About us

Miss Louisa Snow founded Wood Green Animal Shelters in 1924 to help alleviate the problem of abandoned and injured animals on the streets of London after the First World War.

In 1933 Dr. Margaret Young became involved with the charity and changed its aims to finding new homes for these animals.

The Charity started its work in a small house in North London over 80 years ago, this gradually became too small for the necessary work of the organisation. A small pig farm in Hertfordshire was purchased in 1954 to take on the increasing amount of dogs and cats being brought in and provided the Charity with improved facilities to house the animals. Eventually in 1984 52 acres of farmland was purchased in Godmanchester to expand further the work of the animal welfare organisation.

The reasons for animals coming into the Shelters have changed quite dramatically in the last year with more and more pet owners feeling the strain of the recession.

Wood Green has seen a marked increase in the number of field animals rehomed in the last year because the Charity is now taking in and rehoming ex-battery hens.  This has proved an extremely popular move ad we have a waiting list of people wanting to provide a new home for these hens.