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.
Please help us build a dedicated rescue and rehoming centre, and secure the future of our Lewisham hub for decades to come
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A NEW RESCUE AND REHOMING CENTRE IN LEWISHAM
In October 2023, we were granted planning permission to redevelop the Friendly Street warehouse and former shop at the rear of our Lewisham site into a new rescue and rehoming centre.
Phases 1 and 2A of the project have been funded by legacy gifts. Phase 1 of the building works has already been completed and phase 2A works are to commence shortly. We are now fundraising to pay for phase 2B, the construction of the main two-storey building, and we really need your support in funding the next stage of this project.
Please donate whatever you can afford and help us continue caring for animals who need us most.
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🩺 Experienced Veterinary Surgeons & Veterinary Nurses Needed - Lewisham 🩺
South East London is facing a growing stray cat crisis, and we're looking for experienced veterinary professionals to help make a real difference.
At Celia Hammond Animal Trust's Lewisham clinic, we work tirelessly to reduce the number of unwanted and suffering cats through our high-volume neutering programme. To meet increasing demand, we urgently need experienced veterinary surgeons and veterinary nurses with feline neutering experience to join our team.
High-volume neutering experience is essential, with veterinary surgeons typically carrying out 15-20 feline neutering procedures per day.
We have flexible locum opportunities available, along with permanent roles at our Lewisham and Canning Town locations.
Every cat neutered helps prevent future suffering and improves the lives of countless cats across South East London.
If you are interested in supporting us to achieve our aims then please contact Nicky, Head Nurse, at Nicky@celiahammond.org. Please include your CV with your email.
Together, we can make a lasting impact on the stray cat population and improve welfare for thousands of cats in our community.
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🚨 HAVE YOU SEEN THIS MUM CAT AND HER FOUR KITTENS IN E7? 🚨
Two weeks ago, we were alerted to an abandoned cat carrier in a park in E7. When we attended, it was empty and no cats could be found.
Since then, a black-and-white mum cat and her four kittens (two black-and-white and two black, at least 12 weeks old) had been regularly seen in the park, and the mother cat had been hopping over the fence into a garden behind for food. However nobody informed us that they were there.
We received a report late Thursday evening, after the park had closed, that there was a mother and four kittens there and children had been chasing them. We attended the park on the Friday but none of the family were there and, sadly, have not been seen since. They haven't returned to their usual feeding spots. Local residents are checking the area daily on our behalf.
We're very concerned and desperately want to know they're safe.
🐾 IF YOU SEE THEM:
- Please do not approach or attempt to catch them
- Take a photo from a safe distance and email vets@celiahammond.org
- If possible, leave food nearby without frightening them away
❗️PLEASE HELP US REACH PEOPLE IN E7.
The most important thing you can do right now is share this appeal in local Facebook groups, on Nextdoor and with friends, family and neighbours who live in the area. We need to reach as many local people as possible in the hope that someone knows where this little family is.
Any sightings or information, however small, could make all the difference. We just want to know this mum and her four babies are safe.
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❤️ An update on Ruby! ❤️
You might remember Ruby, the little kitten found abandoned in a taped-up cardboard box in Forest Gate last week.
Well, we have some lovely news to share!
Ruby is doing well and has now moved into a pen with some fellow calico kittens and their mum, who has taken this little girl under her paws and welcomed her into the family. 🐾
As you can see, it looks like Ruby has found a very special friend in Paula! The two are becoming inseparable and it’s lovely to see their little friendship blossoming.
Of course, Petal had to sneak into the video too, clearly not prepared to let the other girls have all the attention!
After such a heartbreaking start to life, seeing Ruby surrounded by warmth, care and feline companionship is exactly what we hoped for her.
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Just LOOK at all this kitten food! 🥹💙
Yet again, our amazing supporters have gone above and beyond anything we could have expected. We’ve been unboxing deliveries from our Amazon Wish List for HOURS, and we’re honestly blown away by your generosity! 🐾
From the bottom of our hearts, THANK YOU, THANK YOU, THANK YOU! You have no idea how much this means to us and the little lives we care for. 🐱 ... See MoreSee Less
🐾 Happy Adoptions Thursday 🐾
“Lovely ‘one-eyed Wizz’ has been with us now for 5 years ❤️ We got him on 4th March 2023 from Lewisham. He is quite unique! We know he loves us even when his biting - they’re just little love bites after all 😂”
Thank you for sharing an update on Wizz! ❤️ He sounds like quite the character and we’re so glad he found his forever home with you. Five years of love - what more could you ask for?! 🐾
➡️Have you adopted from Celia Hammond Animal Trust? We’d love to hear from you! Send your photos via DM using the words “HAPPY ADOPTION” to share your update.
