Updates - 2009


Worthing & District Animal Rescue Services (WADARS)

Every year WADARS receive and act upon more than 15,000 calls from the local community regarding animals and birds in distress.  In the course of their work, their Animal Rescue Officers make over 5,000 visits a year covering a distance of 40,000 miles in their fully equipped animal ambulances. Over the past 40 years, WADARS have been committed to supporting the local Worthing area, working to ensure sick or injured wildlife receive the best care available, with the intention of being released back into its natural environment. During 2008, WADARS rescued and rehomed 913 domestic pets and rescued and released over 1,350

Wick Information Centre

Wick Information Centre has been operating for over 11 years, with over 23,000 people visiting the centre during this time.  Their current average is 49 people per week, with the over 50’s making up 75% of this figure. Their aim is


West Sussex Learning Links

West Sussex Learning Links aims to develop equal opportunities in the field of adult education by enabling adults with learning disabilities to participate in adult education classes or access social and leisure activities. As well as attending various classes, they facilitate


PAWS Animal Sanctuary

Paws Animal Sanctuary is a small but vital animal shelter for all sorts of animals including stray dogs, cats, ferrets, horses, donkeys birds and also injured local wildlife such as hedgehogs, squirrels, birds etc. They take in unwanted domestic pets and


Mount Noddy Animal Centre

Mount Noddy is an animal re-homing centre which aims to find new homes for a range of unwanted, stray and mistreated domestic animals.  By assessing the animals and interviewing potential adopters, they strive to treat both animals and humans on


Life Centre

Life Centre is a vital line to those who have survived rape or sexual abuse.  They provide specialist face to face counselling services, telephone/email/text help lines and outreach/preventative education through workshops, training and talks provided to schools, youth groups and


LCT Homelink

Homelink enables homeless persons to access and sustain quality private rented accommodation through deposit guarantee schemes. They run an advice and information service in the town which is open 5 days a week and has helped over 800 people during the


Home Start Arun

Home Start Arun is a voluntary organisation which recruits and trains volunteers to offer support and friendship to families with at least one child under 5.  It is our aim to empower families in order to help them deal with


Enable Me

Enable Me is a VCS frontline organisation based in Littlehampton that has worked with over 20,000 children and young people in West Sussex since 2005, over two-thirds of who were between 5-3 years old. They aim to raise disability awareness in


Brighton & Hove Foster Care

Brighton & Hove Foster Care was set up to offer support to foster carers and their families, and represent them as a group.  Together they encourage and promote learning & development of skills amongst the members with a variety of