Animal Welfare United Kingdom Project #73554

Desperate plea SAVE our unique life saving shelter

by Doris Banham Dog Rescue

Desperate plea SAVE our unique life saving shelter

Project Report | Jul 19, 2026
Thank you for helping

By Trudie James | Founder of the charity

Joshie before

We are so grateful for the support we have received from this appeal to fund our lifesaving kennels. It has allowed us to fund nearly 3,000 life saving kennel nights for the 140 dogs already in our care.
It has also allowed us to save the lives of desperate dogs like emaciated Joshie from the pound and give him all the time he needed to become the handsome well conditioned dog he is today who is now waiting for the final piece of his jigsaw – his loving forever home.

Milo is another of the many dogs we have saved. He was already at the vets being prepped for euthanasia when the vets nurse begged us to save him.

We have a long way to go before our life saving kennels are financially safe. Every day is a desperate struggle to keep our vital life saving rescue functioning.

Please continue to support us and let yours be the hand that reaches out to these dogs when all seems to be lost for them.

Help us to continue to be their last chance to live. Without our vital life saving services so many dogs would die. Please help us to keep on saving them. We still have far to go to reach our target and place our rescue on firm foundations to save lives into the future.

Joshie after we saved and rehabilitated him

Milo

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Mar 23, 2026
Update on our Life Saving Work

By Trudie James | Founder

Joshie

Here is shelter one. either put it up on its own or with the emaciated johsie pic and one of him looking better or the video We would like to thank you from the bottom of the hearts of all the dogs who are today alive and waggy tailed because of your totally amazing and compassionate generosity. These are the dogs that the world has turned its back on and who are simply waiting to die because no-one is coming to save them. But because of you we can be their Last Chance to Live and are able to be there for them when they need us most. Because of you we have been able to fund 4430 life saving kennel nights to provide safe haven for the most desperate dogs in their hour of need.

Joshie is one of the dogs who owes his life to you. Abandoned to the pound, no-one would take a chance on him because of his extreme emaciation and how terrified he was. But we reached out to him and took that leap of faith. It is because of you that we could provide him with the kennel he needed when he needed it the most. He is coming along brilliantly and is such a gorgeous boy despite everything he has been through. Together we changed his fate and gave him the happy future he deserves.
100% of the funds you give are spent directly on saving the dogs as we are all volunteers paying our own expenses and we have no administration costs. We simply turn the funds you send into what the dogs need and this way we can save the maximum dogs that our funds permit.

We are not near the target we need to guarantee our survival so please keep donating and we will keep saving the dogs that need us most. Rescues like ours who believe that every life counts are so needed in this ruthless world. Without us so many dogs would lose their lives because no-one came to save them but we cannot do it without you so please continue to stand with us in our mission to save those dogs who need us most and give them the futures they deserve.

Safe now

Healing begins

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