Charity -- Cats Protection League
Cats Protection, formerly The Cats Protection League, is a UK charity dedicated to rescuing and rehoming stray, unwanted or homeless cats and educating people about cats and cat welfare. The organisation was founded as The Cats Protection League on 16 May 1927 at a meeting in Caxton Hall, London. The name was shortened in 1998.
In 2017 the charity helped nearly 193,000 cats (rehoming around 43,000 of these and neutering 153,000) and its network had 36 centres, 250+ volunteer-run branches, 121 charity shops and approximately 10,200 volunteers and staff located throughout the UK. The charity's income for 2017 was £62.9 million.[6] In 2011 the charity announced that it had helped more than one million cats over the previous five years, 80% of this figure being neutering and 20% being rehoming. Alongside rehoming cats and kittens, the charity runs a neutering scheme for owners on a limited income, and a National Information Line, (03000 12 12 12) In addition, they monitor (and feed) feral colonies in the area including trapping, neutering and re-releasing (where possible) feral cats back to where they came from. They also work to educate adults and youngsters about cat welfare and run talks and educational resource programmes across the UK.
Source: Wikipedia.
