pet anymore. There is room for 115 dogs and 50 cats and accommodation is often full to capacity! We also take in and re-home smaller domestic pets such as guinea pigs, rabbits, ferrets and various birds.


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Registered charity
No. 210504
The British Horse Society

The British Horse Society provides a strong voice for horses and people and spreads awareness through support, training and education.Without your support and funds we would not be able to continue all the valuable work we do at present.


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Registered charity
No. 1085760
Brooke Hospital For Animals

Brooke relieves the suffering of hundreds of thousands of horses, donkeys and mules working tirelessly for the world's poorest communities. Its dedicated local vets and support teams provide free veterinary care, education and training to the heart of communities in parts of the Middle East, Africa, South America and Asia. .


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Registered charity
No. 1086778
CAMDA

CAMDA provides grass-roots aid to poorer nomadic herding communities that lost millions of herd animals to wintry extremes. It also targets three essential resources: hay-making, reliable wells, healthy horses. Its aid helps prevent families on the verge of poverty giving up herding for the almost certain poverty of alien city life.


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Registered charity
No. 1057061
Cameroon Wildlife Aid Fund

CWAF rescues gorillas, chimpanzees and monkeys that have been orphaned, largely as a result of the bushmeat trade in Cameroon. It has over 200 primates in its care and relies entirely on donations to fund its work. In addition to the daily care of the animals, CWAF is investing to expand its very popular education programme.


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Registered charity
No. 803680
Canine Partners for Independence

Canine Partners aims to transform the lives of people with disabilities by providing them with highly trained assistance dogs which enable them to live more independently.


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Registered charity
No. 241091
The Cave Rescue Organisation

A voluntary search and rescue team made up of local cavers, climbers and walkers. Providing a highly skilled service in the Three Peaks and Malhamdale areas of the Yorkshire Dales. The team, estabished in 1935, is entirely reliant on public donations and is on call at all times.


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Registered charity
No. 1095050
Compassion in World Farming

The vision of CIWF is a world where farm animals are treated with compassion and respect and where cruel factory farming practices end. It's mission is to advance the well being of farm animals worldwide


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Registered charity
No. 1103836
The David Sheldrick Wildlife Trust

The DSWT embraces measures for the conservation and protection of wildlife in Kenya. Including anti-poaching operations, community outreach, mobile veterinary support, and the rescue, hand-rearing and rehabilitation of elephant and rhino orphans, so that they can enjoy a quality of life in wild terms when grown.


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Registered charity
No. 220506
Dog And Cat Shelter Claremont Road & Benton Farm

THE CHARITY IS ONE OF THE BUSIEST IN THE NORTH EAST, THE CRUELTY HOTSPOT OF ENGLAND. ESTABLISHED IN 1896 THE CHARITY CARES FOR 6,000 ANIMALS A YEAR, ANIMALS THAT HAVE BEEN NEGLECTED, UNWANTED OR ABANDONED. WHEN IT HAS NOT BEEN POSSIBLE TO REUNITE THESE ANIMALS WITH THEIR OWNERS, THE CHARITY FINDS NEW LOVING HOMES


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Registered charity
No. 1092960
Dogs For The Disabled

Dogs for the Disabled trains dogs to help disabled people live life more independently. Each dog is trained in practical tasks such as opening and closing doors, helping a person undress, even emptying the washing machine. In addition they provide confidence, companionship and break down barriers to the outside world.


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Registered charity
No. 279598
Dotty Rhino / George Adamson Wildlife Preservation Trust

Dotty Rhino’s aim is to raise awareness and educate in support of the George Adamson Wildlife Protection Trust (GAWPT). Each ‘dotty rhino’ character represents a real-life animal that lives and breathes in the Mkomazi Game Reserve, Northern Tanzania. It protects endangered species such as black rhino and wild dog...


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Registered charity
No. 279598
Dotty Rhino / George Adamson Wildlife Preservation Trust

Dotty Rhino’s aim is to raise awareness and educate in support of the George Adamson Wildlife Protection Trust (GAWPT). Each ‘dotty rhino’ character represents a real-life animal that lives and breathes in the Mkomazi Game Reserve, Northern Tanzania. It protects endangered species such as black rhino and wild dog...


