Volunteer with animals.

Volunteering can help boosts our feel good factor Volunteering can motivate us out of our comfort zone It can help us gain confidence socially

• Foster a pet. 
• Help with dog walking
• Volunteer your help abroad on a volunteer holiday
• Do a charity challenge to help with fund raising
• Many countryside charities need volunteers to help with surveys e.g. the Big Garden Birdwatch (held every January by the RSPB) or the survey organised by the National Amphibean & Reptile Recording Scheme.
• Conservation volunteers work in all sorts of places around the world - ethical travel directory Responsible Travel has many holidays where you can volunteer
• Help local animal charities, such as Cats Protection
• Give up some time on holiday to help a local animal charity in the area where you're staying - just contact them and find out if you can lend a paw
• Be willing to change your lifestyle & be more active e.g. walk instead of driving to help polar bears
• Help countryside charities to protect the habitat of the wildlife living there
• Adopt a beach & volunteer to help keep it clean of litter to care for marine life
• Suggest that your employee gets involved in some employee volunteering for a nature reserve or animal charity, like Responsible Travel staff did for the Lewes nature reserve in Sussex
• Become a member of your favourite animal charity.  Many animals charities have memberships you can take up - annual or life, adult or child, family, indiviidual etc, e.g. the RSPB, and many have memberships for young people such as the PDSA 
• Many animals charities offer the opportunity to adopt an animal as a gift for someone. (You don't actually have the animal at home.)
• Offer specialist skills & experience you have which charities may well need

Pet charities	Countryside animal charities	Working animal charities	Wildlife charities
Marine conservation charities	Worldwide charities	Charities in Europe**

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Please...

• Always consult with your GP before starting any new form of exercise
• Note that animals are unpredictable - and they may not always want to be seen or found.  We cannot guarantee how close you may or may not get to animals in specific programmes - common sense must prevail.
• WASH YOUR HANDS after touching animals BEFORE eating or snacking.  (It could be a good idea to take some antiseptic wipes or handwash with you, just in case loo facilities don't provide soap.)  Do not let children put their fingers into their mouths or suck thumbs after touching animals - it's common sense!
• The amount of contact you can have with animals varies from one place to another & one animal to another.  Common sense must prevail.   
• Before you visit places, check that there are no current regulations/conditions which could mean that they are closed. Also check for opening hours. 
• Take your rubbish home with you, at animals' requests
• Note our disclaimer  - we cannot be held responsible for any injury, damage or otherwise to you or any third party as a result of your taking part in any activities on this site. 
• Note that we do not sell products or provide voluntary opportunities.  Any product or service you may purchase is subject to the terms & conditions, disclaimers & policies of the companies selling them.    We are simply referring you on & raising your awareness that such opportunities exist
• This site is part of the Animal Human Wellbeing family

 

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