COMMUNITY STARS: Worthing animal rescue charity wins nomination

BILLY ELLIOTT loves his job working for the Worthing and District Animal Rescue Service.

WADARS, as it is known, is actually a charity which relies on donations, legacies and fund-raising but in return it works tirelessly to rescue and then rehabilitate or rehome animals.

It is for these reasons WADARS has been nominated for a Herald/Gazette Community Stars Award in the Charity of the Year category.

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Billy is a senior animal rescue officer with the charity and was delighted to hear of the nomination, which included a special mention of his work.

Humbled

"I feel very humbled," he said.

"There are so many other people doing work in the community. This is just what I do, it's my job."

Billy has worked for the Worthing-based charity for nearly 12 years and says he gets a lot of personal satisfaction from it.

Just last month, WADARS held a family fun day in Steyne Gardens that included a dog show.

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Billy said: "Of the dogs that entered, there must have been about 50 that I had re-homed. I could remember where a lot of them had come from and for some, what a poor condition they were in."

Rescues

Over the last week alone, Billy and his colleagues have helped take in 13 cats and around six kittens from a home in Partridge Green, have rescued a bat which had flown into a window in Rustington and released a seagull from a roof in Montague Street, Worthing.

Billy said: "We really wouldn't be able to do our work unless we had the help and co-operation from members of the public. It works both ways."

When WADARS rescue an injured animal they take it to one of many specialist centres in the south of England.

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To find out more about the Community Stars awards and to download a nomination form, click here.

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