Get Active for Animals

Get active in your home and garden! Now that it's getting colder, the RSPB remind us that birds need feeding. We have the perfect excuse to leave our gardens - or at least, a corner of them - in a bit of a mess to give a home to hedgehogs. In the dark nights ahead, this is the perfect time to catch up with some nature programmes and also to get stuck into wildlife magazines.

Helping animals provides an excellent way for you to boost your activity levels - and you don't even need to be hands - or paws - on. You can help by activities such as:

Foster an animal short or long term(i.e. the animal comes to stay with you temporarily) - many animal charities are crying out for fosterers
Do a sponsored event - it doesn't need to be a 26 mile marathon
Try a charity challenge - many animal charities offer these as a way to raise money. Go outside your comfort zone and push yourself that bit further to make a difference to animals you care about
Supporting an event, or visiting an animal charity or farm in your area or while you are on holiday
Helping and doing something in times of disaster
Helping those charities who are working to help animals and people stay together, such as the Cinnamon Trust which means that animals don't end up in rescue centres looking for new homes
Plan a really bumblebee friendly garden
Watch out for hedgehogs!
Join surveys such as RSPB's Big Garden Birdwatch in January
Knit for animals
Look out old blankets, towels, anything that may be of use to animal charities
Collect Used stamps for animal charities
Look for campaigns you can support by animal charities such as the RSPB, and the Wildlife Trusts
Dog Walking - there are charities & elderly folk who need you to help walk dogs
Foster pets - espcially at the moment, as animal charities are inundated. Fostering could be short or long term
Feed the birds - especially in cold weather. The RSPB sell bird feeders & bird food.
Frog or snake sightings - tell Froglife about your sightings. Why not become a toad patroller?
Get active with your pet

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"We all need your help...

so what's holding you back from helping us?"

There are lots of things you can do to help animal charities in your area:

mucking out
grooming
cleaning
washing
soothing and stroking
gardening
ground work and maintenance
dog walking
fund-rasiing
campaigning
collecting money boxes on foot

Brain power, hands and fingers will come in handy for activities such as talking, writing, designing posters to publicise events and campaigning.

You could also see what you can do for Badgers, Bats, Birds, Butterflies, Cats, Dogs, Dolphins, Donkeys, Dragonflies, Ferrets, Flamingoes, Foxes,Frogs, toads, Goats, Hares, Hedgehogs, Help horses, Otters, Owls, Parrots, Rabbits, Seals, Shark egg hunts Snakes, Squirrels, Swans, Tortoise, Turtles and Whales

Click HERE for a list of animal charities on our sister site, Animals Charities. Most of them are the larger charities, so don't forget the many small ones.