Idlewild Animal Sanctuary

26/11/2024

Let’s make a difference together during
. Volunteer, donate or share our page.

Here is a short film to celebrate our Volunteers and for them to tell you why they Volunteer. Follow us to see a new video each day this week.

25-29 November https://welshcharitiesweek.cymru/.

26/11/2024

Thank you to Natsha for her order.

Did you know you can send the gift of food for a month for different animals and you get a vidow that you can sent to someone of it is a gift for them.

I'm a world where people have everything they need sent a gift to a charity in their name.

Have a look for ideas on our shop.

https://idlewild.shop/products

25/11/2024

With Christmas just a month away, we have the perfect present on offer in Saturday's big Super Draw! By supporting Idlewild Animal Sanctuary this week, our supporters will be in with a chance to win the ultimate PS5 Pro Bundle, or £1,000 cash!
Please support us with loto lwcus! 😍

Idlewild Animal Sanctuary is offering you the chance to win big prizes and help raise much needed funds.

25/11/2024

Since being poorly Buttons has been stuggling with the cold. So she now has a new supper snazzy warm winter coat. Buttons just wants to be out with her friends and hate being in, so this winter warmer is our compromise to keep her happy and warm.

24/11/2024

Yinkas story.

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23/11/2024

Another rescue closed.

We are losing rescues at a daily rate. This is so sad.

Please help us not be the next one to close.

We have a full set up all we need is a new location. A new site to carry one what we do so well for people and animals alike.

Do you know of any plots of land for sale ?
Do you know anyone that would rent us land on a long tern basis ?
Can you donate so we can buy land ?
Would you invest so you can buy land with us.

We need at least 5 acers ideally 10 but can work with 5. We need some option for building for an office and break room for volunteers. A cat room, a reptile room and an animal hopsital. Running water and electric. We could use containers if needs be.

Please email [email protected] will any suggestions or offers of help.

There is soooo many ways you can help.

23/11/2024

ONLY ONE MORE DAY TO BID!!!

The Idlewild special Christmas auction finishes tomorrow, Sunday 24th, at 8pm. With 54 items with current bids as low as £2 there is so much to choose from.

Don’t miss out, get your bids in while you can and get your Christmas shopping sorted!

https://www.facebook.com/share/g/17uPo5fmfy/?mibextid=K35XfP

23/11/2024

This cold spell means we are going through more food than normal.

Can you help and donate a bag from our wishlist at all ?

https://www.amazon.co.uk/hz/wishlist/ls/2XEQDVMC911E1/?ref_=lol_ov_le&fbclid=IwAR1h93_2A4t

22/11/2024

Meet Katie she has been brought up to us from the kind team at Celyn Vets in Holywell who even drove the kestrel over too us as we had no one to collect.

Katie is very underweight but otherwise OK. We are waiting for a p**p sample to check for parasites and are feeding her up. Hopefully she won't be with us too long and will be back where she belongs.

22/11/2024

Can you help us get more followers to gain more support to save our sanctuary ?

Please like this post, follow our main page, share to all your friends and send us a screenshot of your friends invite, to be in with a chance of receiving a personal show round and meet and greet with the animals.

Winner to be picked at random Friday 29th November.

21/11/2024

Sad new 😢

Our beautiful goat ceri has passed away.

She will be misses so much. Ceri was a very calming force in the herd as one of the original group. She lived her life with her kids and other friends. She enjoyed 10 years of a free range life with nice warm sheads to hide from the rain, as Ceri wasnt a fan of the rain. She now leaves Geraldine as our only original gaot.

Ceri will be cremated and return to the sanctuary.

If you can help us with the cost of an individual cremation please donate. This is the last bit of care we can give her.

21/11/2024

No home offers for Oreo or Bobcat since their posts😢. So trying again. Please like and share and togther let's get these boys a home.

Oreo is a BBBB Beautiful Big Black Boy.
Oreo has FIV but has NO known health problems and has been supper healthy whole time he has been with us.

Bobcat is an older gent that needs some tlc. Do you have tlc to give Bobcat ?
Bobcat is FIV positive and has ongoing eye flare ups. He needs eye cream whenever they are sore and he just wants someone to love him.

