The Charity Times Awards are designed to recognise and reward excellence in the management and co-ordination of all charitable activities. This aim is enforced by the make-up of the judging panel, which represents the leading figures in the UK charity sector, and thus ensures the highest possible standards are set for the most prestigious awards ceremony in the charity calendar.

The 2010 Charity Times Awards Shortlist has been finalised and is as follows:

Outstanding Individual Achievement

Alexander McLean, African Prison Project
Chris Robinson, Swanswell
David Constantine, Motivation Charitable Trust
Fiona Dawe, YouthNet
John Henry Seymour, Community Link Up
Ian Nicholls, Midlands Air Ambulance Charity
Peter Cousins, Brighter Future Workshop
Simon Cowell, Wildlife Aid
Steve Miller, Tzedek

Wildlife charity urges MPs not to repeal the ban on foxhunting
 
Wildlife Aid, the Leatherhead-based charity that promotes respect for nature, is urging MPs on both sides of the House of Commons to vote against any attempt to reintroduce foxhunting.
 
The Liberal-Conservative Coalition Government is proposing to give MPs the chance to vote on whether or not the ban should be kept. Wildlife Aid founder Simon Cowell MBE said: "I was very disappointed to hear that the new Government is planning to reopen this issue. The Hunting Act 2004 may not be perfect but at least it reduces the scale of animal cruelty and protects at least one species. To repeal this law, as some members of the Coalition Government seem to want, would in my view be a retrograde step. 

I have been a Veterinary Nurse for almost 20 years now, and although I have been lucky enough to have good jobs throughout my career, I always felt that something was missing. My poor husband has spent almost 12 years listening to me whinge about how much I wanted to work with wildlife one day, to help the animals so often overlooked and really try and make a difference for them.  The closest I got was volunteering as an orphan foster carer for Bedfordshire Wildlife Rescue a few years ago.
 
Then, while watching TV recently, I saw that a new series of the wildlife program I always watch on Animal Planet had started, Wildlife SOS, based at Wildlife Aid in Leatherhead.........

Wildlife Aid is looking for volunteer administrators to help with the day to day running of the office.  Office hours are 9am - 5.30pm, Monday to Friday, and a shift could be either a morning (9 - 1), afternoon (1 - 5.30) or a whole day.

The admin office is located in the main hospital so you will have some involvement with the day-to-day hospital activities - answering telephone queries about animals, booking in patients, and assisting the hospital with admin-based jobs. 

The main focus of the admin. office is financial - dealing with incoming donations, memberships, adoptions, sales of merchandise and fundraising income.  Anyone interested in applying should have a good grasp of figures, and attention to detail and accuracy is very important.  

Please apply initially by sending a covering email and your CV to This e-mail address is being protected from spam bots, you need JavaScript enabled to view it or post to

Becky Banning, Office Manager, Wildlife Aid, Randalls Farmouse, Randalls Road, Leatherhead, Surrey, KT22 0AL

I had not heard of the name Christine Barrett during the first 40 years of her life; our first contact was in the very late 80’s, when a lady from Cheam filled in an application form to be a volunteer at Wildlife Aid. On the part of the form that asked ‘What is your availability?’ she had written 2hrs a week, every other Tuesday. And that’s where it all began for us…

Press Release 24th June 2009

Wildlife Aid lose their rowing boat on an animal rescue

June 2009. The rowing boat belonging to Leatherhead-based charity Wildlife Aid has been stolen - in the middle of an animal rescue mission!

As we anxiously await the arrival of this year’s orphans you may remember that two years ago our badger orphans were all named after popular cereal brands. We had one-eared Special K and Alpen …but we didn’t have a Credit Crunch!