Woodlands Animal Sanctuary -

We would like to thank Eva Boyle for participating in the Canal and Countryside Walk4Charity. Eva has successfully raised £80.50 for Woodlands Animal Sanctuary! Thank you Eva!

One of our Volunteers, Margaret is kindly holding a flower arranging demonstration with Afternoon Tea at St Theresa’s Community Centre , Upper Aughton Road , Birkdale of Wednesday 12 June 2.30 -4.30pm.

Tickets are £5. All proceeds will go towards the running costs of Woodlands Animal Sanctuary.

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Thank you so much to all who attended our open day today!

You have helped us raise £1169.26 of much needed funds!!

Our next event is at Ainsdale Methodist Church, you can find out more on our Events page.

Thank you once again for all of your support today!!!

Mini Open Day - Birds of Prey Special
Today (2nd June 2013) at Woodlands Animal Sanctuary.
Woodlands Farm, Sandy Lane, Holmeswood, Lancashire, L40 1UE.
We are holding one of our mini open days where you will have the opportunity to come and meet and greet our animals. This Open Day is themed around Birds of Prey.
Tea, Coffee, Sandwiches etc will be available.
We will also have an assortment of stalls and games available.
We hope to see you there!
10am to 3pm

Our newest arrival, Fin, he is an ex race horse (Racing Name: Finished Article) who has found himself homeless due to no fault of his own. He is very thin and is going to require a lot of feed to get him back in shape, we've already fallen in love with him!

We have just had the vet out to see Fin, The vet is disgusted with his weight and says he is showing the symptoms of a horse that has been starved, poor lad. So glad he is safe here at Woodlands, but he is going to need a lot of feed! If you have some spare cash maybe you could buy a bale to help Fin!
Thank you for your support!

Donate £10 to help Fatten up Fin	Donate £25 to help Fatten up Fin

Well we have at last been able to release a lot of our now very large
and frustrated hedgehogs back to the wild via soft release
sites that the wonderful carers have agreed to provide backup food indefinitely.
This is because there is insufficient natural food in the UK now and a large part
of our hedgehogs 90% decline. We still have a few waiting patiently so if you can
help please give us a call, you will need a rabbit hutch or similar to allow him/her to
acclimatise before release. We have overwintered 50+ which has been an enormous
drain on our limited resources and now more sick and injured hedgehogs are coming
in after hibernation, so we start all over again !

We would like to thank everyone for coming down to our open day today. Despite the bad weather to start, the afternoon was dry and the turnout was excellent! Thank you all for helping us raise an amazing £1280!!

Our next event will be Paws in the Park on 20th May, you can find out more by visiting our events page.

Well done to Edward for guessing the puppies name in the 'guess the puppy' competition, for anyone who is curious, the puppies name was Patch. 

Thanks again for your continued support

Our new residents lodge has been finished today!! Yeah!! We have waited a very long time to see the end result!! A massive thanks to all those who have donated things to go inside! Mog, Heidi, Biscuit, Cabury, Pitch and our new Fella Felix will be residing in there! They have lots of new beds and massive play centre! We will update you further when everyone has settled in!

We are starting to prepare for soft releasing our over wintered hedgehogs, if you would like to help and have a suitable garden that has escape routes and you are happy to put food out indefinitely please email This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. with photo's attached and your contact details, look forward to hearing from you.