Grants from £250 with no upper limit are available to UK registered charities and not-for-profit organisations to support pet rescue centres and to rehome pets.
Rescue Centre Grants - to support organisations whose main activities are the rescue and rehoming of UK domestic pet and the reduction of the number of domestic pets in rescue. Rescue Centre Grants can support:
• Animal food.
• Boarding fees.
• Equipment.
• Trap and neuter schemes
• Vehicles, and
• Vet bills
Helping People Through Pets - to support organisations whose main activities are one or both of the following:
• The provision of temporary or ongoing assistance to ensure pets can remain with their owners, where rehoming takes place only when it is not possible to reunite the pet with their owner, and/or
• Changing the lives of adults and children through the provision of animal-based activities or practical assistance.
The Foundation’s Rescue Centre Grants and Helping People Through Pets Grants provide funding for UK registered charities and not-for-profit organisations, including social enterprises and Community Interest Companies, whose main objective is to rehome UK domestic pets. Grant awards are aimed at projects that have a direct impact on the welfare of domestic animals in rescue centres.
Applicants can include national pet rescue charities or branches of national pet rescue organisations, independent pet rescue, as well as rehoming centres and fostering and boarding kennels and catteries.
Grants start at £250 with no upper limit (although awards rarely exceed £100,000). The Foundation’s website states that the largest grant it has awarded from its Rescue Centre programme was for £176,000 for a new cattery.
The Foundation regularly awards grants aggregating over £2 million annually.
Further information, guidance and an online application form for Rescue Centre Grants and Helping People Through Pets is available on the Foundation’s website.
Applications may be made at any time and are considered by the Foundation every 4 months