We are very grateful to All Saints Church, Viney Hill for choosing us as one of two charities the support each year. They raised a magnificent £900 which was equally divided between us and Yorkley Recreation Centre. The Rev Philippa Brunt presented the cheque to Sara Ford (joint Coordinator) and Averil Sumners (Publicity Officer) at a magical candlelit carol service in the church on the evening of 16th December.

The congregation at All Saints includes several of our most active supporters and we thank them for proposing us as one of 2009's charities. We also extend our heartfelt thanks to the whole congregation for their hard work throughout the year to raise this wonderful sum.

Would you like to join our team of Home Visitors? We urgently need extra help in this area and will be happy to provide experience with our regular team and support until you feel confident enough to go it alone!

You get to meet some really nice people - well, if they want to adopt a cat, they must be nice! - and get to see some interesting parts of the Forest you never knew existed. While your time must be given voluntarily, expenses (such as fuel) will be reimbursed.

Phone the Helpline for more information on 01594 841511.

We have at long last received some calls from people wanting to offer a home to some of our cats and kittens. Florrie will be leaving us after a very long stay, Scottie is booked and Niyah very nearly went to a lovely home in the country but her new owners are thinking long and hard about it. As of course they should but we are holding our breaths that they will take her or another cat from us.

In the New Year, we hope to be able to make a start at getting in some of the cats on the ever-growing waiting list. Sadly, we still receive regular reports of "strays", both cats and very young kittens.

Keep your fingers and paws crossed that January will be a good month for Homing.

We are in urgent, no desperate need of homes! Our pens are all fully occupied and, quite simply, we have no available spaces for newcomers until someone out there gives one of our existing cats a new home. We are now having to turn away homeless and unwanted cats, cats with very sad stories, but we simply cannot accomodate any more until one of our pens is vacated.

We never put a healthy cat to sleep so it is over to you, the public, to help us out by adopting one of our current residents. You can view a selection of them in "Rogues Gallery". Only then will we be able to take in the next cat on our ever growing waiting list.

We hate not being able to help needy cats so please, help us to help them.

NEUTER NOW!

We still have a few vouchers left to help with the cost of neutering. If you know of anyone with an unneutered cat, now is the time to get it done.

Ring the Helpline on 01594 841511.

LOST CATS

We are receiving lots of reports of cats going missing from all over the Forest.

A lot of them are eventually found or return of their own accord but do get your cat microchipped!

Then if your cat is found by a stranger and brought to us or to a vet, you stand a much higher chance of getting him back.