Guernsey

Last week one of the GSPCA Volunteer Night Wardens were called out to rescue a very sick, weak and starving baby barn owl in St Peter Port.

The young bird was severely thin and very close to loosing his life and was found near to Candie Gardens very early on Thursday morning.

Thankfully with the skills of the team at the GSPCA and an intensive care unit the young bird has survived his first week and today started to eat on his own.

After a period inside we plan to transfer him to an outside aviary where he will learn to fly and forage for food.

Over the last year the St Andrews Floral Group have raised over £10,000 and brought together in excess of 100 volunteers to help with the grounds and conservation work at the GSPCA Animal Shelter in St Andrews.

The GSPCA are extremely grateful to St Andrews Floral Group and all that have helped and we continue to look at ways we can work together and improve the grounds for wildlife, flora and fauna.

Today the GSPCA team have been very busy preparing and clearing areas for work to be carried out tomorrow.

We are hugely grateful to GFF Flooring who are donating and fitting flooring to our Hospital area and thanks to a grant from the Co-op Helping Hands they are also fitting a new floor in the ferret room both of which are desperately needed due to the aged floors they currently have.

With the lovely weather many of the animals have gone into outside cages and aviaries and others have gone into other sections of the GSPCA.

Following the success of last year’s Family Fun Day at the KGV, the Guernsey Sports Commission and Generali Worldwide are inviting islanders to try a new sport and have fun at the KGV playing fields on June 18th.

This Sunday the 12th June the GSPCA and St Andrews Floral Group join in with Blanchelande PTFA Summer Fete and St. Andrew’s Parish Celebration of Her Majesty's 90th birthday. 

There’s free fun and family entertainment including tennis, pets corner, children’s sports, teas, a barbecue, bar and live music from Elliot Falla.

Thomas the train ride, Pirates ship, BBQ (Gsy farm made Beef burgers), food and drink, Rocquettes cider, various stalls including a cake stall, raffle, animals and a disabled toilet.

All starting at 12 noon until 5pm at Blanchelande College.

Yesterday on the 6th June the GSPCA took a stall down to join the many others celebrating the Arts Seafront Sunday.

With fantastic weather and thousands supporting the event at the GSPCA we would like to thank the organisors, the volunteers and all involved.

We raised a fantastic £700 and had a huge amount of fun meeting the many visitors.

Last week during the half term we held tours around the GSPCA to see the hundreds of animals in our care.

Every Spring we help hundreds of baby birds, hedgehogs and many more wild animals and birds.

The guided tours took groups of over 20 each day behind the scenes and due to the numbers of animals many of the tours took over 2 hours.

We asked for a minimum donation of £5 per person and £3 per child, or £15 for a family of four and many gave additional donations and bought items in the shop and charity shop on site.

On Thursday the GSPCA joined Guernsey College who were raising funds for 3 charities at Delancey Park.

Guernsey College Health & Social Care, Sport and Childcare students and staff arranged an event at Delancey Park which despite a grey start proved extremely popular with well over 1000 visitors.

The event made the most of the half term and there was fun for all the family.  From stalls, games, a raffle, food, inflatables, face painting and plenty more to do and see.

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All week during the half term we have held tours around the GSPCA to see the hundreds of animals in our care.

Every Spring we help hundreds of baby birds, hedgehogs and many more wild animals and birds.

The guided tours are set on the dates below at 2pm.

We ask for a minimum donation of £5 per person and £3 per child, or £15 for a family of four.  Later in the year we have some themed tours which are £15 per child.

The tours take around 80 minutes and you get to see in many of the departments and a variety of species. The special tours are a little longer.