Guardian Angels Bird Sanctuary

Guardian Angels Bird Sanctuary GABS is a charity offering support to owners of problem birds as well as offering re homing and rehab

We hope to raise awareness about the correct way to care for aviary birds and larger species of parrots. We have 30 years experience in caring for these creatures and have worked for 10 years as unpaid volunteers for another bird charity. With so many birds in our care we decided to go it alone and spread the word in our own area and beyond.

All proceeds made by Guardian Angels Bird Sanctuary will go towards the upkeep of our resident birds and any other birds...
26/11/2025

All proceeds made by Guardian Angels Bird Sanctuary will go towards the upkeep of our resident birds and any other birds in need that arrive in the near future. We will have a number of fund raising ideas for the day including a tombola. We have 3 games to play to win a variety of prizes. These are "Play Your Cards Right" (enough room permitting) and the incredibly popular "Hook-a-Duck" (just £1.50 per go and a prize of your choice every time and "Roll the Ball". There will also be a big array of delicious home baked cakes and biscuits, including gingerbread. We'll be set up by 1pm and will be there until the last customer goes home around 7pm (could be midnight).😅So, if you're in or around Stapleford on Saturday, please pop along to our penultimate fund raiser of the year.

24/11/2025

What an incredible Saturday night it was at the Eastwood Lights Switch on. Thank you to everybody that came to visit us and made it another record amount raised which will all go to help us care for the 200 plus birds in our care, and the lovely comments we received about our stall was fantastic to hear.
On to the floodlit "Roll the Ball" competition. Courtney Henshaw just clung on to be the Christmas number 1 in the rankings despite John Humphreys best efforts to knock her off her throne. When John left sometime after 7pm, he'd done enough reclaim the number 1 spot but a flurry of late big scores did for his chances. He finished 9th, 15th and 19th with his scores of 61, 59 and 57 but it just wasn't enough.
No doubt who the star of the evening was though. Young Harley Cook walked away with the gingerbread house after a brilliant 68 won the event by just 1 point. Further scores of 60 and 57 were enough for 11th and 20th and the ranking points he earned meant he was the highest new entry at number 19 on the World Ranking list. Nicola Barsby's 67 kept her comfortably in the top 5 and Toby Goring, who finished 3rd to Nicola's 2nd, only on countback to ball 8, flew up from 45 to 17. 4th place went to Torren Corah who was more than happy when he realised that the champagne had not been picked by the 3 highest placed players. His 64 won him the bubbles. Thank you to everybody who played as we reached the 100 mark with the last go of the evening.
Here are the Christmas rankings. Last week's positions in brackets.

