Pets Foundation: Preventing Pet Relinquishment
Created: 28/04/2026
News/Events Category: Funding and Finance
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Pet Foundation provide funding to projects that aim to keep pets with their owners and out of rescue. This includes projects providing emergency pet fostering for people facing crisis, subsidised veterinary care, neutering schemes, and pet food banks.
The Foundation will consider applications towards specific projects. This includes, but is not necessarily limited to:
- equipment used either to care for animals
- expenditure on animal welfare, including food, vet bills and boarding fees
- capital projects
- vehicles used for the organisation’s main charitable activity(ies)
- salaries of staff directly involved in the provision of activities which aim to keep pets with their owners and prevent pet relinquishment
- the funding of relevant learning and development opportunities for staff and volunteers directly involved in the delivery of the charity’s main activities
The charitable activity for which the organisation is seeking funding must be one or more of the following:
- the provision of temporary (‘foster’) care to pets for reasons including, but not limited to, their owner entering sheltered accommodation, needing hospitalisation, or escaping domestic abuse and/or
- the provision of practical assistance to pet owners struggling to care for their pet due to their own ill-health, physical disability, financial circumstances or because they are homeless or vulnerably housed
Who can apply?
The organisation must have been operating for a minimum of two years and can provide financial information for a 12 month period.
How to apply
Click here to apply on their website.
Applications are accepted on a rolling basis.
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