Our policy on giving to charities.
We regularly get asked to donate to charities but as there are just too many for us to help everyone we need you to supply us with a little more information about your organisation and how we can work together.
Most of the organisations we work with are animal based although we welcome requests from others.
Most of our donations are in the form of goods, often in the form of prizes although some charities also receive regular cash payments where that is more appropriate. We also have items with cosmetic damage that we can often donate.
At the end of the day, we have to look at this from a commercial point of view – How will our donation increase the number of people that are aware of what we do?
We’d like you to be able to tell us how you will let people know that we have supported your cause and approximately how many this will reach.
As a web based retailer our primary target is to increase our reach via the internet which could include your own website, facebook pages, twitter account etc.
This is a prize we are supplying to Fresh Start For Hens
Currently we are supporting:
Several groups rehoming ex-commercial chickens: Little Hen Rescue, Fresh Start for Hens and Homes4Hens.
A kids football team
Several animal shelters that make use of cosmetically damaged heat lamps.
About admin
Once upon a time, not so very long ago Auntie Bev arrived at Louise's 16th birthday clutching a rather tatty box, full of holes and tied up with orange baler twine. Louise opened the box and out sprang two chickens. (And also the birth of Wells Poultry but we didn't realise until later)
Louise thought this was great although Lesley (Louise's mum) was not impressed to say the least.
Now, a cardboard box isn't the best home for a pair of chickens so next morning I was off to that well know DIY shop in search of timber with a vague idea of what a chicken house looked like. And so our first chicken house was created.
Sadly these first two chickens were swiped by a fox within a few weeks so we bought a trio of birds from a local breeder. I'm sure that is a familiar story to a lot of people - 2 chickens become 3 and then 3 become 6 and then you need more housing.....
Suffice to say, six months later I was building chicken houses full time in the back garden of a terrace house in Reading. Another year on and we moved to Wales for more space and the business continued to grow. We're now preparing to open our new workshop which will double our current space and allow us to take on more staff....
We attribute much of our success to the fact that we are very similar to many of our customers, we're content to keep a few chickens in the back garden as much for amusement as the eggs they produce. We don't have acres of land so know the limitations a back garden flock. And we firmly believe that the only time you'll need to buy another chicken house is when you need a bigger one not because it's fallen apart.
