celia hammond animal trust
Animal Rescue Charity
Celia Hammond Animal Trust is a unique non destruction charity providing essential low cost veterinary services for sick and injured pets as well as a rescue and homing service for unwanted, abandoned and stray cats in London and the South East.
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we have been granted planning permission to build a new cattery at our Lewisham centre
The cost of the new building is £1,000,000 which we are intending to fund in part from legacy income but do also need to fundraise a significant amount. Provided we have sufficient funding the anticipated start date is June 2024 with a 9-12 months construction time. The pace of progress though will be reliant on having sufficient funding at each stage and we need to successfully raise a significant sum of money during financially challenging times.
Please help to support us. Anything you can give will help us on this journey, no matter how big or small.
Celia Hammond Animal Trust
OFFICIAL PAGE Celia Hammond Animal Trust, UK. We rescue rehabilitate and re-home abandoned animals.
🐈⬛SYLVIE🐈⬛
Sylvie is a sweet and affectionate 2-year-old female who came to us as a stray.
She’s an incredibly loving girl who adores human company and will happily follow you around, always eager for attention. Playful and full of energy, Sylvie loves chasing feather toys and dashing around in joyful bursts. When it’s time to relax, she’s just as happy to curl up in your lap—just pat your leg, and she’ll jump right up for a cuddle.
Sylvie is looking for a forever home with access to a garden, where she can explore. She gets along well with other cats and would be a wonderful addition to a loving family.
Please email HelloAdoptions@celiahammond.org with your name, address and contact phone number to register your interest in lovely Sylvie.
Our cats are rescues, that have either been abandoned, stray, neglected or abused. All homes need to have a home check either by video call or in person and we will provide advice about caring for cats or kittens. This is also a chance for us to see what type of home you can offer to one of our cats and to best match a cat with your home and family.
Following a successful home visit, we will make an appointment for you to come and meet the cats at the shelter and adopt. If you have picked cat/s from the website, you will meet them on adoption day.
We are prioritising homes that are local to our centre and these are the Canning Town catchment areas: East London, parts of North London and parts of West Essex.
If you can offer a home to a harder to home cat, we will consider a home outside these areas. ... See MoreSee Less
💕Belle is a sweet and sensitive 4-year-old girl looking for a calm, loving forever home.
She was found alone in a garden after giving birth, but tragically, none of her kittens survived. When she was brought to our Canning Town Clinic, we discovered one kitten was still stuck inside her, requiring emergency surgery to save her life.
Though she has physically recovered, the emotional scars have taken time to heal. When she first arrived, Belle was terrified—even of her own shadow. With patience and care, she’s slowly learned to trust again and now shows her affectionate, gentle nature.
Belle's coat still bears some stains from her time outdoors, and she occasionally needs a little help keeping her ears and eyes clean. But what she lacks in polish, she makes up for in heart. She loves being around people and blossoms with attention. While she can still startle easily, she settles quickly when she knows she’s safe.
Belle would thrive in a quiet indoor home with someone who’s around most of the day, or with a calm, friendly cat companion. She’s not suited for a home with children, as she needs a peaceful environment to continue building her confidence.
Please email HelloAdoptions@celiahammond.org with your name, address and contact phone number to register your interest in beautiful Belle.
Our cats are rescues, that have either been abandoned, stray, neglected or abused. All homes need to have a home check either by video call or in person and we will provide advice about caring for cats or kittens. This is also a chance for us to see what type of home you can offer to one of our cats and to best match a cat with your home and family.
Following a successful home visit, we will make an appointment for you to come and meet the cats at the shelter and adopt. If you have picked cat/s from the website, you will meet them on adoption day.
We are prioritising homes that are local to our centre and these are the Canning Town catchment areas: East London, parts of North London and parts of West Essex.
If you can offer a home to a harder to home cat, we will consider a home outside these areas. ... See MoreSee Less
🗞Newspaper Needed🗞️
Can you spare some old newspapers? Our Lewisham Centre is running low and we’re getting through them faster than ever! Newspapers help us line litter trays and keep our rescue spaces clean and cozy for the cats in our care.
