Animal Rescue
WADARS employ Senior Animal Rescue Officer, Billy Elliott and Animal Rescue Officer, Vikki Turner, who between them provide 6 day a week cover (subject to training, holiday or sickness), Monday-Friday 9am-7pm, Saturday 9am-5pm. They also raise our community profile by giving talks at schools and other local organisations where time permits.
We also employ David Gambriel, our Animal Collections Officer, who compliments the ARO's during Monday-Friday.
Details of their work can be found in the 'Our Work' section of this site. An important part of their role is working and co-operating with other local animal charities and local authorities.
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Billy Elliott
Billy is the Senior Animal Rescue Officer and has been with WADARS for 12 years.
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Vikki Turner
Vikki is an Animal Rescue Officer and has been with WADARS for 6 years.
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David Gambriel
David is an Animal Collection Officer and has been with WADARS for 4 years.
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Our Office
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Jill Silk
Jill is the acting Charity Manager for WADARS.
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Tony Thorn
Tony is the Fund Raising Manager for WADARS and joined the charity on the 1st June 2010.
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Chloë Petit
Chloë looks after our office administration activities and has worked for the Charity since September 2009.
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Ben
Ben is the official WADARS Office Dog and is owned by Vikki. Ben has slept and eaten for the charity for over 2 years.
The Committee
The Committee is made up of 6 elected officers.
The position of Chairman is currently held by Chris Horton and our President is Tim Loughton MP. The Treasurer position is currently held by Tracy Rhodes and Secretary is Mike Francis. Other Committee members are Christie McMahon and Paul Perry.
The Committee meet at least once a month as a complete team and numerous sub-committee meetings take place as required. The Committee have 'out-sourced' some elements of the organisation to specialist companies to both ensure the correct processes and procedures are adhered to (as required by the Charities Commission) and to complement the in-house skills.
The Committee commissioned a complete review of WADARS during 2008 and the recommendations are now being put into practice. To this end we have employed, on contract, Jill Silk (see above) to implement, whilst holding the position of temporary Charity Manager.