Due to FIV they both need an indoor home or home with a secure catio.

If you can offer Oreo or Bobcat a safe forever home together or separately please fill out the cat matching form.

https://www.idlewildanimalsanctuary.co.uk/adopt-a-cat/

20/11/2024

While the temperatures are so cold please consider supporting your local garden wildlife battle through the cold and keep themselves warm.

With reduced daylight hours for foraging and reduced natural sources a helping hand can go a long way. Wildlife use a lot of their energy gained from food to keep warm in the cold spells so support is really important this time of year.

Lots of commercial calorie-rich foods birds mixed are available such as multi seed mix, sunflower seed, nyjer seed and good quality peanuts. However you can also offer Kitchen scraps like mild grated cheese, bruised fruit, cooked rice, unsalted bits of hard fat, roast potatoes and dry porridge oats .
Corvids, blackbirds ect mealworms and suet will be appreciated.
Hedgehogs will appreciate some meat flavored cat food.

19/11/2024

After all the press we have had we want to let our new supports know what is happening.

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The Lease on our current premises is expiring and sadly our landlord will not renew or extend our lease as he wants to move back in himself. We therefore need to find alternative premises for the sanctuary or we will close down.

💚What do we need💚:

We need around 12 acres with appropriate buildings, or space to create them – and estimate this will cost around £600,000.

🙌What can you do to help🙌:

Idlewild Animal Sanctuary (Property) Limited has been set up as a vehicle to raise this money, where people can invest to help us and hopefully gain a return in exchange.

We are offering shares in the new property to individuals and businesses at £50 per share with a view to raising the funds. Should we be unsuccessful in raising the money, then the shareholders will either have the option of treating the share value as a donation to Idlewild, or selling all, or some, back to the Company at the price paid. The donations will then go towards funding the sensitive relocation and rehoming of what will then be homeless animals.

If we can not raise all the funds we will look to rent as a last resort before closing.
If you can donate please donate here. We will use the funds to buy land or to pay upfront rent.

GoFundMe link:
https://www.gofundme.com/f/u9ksw-we-need-to-move

🫶Why help us🫶:

We are home to around 100 animals and we support around 50 volunteers.

Many of our resident animals are elderly and or have disabilities they need the expert care we can offer.
We offer a rehoming service to pet/companion animals that people can not longer care for. Without us who would care for these animals. We match people with companion animals that enriches thier lives with a new friend.
We offer a very high level of wildlife rehabilitation and these wildlife animals need us. As do the people that refer animals to us, as without Idlewild there will be no one to help them get the animal safe.
To our volunteers we are a lifeline. We support people with learning difficulties, mental health disorders and those facing loneliness. Many of our volunteers didn't leave the house before coming to Idlewild. For some people this is the only reason they get up in the morning or the only time they leave the house. We encourage development, build self esteem, creat friendship. If we close where will our volunteers get this support ?

For all these reasons and more we need your support to stay open.

Please support us if you can.

https://iasproperty.co.uk/?fbclid=IwY2xjawGoeItleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHfCJ5frHeiWBx750BKqSc51GNfoAAwH6ueqG3mZKEu9hmrBY0OVj1mHeEQ_aem_uVrQAagPA7H5a2lvfrUwAg

Idlewild Animal Sanctuary was set up in 2015 as a registered charity to provide care to wild, exotic, domestic and farm animals and birds, rescuing, rehabilitating, releasing and rehoming, and providing a safe haven for those needing lifelong care. We also provide a therapeutic and educational resou...

19/11/2024

Can you spot your favourite Idlewild resident on this BBC vidoe posted today ?

Please like and share to help us save our sanctuary.

https://gofund.me/c6316e77

Animals in Wales ranging from geese to snow leopards at a zoo are shown in snow-covered scenes.

19/11/2024

Definitely a snow day up here today ❄️❄️❄️

19/11/2024

Our friends at Pip & Oat are holding a Christmas event in support of our sanctuary. Check out the poster below and head over to show support if you can. We hope to see you there!