Thermal Drone Support Bedfordshire

Hello!

We are Thermal Drone Support Bedfordshire. An organisation set up after the chairperson and friends raised funds to buy a thermal drone for Bedfordshire after her dog, Ulysse, went missing for 12 days in Bedfordshire, finally being found, barely alive, by a thermal drone.

We now have two thermal drones and a team of brilliant drone pilots for Bedfordshire and support owners of lost and missing dogs and other animals not only Bedfordshire but surrounding counties.

You can read our beginning on our GoFundMe fund raising page here: https://www.gofundme.com/f/raise-funds-for-a-thermal-drone-for-bedfordshire

We raised a huge amount of money thanks to the generosity of the public and instead of only being able to afford to buy one thermal drone, we were able to buy 2, as well as a whole load of kit to support owners and our pilots. The target was smashed and donations have continued into that GoFundMe page due to kind owners of animals we have supported.

However, we now feel that as Thermal Drone Support Bedfordshire has evolved from a mad idea to raise money for one drone and one pilot into 2 drones and a whole team of pilots and we currently have a charity status application in the air we should separate the little idea we had on New Years Eve 2023 and Thermal Drone Support Bedfordshire as it is now.

We agree to travel distances to support owners who are in a state of absolute panic when they realise their pet is missing because WE know what it is like to lose one of our family. We have to rely on continuing donations to fund the expenses we have. As we are becoming more known we are receiving more requests for support. One day in June we went to three missing dogs in the same day in Hertfordshire and Bedfordshire!

We have achieved so much in 6 months funding 2 drones, however, we envisage the need for more drones in the future to enable us to offer support to more owners. We are not kidding ourselves that funds will pour in as they did before, people are stretched, but by using this new GoFundMe page as a tool for transparent donations we will, in the future, be able to help more lost and missing animals. All of our pilots work full time jobs and are volunteers, we do what we do because we absolutely care and love what we have now started.

Thank you for supporting us and enabling us to do what we do x