21/06/2025
🌟 A Message from Karen – Please Read
We’re heartbroken and furious to be writing this, but feel it’s time to set the record straight. Someone — we have a very good idea who — has reported us to the Department for Work and Pensions with allegations that amount to fraud.
Let us be absolutely clear:
➡ Our accounts and paperwork are in place. Every single donation, adoption, or fundraising activity is documented. Our paperwork might be basic compared to the costly software and admin of large organisations, but it exists — because we’ve always had transparency at the heart of what we do.
➡ There is NO legal requirement in the UK for informal non-profit animal rescues to register as a charity, keep accounts, obtain a licence, or hold specific paperwork. Would we support tighter laws for rescues? Absolutely — in fact, that’s what we were working towards.
➡ We have spent thousands of pounds of our own money helping cats. We’ve exhausted our finances, health, and time, not for personal gain, but because our hearts wouldn’t let us turn away a cat in need.
🐾 Who we are
I became passionate about cats at 17, when I got my first cat, Sooty — my best friend, confidant and companion who saw me through the toughest of times. She lived to 19, moving with me through different homes, meeting Gary’s dogs, and eventually helping raise our children to be animal-savvy, compassionate, and responsible — until we lost her to kidney disease.
Twelve years ago, we moved to Wales as a multi-cat family and quickly saw how desperately this area needed cat rescue support. Large registered charities didn’t cover our region, and people had nowhere to turn. That’s how our rescue began — by helping where no one else would.
🐾 We started small: health checking, neutering, vaccinating, and rehoming the occasional cat. Word spread. We helped people with TNR (trap, neuter, return) work, supported farmers, and gave advice on grants and vouchers.
🐾 We worked alongside Powys Animal Welfare, doing the legwork with certain cats while they provided the funding. Gradually, thanks to donations from friends and followers, we became more independent — though we always continued to pour in our own money, time, and energy.
🐾 We have helped countless cats no one else wanted — FIV positive cats, seniors, scared cats, and those with medical needs.
🐾 Our vision
Over two years ago, we began the process of registering as a charity — something Lauren, with her background in charity work, has led with determination despite her own health challenges. We scaled back trapping, loaned out traps, and focused on advice so we could prepare properly.
👉 We have been open about our struggles: between us we cope with diabetes type 1, fibromyalgia, ADHD, osteoarthritis, anxiety, and fatigue. Yet the calls for help have never stopped — often from people saying other rescues, even registered ones, wouldn’t help them. We have reduced our services down and tried everything we can to still support but also to take control of our health issues.
👉 Our aim? To become a registered charity that not only rescues, but educates, supports owners, works with vets and like-minded organisations, and provides real solutions — not just rehoming, but helping people keep their cats where possible. We are passionate about helping to change laws to make all rescues and their branches work towards the same goals, including neutering all cats before rehoming. We want to help stop unlicensed breeders. To stop the selling and giving of cats away free on social media sites. To help bring in tougher laws on pet ownership and also on animal abuse and bringing in tougher sentencing.
⚠ Let’s be honest:
We know who reported us. We’ve kept our own records — screenshots, correspondence, and evidence — because integrity works both ways. If people want to throw stones, they’d better be sure they have no skeletons of their own.
👉 Reporting us does nothing but take our time and energy from the cats who need us. Reporting me personally will not affect the rescue cats — but it could hurt my own family and our own cats, who are no one else’s business. You have no knowledge of our personal finances whether they be wages or benefits and you should not even be interested. As long as we tell the correct organisation the correct information it is our personal business and the two should not be mixed together.
👉 We don’t have fancy cars, uniforms, rebranding or staff. Every penny goes to the cats. Our adoption paperwork and processes are second to none.
👉 You don’t have to be a registered charity to be honest, transparent, or to provide excellent care. And in fact, I know registered organisations who cut corners — in rescue and beyond.
🌟 Our promise to our supporters:
💛 We will always put the cats first.
💛 We will always be honest about where your donations go.
💛 We will keep fighting for better laws — not just for rescues, but for pet ownership, neutering, and real accountability for animal cruelty.
💬 Please, before you judge small rescues, ask yourself: where would these cats be without them? If big organisations won’t step up, don’t try to tear down those who do. And find out your facts on the differences between the ways organisations are set up, the way they work and what they need to do in the eyes of the law. We aren't just a "pop up" rescue. Between us and our moderaters we have knowledge and experience of accountancy, law, insurance, working in the charity sector and much more. We have vast knowledge on cat ownership and cat care and we wouldn't be able to apply to be a registered charity without at least two years worth of paperwork.
Thank you to all who continue to support us — you are the reason we keep going.
Karen x
