The Debs Foundation

It's moments like these that keep us going - a water vole on the #RiverVer, on a recent summer evening. We love our chalkstream!

A great opportunity to help one of the wonderful charities that The Debs Foundation supports

🎄 Double your impact this Christmas! 🎄 Join Julian Hoad, the BSAVA President, and support the BSAVA PetSavers @BigGive #ChristmasChallenge! Every donation this week will be match funded with thanks to The Reed Foundation and SAMSoc 🐾 Donate now: ow.ly/g7Zq50UjPtZ

It’s #TherapyDogAppreciationDay 🐕💙 It's well proven that animals can reduce the stress of being in a hospital, for patients and staff alike, so at GOSH we're delighted to regularly welcome a wonderful team of canine volunteers. How many of them have you met?!🐕

@VerValleySoc @Chilternstreams @ColneCAN @WaterVole @HMWTBadger @Mammal_Society Fantastic!

A water vole on the #RiverVer this weekend, enjoying willow bark for breakfast. It's sights like this that spur us on to fight for our chalk stream in the face of sewage, silt, road runoff, over abstraction and a host of other unnecessary challenges.

Really fantastic news...

Today Ozzy, GOSH Therapy dog, was the first to try the new treats, generously donated to us by @DOC_erc20 Great big thanks! Ozzie and his sister loved them! @GOSHCharity @GreatOrmondSt

Welcome to GOSH! Lisa and new therapy dog, Chase, join us today. @GreatOrmondSt #volunteering

Washing day for therapy dog coats!

The have been very few water vole sightings so far this year. However, the corner of a mink raft on the #RiverVer is a regular spot for one of them!

That feeling when you absolutely love your job... 🤩 Congratulations to Poppy for her first month as our newest therapy dog volunteer!

“When all the therapy dogs come into the hospital via the main entrance they all want to turn left towards Dental, that’s because they know they get little treats, its so funny to watch!” ~ Jenny, GOSH Specialist Dental Nurse Bailey was so excited to meet with the Dental team💙

Our jointly funded grant for research into animal pain management is open for applications with @PetSavers_UK. If you are a vet in practice or academia with a research idea, please consider applying!

Water vole update: our volunteers have been out checking that the mink traps are in good order on the #RiverVer. No mink captured, only the occasional brown rat false alarm!

Great to meet one of the wonderful @GreatOrmondSt therapy dogs in the hospital last week, wearing their @Debs_Foundation sponsored coat with a festive border!

We are delighted to support the Dogs First Animal Rescue by providing funds for a new shed, enclosure and run for the ever increasing number and variety of animals they are taking care of. #dogs #animalrescue

The @Debs_Foundation is thrilled to be able to support the fantastic Northumbrian Hedgehog Rescue by providing a new nebuliser. Helping hedgehog rescue charities has been a regular part of our activities since we were formed. #hedgehog

@GreatOrmondSt @GOSHCharity It’s a pleasure to help such a great programme

@Debs_Foundation @GOSHCharity Thank you! These look fantastic 🤗🐶

The @Debs_Foundation is delighted to support the incredible @GreatOrmondSt dog therapy team with some new coats to help their work! Inspiring initiative led by Jamie in Volunteer Services. Thanks to Colan-uk for making the coats and all the volunteers @GOSHCharity #dogs