THE kindness of colleagues from VetPartners saw the veterinary group’s donations to charities more than triple in 2022.
Colleagues joined forces and, along with VetPartners’ donation matching scheme, raised a total of £150,002.53 during 2022.
Helping those caught up in the crisis in Ukraine, supporting a charity that helps elderly and terminally ill pet owners and donations to an international conservation charity were among the major fundraising efforts organised by VetPartners.
The fundraising total was three times more than the previous year.
The combined efforts across the veterinary group raised £33,430.31 for their 2022 chosen charity, The Cinnamon Trust, which provides practical help like dog walking for housebound owners, organising foster care for pets if their owner is in hospital, or providing long-term care for pets whose owners have died.
VetPartners’ charitable efforts are among the highlights in their newly published 2022 Sustainability and Giving Back Report.
The report’s findings demonstrate further strides in the group’s aim to put giving back and sustainability at the heart of its business, including:
- 80% of VetPartners’ sites now on renewable electricity tariffs.
- 64 team members receiving training in how to make their practice more sustainable.
- 142 acres of habitat now protected through VetPartners’ partnership with World Land Trust.
- 14 sites have clothing recycling banks, raising more than £1,400 for The Cinnamon Trust
More than £20,000 of the grand total raised in 2022 went to VetPartners’ appeal for Ukraine, with colleagues coming together to support the relief efforts of International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and the Disasters Emergency Committee (DEC).
In Spring 2022, VetPartners launched its donation matching scheme, pledging to match fundraising by colleagues for registered charities up to 100%, which hugely increased the group’s collective giving.
Practice teams also arranged the collection of cat carriers to help the people of Ukraine and their pets, and VetPartners provided £3,600 to pay for three lorries to transport the much-needed supplies collected by Bourton Vale Equine Clinic in Cheltenham to be taken to Poland to help refugees crossing the border to safety.
The report also shows how much teams members across VetPartners businesses care for the environment, which resulted in VetPartners being shortlisted for the Sustainability Influencer award in the annual Investors in the Environment awards. One of its practices, Ash Tree Vets in Leicestershire, was shortlisted for the best newcomer award.
Continuing their partnership with environmental accreditation scheme, Investors in the Environment (iiE), 18% of VetPartners’ practices signed up with iiE in 2022 – up from 9% the previous year.
Practices continued to use TerraCycle, saving 5.6 tonnes of PPE, plastic packaging and medicine blister packs from landfill. And after a campaign on reducing the environmental impacts of anaesthesia, over 99% of our practices pledged to stop using nitrous oxide in favour of greener alternatives.
Article by Amanda Little, VetPartners PR and Communications Director. Email amanda.little@vetpartners.co.uk