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Registered charity
No. 232004
Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust

This charity supports conservation projects in Jersey and Overseas which continues the work of our great predecessor, Gerald Durrell, and helps to save endangered species which would otherwise become extinct.


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Registered charity
No. SC022515
Equine Grass Sickness Fund

The Equine Grass Sickness Fund is the only registered charity raising funds specifically for research into grass sickness, a disease which kills many horses and ponies in Britain each year. It finances projects aimed at finding the cause of the disease and offers advice and support to owners of affected animals.


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Registered charity
No. 1114700
EQUINE MARKET WATCH (Sanctuaries UK)

EMW Sanctuaries is dedicated to Equine and Animal Welfare and working in auctions, horse fairs and markets for the benefit of animals.


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Registered charity
No. 210065
Essex Wildlife Trust

Essex Wildlife Trust is the leading conservation body in Essex, with over 35,000 members and 485 corporate members. Essex Wildlife Trust have 7 visitor centres, 87 nature reserves, 1 nature park and manage 7,200 acres of land. Over 25,000 adults and children are educated every year. Essex Wildlife Trust is committed to Protecting Wildlife for the Future.


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Registered charity
No. 508579
Freshfields Animal Rescue Centre

Freshfields Animal Rescue has been providing shelter and sanctuary for almost 30 years. No healthy animal is ever destroyed. All admissions exhibiting severe behavioural problems will be treated fairly, appropriately, without prejudice and without recourse to euthanasia. Priority given to strays, mistreated animals and those whose owners have died.


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Registered charity
No. 1049828
The Friends Of The Rspca Leybourne Animal Centre

Raises funds to support and enhance the lives of the animals at the RSPCA Leybourne Animal Centre.


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Registered charity
No. 1094238
The Friends Of The Strays Of Greece

To provide food, shelter and vetereriary care to thousands of unwanted, stray cats and dogs in Greece. Without our help many would starve or surcombe to illness and puppies and kittens would be born into a miserable existance.


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Registered charity
No. 1096814
The Gambia Horse And Donkey Trust

The charity helps to reduce extreme poverty in the rural areas by increasing the productivity of working horses and donkeys through welfare and management training. It provides basic veterinary assistance, teaches in schools and to farmers groups, and provides scholarships for paravets at college level.


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Registered charity
No. 1111663
Gearing Up 4 Gorillas (G4G)

G4G provides equipment and funds for the rangers of Virunga National Park, eastern Democratic Republic of Congo who job it is to protect the critically endangered mountain gorilla, in the 'Mikeno' gorilla sector. Militia groups, poachers and charcoal burners provide a very dangerous backdrop for rangers and gorillas. You can help....


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Registered charity
No. 1091717
Great Dane Adoption Society

The objectives of the Great Dane Adoption Society are to relieve the suffering and distress of Great Danes in need of attention, by reason of homelessness, by the provision of temporary shelter, veterinary treatment and by finding permanent homes for such dogs.


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Registered charity
No. SC031037
Greyhound Awareness League

The Greyhound Awareness League is Scotland's largest independent charity helping to rehome over 200 retired or abandoned Greyhounds and Lurchers every year. GAL is run totally by volunteers and receives no financial help from the Greyhound racing industry or the government. It looks after over 75 dogs at any time while it finds loving homes for them as pets.


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Registered charity
No. 1113207
Greyhound Gap

Greyhound Gap is a registered charity that rescues takes in and re-homes death row Greyhounds and Lurchers who find themselves in a PTS situation in UK pounds.


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Registered charity
No. in England and Wales 209617 and Scotland SC038979
The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association

The Guide Dogs for the Blind Association provides guide dogs and other mobility services to blind and partially sighted people. The charity also campaigns and educates people on caring for their eyes.


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Registered charity
No. 293358
Hearing Dogs For Deaf People

Hearing Dogs for Deaf People trains dogs to alert their deaf owners to sounds such as the telephone, doorbell or smoke alarm. Most dogs are selected from rescue centres, giving unwanted dogs useful and happy lives to the benefit of deaf people.


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Registered charity
No. 1115174
HEROS

Hundreds of racehorses finish racing each year, with some disappearing of the radar. HEROS helps find new homes and careers for ex-racehorses when they have finished racing giving them a fresh start and a new and happy life.


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Registered charity
No. 294606
Holly Hedge Animal Sanctuary

It provides care and protection for animals deemed to be in need of such due to illness, injury, maltreatment, neglect or abandonment.


