Our website pages are full of information on how you could help your local RSPCA branch. Maybe you would like to adopt an animal - check out our adoption pages. We are always looking for volunteers, whether it is in our shops or hands on with the animals - Please contact us. Perhaps you would like to help by maybe sponsoring one of our less fortunate animals by browsing our site you can find out lots of different ways to help us.

We have just opened a new shop - 6 West Street, Rochford. Please come and give us your support.

We currently have several very loving cats looking for homes. If you think you could offer one or more a permanent home contact us. They can be seen in more detail on our Cat Adoption page. Our cats can be viewed 6 days a week by appointment. Please contact us.

Please come and support us at this years Round Table Colourthon. The Colourthon is a half marathon nightime walk which starts at Chalkwell Park, July 5th at 8.00pm. Walkers who are encouraged to dress brightly will walk in aid of their nominated charity.

Forms can be obtained from all our shops or from the Southend Roundtable. Walkers must be 16 or over.

The entrance fee of £10 includes a t-shirt plus a medal on completion of the walk.

All sponsorship money is donated to your favourite charity. So please nominate the RSPCA.

Minnie Mo is currently in our sponsorship pen. Her vets bill currently runs into hundreds of pounds and at just five months old she is still facing major surgery to save her eye. Please read her story on our sponsorship page.

My name is lassi if you would like to find out more about me and all of my friends please look to our sponsorship pages.

Could you spare a few hours to help in one of our Charity shops?? Please contact us.

We currently have a vacancy in one of our charity shops for a Manager/ess. If you are interested please e-mail cv to pearljames795@btinternet.com with covering letter or send to RSPCA Charity Shop, 184 Leigh Road, Leigh on Sea, Essex SS9 1BT

This year the RSPCA will be having a stall at the Southend Air show so why not come along and see what you can do to help us.

Could you offer one of our older cats a home . Check out our adoption page.

If you have lost or found a pet please send us a full description (and photo if you have one) and we will put their information onto our lost and found site in order to try to reunite them.

Two rescue cats that came into our care have found paradise. Taz is a Male, tabby, about 8 months old and Freyer is an 18 month old female.As you can see from the picture they may come in with sad stories some times but these are two cats that got the cream.

With the number of cats that come into our care it always pleases us all when we are sent pictures of cats that are now in loving and caring homes and Smirnoff and Bailey have settled in well, they are still a little nervous but I don't think it will take them long as you can see from the pictures they have made themselves at home.

The RSPCA is celebrating the historic implementation of the Animal Welfare Act that came into force on the 6th April 07 which will mean a brighter future for neglected pets and other animals.

The animal welfare act is of great significance to the many thousands of animals that suffer through neglect, and for those of us who work to help prevent suffering.

For more information please click on "More - Inspectors update" through our menu.

We are urgently looking for volunteers to help with the work of the Branch so if you have a few hours to spare in a week or month maybe you can get involved with any of the following:

Home vetting/Rehoming - We are expanding our home vetting team across the Branch to allow checks to be carried out on potential homes of Cats, Dogs etc awaiting new homes. Full training and joint visits with some of our team are given before being expected to carry out checks on your own. It is our policy to rehome animals as soon as practical and the sooner we can carry out a home check the sooner an animal can go to a new loving home.


Fundraising- If you have time to organise a fund raising event for our Branch then you are very welcome. We urgently need people to help organise in the fundraising area to boost the funds to support as many animals as possible. Our fund raising is co-ordinated by Christine Bailey and she would be pleased to hear from you. You can leave a message for her on our "contact us" page. The Branch is being severely hampered in the number of animals we can help due to limited funds at this time.


Fostering - We are in urgent need of more volunteers who can foster a cat or dog on a short term basis. Many of our cats come to us without having been vaccinated and as soon as we receive them they are given a flu jab and are microchipped. We need caring people who can look after them for the first two to three weeks of their stay with us to ensure that they do not have any infections before going to one of our catteries for rehoming. The same is true for our dogs.

If you feel that this is an area that you would like to be involved in please give us your details on our "contact us" page and we will provide you with all the information you need.

WE NEED YOUR OLD MOBILE PHONES, INK CARTRIDGES AND TONERS

The Branch has renewed its membership to recycle mobile phones, printer cartridges (not Epson) and some toners to raise money for the Branch and help the environment. The company we use will give us between £1 and £10 for every phone that can be recycled dependingon its make, model and condition and £1 for every recycled cartridge.

We have collecting bins at our shops for you to drop off these items and freepost envelopes are also available upon request. - "contact us"