Cat Charity calls for more volunteers to help and shelter their feline friends

Cats Protection say they need fundraisers, volunteers to look after the cats and people to foster the cats.  Kristin Hawthorne reports.

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00:00The charity Cats Protection is calling out for more volunteers and foster

00:05families nationwide to help deal with the number of cats that need a permanent

00:09home. In Kent alone there are around 10 branches that need help but what does

00:14the work actually entail? It may be that you're actually helping the cats

00:19themselves, it may be that you're great at fundraising, I mean fundraisers are

00:23crucial because you know if we don't raise funds we're not here, it's as simple

00:28as that but yeah there's many many different roles they can take and of

00:34course social media is a really important one now so if you think or

00:38maybe I can't really help but you're really good at social media come and ask

00:44you know because we're looking for so many different types of roles. The more

00:49people you have the merrier because also they bring in their own ideas and ways

00:52of how to do things so volunteers for fundraising, fosterers, we can never have

00:59too many fosterers and you know if it's not this branch there are other branches

01:04within Kent that will need help. I spoke to one of the volunteers about her

01:08experience with the charity. I've never felt so valued and happy doing what I'm

01:14doing at the moment and I just love Cats Protection itself, it's just one of the

01:22best charities to work for. She has noticed that along with the need for

01:28volunteers the need to find cats a permanent home has also been a challenge.

01:33At this branch there are 15 cats, this causes more than a two-month waiting list for

01:39ones being surrendered to the charity. Sophie thinks this is because simply

01:43people don't know about the location here causing people to buy new cats instead

01:47of coming here to get ones which are vaccinated, healthy and most importantly

01:51neutered. To increase awareness of our branch I have made numerous flyers that

01:58you might see around Tedston. You've got a QR code that you can scan and it just

02:02takes you straight to the cats that need adopting. With so many cats still waiting

02:07for their forever homes, Cats Protection is urging the public to put one paw in

02:12front of the other and take that first step towards making a difference, whether it

02:16be through volunteering, fostering or adopting. Kristen Hawthorne for CHEM TV in

02:22Tenderden.