Latest news
Stay up to date with the latest Pets Foundation news, including rescue stories, fundraising campaigns, grant funding updates and the incredible impact your support has on pets and pet owners across the UK. Looking for funding? Explore our grants or learn more about our Community Partners Initiative.
Lockdown Support
A the end of March our doors all closed and we remained inside through what would be months of uncertainty.
Emergency Grant – success stories
Helping pets in need like Cookie
Grant Happy Ending..
Here at Pets Foundation we love hearing happy ending stories like this one!
Adoption Centres now open!
Our teams at Pets at Home have been working hard behind the scenes to develop an adoption process that is both safe for customers and for the team.
Celebrating 12 months of The Freedom Project in Scotland
In November 2018 Pets Foundation gave The Dogs Trust £23,000 towards their Freedom Project in Scotland.
Santa Paws 2019
A massive thank you to our friends at Pets at Home stores and all their customers who donated to our Santa Paws appeal that ran in all Pets at Home stores from November 22nd through until December 24th December. The appeal raised a massive £1,909,839, thank you for all your support…
Bleakholt’s dog exercise area transformation
Bleakholt Animal Sanctuary is based near Ramsbottom, and since the 1950s has been caring for homeless dogs, cats, rabbits, and many other animals. The charity rehomes over 450 dogs every year – and all those dogs need a lot of exercise! Sadly Bleakholt’s dog runs were badly in need of a facelift; crumbling concrete, rusting metal and rotting wood created an unpleasant and unsafe environment for dogs and their carers.
The biggest grant that we have ever awarded
We surprised Woodlands Animal Sanctuary with over £176,000, the biggest grant that we have ever awarded.. The rescue applied to us for funding to build a brand new cattery in a different area, one which is not susceptible to flooding. The new cattery will consist of:
Scottish Exotic Animal Rescue receive £18,000
Based at their centre near Inverness, the small team at Scottish Exotic Animal Rescue work passionately to rescue, rehabilitate and rehome all kinds of reptiles, amphibians, and large insects. Having a reliable vehicle to transport all these pets is essential. The team at the Inverness Pets at Home store were thrilled to present the rescue with £18,000 to help S.E.A.R. purchase a brand new van – helping more snakes, lizards and other animals for many years to come.
Our new website launch
Welcome to our new website, hopefully you will be as excited about it as we are. As you navigate your way around the website, hopefully you will be able to see clearly, who we are, what we do and why we exist. Please let us know what you think!
Munchkins Miniature Shetland Rescue grant programme
It is clear to see the impact that our grant programme has when we receive videos like this! Munchkins Miniature Shetland Rescue based in East Devon were clearly ecstatic to receive funds! If you are a rescue who needs support – get in touch today!