Vale Wildlife Rescue - dedicated to the rescue and rehabilitation of Bristish wildlife

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some of our badgers including 'Eric' our erythristic 'red' badger

Charity Rock Concert

A fund raising rock concert in aid of VWR will will be taking place at Evesham Working Mens Club on 16th August. Tickets are £6 and available from our Charity Shop or from Vine Music in Evesham.. More details are available here.

 

Car Boot Sales

Our weekly car boot sales will be taking place every Saturday throughout the summer - ground conditions permitting. It opens at 9am and is located at our Beckford site - Location map. Charges for sellers - £5 private cars, £10 large vans and traders, free admission for buyers.

 

Arctic Challenge!!
Two of our supporters, Helen Colbourne & Natalie Gould, have bravely volunteered to drive a team of huskies 250km across the frozen wastelands of Norway into Sweden to raise much-needed funds for Vale Wildlife!! They must be mad!!! But with your support they want to raise as much as possible to put towards the building of the Vale Wildlife Education & Training Centre, a £400,000 project which we have now been granted planning permission for.
Helen & Natalie are aiming to raise a minimum of £6,000 in sponsorship for the trek which will take place in April 2009. Obviously there are costs involved in taking part in this challenge, so the more sponsorship they can get, the more money comes to the charity. The girls have set up a fundraising page on the Justgiving website. If you make a donation online from their Justgiving page, Gift Aid is automatically paid to us if you confirm that you are a taxpayer. To see their page & to donate online please go to http://www.justgiving.com/nataliegould Alternatively sponsorship can be sent directly to us at Vale Wildlife Rescue, Station Road, Beckford, Tewkesbury, Glos, GL20 7AN. Please make sure you let us know that it is for the 'Arctic Challenge'.
We also plan to have sponsor forms available - if you are you are willing to get sponsors for Helen & Natalie that will help to boost their total please contact us and we will send one to you as soon as they are available.baby hedgehogs

 

Exciting News—Planning Permission Granted!!

We have received the great news that planning permission has been granted by Wychavon District Council for our proposed Education and Training Centre. For more information about the new facility please click on this link

 

Caroline's Blog

Caroline, our manager and founder, is now publishing her blog online - 'The Diary of a Wildlife Hospital'. It can be accessed via the blog link at the left of the page

 

Discussion Forums

We now have a forums discussion area available on this site. It can be accessed using the Forums link on the menu. After you have registered you can post questions and comments related to  Vale Wildlife and our work, you will also be able to post back and add comments to other discussions that are taking place. Caroline, staff and volunteers from VWR will be monitoring contributing to the forums.

Live pictures on-line via our web cam

We are very pleased to  bring to you live pictures from our wildlife hospital.  Due to the variety of wildlife in our care the pictures will vary from day to day. Click on the webcam link on our menu to the left to go to the webcam page.

baby otterDonate on-line now using Paypal or a Credit Card

We are now able to accept on-line donations and payments. We are currently updating our site and currently only have the donation links available but hope to have additional features such as sponsorship on-line soon. Our payment system is processed by Paypal however you do not need a Paypal account to make a donation. Click on the 'make a donation button' or other payment buttons on this site to be taken to Paypals secure payment site, then either sign in to your Paypal account or select the option if you  do not have one to see the credit card payment options.

Vale Wildlife Charity Shop

Our charity shop is located at 10 Vine Street in Evesham and is within easy walking distance of the town's shops with parking at the front and rear of the shop. The charity shop was originally opened in 2001 when we were unable to undertake many of our normal fund raising activities due to the foot and mouth crisis and raised much needed funds to help replace the shortfalls. Initially we were extremely lucky to be able to obtain an empty shop rent free but it was only a short term location. However as this venture was so successful we now have leased a property to fix ourselves at a particular location. We sell good quality second hand clothes, books and bric-a-brac so please drop in to snap up a bargain and to support us.

Visitor Centre closed

Although not actually owned by the Charity, the Visitor Centre was opened in 1998 with two main purposes: firstly, education which it has succeeded in to a certain extent, although we would have liked to do more. Secondly, its aim was to raise much-needed funds for Vale Wildlife, as all the profits of the Centre were covenanted to the charity. Sadly, it failed in the latter, and always struggled financially – a great shame as we all believed the centre had great potential. Without financial investment, the Visitor Centre was going downhill and it was therefore decided to close at the end of August 2005.

This was very sad news for us, and the decision was put off for a long time, but it was felt that this course of action had to be taken before the centre became too neglected.

This of course makes the job of raising money for Vale Wildlife even more difficult as, although we didn’t gain financially from the Visitor Centre, it was a very effective way of raising awareness of the work that we do, and we therefore anticipate that we will lose the opportunity of some new supporters.

 

Charity Auctions  

We are now holding auctions on the internet auction site Ebay of items that have been generously donated by members and supporters to be used to raise funds for VWR. Read more about it here.

 

 

 

 

Vale Wildlife Rescue

Registered charity No. 702888

email info@vwr.org.uk
telephone - 01386 882288 (treatment & rehabilitation)
Last updated 20 July, 2008

 

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