About Us

	Pauline with Bob A difficult Shetland Pony, who with advice from Steve Thompson (Horse Handler) and lots of patience is now living in a wonderful loan home
	Keith with Gabriel, a tame crow who stayed with us until his rehabilitation allowed him to be released

 

Over the next few pages you will be able to find out more about us, our supporters and our animals.

 

The North East Wildlife & Animal Rescue Centre (known as The New Arc) was set up in 2006 and is a Scottish Registered Charity.

We are based just outside Ellon, Aberdeenshire, but cover the whole of the North East of Scotland.  We have a ten acre site, with facilities for a range of animals from horses to guinea pigs, buzzards to foxes.   We currently have several buildings which can be utilised in various way and are always striving to improve conditions for the animals in our care.  We are totally funded by donations, sponsors and membership. 

We take no wages whatsoever, and 100% of funds received are put straight into the Charity for the welfare of the animals in our care.

We aim to refuse no animal, bird or reptile, whether it be domestic or wild, but with limited land it has become impossible to take every animal we are requested to help.   We do try to find alternative accommodation if we cannot help, with other local organisations.   We have a non destruct policy, unless the animal is beyond recovery and having taken consideration of veterinary advice.  

We are non-judgmental of the reasons for people signing their animals over to us, as we prefer that people do this willingly without fear of repercussion

 

 

In today’s economic climate everyone is feeling the pinch. Funds are at an all time low as donations to the New Arc have dropped significantly in the past 18 months.

 

Not everyone can spare the time to come to the centre and give ‘hands on’ assistance, but there are ways in which people can help us continue to rescue and care for abused, neglected and unwanted pets and injured and orphaned wildlife.

 

With that in mind we are asking for volunteers to form a fund raising group – Friends of The New Arc. Ideally we would like 2 groups, one based in Aberdeen and one covering the rural areas.

 

The responsibilities of the fund raising groups will be to raise awareness of the work we do here and generate fundraising ideas and assist in the coordination, management and implementation of those ideas into reality.

 

If you feel this is something you could assist with either by sitting on the committee or by volunteering your time to assist in carrying out the activities then please contact us by phone on 0796 2253867 or by e-mail at thenewarc1@aol.com

 

Keith & Pauline

The New Arc