🙏🏼Please drop off donations directly to:
Celia Hammond Animal Trust – Lewisham Branch
233-235 Lewisham Way, London SE4 1UY
(Any time between 9am–5pm, 7 days a week)
If you’d like to help in another way, we are also low on wet cat food, here’s our Amazon wishlist for the Lewisham Centre:
👉 amzn.to/3nXEZaA
Thank you so much for helping us keep our cats clean, cool and content this summer. 💛
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These three darlings were left behind in a garden to fend for themselves when their owner moved away. No one came back for them, until our rescue team arrived. In 2017, everything changed. A kind family opened their home and their hearts, and now we’ve received this heartfelt update from their guardian:
“We got these 3 beauties from you in 2017. Now called Tilly, Simba and Sheba. They have brought so much joy to our house and have their own individual characters.
My darling Simba, who lived on my shoulders when I was home and never left my side, sadly passed last October. Truly heartbroken. Sheba, her baby, missed her so much at the start and is such a timid cat, but is now flourishing. Tilly is our little princess. Thank you for letting us give these lovelies a home.”*
💌 We love hearing how your rescue cats are getting on! If you’ve adopted from us, please do send us an update via Messenger using the words ‘happy adoption’. Your stories brighten our days and help inspire more people to adopt, not shop.
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⚠️ URGENT: Left to fend for herself on a busy road… ⚠️
We received an urgent plea for help this weekend when every one of our rescue staff was already stretched thin on other emergencies and the rescue was an hour and a half away from our clinic.
A tiny black kitten, barely three months old, had been spotted 48 hours earlier darting across the road near Abbey Road bus stop, dangerously close to heavy traffic, alone, hungry, and vulnerable. The person that found her spent the next two days trying to get help from other charities but was unsuccessful then someone told her to call us.
We don’t know how the kitten got there. We just know she needed help and we couldn't leave her there.
After hours of calls trying to find someone in west London who had a trap and was willing to go out, we were finally forwarded to a kind rescue worker named Annetta who offered to retrieve this poor kitten, as it was unapproachable.
Fortunately the person who had discovered the kitten had a car and was able to transport the kitten to us, as they wanted to see to it that she was safe. When they brought her to us, she was dehydrated and crying out with hunger. She never would have survived in this heat.
When we got her in, we had to be extremely careful opening the trap, unsure if she might be feral or terrified. But within moments she melted into our hands, purring and snuggling close. This kitten had clearly been someone’s pet. We've named her Abbey.
It took hours upon hours to save just one kitten like this. Fielding calls, coordinating rescue, rushing them to safety, arranging vet checks, providing food, and medical care… and all while balancing dozens of other desperate cases just like hers.
This is the reality we’re facing every day. More calls than we can possibly handle. More abandoned kittens than we have space or funds for. But we can’t turn away. Because if we don’t help, who will?
We can’t keep up without you. The number of abandoned kittens is rising. Our resources are stretched beyond breaking. But we cannot turn our backs on all these suffering animals.
👉 Please tap the link to donate today and help us save more homeless cats and kittens like this one:
📍https://cafdonate.cafonline.org/28445
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"This update is long overdue! I got Minnie (black) and Ally (b&w) from Canning Town almost 11 years ago. Ally was 12 weeks old and he escaped the cat carrier, Celia herself had to coax him out from behind some shelves!
They have been with me through thick and thin, and even though they’re technically ‘senior’ cats now, they are still as playful and demanding as they ever were.
Minnie has had a rough year after being diagnosed with hyperthyroidism and having a rare allergic reaction to the medicine, but after radioiodine treatment she’s back to her old self.
Our most recent adventure is moving to a house with a garden, which they are loving!" -Chantal
🙏🏼Thank you to Chantal and her partner for sharing this beautiful update and for devoting your lives to giving Minnie and Ally such a loving home. We’re so grateful for guardians like you.
If you’ve adopted from us, we’d love to hear how your cats are doing…send us your update via Messenger with the words ‘happy adoption’. ... See MoreSee Less
🐾Rescued in his 20’s - Chester is proof it’s never too late for a second chance.
