Brinsley Animal Rescue

16/09/2025

Mother Mallard arrived some weeks ago with 14 of her ducklings, mum had an injured leg, we were able to treat her injury whilst keeper her with her ducklings, until they could all be released.

All but 2 ducklings survived to release date, in the wild the survival rate of ducklings is very low, many get separated from mum or get predated.

06/09/2025

Megan and Ryan are making great progress on their sponsored three peaks challenge. Two peaks completed and 9.5 miles left.

Please sponsor these inspiring young people, all donations in aid of us.

https://gofund.me/58abe82f1

05/09/2025

Tomorrow is the big day for Megan age 10 and Ryan age 15 who will be completing the Yorkshire 3 peaks challenge.

All money raised is being donated to us. Please support them, to support the vital work we do.

Here comes our next challenge and this one’s a huge one! … Kelly Stammers-Bennett needs your support for Yorkshire 3 peaks challenge for Brinsley animal rescue

05/09/2025

We are making good progress with our mission to raise £75,000 for our land purchase, to secure our future. So far we have raised £11,000.

Can you please help with a charitable donation? All donations no matter how small will help us, please use the link below to donate securely.

https://brinsleyanimalrescue.enthuse.com/cf/land-purchase-fundraiser

Whilst this purchase secures the charities future, the financial impact is significant on our available resources, our priority now is to recover and pay off our debt. Please help us help animals.

04/09/2025

This cygnet was admitted with a lame leg. Their right leg was swollen and warm on the knee joint, signs of infection in the joint. A course of anti-inflammatory pain relief and antibiotics was administered, which soon got on top of the infection. We also carried out a faecal sample analysis before release to confirm the absence of internal parasites.

03/09/2025

Jemima's story!
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02/09/2025

Pigs are highly intelligent, highly social creatures, it was so rewarding for us to bond Felicity the piglet with Jemima, they are both now besties!

Both girls are very, very lucky. Jemima arrived in October after being found as a newly born piglet on a duel carriageway, believed to have fallen out of a slaughter waggon taking her mum to slaughter, what a lucky escape! Felicity arrived after being found wandering along a road with no where to go, again as a young piglet.

Ideally we will find them a great life-ling home, in the meantime they will be safe living the best life with us.

31/08/2025

This beautiful Peregrine Falcon has just been released after a collaborative rescue. We work with many organisations around the country for the benefit of all animals, this chap involved several animal organisations for a successful rescue and release.

We initially admitted him with an injury, it was believed that he had flown into newly erected scaffolding causing him to be grounded. He was taken to our vets to be gassed down and x-rayed, this confirmed our thoughts that he had a fractured leg. Thankfully it was a clean break and the nerves were still intact, meaning he could move his leg and still use his talons. After liaising with our friends at RSPCA Oak and Furrows, we agreed that he needed the specialist help from their avian surgeon. So we called upon our friends at UK Wildlife Transporters and arranged for one of thier volunteers to kindly transport the patient with care on the 3 hour journey.

After weeks of treatment including daily physiotherapy to help compensate for a slight misalignment of the bones, he was transferred to an aviary to build back his flight muscles. Eventually it was time to be released and being such an important release, RSPCA Oak and Furrows bought him the 3 hour journey back home.

Being part of a breeding pair, it is even more important to release him back to his home, Nottingham University where he feeds off pigeons at the QMC. After a slight hesitation, being overlooked by his partner, he flew, flew and flew!!!

This was an amazing sight we were so privileged to see, such a stunningly beautiful bird, now back home to live and breed again thanks to the collaborative effort of three voluntary Organisations working together for the overall benefit of others.

29/08/2025

Its official, we have now purchased the 5 acres of land we rented, securing the charities future, the land is legally ours and our animals on the land are safe!!

So far we have raised around £10,000 of the £75,000 we need, can you please help, all donations no matter how small add up and will help us, please use the link below to donate securely.

https://brinsleyanimalrescue.enthuse.com/cf/land-purchase-fundraiser/post/16935755

Whilst this purchase secures the charities future, the financial impact is significant on our available resources, our priority now is to recover and pay off our debt. Please help us help animals.

26/08/2025

A weekend in photos.

As always the bank holiday weekend was full of activity at the rescue. 20 volunteers took the time to help and get LOTS of jobs done. And today most of them go back to their regular day jobs. Without them we know we are nothing. Fortunately the bribe of cake, vebabs and pizza as well as a great feeling when you volunteer for a few hours for a local charity seems to suffice. ❤️

We got more fencing started, ragwort picked, 10 of us went to the and bought more tasty things for the rabbits, the wildlife hospital got deep cleaned, stones were picked out of the field following muckspreading and put around gates, mud mats were unearthed and cleaned, fields got poo picked, litter got picked and Xena the staffie stayed and joined in the fun too!!



Big thanks to everyone as always!

25/08/2025

Thank you so much to Qwinteq Solutions for installing nearly 18kW of solar PV on our stable block.

We have a high demand for electricity particularly in our hospital which has heat pads, incubators, monitoring equipment, oxygen purifiers, lighting, washing machines and lots of heating and ventilation.

We were approached by a local charity whose aims are to reduce the carbon footprint of charities such as ourselves, they put us in touch with Qwinteq Solutions who supplied and installed this amazing system, within the budget we were donated.

On a sunny day like today, we are producing more electricity than we are consuming, electricity for free! This installation will not only help reduce our carbon footprint, important in itself, we see so much wildlife affected by climate change, this installation will also substantially reduce our electricity bill.

23/08/2025

An amazing start to out fundraising campaign to buy an additional 5 acres of land, we have now raised £10,000 of our £75,000 target.

https://brinsleyanimalrescue.enthuse.com/cf/land-purchase-fundraiser

OUR LARGEST FUNDRAISING APPEAL

Can you help us raise £75,000 !!

We have some AMAZING news to share with you, we are purchasing an additional 5 acres of land on our doorstep for the rescued animals.

Recently we were informed that land we rented for our rescue animals was being sold by auction with a very short deadline. This was an opportunity not to be missed, we couldn't pass on this opportunity to buy land on our doorstep and prevent some of our animals from being moved off.

In a short space of time, we put a plan into action and to our surprise, we have only been successful in our bid, soon the land will legally be owned by the charity. This 5 acres is on the edge of Brinsley, we have saved it from being developed, we have invested for the future of the charity.

To pull this off, we needed funds and quickly, in just a few days we have secured nearly £30,000 interest free loans from our amazing local community of Brinsley, in addition we have dipped deep into our reserves to fund this purchase.

Whilst this is fantastic news for the long-term future of the charity, the financial impact will have a short-term implications, we need to recover and to do so be even more mindful of spending, can you help us get back to full steam!

Can you help us pay for this land, can you please donate whatever you can for the charity's future, to help us get back to full strength, we need to raise in total £75,000, the costs of buying the land, sales costs and legal fees.

This is a unique opportunity for our future, a great investment and an opportunity we could not pass. Please use the link below to donate securely.

https://brinsleyanimalrescue.enthuse.com/cf/land-purchase-fundraiser