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Annual Report 2023-2024

Our 2023/24 Annual Report is now ready to read! It includes statistical reports; sharing of our vision; and some amazing volunteer and client stories. Please have a read.

Our Special Friends Annual Report 2023-2024

An Introduction to Our Special Friends

Our Special Friends (OSF) is an innovative, grassroots charity supporting people who are experiencing difficulty and where ownership of a pet, or contact with an animal, is crucial to enable them to cope.

Introduction to Our Special Friends pdf

Our Special Friends Leaflet

Promoting, preserving and providing the power of animal companionship.

We are a Suffolk based charity which has grown out of a desire to support people who are struggling in a range of situations where animal companionship plays an important role in helping them cope. We believe in promoting, preserving and providing the power of animal companionship.

Our Special Friends Leaflet

Annual Report 2022-2023

Our 2022/23 Annual Report is now ready to read! It includes statistical reports; sharing of our vision; and some amazing volunteer and client stories. Please have a read.

Annual Report

Annual Report 2021-2022

Our 2021/22 Annual Report is now ready to read! It includes statistical reports; sharing of our vision; and some amazing volunteer and client stories. Please have a read.

Annual Report

Annual Report 2020-2021

At the beginning of 2020 none of us could have imagined the impact the COVID-19 would have on our lives and the devastation that it would leave across our planet. Throughout the pandemic Our Special Friends continued our work of helping and supporting people at some of the most vulnerable times in their lives.

Annual Report

Financial Report 2020-2021

Income in primarily derived from grants and increased by 67% to £240,487 (2020: £142.989). At the beginning of the year we had been concerned that the pandemic would reduce our success rate with grant applications, because of competition from an increasing number of worthy causes. In the event of our success rate not only being held up, but we attracted funding from some important new funders. The average amount of each grant is still relatively low, so we continue to rely on a constant flow of successful applications to maintain our cash reserves.

Financial Report 2020-2021

Leaving a gift in your will?

We are entirely dependent on the funding that we can raise to provide our services. A gift will make a huge impact to enabling us to help people who are struggling at a difficult time in their lives, where their relationship with their animal companion is compromised. Your gift will help us to give them peace of mind that their pet will be looked after and cared for when they are unable to. It is important to us that our work not only enhances human wellbeing but also that of the animal.

OSF Legacy Brochure

UEA Animal Companionship and Our Special Friends Report Summary

Animal Companionship final report

UEA Animal Companionship and Our Special Friends Report Summary

Addendum to the final report

Contact Our Special Friends

If you have a general enquiry please fill out the contact form below.

If you would like to refer yourself or someone that you know, or you would like to join our lovely group of volunteers please select the appropriate form on the right.

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