We're delighted to announce that #StreetVet has been honoured with winning the Homeless Link Excellence Award 2024 for Excellent Support. This recognition means the world to our entire team! Our small, dedicated staff team and all of our compassionate volunteers work tirelessly to support the pets of those experiencing homelessness across the UK. The StreetVet Accredited Hostel Scheme is also going from strength to strength, with 26 accredited hostels (and growing each month) and more than 215 pets and their owners supported since it launched. We are very, very proud to be recognised within the homelessness sector for our vital services, transcending the boundaries of the veterinary and animal welfare sectors to make a difference. Thank you for your continued support! Together, we're changing lives 💙🐾 #Homelessness #CommunityImpact #AnimalCharity #ChampionChange #SupportStreetVet #PetsinEveryHostel #ExcellenceAwards24
StreetVet
Non-profit Organizations
Volunteer vets & nurses provide free essential vet care to the pets of those experiencing homelessness across the UK
About us
StreetVet was born in 2016, inspired by the incredible bond between a homeless man and his dog! Victims of the UK homelessness epidemic often have scant support, except for, in a growing number of cases, the companionship of their pets. Many have had their pets since before experiencing homelessness. Others had the responsibility of pet ownership thrust upon them. Irrespective, the bond between many homeless people and their pets is profound, such that their animals wellbeing is a life-shaping priority. Our ever-increasing number of volunteers help, by outreaching nationally in 24 locations across the UK providing free accessible fundamental vet care and services. StreetVet volunteer vets and nurses, work alongside other organisations and homelessness service providers, and operate in multiple communities across the UK weekly. Since inception, we have helped care for more than 2,800 pets, including dogs, cats, rabbits, bearded dragons, other small furies and a tortoise too! We take the practice to the pavement, anything that can be done in a consulting room our team of volunteer vets and veterinary nurses do on the streets. We vaccinate, microchip, treat for fleas and protect against lungworm, we prescribed pain relief and help fight infections, we take blood, test urine and sample lumps, and importantly sometimes we just sit and listen. Currently, many people experiencing homelessness face the impossible choice between a roof over their heads or giving up their best friend. The StreetVet Accredited Hostel Scheme launched in 2020 and offers support for hostels and temporary accommodation providers to adopt and implement positive pet policies. Benefits of the scheme include free vet care & pet essentials for registered pets, staff training on how to work with animals, comprehensive temporary accommodation pet policy, telemedicine platform for virtual vet appointments, emergency boarding to allow those to attend medical appointments as needed, behavioural support.
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https://www.streetvet.org.uk
External link for StreetVet
- Industry
- Non-profit Organizations
- Company size
- 11-50 employees
- Headquarters
- London
- Type
- Nonprofit
- Founded
- 2016
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London, GB
Employees at StreetVet
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Nick Bacon
Clinical Director, AURA Veterinary, Guildford, UK. Professor, Surgical Oncology, University of Surrey School of Veterinary Medicine, Guildford, UK
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Ian Battersby
Pharmaceutical Stewardship Lead for MVH, Trustee WVS/Mission Rabies and Specialists Advisor Street Vet
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Sarah Matthews
Operations Coordinator at StreetVet
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Collette Sheaff
Head of Marketing at StreetVet - Innovative, Results-Driven, Communication Specialist
Updates
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🎉 The countdown to #HumanAnimalBondAwareness2024 is officially on! On the 28th July, you will be able to attend online events via the National Human Animal Bond Awareness Day website 👉 https://lnkd.in/ep3tnFxi, hosted by Blue Cross UK, RSPCA, our talented fundraising advocate Hercule and Woodgreen Pets Charity! StreetVet are proud to be the founding charity partner for this national awareness day of recognising the importance animals play in our lives. #ChampionChange by learning more about pets experiencing #homelessness with their owners and the importance of #companionship and advocating the human-animal bond 💙 #AnimalCharity #SupportStreetVet #HelpingOthers
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The #StreetVet Accredited Hostel team would like to introduce Grace! 6 year old Grace is our newest feline hostel resident and is settling in nicely to her new surroundings! Grace is the 6th cat we are currently supporting across our accredited hostels. Isn't she beautiful? To find out more about the StreetVet Accredited Hostel Scheme visit the StreetVet website. #Petsineveryhostel #humananimalbond #donate #petfriendly #AnimalCharity #SVAH #hostel #charity #homelessness #rebuildinglives #cats #catlover
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StreetVet reposted this
Study reveals five common ways in which the health of homeless pet owners and their companions is improved - The study, published in the Human-Animal Interactions journal, found that the most common ways in which homeless people and their pets are supported to live healthier lives include free veterinary clinics, joint human/animal clinics, stigma reduction, interdisciplinary relationships, and pet-friendly lodging. Read the full article by Dr Michelle Kurkowski and Dr Andrew Springer in CABI's journal Human-Animal Interactions: https://lnkd.in/eNwmtwfr Keep track in CABI news: https://lnkd.in/eVC7zw6m
