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Wildlife Aid, as seen on TV’s ‘Wildlife SOS’, is one of the UK’s largest wildlife rescue, rehabilitation and release centres. The charity, having been founded in 1980 by Simon Cowell MBE, is now the only remaining organisation of its kind in Surrey. Dealing with in excess of 20,000 wildlife incidents each year, the centre is open to receive wildlife casualties around the clock, 7 days a week, 365 days a year.
Wildlife Aid (apart from its annual Open Day) is NOT open to the public. This is due to the fact that all of the creatures in the hospital’s care are not only sick or injured, but WILD animals. For our patients to have the best possible chance at a successful release back into the wild, we must ensure that they do not become stressed or imprinted in any way, thus human contact must be kept to an absolute minimum.
However, there are very many ways of becoming more involved with the work of Wildlife Aid, all of which are featured on this site, along with fascinating features, articles, LIVE Cub-cams!! and much, much more…..
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The Wildlife Aid Grand Raffle 2008 |
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The Wildlife Aid Grand Raffle 2008 was drawn on Tuesday, and the winners are as follows:
1st Prize - Miss C. Shipp (Reading) who wins a luxury weekend Bed & Breakfast courtesy of Browns of Mayfair
2nd Prize - The Hunka Family (Walton-On-Thames) who win a £500.00 Red Letter Day
3rd Prize - won by Natasha Callow who has very generously donated her prize back to Wildlife Aid.
The raffle raised a staggering £10,200 for Wildlife Aid - a figure made even more amazing after the unfortunate mix up with the draw date printed on the ticket. The proceeds of the raffle will go directly into the centre's core funding, which, as ever, is in desperate need of topping up!!
Many thanks to every member who bought raffle tickets themselves, and sold them to friends, family and colleagues. A special thanks must go to Wildlife Aid volunteer Adam McLaren who sold a remarkable 244 tickets!
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Open Day 2008 - The Result! |
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Press Release 25th June 2008
 Wildlife Aid’s Open Day on Sunday 15th June was their best to date. Raising in excess of £22,000 for the charity’s much needed core funding the day was on overwhelming success with wonderful weather and record attendance.
Over 3000 people came along to the charity’s annual event, which allows wildlife supporters from all over the world to see the work that goes on behind the scenes of the centre’s TV series ‘Wildlife SOS’, and to meet the presenters of the show Simon Cowell and Sara Cowen.
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Release sites for badgers and foxes |
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 Each year Wildlife Aid arranges the release of many foxes & badgers back into the wild, following a period of rehabilitation. An important stage of rehabilitation is the soft release period – a chance for the animals to begin to familiarise themselves with their natural habitat again.
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Meet the Wildlife Aid Badgers |
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Wildlife Aid is currently home to eight young badger cubs, who have come to us having been separated from their parents. To meet these orphaned youngsters, and to follow their progress read on...
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 We often have live video streams of our orphans and patients. These are viewed using Windows media player. For mac users there are players such as Windows Media player for Mac and Flip4Mac which will work in Safari or Firefox.
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 We have a number of hedgehogs that we have raised this year who need good and caring homes.
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 Wildlife Aid, a registered charity is dedicated to the rescue care and rehabilitation of sick, injured and orphaned British wildlife. Click below to see a video message from Chris Tarrant. |
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