The Cinnamon Trust - any of you?

[Fabforester]

I have just started volunteering for them and love it. I find the charity to be fantastic, and genuine, and the lady who's lab I walk now is so grateful. Definately feel like its my good deed and that maybe one day when Im too old to walk my beloved pets that someone will help me. Cinnamon Trust is the only specialist national charity which seeks to relieve the anxieties, problems, and sometimes injustices, faced by elderly and terminally ill people and their pets, thereby saving a great deal of sadness and suffering. If you have spare time, and want an incredibly rewarding small task, take a look - Based in Cornwall but with national support http://www.cinnamon.org.uk/

 

[brightmount]

Good for you. I was on the point of volunteering, but then took on a rescue dog, so it wouldn't have worked out. Will definitely go back to the idea once my dogs have passed on and I have more time. It's a kindness on two fronts: to the animals themselves who might not otherwise get out, and of course to the elderly for whom the companionship of a pet can make such a difference to their life. Also for anyone who may have to go to hospital, which could happen to any of us.

 

[zarablue]

volentered about 18 months ago, got all the paperwork id police checks ect since then heard nothing, hope that means noone needs help here

 

[dressagedreamer]

yes I work for the Cinnamon trust. I help a elderly couple with their cats, another with her budgie, and I walk three dogs for three different people.

I think the trust is fabulous, and basically I am getting as many gold stars as possible coz one day I may need them

 

[Shay]

My mother takes cinnamon dogs. It is a really worthwhile charity and highly reccommended. Mum has a lot of space and we have an ever changing pack of dogs. Some short term and some longer - plus a few cinnamon pets whose owner's died so we look after them permenantly.

It is really something to re-unite an owner with thier beloved (and usually rather old) pet. These are often (but not always) older folk. if they had had to sign thier animals over to the RSPCA they would nenver have got them back. It means so much to them to know not only have they a real home to stay in but also that they have not lost them forever when they are ill.

(Reading this is realise I sound like a teenager - I'm not. I'm 40ish (cough) which a child of my own! I live in the same small village as my mother so we see a lot of each other!)

 

[Fabforester]

Wow thats lovely to hear. I have to say it was So rewarding taking the elderly lady's labrador out, he swam / ran / flopped and returned him bathed and brushed, then just lay at her feet staring at her in adoration. I realised that one day that may well be me in need of help, and to have to give up my dog could well mean me giving up. It means that much to so many, I am very honoured to be able to help in a teeny way.