Animal rescue sanctuaries and animal welfare groups

Mount Noddy

Mount Noddy is owned and operated by the Sussex, Chichester & District Branch of the RSPCA. The website has a rogues gallery of animals it has helped to find a home for.

Mount Noddy is located near Eartham, east of Chichester.

Mount Noddy website

The Old Gardens Animal Rescue Centre

Animal rescue centre near Sidlesham, south of Chichester which, over the years, has provided respite for chickens, geese, turkeys and ducks plus pigs, sheep and goats. Not to mention peacocks, pigeons, cats and dogs.

As well as visiting the animals you can help by sponsoring an individual animal if you would like to. The website tells you about some of the animals currently being cared for. Reassuringly, all the centre's geese "can be guaranteed to give all ... visitors a welcome honk".

The centre has a small shop where you can buy eggs.

The Old Gardens Animal Rescue Centre website

Bulldog Rescue and Rehoming

West Sussex is home to the UK's only specialist Bulldog Rescue organisation - not only that, it's also run entirely by volunteers.

The Rehoming Service website has tons of specialist bulldog related information and makes suggestions as to how you can help the wellbeing of this most British of dog breeds.

Look out too for the annual Bulldog Rescue Picnic on Lavant Village Green.

Bulldog Rescue website

Tree of Life for Animals

A group of Animal Management students from Chichester College's Brinsbury Campus recently spent some time out in India looking after sick and injured stray dogs.

If you're interested in animal welfare and would like to help stray dogs in other parts of the world, then the Tree of Life for Animals website can tell you how to make a donation to support the Chichester College team's efforts and other animal welfare work.

There's more about the story on the Tree of Life website

International Animal Rescue

Not to be confused with International Rescue (that's in Thunderbirds) International Animal Rescue, which is a charity based in Uckfield, performs far more practical work than trying to save the world from the bad guys.

Its work involves saving animals from the bad guys, such as freeing dancing bears in India, looking after stray animals and taking action against the smuggling of rare animals.

In the UK the charity rescues cats through Catastrophes Cat Rescue.

International Animal Rescue website