Community wildlife appeal, Daylesford

Small change buys big help for local wildlife

We started out of a shed in 2016 taking calls about injured possums and wombats, and we still run the roster the same way, off a whiteboard and a mobile phone. The appeal covers what the shelter itself can't stretch to each year.

Where your donation goes

What the money actually buys

Direct care

$15 Bandages and antiseptic for a rescued animal
$30 Batteries for a monitoring device
$18 A joey pouch liner, washed and ready
$45 Milk formula for a week of hand-rearing

Equipment and transport

$40 Fuel for the rescue van, one callout run
$120 A soft-release cage trap
$65 A heat pad for overnight care
$180 Vet consultation for an injured bird of prey

Transparency

How the appeal funds are distributed

Shelter running costs and food45%
Veterinary treatment and medicine30%
Volunteer training and equipment15%
Trust administration10%

The work

About the trust

The trust operates two rescue vehicles and a small treatment room behind the Daylesford Neighbourhood House, staffed entirely by volunteers who take turns on the after-hours phone line. Everything raised through the appeal goes straight back into the animals that come through our door, most of them hit by cars or caught up in fencing along the Midland Highway.

“I rang them at ten at night about a wombat on Ballan Road and someone was there within the hour. These people run on donations and goodwill, nothing else.”

Local resident, Glenlyon