M&S Gloucester Quays Outlet

Teckels Animal Sanctuaries is a small registered charity (1108726) whose primary aim is to provide the best possible care to dogs and cats who find themselves in need of help. Animal welfare is at the heart of our philosophy and we are working hard to provide the appropriate rehabilitation and behavioural support to the dogs and cats in our care who need this extra support. We believe our approach is more likely to achieve a better chance of a successful re-homing and passionately believe that every cat and dog deserves a happy, fulfilling life. Over the years we have rescued and re-homed thousands of animals. We do not discriminate against old or sick animals and have a non-destruction policy. Everything we do is focused on improving the lives of the wonderful animals who come into our care. Our creation of a safe and caring environment spreads beyond our four legged friends. We are proud to work hard within the community by providing volunteering opportunities for a number of adults with special needs and learning difficulties. It costs us £20,000 per month to run our centre - £5,000 alone in vet bills. We are lucky that in addition to our rescue facilities we also provide excellent boarding facilities for dogs and cats which contributes towards our running costs. That said re-homing needs significantly outweigh the boarding income so we depend heavily on donations. Thank you for reading this.

The farm was originally established by Gloucester City Council in partnership with local people who got together over the idea to convert this then derelict and overgrown piece of land into a ‘city farm’, so children from the area could see and learn about farm animals. After plenty of planning, meetings, debates and consultation, eventually ‘St James City Farm’, was established in 1998. However, after several years of running successfully, in 2010 the Council was considering different ways of making savings, and the City Farm was marked for closure. It so happened that a couple of people from the ‘The Friendship Café’, a registered charity, that ran youth and community projects as well as a gym, used to keep bees on Robinswood Hill, and an informal conversation with the manager, Derek Wakefield-Brown (who used to manage both sites – City Farm and Robinswood Hill) led to a proposal of the possibility of The Friendship Café taking over the City Farm, to save it from closing down. This idea led to several meetings between the Council and the Friendship Café volunteers until eventually, in 2011, Gloucester City Council formally handed over full management of St James City Farm to The Friendship Café, who now run the farm as part of the charity, alongside other community projects, mainly based nearby, at the Chequersbridge Centre in Painswick Road. Ever since the takeover, the farm has been constantly improving, with hundreds of volunteers getting involved, school visits, a thriving gardening project, a café built on site (May 2013), new animal housing, a much wider variety of animals, and the establishment of the riding school for local children (December 2013). We thank everybody for their support – from volunteers who give up their time, to the small and large, public and private organisations and businesses who lend us their support in lots of different ways, financially or with practical help, throughout the year. Together, St James City Farm manages to stay open. Over the past few years, grants to help with running costs have declined, so we need your help to keep City Farm open and admission free of charge by donating whatever you can towards our running costs. There are plenty of running costs in the background that are not always obvious, even though we use mainly volunteers, so any help towards this would be much appreciated.

James Hopkins Trust provides free nursing respite for young Gloucestershire children who are life limited, life threatened or severely disabled. The causes of our children’s disabilities are numerous, but include renal failure, cardiac and metabolic problems, respiratory conditions, leukaemia, cancer, cystic fibrosis, spinal muscular atrophy, cerebral palsy & neurological conditions. We are the only registered charity in the whole of Gloucestershire to provide this level of care (night and day) in either the family home or at Kites Corner, our multi-sensory respite centre and gardens.