1 (1) Courtney Henshaw.................................................................................226
2 (2) John Humphreys.....................................................................................213
3 (3) Cheryl Henshaw.......................................................................................186
4 (4) Phil Gregory..............................................................................................143
5 (5) Nicola Barsby............................................................................................137
6 (6) Coral Boswell............................................................................................100
7 (7) Anya Gregory..............................................................................................84
8 (8) Stuart Goring...............................................................................................61
9 (9) Maddie Rostance.......................................................................................54
10 (10) Kelly Prescott..........................................................................................54
11 (11) Martin Blagg...........................................................................................50
12 (12) Andy Stevenson....................................................................................48
13 (13) Maisy Durham........................................................................................46
14 (30) Balazs Vari................................................................................................45
15 (14) Robbie Manners....................................................................................45
16 (15) Will Henshaw..........................................................................................44
17 (45) Toby Goring............................................................................................43
18 (16) Ruth Smith..............................................................................................42
19 (-) Harley Cook...............................................................................................41
20 (17) Tella Durham..........................................................................................41
21 (18) Lola Bolton..............................................................................................40
22 (19) Paul Smith-Pepper...............................................................................38
23 (20) Megan Newton.....................................................................................37
24 (21) Hazel Ward..............................................................................................37
25 (22) Lillian Locke............................................................................................36
26 (23) Leanne Stenson.....................................................................................35
27 (24) Pete Smith...............................................................................................35
28 (25) Ollie Stocker...........................................................................................34
29 (26) Woody......................................................................................................34
30 (27) Ann Green...............................................................................................31
31 (28) Rhian Cullen............................................................................................31
32 (29) Tom Bates................................................................................................31
33 (41) Farolta Vari..............................................................................................30
34 (31) Elaine Dalton..........................................................................................30
35 (32) Donna Cooper.......................................................................................30
36 (33) Jessica Byrne...........................................................................................30
37 (34) Callum White..........................................................................................30
38 (35) Julie Day...................................................................................................29
39 (36) Paul Dalton..............................................................................................28
40 (37) Louise Goring.........................................................................................26
41 (38) Hazel Charlesworth..............................................................................25
42 (39) Julie Stenson...........................................................................................25
43 (40) Beth Rowan.............................................................................................25
44 (42) John Walker............................................................................................24
45 (43) Phoebe Cook..........................................................................................23
46 (44) Lileth Ford................................................................................................23
47 (46) Reuben Cooper.....................................................................................22
48 (47) Vicky Sloman..........................................................................................22
49 (48) Wayne Durham......................................................................................21
50 (49) Gez Addictive.........................................................................................21
51 (50) Courtney Watkins.................................................................................21
52 (51) Ethan Fox.................................................................................................21
53 (52) Joy Robinson..........................................................................................21
54 (53) Jill Castledine..........................................................................................20
55 (54) Jack Cooper............................................................................................19
56 (55) Mia Jones.................................................................................................19
57 (-) Torren Corah..............................................................................................18
58 (56) Katie Smith..............................................................................................18
59 (57) Amy Smith...............................................................................................18
60 (58) Pete Exley.................................................................................................18
61 (59) Theo Cooper...........................................................................................18
62 (-) Arthur Bates...............................................................................................16
63 (60) Stanley Reeve.........................................................................................16
64 (61) Jamie Place..............................................................................................16
65 (62) Tandy.........................................................................................................16
66 (63) Matlida Gilbert.......................................................................................15
67 (64) Robert Locke..........................................................................................15
68 (65) Stacey Gregory......................................................................................15
69 (66) Hannah Stimson....................................................................................15
70 (67) Ryan Dennis............................................................................................15
71 (68) Charlie Hallam........................................................................................15
72 (69) Julia Filus..................................................................................................14
73 (70) Niall Ruddy..............................................................................................14
74 (71) Zak Baker.................................................................................................14
75 (72) Harry Barker............................................................................................14
76 (73) Alfie Fowkes............................................................................................14
77 (132) Olivia Thorpe.......................................................................................13
78 (74) Dominic Blagg.......................................................................................13
79 (75) Abbie Stocker.........................................................................................13
80 (76) Kieran Clifford........................................................................................13
81 (77) Rio Herring..............................................................................................13
82 (78) William Newton.....................................................................................13
83 (79) Jessica Ruddy.........................................................................................13
84 (80) Elsie Murray............................................................................................12
85 (81) Nat Rocca................................................................................................12
86 (82) Jacob Hatch............................................................................................12
87 (83) Craig Bailey.............................................................................................12
88 (-) Finley Lowe.................................................................................................11
89 (84) Amy Ozenbrook....................................................................................11
90 (85) Charlotte Jones......................................................................................11
91 (86) Leo Perks..................................................................................................11
92 (87) Logan Webster......................................................................................11
93 (88) Chloe Shepherd.....................................................................................11
94 (89) Linda Barnwell........................................................................................11
95 (90) Monty Watts...........................................................................................11
96 (91) Peter Lord................................................................................................10
97 (92) Elsie Goring.............................................................................................10
98 (93) Leo Bolton...............................................................................................10
99 (94) Nick Jones...............................................................................................10
100 (95) Noah Roberts.......................................................................................10
101 (96) Lily-May Hopcroft-Beecham..........................................................10
102 (97) Mark Rowan.........................................................................................10
103 (98) Freddie Longdon................................................................................10
104 (99) Richard Woolley....................................................................................9
105 (100) Olive Spurling......................................................................................9
106 (101) Matthew Bullock.................................................................................9
107 (102) Eliza Murray..........................................................................................9
108 (103) Oliver Johnson.....................................................................................9
109 (104) Flynn Usher...........................................................................................9
110 (105) Chris Stocker........................................................................................9
111 (106) Matt Dee................................................................................................9
112 (107) Michaela Ruby.....................................................................................9
113 (108) Abbie Hutsby.......................................................................................9
114 (-) Blake Armes...............................................................................................8
115 (109) Amelia Thorpe.....................................................................................8
116 (110) Evie Stocker..........................................................................................8
117 (111) Brian Peel...............................................................................................8
118 (112) Kirsty Gilbert........................................................................................8
119 (113) Enya Dove.............................................................................................8
120 (114) Tom Stimson........................................................................................7
121 (115) Pete Guiler............................................................................................7
122 (116) Louie Tansley........................................................................................7
123 (117) Alex Locke.............................................................................................6
124 (118) Elliott Murray.......................................................................................6
125 (119) Pat Drabble...........................................................................................6
126 (120) Summer Inger.....................................................................................6
127 (121) Laon Ruby.............................................................................................6
128 (122) Wayne Barsby......................................................................................5
129 (123) Alfie Driver............................................................................................5
130 (124) Ellie Stimson.........................................................................................5
131 (125) Noah Taylor..........................................................................................5
132 (126) Gary Woodhouse...............................................................................5
133 (127) Arthur Hyslop......................................................................................4
134 (128) Zoe Connor..........................................................................................4
135 (129) Ryder Herring......................................................................................4
136 (130) Luke Hodson........................................................................................4
137 (131) David Holmes......................................................................................4
138 (133) Robyn Larner........................................................................................4
138 (-) Olivia Wheatley........................................................................................3
139 (134) Connor Pickering................................................................................3
140 (135) Miley Stenson......................................................................................3
141 (136) Abigail Needham...............................................................................3
142 (137) Pete Ward..............................................................................................3
143 (138) June Vasey.............................................................................................3
144 (139) Henry Hatch.........................................................................................2
145 (140) Owen Bowmar.....................................................................................2
146 (141) Pete Iremonger...................................................................................1
147 (142) Imogen Webster.................................................................................1
148 (143) Verna Poppy.........................................................................................1
149 (144) Harrison Mace.....................................................................................1
150 (145) Penny Clark...........................................................................................1
151 (146) Lee Ashford-Bryant...........................................................................1
152 (147) Marion Hemson..................................................................................1

