Our Helpdesk

helpwildlife.co.uk provides free advice on humane, holistic pest control methods

Our Helpdesk

HelpWildlife (Sarah)

HelpWildlife.co.uk is a website which provides advice on helping sick and injured wildlife and a directory of wildlife rescue organisations in the UK. Our helpdesk serves as a back up to the advice and directory on our site, seeking to provide bespoke advice for situations not covered by our advice articles and/or assist people in locating a suitable wildlife rescue if they’re unable to do so themselves using the directory.

Before you submit a request

  • search our directory for rescues in your area if help is needed (tip: help is ALWAYS needed for animals caught by a cat or dog, hit by a car, caught in netting/line, or covered in oil). You can do this by visiting directory.helpwildlife.co.uk
  • please note the following
    • we’re not able to help with rescuing animals directly ourselves
    • we cannot dispatch a rescue to you or contact them on your behalf. After contacting our helpdesk, you will still need to telephone a rescue if help is needed. We’ll just provide you with advice and rescue details to call.
    • we can only provide advice by email. If you prefer to speak to someone by telephone, there are details of 24 hour phone lines at https://helpwildlife.co.uk/help/

If you want to contact us about anything other than a wild animal needing help, please go to https://helpwildlife.co.uk/contact-us/

Our helpdesk volunteers are available Mon - Sat 09:00 - 21:00 and Sunday 10:00 - 18:00. We aim to respond within an hour and typically you'll receive a email response in about 15-20 minutes. 



IMPORTANT: We will ALWAYS reply (subject to the opening times above)(Required)
Sometimes our responses end up in spam folders. If you don't receive an automated response, you won't receive the substantive reply either. In this case please check your spam/junk folder.
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A one line description of what you're contacting us about eg Fox with mange, bird caught by a cat, hedgehog out in the day
Please provide just the first part of the postcode e.g. KT4, YO6. This will help us to locate rescues in the area for you to contact if needed.
Tell us more about the issue you need help with. Can you see any injuries on the animal? Do you have them contained in a box?

NB: WE ARE NOT ABLE TO RETURN PHONE CALLS. FOR DATA PROTECTION REASONS PLEASE DO NOT SEND US YOUR PHONE NUMBER.

It helps us to give you the right advice if we can see the species, stage of development and general demeanour of the animal you're contacting us about.
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