My Name is Lindsay and I am the Centre Manager at WRAS. I am doing a sponsored Skydive to help raise much needed funds, to enable WRAS to continue to offer the 24/7 365 days a year service they provide.

Wildlife casualties can find veterinary centres very stressful due to the noise from cats, dogs, parrots, and human activity slowing down their recovery.

WRAS decided it needed to help improve the situation by setting up its own Hospital. Despite operating several small units using sheds it was not till 2010 that WRAS managed to launch its current Hospital. WRAS’s Casualty Care Centre, based on the A22 between Hailsham and Uckfield. Over the next five years the charity slowly expanded and improved the facilities which is now able to take in just under 200 casualties at any one time, although this does depend on the range of species in care at the time.

The Hospital has a treatment room, three hospital rooms, an indoor room divided into four indoor pens and aviaries, a prep room, volunteer rest area, orphan rearing area, education room, store and cold room for acclimatising animals like hedgehogs before moving them outside. WRAS has two registered vets and the centre is also registered with the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons.

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