While loads of West Aussies have hit the Lotto jackpot, Lotterywest’s influence on the broader Western Australian group is the place you’ll discover the actual winners.
We’re how Lotterywest grants are serving to the individuals of our State by quite a lot of completely different avenues, and this week we’re spotlighting the Cat Welfare Society (Cat Haven).
One of (many) unlucky tales to come back out of the present rental and housing crises confronted by Western Australians at the moment is the growing variety of stranded cats round Perth.
Enter the Cat Welfare Society, established in 1962 to advertise and enhance the welfare and wellbeing of cats in WA, its Shenton Park home is now WA’s largest shelter for homeless, misplaced and abused cats.
Each 12 months it takes in a staggering 7,000-9,000 cats and kittens (7,500 in metropolitan Perth final 12 months), and has a zero euthanasia price for treatable, re-homeable cats.
This necessitates the kindness of an enormous variety of individuals together with 700 members, 55 workers, 71 volunteers on the shelter and over 800 volunteer foster carers.
The Shenton Park web site has been the first base of operations over the journey, however the recent surge in surrenders and rescue calls meant it was getting manner past capability, which is the place the Lotterywest grants program got here in.
To help, a $105,835 Lotterywest grant went in direction of the acquisition, set up and match out of a transportable workplace building to help volunteer actions within the rescue and rehoming of homeless and misplaced cats.
This enabled further volunteers to work at any given time, together with offering a devoted assembly area for adoption interviews, volunteer coaching, conferences and extra, to the tune of a further 112 very important volunteer hours every week.
You can be taught extra about Lotterywest grants by way of the Lotterywest website, and for more information on getting concerned with Cat Haven head to their website.
