Anniversary Year

To celebrate our 40th Anniversary Year the Jean Sainsbury Animal Welfare Trust  supported charities with over £400,000 of extra funding.

Throughout 2023, the Jean Sainsbury Animal Welfare Trust (JSAWT) gave £300k extra in awards to many of the charities it has supported regularly over the last 40 years. Please look at our 40^th Anniversary Testimonials to see what support from us has meant to them.

In addition, JSAWT invited a small number of charities it had previously supported to apply for four Special project awards of £25,000 each. Thirty charities responded, with proposals ranging from kennel rebuilds, to solar panel installations, replacement vans and a new x-ray machine.

In May 2023 JSAWT was delighted to announce the recipients of the Special Awards:

• Gloucestershire based Wild Hogs Hedgehog Rescue, for new hutches and staff training;

• Nottinghamshire based Doris Banham Dog Rescue, for new eco-friendly kennels;

• Lancashire based Woodlands Animal Sanctuary, for an upgrade to their electricity supply;

• WECare Worldwide, for two new vehicles to carry out mobile neutering and vaccinations in Sri Lanka.

Trustees are confident the projects proposed by these winners will have a significant impact on both the way in which the charities operate and the welfare of animals under their care.