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Celebrate #Friday with #StreetVet by showing some love for one of StreetVet Cambridge's newest patients, precious Bingo! Bingo was super brave during the outreach and received his first vaccination as well as being microchipped. We are in love with those BIG gorgeous 👀 Show him some love below 👇 #StreetVetCambridge #SupportStreetVet #AnimalCharity #ChampionChange #Donate
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Good luck Rupert Collier 😊 Thank you for choosing to support #StreetVet and the pets of those experiencing #homelessness! You can learn more about the need for StreetVet services in #Cornwall in this BBC News article HERE 👉https://lnkd.in/es_wGZqW Please sponsor Rupert by visiting his JustGiving page in the first comment below 👇 #SupportStreetVet #HelpingOthers #AnimalCharity #Fundraising #ChampionChange #homelessness
I'm really proud of what my partner Zoe Abbotts and her team at StreetVet (as well as all the phenomenal volunteers), do on a daily basis, looking after the pets of those experiencing homelessness all across the UK. It makes a huge difference to those most down on their luck in our society. Will you sponsor us to walk 100km across the Sahara desert? I'm already thinking about wimping out and watching my beloved Scotland rugby team beat the world champions South Africa that weekend instead, so please help make me do this! JustGiving link in first comment. Thanks so much! https://lnkd.in/d29HfuBF
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Such a fantastic achievement to be part of Homewards' one year celebration BCHA 👏 This is a truly inspiring project to help those that are experiencing #homelessness! The #StreetVet team can't wait to see the progression in the next few years🌟
We're honoured to be part of Homewards' one year celebration today! 🏡🌟 Homelessness is affecting people around the world, but Homewards are working to show that it can be ended. 🌎 We are proud to be part of this pioneering initiative, through the Homelessness Partnership BCP, to create real change. ✊ Find out more about their impact from the last year: https://ow.ly/sqkW50SzIus #Homewards #HomelessnessPartnershipBCP The Royal Foundation of The Prince and Princess of Wales
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📣Calling all pet owners! 📣 Did you know that as a Pets at Home Pet Club Member, you can support #StreetVet by choosing us as your Lifeline #Charity? Your help can make a real difference, and it only takes a minute to register or update your account and pick StreetVet🙏 Once you have chosen us as your charity, the pets we support will benefit whenever you use your VIP card in-store, at the Groom Room, at #Vets4Pets or Companion Care vets when you shop online with Pets at Home. Every time you spend, you will earn Pets Lifelines points, which are converted into Pets at Home vouchers that our volunteer vets and vet nurses use to purchase essential items like food, treats, leads and toys 🐾🩺💙 Click HERE to find out more 👉 https://lnkd.in/ebn5aufV #PetsatHomeLifelines #LifelinesCharity #Homelessness #PetsMatter #Makeadifference #AnimalCharity #SupportStreetVet
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The #StreetVet Cornwall Volunteer team and StreetVet CEO Zoe Abbotts were recently joined by BBC Radio Cornwall on outreach and shared with them, StreetVet's mission to support the pets of those experiencing #homelessness and the importance of protecting the #humananimalbond 💙 If you didn't catch the interview on BBC Radio Cornwall this morning, thanks to one of our superstar volunteers Karis Matik, you can click below to hear what they have to say 👇 #SupportStreetVet #StreetVetCornwall #AnimalCharity #ChampionChange #Ontheradio #Cornwall #Truro #Penzance #StAustell #RedRuth #Falmouth #Newquay #Charity
Did you hear the StreetVet Cornwall #dreamteam on BBC Radio Cornwall this morning? Managed to get a recording in case you missed us! Zoe Abbotts
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Together we can continue to #ChangeLives! By donating and participating in our talented fundraising advocate Hercule '24 hours till sleep' from 7pm on the evening of Friday 12th July, you will be supporting two charities: #StreetVet and Turning Tides who focus on helping those that are experiencing #homelessness with their pet 💙 The event will start on Friday, but will move over to Colonnade House Art Gallery in Worthing from 10am - 7pm on Saturday 13th July, giving you the opportunity to pop in and say hello, whilst watching Hercule draw his rubbish pet portraits. How you can partake and support our national charity: 👉 By making a donation (of any amount) via this link: https://lnkd.in/eyDPiPue 👉 Email Hercule: Hello@herculevanwolfwinkle, a screenshot of your donation amount, a picture of your beloved pet, you will be in with a chance of having your own pet portrait drawn during the challenge! 👉 Don't forget to let Hercule know your guess at how many pet portraits you think will be drawn throughout the 24 hours, the person who guesses the closest / correct answer will win an AMAZING prize 👀 Be quick, there is just over 24 hours left to submit your pictures as submissions close at 11:59pm BST on Thursday 11th July 🕛 Please share, like and comment to help spread the word about this fantastic event so that we can get as many pets drawn badly as possible! #SupportStreetVet #AnimalCharity #Drawing #Create #Worthing #AnimalCharity #FundraisingChallenge