EIVISSA VETERINARY CENTRE

Care 4 Cats – After almost 20 years of working in Ibiza – we can now announce that we are to open our own Eivissa Veterinary Centre at Calle Petunias, Siesta, Santa Eulalia, Ibiza.

To open our own clinic has been a dream for many years, and will make Care 4 Cats more prominent in Ibiza as a permanent clinic and a place where all our work will be done for the feral cats, and we will at last have a meeting place for any visitors to come and meet us.

This Eivissa Veterinary Centre will be open to the public for their pets and will also neuter, rescue and treat the feral and abandoned cats of Ibiza. This means that the work we do for the private clients will go a long way towards our costs for the feral cats where most of the work is done without donations.

We are aiming to commence renovations in November 2019, with our grand opening scheduled for March 2020, when we will be having HUGE thank you party to celebrate and all will be invited. Stay tuned for more exciting news on this.

ABOUT US

Care 4 Cats is a UK registered charity (Charity Registration No. 1106345) committed to protecting Ibiza’s homeless cats – our core focus being Trap | Neuter | Return initiatives. We are also involved in other areas in our ongoing mission to help and improve the lives of Ibiza’s street cats. Care 4 Cats have neutered over 20,000 cats in over 18 years (the only humane way to help them). Our work is vital because one un-neutered female can be responsible for the births of more than 420,000 cats in 7 years.

We are funded entirely by donations, and consist solely of volunteers.

OUR APPEAL

This premises has been a veterinary clinic for the past 15 years and it already has quite a lot of equipment that we have purchased as part of the sale. However, to modernise the clinic to answer the plight for the cats of the White Island and to exceed the expectations of our pet loving private clients, we are appealing to you, our new and existing caring supporters, for donations towards covering the costs of our refurbishment and for the required equipment below.

Can you help?

OUR CAMPAIGN

So far we have raised £30,000 from our very generous supporters and this will go towards the renovation costs. Now we are appealing for donations for the running costs, functions and items below or part payment towards them. These services, the equipment we need and the approximate costs are as follows:

6 months salary for two vets. - €45,000 (£40,000)

Rent for 6 months - €3,900 (£3,500)

Clinic renovation - €35,000 (£31,000)

Gas anaesthetic machine including gas bottles and Isoflurane Vaporiser key - £3,500

Operating table - £2000

Washer/Dryer - £500

10 sets of veterinary instruments, 16 instruments per set - £150 per set

Electric clippers x 1 - £150 each

Card Payment machine - £100

Laser Printer with toner for one year - £1,250

P.C. Windows 10 - £750

Office desk chairs x 1 - £70.00

Animal housing for cats - £1000

Animal housing for dogs - £800

Stethoscope x 1 - £130

Dental equipment – de-scaler, polisher - £200

Suture material – Vicryl - £50 per reel x 2

Suture material – catgut - £40 per reel x 2

Surgical Needles assortment of types and sizes - £40

Cat collars – Softee Smart collars x 10 – £6 each

Hibiscrub for hand washing - £30

Vircon- disinfectant for cages and floors and furniture - £40

Surgical drapes - £50

Miscellaneous cleaning equipment - £20

We have drugs and medicines for 3 months and will order new as needed - £1000 monthly.

GRAND TOTAL = £60,000 Needed (£89,870 - £30,000 currently raised).

We will be very grateful for any help towards this important equipment.

For all of you that can help us to open our new Veterinary Centre, OUR VERY GRATEFUL THANKS.

CARE 4 CATS CHAIRPERSON - ANGELA COLLINS

1999 – Angela Collins looked out of her Ibiza hotel window and saw a bedraggled white cat; crying for food and water with dirty, matted long hair. The breakfast buffet was robbed of ham and Angela phoned the RSPCA International as her hotel had no interest. A kind lady named Wendy Calavalle came and took the starving cat to her vet, and a quick conversation told Angela that this was one of thousands left to their own devices to live or die in large colonies, sometimes made up of hundreds of cats. There was no organised help available and because the colonies kept growing, poisoning was rife. A tragic end for many of the cats was commonplace.

