Volunteer Application

Thank you for offering your time, once submitted you will be contacted by one of the team to discuss the areas you are interested in volunteering.

Please note, if you are under 18, you can foster but parental consent is required. We cannot offer any other volunteer opportunities to under 18s.
Below is a list of volunteer opportunities with Laois SPCA. Please select Yes for any that you would be interested in.
You may volunteer to care for cats and/or kittens that are at your property or have been found, until a suitable home or long term foster is found as appropriate.
You will need to be home morning and evening when fostering cats or kittens. We will supply everything needed.
When fostering dogs or puppies, fosterers need to attend training classes. Someone will also need to be at home most of the day.
This is a remote volunteering position. It will involve helping the adoption team with admin tasks such as updating animal records. You will call applicants and work with fosters to help animals find their forever home. You can also help creating animal bios and photo collages for those available for adoption to be posted on our social media.
Join the team that works to trap, neuter and return feral cats. Training and equipment will be provided.
Help manage and grow Laois SPCA social media presence by creating engaging and informative content promoting animal welfare, adoptions, fostering, fundraising and community events. Help raise awareness, encourage community involvement and promote animals looking for their forever home.
Work with the team to find dogs in the care of Laois SPCA their forever homes. You will support the adoption process by speaking to applicants about their application, answer questions and guide them through the adoption process. This role also involves carrying out home checks to ensure the environment is safe and suitable.
Support Laois SPCA fundraising activities by helping at church gate collections, bucket collections, community events and fundraising days. We will add you to our volunteers whatsapp group where we post these jobs, if you have anything specific in mind you can reach out for a specific contact person.
Work with the shop team to keep the shop running 6 days a week. Duties include sorting donations, pricing, maintaining floor stock, assisting customers/ donors, keeping the shop tidy & presentable and sales.
We will add you to our Whatsapp group where we post a variety of jobs that you can volunteer for as you have time. There is also plenty of opportunities to support our fundraising efforts.
Please advise how you would like to get involved as a general volunteer
Laois SPCA is a foster-based organisation and does not have a physical shelter or public premises. The members of the branch shall accept and abide by the constitution of the branch. People who are involved in any activity which is considered by the committee of the Laois SPCA to be a form of cruelty towards any animal, whether, domestic, farm or wild, cannot be accepted as a member. The society opposes (1) puppy farming/ breeding (2) hare coursing and although these activities are deemed legal within Irish Law cannot be accepted, as the society cares for all animals, domestic, farm and wild.
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