That's our last ranking event until just before Easter 2026 but don't forget we still have "Roll the Ball" events with great prizes at Stapleford Lights this Saturday and Cromford Road Festival on Sunday 7th December.

23/11/2025

Thank you for all the enquiries but the terrapin has now been rehomed.

23/11/2025

We desperately need a home for a terrapin. It comes with a large tank and filter system. It's free to a good home, so if you're interested please ring Rebecca on 01773 770891 or 07772138961.

Just one sleep until the Eastwood Christmas Lights Switch on and we'll be outside Lawrence Veterinary Centre, who have k...
21/11/2025

Just one sleep until the Eastwood Christmas Lights Switch on and we'll be outside Lawrence Veterinary Centre, who have kindly allowed us to take over the pavement outside their Cat Clinic for the 12th consecutive year (barring Covid). We've got so much going on again this year. Brilliant prizes galore on our tombola, "Hook-a-Duck" and in our Santa's Grotto. So kids, drag your parents over and they might get a chance to sit on Santa's knee.☺️Well why should children have all the fun.😁There'll be a full to bursting stall full of delicious homemade cakes and gingerbread too and we'll have a steaming hot saucepan full of mushy peas to warm you up on a cold, late Autumn evening. The photos are just 2 of the 4 prizes on offer on one of our biggest "Roll the Ball" events. There is also a large "Me to You" bear and a "Spa Luxetique" gift set. It's the final ranking event of the year, so the race is on for the number one spot at Christmas. We'll be there from 1pm until 7.30pm and we can't wait to see you.

After a brilliant Beeston Lights, our Christmas fund raisers continue this Saturday when we will be outside Lawrence Vet...
19/11/2025

After a brilliant Beeston Lights, our Christmas fund raisers continue this Saturday when we will be outside Lawrence Veterinary Centre from around 1pm until 7pm. We'll have our usual tombola and "Hook-a-Duck" with loads of prizes that are Christmas related and plenty of potential presents for the whole family. We'll have a gazebo full of fresh, homemade cakes and we'll also have loads of mushy peas on sale to keep you warm in the cold night air. Also, "Roll the Ball" will have prizes including Rebecca's legendry gingerbread house, a bottle of champagne and also a big gift set of bathroom goodies (photos to follow). Remember Roll the Ballers, it's also our last ranking event of the year...who will be the Christmas number 1 (more on that tomorrow). From around 4ish, we'll be opening our Santa's Grotto. So, bring your kids along to see Santa and receive a present and adults as well (why not?).😊 It promises to be a brilliant day. See you on Saturday.

