# COVID-19: Pets at Home and SAFP to donate £700,000 to local pet rescue charities

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2020/03/24/covid-19-pets-at-home-and-safp-to-donate-700000-to-local-pet-rescue-charities/
- Published: 2020-03-24T15:11:43+00:00
- Author: Howard Lake

**Pets at Home and its charity Support Adoption For Pets are donating £700,000 to
help animals in need by supporting rescue centres and animal charities across the
UK which are facing financial hardship as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic. **

 

 

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Support Adoption For Pets, “the UK’s largest grant giving charity to animal welfare”,
will make grants totalling **£400,000** to local pet rescue centres which it has
identified as being in need across the UK. This represents over 10% of the total
grants it made last year to support rescues with costs such as vet bills, vehicles,
equipment and building improvements. 

 

 

 

Pets at Home will be donating a further **£300,000**, as part of its VIP Lifelines
scheme, to over 750 animal charities across the UK. This scheme involves animal 
charity supporters earning ‘Lifelines’ when purchasing items in Pets at Home stores,
which is then converted into vouchers for the charity’s branches and centres to 
spend in their local store.

 

 

 

Each charity within the scheme will receive an additional £400 on top of what their
supporting VIP members have already raised for them, **to be spent in-store on essential
food products** to help feed the animals in their care during this difficult time.

 

 

 

[Support Adoption For Pets](https://www.supportadoptionforpets.co.uk/support-us/donate/)
charity manager, Amy Angus, said: “In the past few days alone we’ve been inundated
with reports of rescues closing, stopping re-homing and taking pets in, volunteers
self-isolating and struggling to fundraise at this critical time, and it’s vital
we offer support now more than ever.” 

 

 

 

In 2006 [Pets at Home](https://www.petsathome.com/) established the charity Support
Adoption For Pets. Since then it has helped more than 1,000 rehoming centres and
animal welfare organisations across the UK. In addition to its fundraising, it also
runs dedicated adoption centres in Pets at Home stores.

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