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Brinsley Animal Rescue

🌍Located in Nottinghamshire
Registered Charity 1135508
We rescue wildlife, pets & farm animals. Run by volunteers for animals.
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www.brinsleyanimalrescue.org

Brinsley Animal Rescue is a Charity run for animals by volunteers, we rescue wild animals, pets and farm animals.

14/10/2025

Not a single day goes by without us receiving requests to take in unwanted, dumped and often neglected pets. In less than 24 hours, we have admitted 7 rabbits, all in desperate need of treatment, sadly in the same period, we turned away even more!!

These 7 rabbits all need to be neutered and have two vaccinations each before we can consider putting them up for adoption, to find them all good homes. The basic costs alone to treat these 7 rabbits is over £2,000, that's before we have any surgery which may be required due to poor teeth, often seen with rabbits from poor homes caused by inappropriate diet.

One of these boys was brought to us by the Police, from what they described as "truly horrific and squalid conditions". The other 6 were kept all together in a tiny cage, as they are not castrated they have taken chunks out of each other.

If you can help, please consider making a donation to help with thier treatment, whatever you can, so that we can find them life-long homes where they will receive the love and care they so deserve.

Donations can be made using the link below;
https://brinsleyanimalrescue.enthuse.com/Regular #!/

11/10/2025

Thanks go out to Team Animal Friends Pet Insurance who kindly volunteered for the day, helping to clear up and paid for two skips. The land we recently purchased has decades of rubbish left behind, we have slowly been trying to remove and recycle or dispose of.

Yesterday the team worked hard and filled not one but two skips full, we are now well on our way to get the land tidy.

10/10/2025

Daisy was a stray, unloved, not neutered or chipped. As her former owner has not taken responsibility for her, she has brought more cats into this cruel world, more animals needing help, expensive treatment and a loving home.

Thankfully we had space for the Daisy and her litter (Lily, Rosie and Iris), unfortunately we have did not have space for another 621 other cats turned away this year.

All will be blood tested, chipped, vaccinated, wormed, deflead and neutered and we'll be looking for life-long homes. Once in a new home, we'll have space to rescue more.

08/10/2025

On Sunday we had another stray piglet brought to us, he arrived very weak and unresponsive, we feared the worse. With around the clock care in an incubator, having antibiotics and fluids, 24hours later Benny as we have now called him finally started drinking milk. Three days later with feeds every 3 hours, he has the strength for surgery. Today at our star vets Vets for Pets Eastwood he was gassed down to investigate his eye troubles.

Unfortunaly it was confirmed that both eyes had ruptured, he needed a double enucleation, the removal of both his eyes.

With know that some blind animals can still have a full an active life, we have a blind cow and of course had Boris our wonderful blind bull, in addition we know of other rescue blind pigs that are living an amazing life.

Can you help us pay for Benny's treatment, he is one expensive little man, we love him!

Use this like to donate -- https://brinsleyanimalrescue.enthuse.com/Regular #!/

07/10/2025

Just a reminder that it’s our regular ‘Peoples Kitchen’ this Saturday at the Sumac with a suggested donation of £5. We’ll be cooking up a hearty ‘pie n mash’ with lashings of onion gravy. All vegan and all proceeds to the rescue. There will also be cakes available and a crumble, what’s not to love? All welcome.

03/10/2025

It’s been a full day of hoof trims during some feral wet weather! Amy and Hannah took on a steady stream of hooves whilst Storm Amy made us all very wet! Not all ponies were very compliant today but bomb proof rideable equines with no issues don’t usually end up in rescues sadly so we always have unique cases to contend with and we don’t know any hoof trimmers that would do such a great job with our horses. Thanks girls!!

30/09/2025

This week one of our star volunteers starts on her new chapter of life studying at the Royal Veterinary College. Lucia volunteered with us for a number of years and is the fourth of our volunteer to get into university to study veterinary science.

She would kill us if we posted a photo of her but Lucia gave up her Saturdays to volunteer and help in our wildlife hospital for a number of years and caught 2 very early buses to do so too.

She got lots of animal handling experience with us and was able to witness and help our vets with lots of surgical procedures including gelding a tiny pony. We taught her a lot about the medications we use and she was confident in working out dosage rates and she’s already well conversed with a formulary book, parasitology and needle gauges!! We hope she starts her first year this week with a lot of knowledge already and we all wish Lucia the very best of luck. She is already sorely missed by Wendy who volunteered with her in the hospital.