27/10/2025

Thank you to everyone that turned up yesterday for our Autumn Fayre at Greasley Sports Hall and we hope you all enjoyed yourselves. Congratulations to our raffle winners Stuart Goring (982 pink ticket), then Maggie Haskey (674) and Kevin Rostance (698 and 712 all orange tickets).
Now on to the "Roll the Ball" tournament which was won by the most surprised and formally self deprecating player ever, Coral Boswell. In her own words "I thought someone was rolling the balls for me" as she scored a brilliant 69 and then added a 67 to get 3rd place as well. She might think a bit different about her game now because since Easter when she'd dropped of the rankings altogether, she has soared up to 6th in the world. Another upwardly mobile player yesterday was Maisie Durham who rose from 45 to number 13, thanks to scores of 58, 61 and a superb 68 to finish 19th, 10th and 2nd respectively. World number 1 Courtney Henshaw failed to get in the top 20 yesterday and her lead at the top has been cut to 33 points with her mum Cheryl, now just 7 points behind John Humphreys who hangs on to 2nd place.
Here are the latest rankings with last weeks positions in brackets:-

1 (1) Courtney Henshaw.................................................................................226
2 (2) John Humphreys.....................................................................................193
3 (3) Cheryl Henshaw.......................................................................................186
4 (4) Phil Gregory..............................................................................................128
5 (5) Nicola Barsby............................................................................................105
6 (10) Coral Boswell..........................................................................................100
7 (7) Anya Gregory..............................................................................................67
8 (8) Stuart Goring...............................................................................................61
9 (17) Maddie Rostance....................................................................................54
10 (9) Kelly Prescott............................................................................................54
11 (29) Martin Blagg...........................................................................................50
12 (43) Andy Stevenson....................................................................................48
13 (45) Maisy Durham........................................................................................46
14 (13) Robbie Manners....................................................................................45
15 (15) Will Henshaw..........................................................................................44
16 (13) Ruth Smith...............................................................................................42
17 (6) Tella Durham.............................................................................................41
18 (18) Lola Bolton..............................................................................................40
19 (20) Paul Smith-Pepper...............................................................................38
20 (21) Megan Newton.....................................................................................37
21 (22) Hazel Ward..............................................................................................37
22 (25) Lillian Locke............................................................................................36
23 (26) Leanne Stenson.....................................................................................35
24 (27) Pete Smith...............................................................................................35
25 (14) Ollie Stocker...........................................................................................34
26 (28) Woody......................................................................................................34
27 (11) Ann Green...............................................................................................31
28 (30) Rhian Cullen............................................................................................31
29 (32) Tom Bates................................................................................................31
30 (34) Balazs Vari................................................................................................31
31 (35) Elaine Dalton..........................................................................................30
32 (36) Donna Cooper.......................................................................................30
33 (37) Jessica Byrne...........................................................................................30
34 (38) Callum White..........................................................................................30
35 (41) Julie Day...................................................................................................29
36 (31) Paul Dalton..............................................................................................28
37 (42) Louise Goring.........................................................................................26
38 (23) Hazel Charlesworth..............................................................................25
39 (12) Julie Stenson...........................................................................................25
40 (46) Beth Rowan.............................................................................................25
41 (47) Charlotte Vari.........................................................................................25
42 (48) John Walker............................................................................................24
43 (51) Phoebe Cook..........................................................................................23
44 (52) Lileth Ford................................................................................................23
45 (53) Toby Goring............................................................................................22
46 (54) Reuben Cooper.....................................................................................22
47 (55) Vicky Sloman..........................................................................................22
48 (19) Wayne Durham......................................................................................21
49 (57) Gez Addictive.........................................................................................21
50 (58) Courtney Watkins.................................................................................21
51 (59) Ethan Fox.................................................................................................21
52 (60) Joy Robinson..........................................................................................21
53 (61) Jill Castledine..........................................................................................20
54 (62) Jack Cooper............................................................................................19
55 (63) Mia Jones.................................................................................................19
56 (64) Katie Smith..............................................................................................18
57 (65) Amy Smith...............................................................................................18
58 (66) Pete Exley.................................................................................................18
59 (68) Theo Cooper...........................................................................................18
60 (70) Stanley Reeve.........................................................................................16
61 (71) Jamie Place..............................................................................................16
62 (73) Tandy.........................................................................................................16
63 (74) Matlida Gilbert.......................................................................................15
64 (75) Robert Locke..........................................................................................15
65 (76) Stacey Gregory......................................................................................15
66 (77) Hannah Stimson....................................................................................15
67 (78) Ryan Dennis............................................................................................15
68 (79) Charlie Hallam........................................................................................15
69 (-) Julia Filus.....................................................................................................14