2000 – Angela founded Care 4 Cats Ibiza, and a team of vets, nurses and one trapper came to Ibiza. In 10 days they trapped, neutered and returned over 300 cats, and have returned twice a year since. For some years during this period, the charity worked in a disused veterinary clinic, until the authorities deemed it illegal.

2010 - A group of residents in Ibiza started becoming volunteers for Care 4 Cats. Allowing our Trap | Neuter | Return program to become a year round enterprise, rather than just the twice a year missions of yesteryear. This also increased our ability to bring greater vet care for sick or injured cats, 365 days a year. For all of our increased work, we have relied heavily upon the local vets and although they have been very supportive, it has doubled our running costs.

Today – Neutering campaigns remain the only humane solution, and our work must continue until the situation has normalised. We are already seeing vast improvements, reducing the size and improving the health of hundreds of colonies, but if we stop things will quickly deteriorate.

This is why we are campaigning to open our own clinic.

OUR AMAZING CARE 4 CATS VOLUNTEERS

Over the last twenty years our volunteers and physical support upon the White Island has come along way and our core members have consistently gone above and beyond the call of duty. Doing their very best for the rescue & management of stray cats & kittens and raising thousands of Euros for Care 4 Cats every year. These are our unsung heroes and deserve our greatest respect and deepest gratitude.

Without their trapping work, volunteering & fundraising efforts, cat & kitten nursing, fostering and administration assistance, we could not possibly achieve all that we have for the cats of Ibiza. Thank you very much to each and every one of you (both past and present).

ADAM ILKO, CARE 4 CATS CAMPAIGN MANAGER - ABOUT ME

I was introduced to and began volunteering for Care 4 Cats Ibiza back in the summer of 2016, when I was building my island massage business and preforming stray cat research for my Animal Rescue App, FurzAid.

My colleague and I offered "Pay As You Please" chair massages at the Care 4 Cats market stall in San Rafael and donated all money raised to this amazing charity. Since this introduction, I have been back every year to help with cat rescue and their wonderful TNR program. Now as the Care 4 Cats Campaign Manager, I am delighted to be helping them to achieve their long anticipated dream of opening their own clinic.

Please help me, help them to achieve their goal, by DONATING TO, SUPPORTING and SOCIALLY SHARING our campaign, far and wide. Thank you.

To see more about FurzAid and our Ibiza Rescues, you can watch our video HERE.

GIFT AID

Gift Aid Declaration is appreciated if applicable – to UK taxpayers.

Gift aid your donations please, giving us more at no extra cost to you. Gift Aid is a tax relief from the government which helps charities to earn more from their donations.

To give under the Gift Aid scheme, donors need to be UK tax payers (Income or Capital Gains Tax) to cover the amount that will be claimed by the charity in each tax year. For each £10 donated, the charity will receive £2.50 from HM Revenue & Customs.

All the donor needs to do is to tick the relevant Gift Aid permissions on a donation form or write your name and address together with ‘Please claim Gift Aid’.

PLEASE NOTIFY CARE 4 CATS IF YOU;

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No longer pay sufficient tax on your income and/or capital gains.

If you pay Income Tax at the higher or additional rate and want to receive the additional tax relief due to you, you must include all your Gift Aid donations on your Self-Assessment Tax Return or ask HMRC to adjust your tax code.

GIFT AID DECLARATION If you are a UK tax payer, please complete the Gift Aid declaration and send to:

Care4Cats,

Brimar House, East Street,

West Chiltington, West Sussex,

RH20 2JY

Please treat as Gift Aid donations all qualifying gifts of money made. I confirm I have paid or will pay an amount of Income Tax or Capital Gains Tax for each tax year (6 April to 5 April) that is at least equal to the amount of tax that all charities or Care 4 Cats that I donate to will reclaim on my gifts for that tax year. I understand that the charity will reclaim 25p of tax on every £1 that I give on or after 6 April 2012.

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THANK YOU SO VERY MUCH AGAIN FOR YOUR KIND DONATIONS, SHARING OF THIS CAMPAIGN AND SUPPORT.