Wings of Freedom - 24 hour rescue and rehabilitation of owls and birds of prey

Wings of freedom is a multi purpose, self supporting non profit making organization set up and founded two fold in a dual roll of helping people with disability and special needs improve their quality of life by giving access to and participation with owls and other birds of prey within our range of specially devised activities. Equally we set up and were founded to help owls and other birds of prey through our many aspects of rescue, rehabilitation and environmental work, (see our rescue information).

Charity status!

Although wing of freedom has now developed from a scheme in to a charitable organization, our long term plans were always to secure registered charity status. Having now completed our application and submissions for registration, once we reach our financial fund raising target set out by the charity commission, registration will be complete. With written clarification having now been received by us from the Charity commission, written documentation available to anyone on requests and is open to scrutiny.

Although charity status will not change any aspects of our work or what we do, it will most certainly help us in many other ways, such as when applying for grants, lottery funding and the likes, therefore helping our work and hopefully making a difference.

We have many plans to complete and need to look forward to the future, it was these and many other factors that played a part in our decisions to seek registered charity status.

How we were founded!

Wing of freedom is the original and unique idea devised by Mr. Colin Sutherland, a specialist in rescue and rehabilitation of owls, other birds of prey, a keeper and falconer of some thirty-five years.

Since its early conception, the idea and indeed the organization is the result of hard work by like minded people past and present who have taken the organization forward to give those less fortunate an equal opportunity to access and participate with owls, other birds of prey and the rural environment. The same determination and drive helping these unique birds through our rescue, rehabilitation and environmental work, be it captive or wild birds.

How we are funded!

Wings of freedom is funded mainly by donations through our public collections within a retail environment, by our personnel at weekends and holidays throughout the year, we also generate income through any of our initiatives and now hopefully through this website. We are ethical at all times promoting our organization with our birds that we use within the organization.

Our relaxed approach to problems!

We believe our relaxed and some say laid back approach works because we have a positive view of things at all times, working on the principles that anything is possible. After all what does it really take, we think the will, time, patience and the determination to meet the goals we set.

All problems should be solved, not just the easy ones. Talking about something is just hot unless carried out and what is important is action producing results, seeing things through.

It would be nice if everything were that easy, then if it were everyone would be doing what we are doing, the reality is everything is not that easy so we must move forward if we are to continue to give opportunity and see our plans come to fruition, just getting on with things.

The pessimists and self proclaimed experts!

When we formed wings of freedom in to a charitable organization from its original idea as a scheme devised by Mr. Colin Sutherland, the pessimists and indeed some of the traditionalists involved with birds of prey said it would never work, how wrong they were and are, little did they know we Had been doing this work quietly for many years and continue to produce results that count.

Some of the pessimists and so called experts said that people with disability could not fly birds of prey because they are wheel chair bound and to participate with birds of prey takes physical effort. Some said that people with special needs and or inner-city children did not know one bird from another so not worth bothering with. Some even said we are just romantics looking a thing through rose tinted glasses. Lets assume we are looking at things through rose tinted glasses, then how is it our methods work.

Quite frankly we do not have to justify ourselves to people who cant see further than their noses, we set our own agenda and say, view and judge us on the results that is what counts in the real world.

What do the pessimists and so called self proclaimed experts know anyway, have they ever tried, probably not, one thing is certain they will always rear their ugly heads and are the first to pour scorn on something that is out of the ordinary, they cant wait to stick their oar in.

These are the same people who think owls sleep during the day, when in fact owls are nocturnal because they hunt at night. If the so called experts believe owls sleep during the day, then they have only to give us a call and we will show them owls of which we have many, they will see them all awake during the day. On the other hand they have only to visit any bird of prey center and will see owls awake during the day. These are the same people who usually promote zero tolerance, we believe that zero tolerance is put about usually politically motivated people who are bankrupt of any ideas and have blinked views of the obvious, its that simple.

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