70 (81) Niall Ruddy..............................................................................................14
71 (82) Zak Baker.................................................................................................14
72 (83) Harry Barker............................................................................................14
73 (84) Alfie Fowkes............................................................................................14
74 (85) Dominic Blagg.......................................................................................13
75 (86) Abbie Stocker.........................................................................................13
76 (87) Kieran Clifford........................................................................................13
77 (88) Rio Herring..............................................................................................13
78 (89) William Newton.....................................................................................13
79 (90) Jessica Ruddy.........................................................................................13
80 (92) Elsie Murray............................................................................................12
81 (93) Nat Rocca................................................................................................12
82 (94) Jacob Hatch............................................................................................12
83 (95) Craig Bailey.............................................................................................12
84 (97) Amy Ozenbrook....................................................................................11
85 (98) Charlotte Jones......................................................................................11
86 (99) Leo Perks..................................................................................................11
87 (100) Logan Webster....................................................................................11
88 (101) Chloe Shepherd..................................................................................11
89 (102) Linda Barnwell.....................................................................................11
90 (103) Monty Watts........................................................................................11
91 (-) Peter Lord...................................................................................................10
92 (104) Elsie Goring..........................................................................................10
93 (105) Leo Bolton............................................................................................10
94 (106) Nick Jones.............................................................................................10
95 (107) Noah Roberts.......................................................................................10
96 (108) Lily-May Hopcroft-Beecham..........................................................10
97 (109) Mark Rowan.........................................................................................10
98 (110) Freddie Longdon................................................................................10
99 (111) Richard Woolley....................................................................................9
100 (112) Olive Spurling......................................................................................9
101 (113) Matthew Bullock.................................................................................9
102 (114) Eliza Murray..........................................................................................9
103 (115) Oliver Johnson.....................................................................................9
104 (116) Flynn Usher...........................................................................................9
105 (117) Chris Stocker........................................................................................9
106 (118) Matt Dee................................................................................................9
107 (119) Michaela Ruby.....................................................................................9
108 (120) Abbie Hutsby.......................................................................................9
109 (50) Amelia Thorpe.......................................................................................8
110 (122) Evie Stocker..........................................................................................8
111 (123) Brian Peel...............................................................................................8
112 (124) Kirsty Gilbert........................................................................................8
113 (125) Enya Dove.............................................................................................8
114 (128) Tom Stimson........................................................................................7
115 (129) Pete Guiler............................................................................................7
116 (131) Louie Tansley........................................................................................7
117 (72) Alex Locke...............................................................................................6
118 (133) Elliott Murray.......................................................................................6
119 (134) Pat Drabble...........................................................................................6
120 (135) Summer Inger.....................................................................................6
121 (136) Laon Ruby.............................................................................................6
122 (137) Wayne Barsby......................................................................................5
123 (138) Alfie Driver............................................................................................5
124 (139) Ellie Stimson.........................................................................................5
125 (140) Noah Taylor..........................................................................................5
126 (141) Gary Woodhouse...............................................................................5
127 (143) Arthur Hyslop......................................................................................4
128 (144) Zoe Connor..........................................................................................4
129 (145) Ryder Herring......................................................................................4
130 (146) Luke Hodson........................................................................................4
131 (147) David Holmes......................................................................................4
132 (148) Olivia Thorpe.......................................................................................4
133 (149) Robyn Larner........................................................................................4
134 (152) Connor Pickering................................................................................3
135 (153) Miley Stenson......................................................................................3
136 (154) Abigail Needham...............................................................................3
137 (155) Pete Ward..............................................................................................3
138 (156) June Vasey.............................................................................................3
139 (157) Henry Hatch.........................................................................................2
140 (160) Owen Bowmar.....................................................................................2
141 (-) Pete Iremonger.........................................................................................1
142 (69) Imogen Webster...................................................................................1
143 (162) Verna Poppy.........................................................................................1
144 (163) Harrison Mace.....................................................................................1
145 (164) Penny Clark...........................................................................................1
146 (166) Lee Ashford-Bryant...........................................................................1
147 (167) Marion Hemson..................................................................................1

The next ranking event is at the Eastwood Christmas Lights Switch On outside Lawrence Veterinary Centre on Saturday 22nd November from 1pm until 7.30pm.

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