RSPCA Cambridge and District branch covers an area of South Cambridgeshire stretching from Littleport in the North to Royston in the South and from Gamlingay in the West to Newmarket in the East. The branch is responsible for raising funds to run our animal welfare services within this area.
Our charity shop can turn your unwanted foreign change into funds to support our welfare work.
RSPCA Pet Insurance The RSPCA offer extensive pet insurance for cats and dogs at great value prices extensively designed to help in times of greatest need. Low cost monthly premiums start at only £2.92 for cats and £5.41 for dogs. The branch will receive £15 for each new policy taken out, which will go towards helping less-fortunate animals.
Any clean old clothes, curtains, linens etc. have a resale value for recycling, even if they are too damaged to sell as "nearly-new" in our charity shops. At present a large carrier bag full of worn-out clothing is worth at least 50 pence. Items can be dropped off at our shops at 188 Mill Road, Cambridge CB1 3LP or 156 High Street, Newmarket CB8 9AQ or, for large quantities, we may be able to collect.
Making a donation or leaving a legacy to the branch in your will.
Sponsor a kennel space or cat pen
Running our animal welfare activities costs an average of £96,000 each year. This money is spent on keeping animals alive and relieving suffering by paying for veterinary treatments and on boarding unwanted animals until we can rehome them. In an average year we help around 3,000 individual animals. A very large proportion of our welfare work consists of providing low-cost veterinary care for animals whose owners cannot afford the full cost of treatment. There is no National Health Service for animals and without us most of them would either go without treatment or be put to sleep. It is often true that their owners ought to have been more responsible, but we have to deal with society as it is - and unfortunately we are all too often presented with a desperately ill animal and an owner with no money at all. The majority of the animals we take in for rehoming are not simply healthy unwanted animals but are either ill, injured or neglected so they usually require a considerable amount of expensive treatment before they can be rehoused.
We do not receive funding from the Government and it is comparatively rare for us to be given large donations or legacies, so we have to work hard to earn the money that is needed. Most of our funds are raised by a combination of charity shop sales, annual box collections, and a variety of stalls and events.
We particularly need more helpers at our shops, collectors for RSPCA week and volunteers to help with our annual dog show
There is more information about our charity shop on its own website. The shop doesn't only take in donations of goods "through the door" - volunteers also do household collections. We can do a complete house-clearance at no charge so long as there is a reasonable proportion of saleable items mixed in with the junk which needs to be removed.
If you sell items via eBay, you can now choose to donate part of your profit to RSPCA Cambridge.
This link also lets you view any items which are being sold to benefit the branch. If you pay UK tax you can also Gift Aid your eBay donation and help us raise even more to support our work.
£4.00 would cover the cost of boarding a cat for a day
£5.00 would board a dog
£20 would pay for the cost of neutering a cat
£30 would buy another humane trap for catching feral cats so that they can be neutered
£95 would buy a microchip scanner
