insideSUSSEX Magazine Issue 12 - February 2016 | Page 93

The Lullaby Trust // from £5 a month

East Sussex Wildlife Rescue & Ambulance Service
// from £1 a month

East Sussex WRAS was established as a voluntary group in 1996 in order
to provide a front-line rescue service for wildlife casualties who unlike their
domesticated cousins, do not have owners to help look after them. The
service is free of charge, but the average cost of responding to and dealing
with a callout is £75, which includes veterinary bills, food, water, electric,
bedding, caging, rescue equipment, vehicles and fuel, phone bills and other
necessary expenses. Between 2,000 and 3,000 calls are made to the East
Sussex WRAS each year, and all the people who work for the service are
volunteers. Donating just £1 will pay for a life saving antibiotic injection for
an injured hedgehog, £2.50 will pay for a tin of specialist prescription food,
and £5 a month pays for trauma gauze, which can be the difference between
an animal living and dying.
www.wildlifeambulance.org

The Lullaby Trust (formerly FSID – The Foundation for the Study of Infant
Deaths) provides expert advice on safer sleep for babies, supports bereaved
families and raises awareness on sudden infant death. Your £5 could pay
for an information pack to raise awareness of The Lullaby Trust’s safe sleep
messages among parents, and £14 could provide one hour of bereavement
support from a trained telephone advisor.
www.lullabytrust.org.uk

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