Contact
Telephone: 01793 751412
E-mail: info@oandf.co.uk
Address: Oak and Furrows Wildlife Rescue
Blakehill Nature Reserve
Malmesbury Road
Leigh
Cricklade
Wiltshire.
SN6 6RH (SN6 6RA for sat nav)
For instructions on how to find us, click here
Registered Charity Number: 1177380
Telephone Enquiries
If you would like to ring the centre to enquiry about an animal you have brought in please ring between 1pm - 5pm. Please also ring the centre regarding any animal calls.
Please do NOT email or Facebook as these messages do not get picked up quickly enough and, as with most calls, the receptionist will need to ask a few questions to ascertain the situation. Donations can be dropped off 7 days a week between 9am - 8pm.
We need your shredded paper!
Our 450+ animals are getting through more than 10 bin bags of shredded newspaper every day and we're struggling to keep up.
If you have some old newspapers and a bit of spare time, please help us out by shredding them and bringing them to the centre.
Thank you for your support 🙏
Helen Tighe what about your work ?
Alison King Button
Can it be cross shredded paperwork x we have loads to get rid of x
wondered the same about shredded paper?
Tresulgan Bligh
I will grab a big pile on Saturday when I come in and do for you xx
Toby New we could do this!
Graham Ferguson have we got any paperwork that needs shredding?
Unfortunately we can't take office / printer paper as it doesn't break down and some of our animals can get stuck ☹️
Pauline Bonello x
Little thought, lots of company pay to have paper shredded and taken away. Maybe, a company or two would not mind donating waist paper that been shredded. Just thinking out side the box. Xoxo
You can buy bales of shredded & compressed newspaper for horse bedding. finacard.co.uk/index.php?main_page=page&id=25
Nationwide can we not do anything????
I have a bag of shedding paper you can have if you would like
I shall bring a couple of bin bags of paper when I bring the towels! If anyone else needs anything transporting from the Malmesbury area, I will be going in the next day or two and can pick up en route!
Paula McCabe keep your newspapers x
will do
Shall I start collecting again via lawn Community Centre?
Mandy Mitchell has preschool still got all that shredded paper from the fete?
Perhaps stress newspaper, think you may get loads of office paper?x
It must be newspaper, not computer paper / writing paper.
Does it need to be shredded as in through a shredding machine so thin strips, or can it be done by hand, so they may be a bit chunkier strips?
Leon Di-Lella Perrott
Tracey Chipchase Debbie Cook
To anyone shredding newspapers for O&F, please make sure the staples are taken out!
Some of our animals need special food to make them fit, healthy and strong enough to be re-released (especially our hedgehogs, all 129 of them...)
Buying food for our animals is a great way to contribute to their well-being so we put the things we need on our Amazon wish list. At the moment we are particularly in need of Hills Prescription Diet a/d.
You can check out the full list here >>> amzn.to/2NlyhXw
Do you have use for tinned cat food?
Can we leave it at SPA Vets????
There's some really good Prime day deals on cat food - not sure if itd be worth adding some to thr list?
I have tried sending you a message. I have got an unopened 30L bag of wood pellet cat litter. Would that be of any use to you?
Ooh they are so beautiful... 😅😅
News
Save the date:
Our Open Day this year will be on Sunday 26th August. Help us to raise funds and enjoy a fun filled family day out with stalls, games, talks, food, drink, music and loads more.
Full details here
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Support from The Cotswold Sculpture Park:
The lovely folks over at The Cotswold Sculpture Park have kindly offered to donate £1 from every £5 entrance fee so go and check out their amazing 10 acre wonderland of woodland, ponds, glades and gardens, with sculptures from over 30 artists. Visit their website here.
A heartfelt Thank You for our local community and beyond. As the Wildlife Centre appeal to raise £50,000 has drawn to a close, we have the absolute delight of confirming that through the kindness and support of our local community and beyond, we have successfully raised the funds needed to keep the centre operating into 2018.
We could not have achieved this feat without the unfaltering generosity of our supporters; who by attending our Christmas fundraising events and arriving at the centre with donations of not just money, but food and the items necessary to keep us going over the Christmas period, have undoubtedly saved our rescue centre from imminent closure.
A special thank you is also due to those supporters who ran their own events from pub quizzes to a ‘Pets Santa’s Grotto Day’ kindly donating all the money raised to our cause.
We not only owe an immense ‘Thank You’ to all those who have made this happen and got us to this point, but also a bit of an insight into where will we go from here.
The centre will be looking at how to operate more efficiently to keep running costs as low as possible, this will also include the hope of ‘going green’ and seeing how we could look to renewable resources to run the centre site, just outside of Cricklade.
Your support into 2018 will ensure we are able to continue to take in wildlife patients, giving them the care, they need for the best chance of returning to the wild fit and healthy.
We have been overwhelmed by the rallying round of our staff, supporters, trustees and patrons and we thank you in advance for your support in our continued plight to safeguard British wildlife
For all news click here
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We rely on our Friend's donations alongside other things to survive and keep up the work we do. To become a member, you can sign up to make a regular donation or a one off donation and in return you will receive a news letter keeping you up to date with what we're spending the money on!
We're aiming to have 2 newsletters a year which will be distributed to all of our Friends and will be full of exciting stories, what projects we're working on and how some of our patients are faring.