From everyone at Brinsley good luck Lucia.

26/09/2025

We are a Nation of animals lovers, a term we all often hear, but are we really, what is the reality? From our position, this is nothing but a myth of epic proportions.

Today, like yesterday, like the day before, like last week and the week before, like everyday, we have to turn away pets that in the most are desperately needing help. Its simple, if people buy thier puppy, or kitten or baby rabbit from a breeder, garden centre or pet shop and ignore the tens of thousands of pets, desperately seeking like-long homes in rescue centres, up and down our great country, then these rescues simply stay full to capacity.

We have no space and we cannot continue to find £40,000+ a year to pay for for basic treatment for these "loved" pets.

If we were a Nation of animal lovers, we wouldn't have had to turn away 539 cats so far this year, if we are a Nation of pet lovers, we wouldn't have had to say sorry to 1,232 pets in total that we have so far turned away in 2025.

2025 is heading to be the worst year ever for dumped, unwanted, untreated, unloved pets, but we are a Nation of animal lovers I hear!!!.

We admitted this unneutered mum and 3 kittens today, the "animal loving former owner" had not only failed to neuter her, she was riddled with worms, passing them onto her babies causing an a**l prolapse needing emergency surgery, we are such a Nation of animal lovers !!

These are 4 very lucky soles, we have already turned away 12 other cats today and still counting.........

When will we as a society every learn and take responsibility?

23/09/2025

Many times a day we receive requests to help sick, injured and orphaned wildlife. With our limited resources, we do our very best to advise, or respond when appropriate and when we can. However, being an organisation limited by funding and volunteers, we can only do so much and it's never enough.

Yesterday we received a call about an adult fox lying in water. Volunteers left thier daytime jobs to respond as quickly as we could. We safely contained and muzzled him, wrapped in warm blankets and took straight to our vets.

The fox was gassed down for a full examination and x-rays. As all too often, if you can catch an adult wild animal, they are usually seriously ill, this chap was no exception. He had severe injuries and was infested with maggots, the injuries were consistent with a road traffic collision, we ended his suffering.

Whilst this is very disappointing and upsetting for us, we have to accept that this is still a successful rescue, we have without doubt saved the fox from a prolonged death, cold and in pain.

22/09/2025

This weekend we rehomed Scratchy a 3 year old castrated ram we took in a couple of years ago. Scratchy soon settled in with his new ewe girlfriend.

19/09/2025

Update - amazingly we have raised £12,000 however we have a long way to go. Please donate if you can.

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http://www.brinsleyanimalrescue.org/

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Our Story

2017 - 667 Animals Rescued

2017 has been another good year for the charity. During the year the charity has taken in 667 animals, pets, farm and wild animals.

--In total we handled 667 animals. --We rehomed 308 into loving, life long homes. This includes rabbits, guinea pigs, poultry and ponies.

– 80 wild animals were rehabilitated and released.Including owls, foxes and hedgehogs.

We can only take in so may and care for them, as and when we have the resources in terms of funds, space and time. This means that we sadly have to turn many pets away almost every day of the week.

In 2017 we had to say no to 750 pets. We even received calls on New Year’s Day to give up pets bought for Christmas!

– We rehomed 1 pig, but sadly could not take in a further 125.

– We rehomed 60 rabbits, however had to say no to 229.

It’s now some ten years ago we moved to Brinsley and set up the Charity, since then we have steadily gained more experience and grown the Charity.

A massive, massive thank you to everyone that has made this remarkable year possible. Thank you to our hard working volunteers, to our supporters and everyone who has donated to the charity or helped us in some way, we are deeply grateful.

Without you, we could not have achieved so much and so many animals would not have been rescued.

There are many ways in which you can help our charity raise funds to cover the cost of animal feed, bedding and medication.

CHARITY EBAY STORE:

We have a charity ebay store selling new and used items. Ranging from Sass & Belle gifts, to our official merchandise including annual sponsorship packs for £20.00. You can click on the above title to direct you to our charity ebay store.

https://www.ebay.co.uk/usr/brinsley_animal_rescue

CHARITY CHECKOUT:

You can also make donations / one off payments through charity checkout, which is a secure link. You can click on the above title to direct you to charity checkout.

https://brinsleyanimalrescue.charitycheckout.co.uk/page2