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Tonight, just when we were getting ready to close the doors of our Canning Town clinic for the night…
A young schoolgirl and her mum walked in carrying a small cardboard box.
They had been on their way home in Forest Gate when they spotted it, sitting all alone in an alleyway.
It was taped shut.
Something didn’t feel right. They knew they couldn’t just walk past.
So they stopped, opened the box and discovered a tiny little kitten inside.
She’s roughly 8 weeks old, she was completely alone.
There weren’t even any holes in the box.
We cannot put into words how cruel that is. To shut an 8-week-old kitten inside a taped-up cardboard box, with no way of getting out and not even able to breathe properly and leave her alone in an alleyway.
Whoever left her there cannot have expected her to survive.
Thankfully, this mum and daughter found her before it was too late and brought her straight to us.
We’ve named her Ruby. ❤️
She has only just arrived at CHAT, so for now our team will be keeping a close eye on her, giving her a proper check over and making sure she has everything a little kitten of her age needs.
It is heartbreaking to think about what could have happened if that box had gone unnoticed.
Ruby was discarded like she didn’t matter.
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🚨 WE DESPERATELY NEED KITTEN FOOD AT LEWISHAM 🚨
Behind the scenes, our rescue team has been incredibly busy with another TWO huge rescue cases. We haven’t had a chance to tell you their full stories yet, but right now we urgently need your help to feed them.
This week, we rescued three mums and their eight tiny kittens from awful conditions in a home with a large number of cats. This came straight after another rescue involving 27 cats, including two mums and their kittens. We also have two further litters in foster care who are being weaned onto solid food.
That’s a lot of little bowls to keep filling, several times a day!
Getting them safely through our doors is just the beginning. There are hungry mums to feed, kittens learning to eat, bedding to wash, litter trays to clean and little ones who need extra help and attention. The time, care and resources needed to look after so many cats and kittens are enormous, and our teams and foster carers are working so hard to give each one what they need.
Our food supplies simply aren’t keeping up, and we desperately need:
🥣 Wet Babycat food
🍼Kitten formula milk
🐱 Royal Canin Babycat dry food
Please, if you can, send something from our wishlist. Even one tin will help fill a hungry tummy, and a larger order would make a huge difference with so many mouths to feed.
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Thank you for helping us care for these little families. We really do need you. 💙
If you can’t donate, please, please share this appeal far and wide!!
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🐾 PLEASE NOMINATE CELIA HAMMOND ANIMAL TRUST! 🐾
We’re asking for your help with the Movement for Good Animals & Wildlife Special Draw, where Celia Hammond Animal Trust has the chance to receive £5,000 towards our rescue work.
For a charity like ours, £5,000 could make a huge difference! We rely on donations and funding opportunities like this to continue rescuing cats, providing essential veterinary treatment and caring for those who have nowhere else to turn.
Nominating us is completely free and takes around one minute. Just one minute of your time could help change a cat’s life.
‼️If you can, please do one more thing for us and share this post. Send it to your friends, family and fellow cat lovers, repost it to your Stories or tag someone who might nominate us. Every time this reaches another person, it gives us another chance.
We would be incredibly grateful for your support. We really hope we can be one of the lucky charities chosen to receive this funding, but we can’t do it without your help.
🙏 Please vote for Celia Hammond Animal Trust.
🐾 Please share and repost.
Thank you, from all of us and especially from the cats who need us. Link to vote is in the first comment below.
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Here’s a little feel-good Friday story for you! 🐾
Imagine finding a mum and six tiny kittens in your garden and spending weeks ringing around rescues trying to find them help. That’s exactly what happened to a man in Peckham.
Sadly, every rescue he contacted was unable to take them. Just like us, rescues everywhere are desperately overcrowded and their resources are stretched to the limit.
While he waited, he made them a little makeshift den to protect mum and her babies from foxes, and kept feeding mum himself. ❤️
By the time we heard about the Peckham Seven, the kittens were already a few weeks old. We knew we had to help and they're now safely in the care of one of our wonderful fosterers in Lewisham.
They're being weighed every day, closely monitored and, with a little help from their fosterer, mum is getting everything she needs to look after her six boys. 🐾
Mum and her six boys are all doing well and will remain safely in our care while the kittens continue to grow. They will all be neutered and when they’re ready, will go on to find loving homes of their own.
Of course, six boys from Peckham needed some very special names… 😂
Del Boy, Rodney, Uncle Albert, Boycie, Trigger and Mickey Pearce, with mum Cassandra keeping them all in line.
Lovely jubbly! 🐱❤️
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