Charity Hit by Hard Times - Help Needed !

[rogerblaxall]

Freshfields Animal Rescue may soon be forced to close its doors to all new admittances.

A recession led drop in monetary donations coupled with an unavoidable fall in charity shop takings during the extreme weather conditions has left the rescue with a serious cash flow problem.

The few paid staff of the Ince Blundell rescue are currently in receipt of only half wages, although all have committed to fulfilling their usual rota for the sake of the animals in their care.

The charity is currently without telephone lines due to damaged telegraph poles and also suffered a heating malfunction during the extreme -17 temperatures of late December.

"We are at our wits end," says trustee Marge Albert.

"We provide rescue and shelter for the many abandoned and abused animals in Merseyside before finding them new, safe homes but without sufficient cash to keep us functioning we have no choice but to close our doors to new admittances.

"This is a frightening time and not where we wanted to find ourselves at the beginning of 2011."

Freshfields (Wales and Liverpool combined) rescues and re-homes in excess of 2000 animals and birds annually. To make a donation to the Liverpool rescue please send your cheques made payable to 'Freshfields Animal Rescue', East Lane, Ince Blundell, Liverpool, L29 3EA.

[ebaymad]

I hope they dont have to close what will happen to all those poor animals the sad thing is with the recession everyone is finding it so hard

[naughty tortie]

Everyone in low paid jobs are being pushed to the very limits throughout this recession with everything going up and up and up whilst many people already on low incomes are being forced to take a pay cat or loose their jobs. As a rule, if you work for a living, then you're not entitled to any financial support such as Housing or Council tax benefits either. I'm sure there are a lot of people which have been forced to cut some or all of their disposable incomes just to be able to pay the basic bills. It makes me angry that those who pull a sickie from work for 6 months for "stress", "bad back" or "depression" seem to eat better and live better than those who fight their way through these tough times, work through the pain, take the *****, and carry on.

It's times like this when we realize who the true hard workers are

Respect to the staff of Freshfields rescue for accepting the circumstances, They haven't thrown the towel in and given up, they've taken *****, put their feelings, emotions and stresses to one side to carry on with their job.

I hope people realize the true commitment of this charity and things pick up again soon