Happy haven for animals in south Staffordshire countryside looking to become wellbeing hub and charity
An animal sanctuary which has become a haven for rescued pigs, goats, chickens, ducks, donkeys, cats and rabbits is running a funding appeal to help it achieve official charitable status.
Paws Together Enville is an organisation where rescued animals are looked after and given love by the volunteers who run it, including a cattery where rescued cats are rehabilitated and given the chance to find new homes.
The organisation in Enville also offers small groups of people with disabilities the chance to spend time with the various furry and feathered animals, making connections with the animals and helping to create lasting memories.
Volunteer Laura Price said there was also a number of other things that Paws Together wanted to achieve, including being able to offer more therapeutic sessions and becoming an official and registered charity.
She said: "A lot of animals are finding their forever homes here and as well as rehabbing and rehoming cats and kittens, we want to be able to offer more therapeutic placements for people with special needs in the future.
"We look at Paws Together as a place of wellbeing as well as a sanctuary for the animals and we have a lot of building work going on at the site to make it as accessible as possible to people in wheelchairs and with limited mobility.
"We want to be able to offer food and veterinary care for the animals as we don't like having to turn the animals away."
Ms Price said that Paws Together was looking to raise £5,000 to help achieve official charitable status, saying that achieving that would unlock vital support and funding opportunities to keep the work going.
She said: "It would mean things like being able to get food from supermarkets that they don't need any more and which, while not good for humans, would be fantastic for our animals.
"We would also be able to get access to a lot of grants that we don't currently have access to, so there's just so much more we would be able to do.
"Our top priority is our animals and we want to be able to look after them and also offer them to people as therapy and become very much a place of solace and wellbeing."
