Thank you everyone!
Thanks to everyone who came to the open day at Lawrence Veterinary Centre and to everyone who baked cakes and bought them too! Fortunately the rain held off and it was a fabulous day. We managed to raise a brilliant £184.55.

Gloria De-Piero MP for Ashfield paid a visit to the sanctuary today. I think she was a bit overwhelmed by Boris the bull who was wandering around but he loved the attention. She saw the progress of the wildlife hospital and had a look at some of the animals we are currently caring for. …
This beautiful swan came to us from Shipley County Park. It had a fishing hook lodged into its body. Following a trip to the vets to have the hook removed, it is now recuperating in a pen on antibiotics and painkillers.
We had decided not to take on any more pigs, 12 pigs eat a lot of food. However when we heard about this poor girl and saw the condition that she was in, we had to do what we could to help get her out of the squalid, muddy conditions that she was kept in.
Due to the success of our 2015 Bring & Buy sale, we are holding another one on Sunday 24th April 2016 – 11am – 2pm at the sanctuary. We will have our famous Rocky Road cafe serving fab vegan and non vegan cakes, coffee, tea and cold drinks. A vintage clothes store, bric-a-brac, books, games…
Have you bought tickets yest to see When Pigs Escape? The amazing documentary about Matilda who escaped a farm to save her babies and the massive efforts we took to rescue her, they are all now safe at Surge Sanctuary. Now see the story, Tickets only £10 Saturday 6 August https://www.boningtontheatre.co.uk/whatson/event/when-pigs-escape–qa.php?fbclid=IwAR1YFNCorw4gExP0nNtyP-P1zLUHFkxag-yU_YxkkxQoNZ43jH2IVXzk5n8
Hedgehogs arrive with all kinds of life threatening issues, generally inflicted by man, anything from poisons to getting tangled in garden netting or attacked by dogs. We don’t know the history behind this girl, but she arrived at our vets with a broken jaw, a condition certainly seen before and often fatal. In this case,…