The Cat'S Whiskers Rescue
Charity 1107910
Overview
Summary
The Cat'S Whiskers Rescue appears to combine immediate animal rescue with longer-term population and welfare prevention. Its stated role extends beyond rehoming homeless cats and kittens: it includes fostering, rehabilitation, public advice, and support for veterinary treatment and neutering across Staffordshire and the West Midlands. This suggests a locally rooted service that may operate across several points in the pathway from crisis intervention to preventing future welfare problems, although its scale, referral relationships and delivery model remain unclear.
Operational geography
Coverage: Regional
Operational areas:
Evidence and reasoning
Supporting evidence
Remaining uncertainties
- The Charity Commission record identifies Birmingham City as an area where the charity operates, but gives no service, foster, treatment, rehoming or other delivery location within Birmingham that can be matched confidently to a supplied ward or recognised place.
- The charity's registered contact address is in Cannock, outside Birmingham. It should not be treated as a Birmingham operational site, and the available evidence does not establish whether it is a rescue, fostering or administrative base.
- No current annual reports or returns are available: the Charity Commission records reporting as overdue after the financial year ending 31 December 2019. This limits confidence that the listed operating geography remains current as of August 2026.
- No material Birmingham partnerships, veterinary providers, foster-network locations or physical sites were evidenced in the available sources.
- The available evidence supports a regional operating footprint across Staffordshire and several West Midlands local-authority areas, rather than a neighbourhood-, district- or Birmingham-citywide service model. However, the intensity and current form of activity in Birmingham are not evidenced.
Additional evidence needed
- A current annual report, annual return or official operational update confirming the areas from which the charity currently accepts cats or delivers rescue, fostering, rehabilitation, rehoming, advice, veterinary-treatment or neutering support.
- Official charity information identifying any Birmingham-based service venues, veterinary partners, adoption arrangements or managed foster-network geography, without disclosing private foster addresses.
- A functioning official website or current official social-media update that identifies Birmingham delivery arrangements and any public-facing locations.
Areas of work
- Animals
- General Charitable Purposes
Who they help
- The General Public/mankind
How they help
- Provides Services
Discoveries involving this organisation
The Atlas has not published any Discoveries involving this organisation yet.
Observations
A whole-pathway approach to feline welfare
The available evidence suggests the charity addresses both the consequences of cat abandonment or mistreatment and some of the conditions that can lead to future need. Rescue, fostering, rehabilitation and rehoming sit alongside advice and assistance with treatment, spaying or neutering.
Why it matters
This positions the organisation as more than an emergency rehoming service. It may hold practical insight into recurring causes of feline welfare need and be a potential partner in prevention as well as response.
Show evidence
“The charity provides rescue, fostering, rehabilitation and rehoming services for cats and kittens in need.”
Source:Charity Commission“Its objects include public advice and information on animal welfare and assistance with treatment, spaying or neutering according to veterinary advice or expertise.”
Source:Charity Commission
Fostering may be a significant operating capability
Including fostering explicitly within the charity's objects may indicate that care is not limited to a single shelter-based model, and may depend partly on temporary home-based capacity.
Why it matters
If so, the organisation's ability to respond may be shaped by the availability, support and retention of foster carers. This is an important potential dependency when considering resilience, collaboration or local capacity.
Show evidence
“The charity's objects include the provision of a rescue, fostering, rehabilitation and rehoming service.”
Source:Charity Commission“The care and welfare of homeless cats and kittens, and rehousing of animals.”
Source:Organisation
A regional remit with a potentially broad public-facing role
The charity is formally focused on Staffordshire and the West Midlands, while its beneficiaries are recorded as the general public. This may reflect a role in supporting both animals and residents seeking advice or help with cat welfare.
Why it matters
The organisation may be connected to a wider local welfare ecosystem involving pet owners, finders of stray animals and veterinary expertise, rather than serving only people adopting cats.
Show evidence
“The charity's objects apply within Staffordshire and the West Midlands.”
Source:Charity Commission“The charity helps the general public/mankind and provides services.”
Source:Charity Commission
- Whether care is delivered through foster homes, premises, partner organisations, or a combination of these.
- The charity's scale, capacity, funding model and geographic coverage within its stated region.
- Its relationships with veterinary practices, local authorities and other animal-welfare organisations.
Remaining uncertainties
- Recent annual reports or activity data showing numbers rescued, fostered, treated, neutered and rehomed.
- Information on referral routes, foster-carer arrangements, veterinary partnerships and collaboration with other local rescues.
Additional evidence needed
Charity Commission profile
Activities
The care and welfare of homeless cats and kittens, and rehousing of animals.
Charity objects
TO RELIEVE THE DISTRESS AND SUFFERING OF CATS AND KITTENS WITHIN THE AREAS OF STAFFORDSHIRE AND THE WEST MIDLANDS WHO ARE IN NEED OF CARE BY REASON OF SICKNESS, STRAYING, NEGLECT OR MALTREATMENT BY THE PROVISION OF A RESCUE, FOSTERING, REHABILITATION AND REHOMING SERVICE, PUBLIC ADVICE AND INFORMATION SERVICE ON ANIMAL WELFARE AND THE PROVISION OF OR ASSISTANCE IN THE PROVISION OF TREATMENT SPAYING OR NEUTERING ACCORDING TO VETERINARY ADVICE OR EXPERTISE.