Please support our charity shops

Our glamorous new charity shop "EMPORIUM 61" is now open on Burleigh Street, Cambridge! We also have a second-hand bookshop at 188 Mill Road.

Our main shop in Newmarket is at 156, the High Street.

RSPCA Week is 26th April - 2nd May

Are your pet's vaccinations up to date?

Current Alert: Canine Parvovirus Present in Cambridge

Any dog whose vaccinations are not current could be at risk of contracting canine distemper or canine parvovirus. The disease is particularly dangerous to younger dogs who have never been vaccinated and is very often fatal. If your dog or puppy is not vaccinated please consult your vet - IT IS NOT WORTH risking a £500 vet bill and a dead dog at the end of it for the sake of saving the comparatively small cost of vaccination. If you are on benefits or state pension and really cannot afford the full cost, you may be eligible to have the vaccination given at our clinic at a lower rate than a private vet would need to charge.

If your dog is not vaccinated and starts vomiting or has diarrhoea DO NOT let them mix with other dogs and phone your vet for advice. If you have more than one dog, keep the sick one away from the ones who are still healthy. Contact your vet by phone for advice before getting the healthy dogs vaccinated - they may be carrying the disease and it is important that they are not brought into contact with other dogs.

Users of the RSPCA animal clinic must bring proof of benefits or paperwork such as a bank-statement which shows that they have a very low income each time they visit the clinic. If you are unable to bring your pet yourself it's fine for a helper to bring them for you, but the helper must show proof that you are in receipt of benefit and needs to have a signed note from you confirming that they are bringing the animal on your behalf.

Annual Report and Accounts for 2008

Inspectors' Report for 2008

Our clinic was recently featured on BBC Look East

Forthcoming Events

Pet Insurance: the best present you can give your pet

Buy your pet a present that will go on providing protection throughout 2009 and help animals who are less fortunate. Our webshop gives you access to a choice of online quotes for pet insurance; and each policy taken out means a donation towards our welfare work

Click the start button to view a short video on adopting a pet from the RSPCA. You can read more about adopting animals from our branch on our animal rehoming page.

Living with a Rescued Cat

Living with a Rescued Dog

Sponsor a kennel or cattery space

Snake in your garden? If you see a snake in your garden it is very unlikely that it is an adder (the only British snake which is poisonous). Follow the link to Froglife's guide to native snakes to get a positive identification.

Work Experience.

Animal Rehoming

Help urgently needed

Contrary to what most people think, the RSPCA does not receive automatic "funding" and local branch animal welfare services entirely depend on what volunteers can raise. In a typical week we will take in at least one animal with severe injuries requiring surgical repairs costing up to £500, followed by several weeks aftercare until it is well enough to be rehomed. We will also receive daily requests for help to pay for emergency veterinary treatment and we must find £2,500 per month to keep our animal clinic running and another £2,000 per month to pay for boarding and care of animals waiting to be found new homes.

All RSPCA branches are separate charities affiliated to the national RSPCA, which provides us with a grant of £12,000 annually. We are individually responsible for raising the remainder of the funds needed to run the local services which we provide, and all extra money we can raise is kept to be spent locally.

We pay an annual contribution into the Regional Fund, which is used to support projects which will benefit all the branches within the Eastern Region. This contribution is calculated on a sliding scale depending on the amount of funds a branch has in reserve. Branches like us with less than two years operating costs in their reserves pay a contribution of £525, and this amount rises to a possible maximum of £10,000 if a branch were to have more than 10 years funds in reserve. (The aim of this is to achieve a fair redistribution of funds from branches which have more money than they really need to ones which are struggling).

Demands on our services continue to be very high, although our finances are not in such a critical position as they were last year. We still need donations and also saleable items for our charity shops at 61 Burleigh Street and 188 Mill Road, Cambridge and at 156 High Street, Newmarket. Even damaged or worn items of clothing can still make money for us as we sell them on to be recycled for their fibre content. Prices for worn-out clothing, curtains, linens etc. for recycling are very good at the moment, so damaged items that you might not think are worth giving can still raise valuable funds for our work. This only applies to fabric items: unfortunately we can't sell damaged ornaments, toys etc.

How you can help

Volunteering at our shops

Other volunteering options

Annual Fun Dog Show

Online store

Webshop

Donations and legacies to the branch

Floods

Directions to our Animal Clinic	Animal Adoptions and Rehoming
Directions to our Cambridge charity shop (at 188 Mill Road)	Cats and Dogs
Directions to our Newmarket charity shop	Ferrets
Download a form to volunteer with the branch	Rabbits
Join the RSPCA	Download a poster of rabbits looking for new homes

Please consider supporting our work with a secure online donation via the Charities Aid Foundation website

Animal welfare services we provide.

Every part of England and Wales is covered by the RSPCA's network of local branches, although some branches are more flourishing than others.

If you do not live within our own branch area this page of links to the other RSPCA branches in Region East may help you make contact with your own local branch.

Working with animals (Off-site link to dynamic web search)

Map to show the Cambridge branch area

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RSPCA Week Results

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