We Have Just Helped Our 500th Animal In 2025…

We have just helped our 500th animal in 2025…

Why is that important?  It’s important because…

• WHEN WE STARTED… 

When UKWT first launched in August 2020, we used to coordinate emergency transports for wildlife casualties/orphans (securing rescue spaces and organising Drivers). We transported 547 wild lives to emergency care, from August 2020, to June 2022…

• AND NOW… 

By June 2022, demand for UKWT services had grown so much that our phone line was ringing off the hook and we lacked the sufficient Admin Volunteer support to cope with the demand.  Rescues, Vet Practices & members of the public were waiting hours just to get through to us.

I realised that there was a better way for us to run, that would operate more efficiently: I took the phone line down - so that we were no longer coordinating calls - and instead started allocating teams of our UKWT Drivers to Vet Practices & Rescues, so that they could have immediate access to our Drivers (Drivers that we had recruited, equipped and were funding fuel for) instead of having to wait for us to answer their call.  Members of the public could then ask Rescues & Practices direct for transport help, instead of having to go through us.

And now, in 2025 alone - by 14th August - we have transported/gone out to 502 animals, to get them to emergency care.

[‘Gone out to’ is when Drivers have gone out to an animal that has passed away - or not been contained properly, despite instructions, and has escaped/been predated - just before they got there, which is about 2% of our number.]

In July 2025, we transported triple the number of animals than we had ever transported in a month before.  August 2025 looks to be the same kind of figures, so far.

AND…  The new UKWT structure has pretty limitless scalability, which I’m building on every day, with new Drivers Teams being created, to support more Wildlife Rescues & Vet Practices, so that soon, ‘no wild life will be left without care.’

Here’s to 1000s of wild lives, given a second chance…

[If you’d like to read about the full history of UKWT, and just what it has taken to get here, check out this BLOG POST.]