![]() ![]() We have continued to assist wherever we can. During the same year, grants totalling £25,000 were given out so many organisations have been severely impacted by the Pandemic not only with huge shortfalls in income, but also in restrictions and reductions in staffing and volunteers. The latter includes an area which we have been renting and have already created a very successful barn owl habitat, which we know has already both saved and enhanced the lives of these endangered birds in the wild. In 2021, we were able to purchase land to create both the Three Owls Marsh Reserve, AND the Three Owls Doctors' Rest Reserve - both sited in Banks. In 2020 we made grants totalling £33,000 in order to help other wildlife charities survive the Covid Pandemic income shortfall. During 2016 we started our conservation works on our latest reserve Old Beech Wood. In 2014 we purchased the 6.25 acres of land at Wigton to set up our Watermeadow Reserve, and in 2015 we distributed grants totalling £26,000. In 2013 we were able to make further grants totalling £14,000. In 2011, further grants were made totalling over £15,000, and in 2012 over £30,000 was distributed each grant meaning that precious wild bird lives are being saved, protected and enhanced. In 2010 we distributed over £21,200 in grants, and £96,500 of equipment to help save wild birds lives. We make grants to established organisations helping wild birds. ![]() There are also some common questions and answers, which are often asked, including how to find your local bird rescue/sanctuary.Ĥ. Here you can find out the best way to help birds in your local area, whether it is for finding an injured or orphaned bird in distress, by choice of food for different species, or even building a nestbox. There are several ways in which we provide an educational resource through our Website. The trustees collectively have over 100 years of wild bird knowledge and experience to share.ģ. The Helpline was upgraded to an android handset in 2014, and we sadly lost the detailed data-recording facility of the former business phone, but nevertheless, the Advice Helpline remains a much-used facility of Three Owls. Advice is also available and freely given via our text and email facility. By 2012 this had increased to 25,305 minutes of advice in 6,281 calls, and in 2013 was 22,757 minutes of advice in 5506 calls each year saving many hundreds of bird lives along the way. In 2011 we gave out 20,565 minutes of advice in 5,046 calls. We run a Helpline giving advice to anyone finding a wild bird in distress. ![]() It provides habitat and sanctuary in our eight nature reserves The Home Reserve, Norden of 3 acres, Three Owls Wood, Tarleton of 7.5 acres, Three Owls Field Reserve, Wigton of 2 acres, Three Owls Meadow Reserve, Banks of 2 acres, and Three Owls Watermeadow Reserve, Wigton of 6.25 acres, Three Owls Old Beech Wood, Mere Brow of 5 acres, Three Owls Marsh Reserve, Banks of 3.5 acres, and Three Owls Doctors' Rest Reserve, Banks of 15 acres.Ģ. It is affiliated to the Jean Sainsbury Animal Welfare Trust.įor most of that time, it has been a wild bird hospital, sanctuary, and nature reserve, now for just over a decade has taken on more of a conservation and education role which helps wild birds and the general public in the following ways ġ. 298352), which has been helping wild birds for the last SIXTY-ONE years, since being founded in 1962. Three Owls Bird Sanctuary & Reserve is a Registered Charity (No. ![]()
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