Save Our Seabirds Charitable Trust, England
Registered Charity No. 803473 About
Us The Save Our Seabirds Network
Trust was started on 26th December 1988 when 40 badly
oiled birds were washed ashore on the south east coast of England.
The Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, RSPCA,
is the national body charged with looking after injured seabirds
(not the Royal Society for the Protection of Birds, RSPB, as some
people think).
It had only five Inspectors to cover from Kent to
West Sussex. Each of them had as much as 250 square miles of
territory to cover and might be hundreds of miles from the coast
when these incidents occured. The RSPCA is still as badly stretched
today.
People who wanted to help needed to know what to do.
So we bagan to build up a Network to give them information, to encourage
them to collect injured seabirds and to put them in touch with experienced
carers.
We gained charitable status on 30th June 1990 and
our official title became:
THE SAVE OUR SEABIRDS CHARITABLE TRUST with two functions:
- to rescue and support the rescue of seabirds injured
by pollution
- to raise awareness of the pollution that damages
them.
We have built up a network of concerned people and
carers along the South-East coast from Medway to Chichester organised
in five georgraphical areas:
Medway - Dover - Folkestone
Rye - Hastings - Bexhill
Pevensey Bay - Eastbourne - Cuckmere
Newhaven - Brighton - Hove
Shoreham - Lancing - Worthin - Chichester
People call us "SOS", the "SOS Network", the
"SOS Trust" and other variants.
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