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WHO WE ARE AND WHAT WE DO
The Animal Care Trust (ACT) exists to advance and improve animal health and care. We achieve this largely through our support of the Royal Veterinary College’s (RVC) wide range of clinical, research and educational activities.
We raise funds to provide vital equipment and enhance facilities at RVC hospitals to deliver world-class care. We also support clinicians and scientists of the future, invest in the development and application of scientific research, fund pioneering research in animal and human health, and assist research projects carried out by undergraduate and postgraduate students. Funds are also raised for other animal care projects, such as the blood transfusion programme, where dog and cat blood donations save the lives of hundreds of critically ill animals every year.
The ACT supports the RVC’s clinical practices where more than 31,000 patients visit each year. This includes Europe’s largest small animal referral teaching hospital, an equine hospital, a farm and two first opinion practices including an exotics service.
We are fortunate to have the Senior Vice Principal of the Royal Veterinary College, Professor Stephen May, as Chairman of the Animal Care Trust Management Committee. He was also recently President of the Royal College of Veterinary Surgeons (RCVS), the body that regulates the veterinary profession in the UK.
Your support has impact on some of the most critical health issues of our time such as heart disease, epilepsy and diabetes, and helps us support the development of research into animal health, human health and ecosystem health, and what links them together.
2018/19
THE ACT YEAR IN NUMBERS How have
we supported animal care?
SUPPORTING CLINICAL CARE £980,000
SUPPORTING EDUCATION OF VETERINARY PROFESSIONALS £29,000
SUPPORTING WORLD-LEADING RESEARCH INTO ANIMAL HEALTH AND CARE £141,000
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