UKWT Driver Teams Thus Far…

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The Rescues/Practices/Places listed in the first list, below, are Wildlife Rescues & Vet Practices who have their own UKWT Drivers Teams from us: each place has their own WhatsApp Group that the Rescues/Practices use to directly ask the Drivers on their Team to help them pick up animals for them… [* The ‘Anglesey & North Wales Team’ is a bit different - it is run by myself & Sue from Anglesey Hedgehog Rescue, to call on Drivers in the area to get wildlife to local Vet Practices and/or wildlife from Vet Practices to further away Rescues, across the border into England.  Similarly, the ‘Bristol & Bath [Area] Team’ was also coordinated from this summer, to help wildlife in the local area.]

*Some of these Teams are large and able to fairly comfortably say ‘yes’ to all transport requests being made of them.  Some of them are very much getting started & these are the ones that we’re especially looking to grow ASAP.

• Anglesey & North Wales [Area] Team

• Anglesey Hedgehog Rescue Team

• Baby Beaks Rescue Team

• Bristol & Bath [Area] Team

• Brinsley Animal Rescue Team

• Brent Lodge Wildlife Hospital Team

• Craven Wildlife Rescue Team

• Croft Hogs Home Team

• RSPCA Oak & Furrows Team

• Garforth Hedgehogs Rescue Team

• Hal's Urban Hedgehog Rescue Team

• Hedgehog Help Prestatyn Team

• Hedgehog Helpline Team

• Hedgepigs Team

• Henlow Vet Group Team

• Hessilhead Wildlife Rescue Team

• Hindley Hedgehog Help Team

• Hoggieworts Hedgehog Helpers Team

• Laxey House Bird Rescue Team

• Lowton Hedgehog Rescue Team

• Medivet Heswall Team

• Medivet West Byfleet Team

• Pepperfield Farm Hedgehog Rescue Team

• Prickle Patch Pudsey Hedgehog Rescue Team

• Prickleback Urchins Hedgehog Rescue Team

• Pumpkin’s Wildlife Hospital Team

• Pype Hayes Vet Centre Team

• Rosemary Lodge Vets Bath Team

• Rowe Vets Bristol Team

• Runcorn Hoganation Street Hedgehog Rescue Team

• Stabbo & Sandiacre Spikey Rescue Team

• The Hedgehoggery Team

The ‘Area Teams’, listed below, are WhatsApp groups full of Drivers from each area in the UK.  They’re a way to start helping wildlife casualties & orphans in an area, even if there isn’t a suitable local Rescue who requires a Team from us (which sometimes happens).  In those cases, UKWT just supports local Vet Practices instead, to help them with transport support, to move wildlife on from them, to the nearest fab Rescue who can take the animals in.  These ‘area’ Teams are used as a way to organise & grow Driver numbers in each area, until we have enough in each area to start allocating to support local Vet Practices. Once we have enough Drivers in a local area, they’re allocated to support local Vet Practices.  [Eg. The West London / Berkshire [Area] Team & the Hampshire / West Sussex / Surrey [Area] Team both grew to large enough numbers recently that they could be allocated to support Medivet West Byfleet and then, newly, Pumpkin’s Wildlife Hospital.]

• Animals In Need [Area] Team

• Cuan Wildlife Rescue [Area] Team

• East Sussex [Area] Team

• Essex / Suffolk / Cambridgeshire [Area] Team

• Greatfield Hedgehog Rescue Okehampton [Area] Team

• Hampshire / West Sussex / Surrey [Area] Team

• Kent [Area] Team

• Leicestershire [Area] Team

• Norfolk [Area] Team

• Somerset [Area] Team

• South Essex [Area] Team

• South Manchester [Area] Team

• Southport [Area] Team

• Tiggywinkles Wildlife Hospital [Area] Team

• Urchins Hedgehog Care [Area] Team

• Vale Wildlife Hospital [Area] Team

• West London / Berkshire [Area] Team

• Wild Things Rescue [Area]Team

The end vision of UKWT is: EVERY wildlife casualty/orphan given the best go at a second chance…

• Every Vet Practice in the UK will be supported with a Drivers Team, to move wildlife casualties/orphans, after initial first aid treatment, on from them, to a nearby - high welfare - Wildlife Rescue: providing those animals with a chance at a new wild life.  (Vet Practices are generally not set up to be high welfare spaces for wildlife: veterinary professionals can provide stabilising care in a Practice, to a creature that has just been dropped into them, but then the animal needs to be moved on to a local Rescue, who will have the correct facilities, for ongoing rehabilitation & - hopefully - release.  If a Vet Practice feels unable to move wildlife on to nearby Rescues - if they don’t have the necessary transport support, for example - sometimes the result can be the unnecessary euthanasia of an animal, as the Practice is simply too overwhelmed to be able to help).

• Equally, every (* proven, high welfare) Wildlife Rescue who wants a Drivers Team to support them, would also have their own UKWT Drivers Team.

This way, every wildlife casualty/orphan found by a member of the public - if they don’t drive - can be transported instead by UWKT to a Rescue for emergency care AND every wildlife casualty/orphan dropped into a Vet Practice by a member of the public can equally be assessed & stabilised, before being moved onto a nearby Wildlife Rescue for ongoing care: many 10,000s of wild lives can be helped, who might otherwise miss out on a second chance.

[I say ‘*proven’ as the Wildlife Rescue Industry across most of the UK isn’t regulated by the government, so UKWT is very careful where we transport animals to.  You can find out more HERE.]