Update 29th June: Good News Chester has a new home! - Chester is being adopted by a home who have previously adopted elderly cats from us who have since passed. We are all very happy for Chester as we know he is going to have plenty of TLC and a loving retirement.
Chester is an elderly male cat, apparently aged between 20 and 23 years old! Chester’s owner died over a year ago and a neighbour took him in but then began leaving him outside and not looking after him. Concerned neighbours contacted us and the local Animal Warden. His most recent owner has now asked that we rehome him and Chester is now in our care awaiting a new home at our Lewisham Centre.
Chester has a slight limp as a result of a broken leg many years ago which was treated. He is going to require some dental work which our vets will do, they will also run some routine blood tests but on a initial check over Chester appears to be in good condition for his age.
Chester needs to retire and would suit an indoor home, maybe with some safe outdoor space such as a cat proofed balcony, catio or supervised time in a garden. He can live with other cats.
To enquire about Chester please email lewisham@celiahammond.org
ADOPTION PROCESS:
Because our cats are rescued we do like to meet potential adopters this can either be at your home (home visit) or via a video call e.g WhatsApp this is an informal visit to provide advice about caring for cats or kittens e.g health care, feeding, settling in and also an opportunity for us to feel reassured that you could provide a good home.
Following a successful home assessment we can make an appointment for you to come and meet our cats.
We are prioritising homes that are local to our centres. Lewisham Branch Homing catchment area: All SE London and BR (Bromley) postcodes. Also N.Kent (Welling, Bexley, Sidcup, Swanley, Dartford), Croydon and SW London (SW8, SW9, SW2, SW11, SW4, SW12, SW16) If you can offer a home to a 'harder to rehome' cat we will consider homes outside our usual rehoming areas.
Our Rescue Centre reception is also open every Saturday and Sunday afternoon between 1p.m and 5p.m for potential adopters to drop in to meet us for an initial chat about adopting one or more of our cats. Our address is 233-235, Lewisham Way SE4 1UY - please bring a donation of cat food to help us feed our rescue cats. ... See MoreSee Less
PALM’S STORY: Found crying for help beside a rubbish bin
Palm was just a tiny stray kitten, around 3 months old, when he was found wedged beside a wheelie bin, crying out in pain and fear. He couldn’t stand properly, his back legs trembling beneath him, but what broke our hearts most was the sound of his cries. This poor kitten was clearly in agony and begging for someone to notice him! 😿(see video in comments section)
The kind people who did notice him called us for help and one of our rescue workers brought him into safety.
Once in our care at our Canning Town Clinic, X-rays revealed the true extent of his injuries: both of Palm’s femoral necks (the tops of his thigh bones) were broken. We don’t know exactly what happened to him, perhaps he fell from a height, or something heavy was dropped on his fragile little body. Imagine the agony he must have been in! One of the breaks had already begun to heal on its own, while the other was so badly damaged the bone had to be removed to provide him with relief from pain.
Palm is now on strict crate rest, receiving pain relief and round-the-clock care. He’s safe, but he’s not out of the woods yet.
We urgently need your help to cover the cost of his surgery, pain management, aftercare, and the chance to find a loving home once he’s healed. Palm has endured more suffering in his short life than most animals ever should, but with your support, we can help to give him a brighter future.
🙏 Please click the button or the link below to donate if you can. Share his story. Help turn Palm’s pain into hope. As always, we thank you for your generosity and dedication to saving the animals.
👉https://cafdonate.cafonline.org/28445
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“We adopted Alfie in April 2022, we had recently bought our first home and knew something was missing, then along came Alfie.
The first day he was dropped off he walked around with confidence and was very vocal. From that day on he continues to make his presence known, loves attention and knows that he is THE King Alfred of the house! He’s a great explorer, also likes us to know he’s home by shouting once he’s in. 😂
Thank you to all of the amazing staff and volunteers who help bring our babies to us!!”
Love Caitlen and Tommy x
➡️ Every adoption is a story worth telling — message us with ‘happy adoption’ to be featured!
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