Mid-Summer Emergency Appeal for Blyth Wildlife Rescue

Throughout July, we have been working very hard behind the scenes dealing with a record number of calls and subsequent new admissions requiring rehabilitation.

In July alone, we received 2,896 calls and admitted almost 300 new casualties, not including the many more messages and emails we received with queries, reports of casualties and advice requested.

Right from the start of the month, we have battled with demand on our limited charity services and continued to help as many cases as possible.

It was our intent nearer the start of the month to close to new admissions for a week or so, but thankfully we avoided this by releasing patients where possible, building and repairing more outdoor enclosures to try and keep everything moving forward and prevent temporary closure.

With the continued high demand on our resources coupled with critically low funds available to meet our running costs, we must regretfully stop any new admissions. Our limited facilities and resources are stretched to unprecedented levels.

In the meantime, we hope to keep our large animal emergency line open for cases requiring specialist response for animals such as badgers, deer, otter, seals, birds of prey and foxes - as these rescues cannot be undertaken by most other rescue centres or untrained members of the public.

To help us to move forward and reopen our centre, we are again asking for support of our latest £20,000 appeal to address our current shortfall in donations and help us work to prevent suffering to North East wildlife casualties!