Our volunteers will do house-clearances at no charge, subject to there being a reasonable proportion of saleable items in the contents removed. Saleable items will be used to raise funds for our local animal welfare work. Rubbish and unsaleable items will be disposed of via licensed contractors (usually the local authority trade waste for which we pay a fee). As we are responsible for the health and well-being of our volunteers we cannot take hazardous materials (e.g. asbestos sheeting), but we can remove and dispose of normal, non-hazardous rubbish (card, old newspapers etc.)
We can visit premises anywhere in the general area of Cambridge at no charge to check whether it would be financially viable for our volunteers to clear it. As a general rule we wouldn't be able to clear somewhere if there was large-scale contamination of any kind (e.g. fire or water damage, rotting or rodent-infested waste).
To discuss getting a house or flat cleared, please phone Fiona or Andrew on 01223 212 644
We need a minimum of 7 days notice to do a house clearance because it takes a while to notify the volunteers and fix a time when enough of them are available.
If you don't live in the Cambridge area, there may be a closer branch which does house-clearance. There's a list further down on this page.
We can sell:
RSPCA Hillingdon, Slough, Windsor, Kingston & District
123 Uxbridge Road,
Hillingdon,
Middx UB10 0LQ
Tel: 01784 423 882 for house clearances.
RSPCA - Huntingdon & March
Support Shop: 37-39 High St.,
March, Cambs.
Mon - Sat: 9.30am - 4.30pm,
Tel: 01354 653 553
All of these shops will be very grateful for your donations, but not all of them will have volunteers able to do house-clearance.
North of England
East of England
Wales and West
Southeast England
South and Southwest England
£3.50 would cover the cost of boarding a cat for a day
£4.00 would board a dog
£20 would pay for the cost of neutering a cat
£30 would buy another humane trap for catching feral cats so that they can be neutered
£95 would buy a microchip scanner
All RSPCA branches are separate charities affiliated to the national RSPCA. We are individually responsible for raising the money needed to run the local services which we provide.
We do not receive funding from the Government and it is comparatively rare for us to be given large donations or legacies, so we have to work hard to earn the money that is needed. Most of our funds are raised by a combination of charity shop sales, annual box collections, and a variety of stalls and events. All money raised locally is spent locally - our Headquarters, which runs the Inspectorate and National Control Centre, has its own funds.
Running our animal welfare activities costs an average of £96,000 each year. This money is spent on keeping animals alive and relieving suffering by paying for veterinary treatments and on boarding unwanted animals until we can rehome them. In an average year we help around 3,000 individual animals. A very large proportion of our welfare work consists of providing low-cost veterinary care for animals whose owners cannot afford the full cost of treatment. There is no National Health Service for animals and without us most of them would either go without treatment or be put to sleep. It is often true that their owners ought to have been more responsible, but we have to deal with society as it is - and unfortunately we are all too often presented with a desperately ill animal and an owner with no money at all. The majority of the animals we take in for rehoming are not simply healthy unwanted animals but are either ill, injured or neglected so they usually require a considerable amount of expensive treatment before they can be rehoused.
Last updated 12/03/2008