Shropshire wildlife rescue centre receives funding boost for new aviaries

Cuan Wildlife Rescue admits around 6,500 injured, sick and orphaned wild animals and birds each year

A Shropshire wildlife charity has received a £1,500 donation from a housebuilder to help care for injured and orphaned wild animals.

DWH Sales Adviser Dana meets Tina Cooke from the Cuan Wildlife Rescue Centre | ©Barratt Redrow

placeholder image — DWH Sales Adviser Dana meets Tina Cooke from the Cuan Wildlife Rescue Centre | ©Barratt Redrow

David Wilson Homes has donated the money to Cuan Wildlife Rescue, near Much Wenlock, through its Community Fund via The Barratt Redrow Foundation. The support follows a £500 donation made to the charity last year.

Cuan Wildlife Rescue, the county's only wildlife rescue centre, admits around 6,500 injured, sick and orphaned wild animals and birds each year before rehabilitating and releasing them back into the wild.

Community fundraiser Tina Cooke said the latest donation would help the charity continue its work.

The Cuan Wildlife Rescue provides important services to protect Shropshire's wildlife | ©Barratt Redrow

She said: "Donations such as the £1,500 donated from David Wilson Homes are vital to our charity, as they help ensure we can continue to give British wildlife the care that it needs when required.

"Funding also helps us to maintain and obtain equipment needed to help us care for wildlife. With no Government funding, all donations received really do make a big difference."

The charity, founded in 1990, provides emergency treatment including pain relief, fluid therapy and wound care, with some animals requiring further veterinary treatment before being released.

The latest funding will contribute towards replacing a number of ageing outdoor aviaries after the charity recently completed the renovation of two waterfowl pools and built a new one following storm damage earlier this year.

David Wilson Homes have pledged to support the Cuan Wildlife Rescue Centre | ©Barratt Redrow

Ms Cooke said: "The current aviaries have been repaired many times and are now approaching the end of their life and need replacing.

"The donation from David Wilson Homes will contribute towards the cost of this project to replace our aviaries."

Helen Lewis, managing director of David Wilson Homes Mercia, said: "We are very happy to support this charity. The fact it is the only rescue centre in Shropshire makes it all the more important that it can continue to protect and uplift the local wildlife."

The donation was made through The Barratt Redrow Foundation, which supports charities and community organisations across the UK.