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Veterinary Vouchers

Registered Charity No. 1050827

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Our charity offers bursaries to you vet students, who are experiencing difficulties with your tuition fees and in certain cases, through veterinary referral, to you the pet owner, experiencing difficulties in paying emergency vet fees.

We also give you pet owners loads of information on pet behaviourism, alternative medicine for animals and how to deal with pet bereavement, along with a facility to place a pet memorials on the site.

Editorial

The Trustees are concerned that as there have been no monies sent to the Charity for the past eighteen months it is therefore assumed that students who are fund raising for bursaries are either keeping the monies for the bursaries or sending it direct to the bursar at their Vet School. As already pointed out, this is illegal and contravenes the laws laid down by the Charity Commissioners. In 2007, seven students applied for ID cards and letters of authorisation.

Under the circumstances we have no alternative but to suspend the issuing of the letters and cards. We apologise to prospective students who wish to apply but due to the action of their peers this is a step we need to correct as the Charity does not wish to be connected with an illegal operation.

During the past ten years we have only received a donation of £25 towards bursaries from vets. This has already been highlighted on the site. Until students who have been issued with cards and letters of authorisation behave responsibly, (if they have not been fund raising please return the cards and letters), or the vets consider that second degree students deserve support, the Charity has no way of helping.

Kathleen Pearson Chairwoman
16/1/08

Important Notice for veterinary practices

Is an annual donation of £50 too much to ask? If every veterinary practice in the UK donated that amount it would fund 2 bursaries. These are your future colleagues. Is this too much to ask?

100% of all your money donated goes towards student bursaries. The running cost of the charity comes from gift aid.

Important Notice for fundraising students

All monies raised must go through the charity who will then issue cheques for that amount to go to veterinary schools. Monies raised by students and sent by them to the veterinary schools by themselves is illegal and does not conform to charity rules and regulations. Veterinary Vouchers does not condone this practice and is not liable if prosecution ensues. Students who continue this practice could face prosecution by the charity.

Gift Aid is claimed by the charity from the Inland Revenue. The gift aid is paid to the charity for charity use, which includes operational costs and monies to accrue for bursaries to be selected by the bursary committee. Any donations made to students is at the discretion of the trustees.

General Notice

It has been brought to our attention that Veterinary Vouchers has recently been featured in a national animal magazine. Unfortunately we are no longer trading in vouchers and stamps due to the poor uptake with the vets. However, in accordance with our constitution, we are still able to assist in certain cases with the payment of veterinary treatment for injured and sick companion animals. This involves a similar scenario which has been adopted by the students who are fundraising for bursaries. For further information contact us.

If you too would like to make a donation please send a cheque payable to the "Veterinary Vouchers Trust Fund" to:

Veterinary Vouchers Charitable Trust Fund,
P.O.Box 128,
Ashton-U-Lyne,
OL6 8YU.

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Important Note: Authorised students are in possession of an ID card issued by the charity and a letter of authorisation. If in doubt please ask for proof or contact the charity directly.

We do not condone unauthorised fundraising.

News

  • Veterinary Vouchers has suspended the issuing of the letters and cards for student fundraising. Please read editoral for more details.
  • Read a letter from one of the now qualified vets who we helped.
  • Recently we recieved a letter from Yorkshire Swan Rescue Hospital. Read the letter here. Sadly due to insufficient funds we are unable to help.
  • Unfortunately we have not been able to contact Mike Doyle regarding the sponsored highland walk; we can only therefore assume the event will not be taking place.
  • Grateful thanks to Amy Collins see donations page.
  • We would like to welcome Clare Yeadon as a veterinary student representative onto our committee.
  • The trustees have invited Clare Yeadon to be a student trustee. We are currently awaiting Clare's decision.
  • Veterinary Vouchers is donating £200 of gift aid to the Tsunami disaster fund.
  • Veterinary Vouchers are raising some concerns which will interest all pet owners. Read it here.
  • Unfortunately we have been unsuccessful in applying for applying for funding from the lottery as we do not qualify.
  • Veterinary Vouchers intends to submit a bid to the lottery's commission under the heading of education to fund bursaries for 2nd degree veterinary students. Would all students who are currently receiving assistance from our charity, please send in letters/emails to support our bid. Thank you.
  • Unfortunately we have decided not to proceed with just giving as they require a monthly fee and will deduct 5% on all transactions that go through their company. Since all students who are working so hard to obtain their fees, any deduction is unacceptable.