How You Can Help
Poster Campaign
You can help us by downloading and displaying our latest poster. Please consider where you place these and ensure you have permission or place them on public notice boards. Thanks.
Fund Raising/Donations
As Staffies In Need is run entirely by volunteers we rely on the generosity of our supporters to help us fund the work of the rescue. Many of the dogs that come into our hands have suffered abuse or neglect and often expensive veterinary treatment is required.
Some dogs may require long term or lifelong treatment which Staffies In Need need to have funding to pay for. Being a voluntary organisation money has to be raised through donations and fundraising activities. All monies raised are used to help rescue and re-home unwanted Staffies. Staffies In Need UK is a non-profit making registered company and volunteers are not paid.
We plan to raise funds through running raffles and other fundraising/charity events. Details of these will appear on this site when they are finalised. If anyone would like to help with fundraising, please do get in touch and let us know, we would be glad to hear from you!
Wish List
These are items regularly used by Staffies In Need. Please take a look at the list and let us know if you're able to donate of these items. Thanks
Please click here for the list
Join Staffies In Need
Would you like to join us by offering your help in any of the following ways?:-
Fostering
Perhaps you have owned a Staffie before and really care about the welfare of the breed, maybe your own dog has died or you cannot commit yourself to giving a dog a permanent home, but would still like to help us in some way. If so have you considered short term fostering?
Fosterers are very much needed to care for dogs in a homely environment while their new homes and prospective owners are home checked. During this time the dog can be assessed and relevant information, can be used to help decide on the most suitable placement. This information can also passed on to their new owners to help them adjust and prepare for their new dog.
Fostering can be very satisfying as your experience, insight and input is important in finding the best home and family for the right dog.
Home-checking:
This will involve visiting potential families at their home address, talking with them, advising them on their choice of dog and explaining to them how Staffies In Need UK works and assessing their suitability for the available dogs. As you would expect this is really only for the experienced and we will need to assess the suitability of volunteers who offer to help with this.
Helping with Transport:
Could you help by collecting a dog from its owner or delivering a dog to its new owners or fosterers? Anyone willing to do some driving is always welcome. Often, if there is some distance to take a dog, we work where possible in relays, cutting down the amount of driving any one of us has to do by each taking the dog just a part of the route.
Please Note
In all aspects of our work which deal directly with dogs and their owners, some experience with Staffies is necessary although much can be learned while actually helping out. Volunteers are assessed to ensure suitability and to help the new volunteer to join in at an appropriate level of skill.
Please click here to contact us about helping out