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Registered charity
No. 1121920
HorseWorld

HorseWorld is one of the leading equine charities, rescuing, rehabilitating and re-homing horses, ponies and donkeys in need. The majority of animals come to HorseWorld after being abandoned, mistreated, neglected or simply because their owner can no longer care for them.


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Registered charity
No. 1088198
The Labrador Rescue Trust

The Labrador Rescue Trust is a charity covering the South West of England, to rescue and re-home Labradors in need of new homes for whatever reason, and to re-home them into genuine, caring homes. It matches the dog to the home and does not operate on a 'waiting list' basis.


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Registered charity
No. 1064641
LifeForce

LifeForce Charitable Trust is an environmental charity focussing on tiger conservation in India, initiating and supporting various conservation projects within and around Tiger Reserves. These include providing alternative resources to tribal people still directly dependent on forest resources as well as education, medicine and employment schemes.


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Registered charity
No. 1001346
MANCHESTER & CHESHIRE DOGS HOMES

It was established in 1893 to help the stray and unwanted dogs roaming the streets of Manchester. Later covering parts of Lancashire, Cheshire and Derbyshire, today it remains the only Home of its kind, caring for over 7000 dogs each year. Over 95% of dogs are Homed or re-Homed


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Registered charity
No. 1077588
The Mayhew Animal Home

The Mayhew Animal Home is one of the busiest animal sanctuaries in London, finding safe and loving homes for thousands of dogs, cats, rabbits and guinea pigs each year. The Mayhew focuses heavily on the prevention of cruelty and neglect and runs highly successful neutering, educational, fostering, volunteering, community and international projects.


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Registered charity
No. 1107255
Medivet Animal Trust

It is dedicated to helping the underprivileged gain access to private veterinary treatment for their pets. This is achieved by purchasing pet insurance for its beneficiaries. It also enables beneficiaries to retain their dignity and freedom of choice.


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Registered charity
No. 1116710
The Moorland Mousie Trust

Promotion and conservation of the Exmoor Pony. Provides an educational environment for the ponies and the general public, and a safe future/environment for needy Exmoor ponies. Takes in unwanted foals every Autumn at The Exmoor Pony Centre and domesticates them.It gives access to learn about this rare native breed.


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Registered charity
No. 1090499
National Animal Welfare Trust

The National Animal Welfare trust cares for unwanted and needy animals. The Trust offer safe and secure accomodation to pets that sometimes have no where else to go. Apart from re-homing cats and dogs, NAWT is home to a suprisingly wide variety of animals including pigs, cows, goats and rabbits.


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Registered charity
No. 1114880
National Pet Month

National Pet Month’s aims are to: promote responsible pet ownership make people aware of the benefits of pets for people and people for pets increase public awareness of services available from professionals who work with animals raise awareness of the role, value and contribution to society of working companion animals


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Registered charity
No. 1117630
Pan Atlantic

Pan Atlantic is a not-for-profit charity company dedicated to raising the profile of conservation through sporting endeavour. By undertaking extreme challenges around the world Pan Atlantic attracts sponsorship through charitable donations from corporate firms and generous individuals with an interest in conservation and adventure.


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Registered charity
No. 037745
Pet Blood Bank UK

Pet Blood Bank UK (PBBuk) is the first UK charity which will collect, process, store and supply pet blood products in the UK. PBBuk will collect canine blood which will then be processed into various blood products and stored on the premises.


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Registered charity
No. 1032907
Pet Plan Charitable Trust

Pet Plan Charitable Trust gives its donors the opportunity to act as a major collective force for the wellbeing of animals - modest individual donations, when added together, allow substantial grants to be made. The Trust does not and will not consider applications which involve experimental or invasive surgery.


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Registered charity
No. 1024811
Petsavers

Petsavers is dedicated to improving the health of all small animals. It funds studies into the prevention and treatment of illnesses and conditions affecting pets and other small animals.


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Registered charity
No. 1085689
Rabbit Welfare Association and Fund

Rabbits are the third most popular pet in the UK, and yet many live miserable lives confined to small hutches with no little or no space, companionship or exercise. The RWAF aims to improve the lives of these beautiful, intelligent and unfortunately neglected animals. Because Rabbits deserve better!


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Registered charity
No. 1117361