National Citizen Service (NCS) - your social action project
About Blue Cross and NCS
Here you will find ideas and inspiration to create your social action project. We have put together all of the information and resources you will need to plan and deliver a rewarding project that supports Blue Cross and improves the lives of animals.
You can use your existing skills and passions and develop new ones - whether you're a thinker or a doer, this is your chance to make a difference.
This page has been broken down into three categories: social media, campaigning and fundraising. Each category plays a vital part in the day to day functions of Blue Cross and we need your help to spread our messages further, raise awareness and support for our work.
Blue Cross helps almost 40,000 animals each year through our hospitals and rehoming centres. We provide vital support to owners whose pets are in need of veterinary support and our centres give pets that have been abandoned a clean, warm and safe environment while they wait for their new home.
Please take the time to look through each category and decide which would best suit your skills and expertise, then follow the information and links which will provide you with everything you need to create your social action project.
If you are an NCS provider and would like to request a visit from one of our Education Team to provide a workshop for your group please book a talk.
Campaigning
Could you help us make a difference to pet welfare in the UK with campaigns on issues related to online pet advertising including exotic pets? You could help us by researching and reporting illegal or unethical pet sales adverts on classified websites or on social media.
More people are choosing to buy a new pet on the internet, and as there are no laws to control how you sell a pet online, it can end up meaning the pets welfare needs are not put first.
Volunteering for your social action project for Blue Cross is quick and simple and the best thing is that you can help from anywhere at any time – all you need is an internet connection!
If you want to find out more about our pet welfare priorities in the UK, take a look at the Blue Cross Manifesto for pets.
Ready to help pets for your NCS social action project? Just click on the button below to get started!
Fundraise for us
Fundraising is a really enjoyable and rewarding way of supporting Blue Cross.
We care for more than 40,000 pets every year but there are many, many more out there that desperately need us. However much you raise it really will make a difference to the animals in our care and help increase awareness of our work.
- £2 a day could keep a cat warm and safe at one of our centres
- £20 could fund an unwanted horse’s basic hoof care
- £136 could provide clinical care for a homeless dog during their stay with us
What do you need to do? For your NCS social action project, come together as a team to plan, organise and execute a fundraising activity to remember!
Dig out those walking shoes, recipe books or whatever you might need to help us raise the vital funds to continue our work caring for pets that need us.