Mousehole Wild Bird Hospital Cornwall is led by a knowledgeable and engaged Council of Trustees, each of whom is committed to ensuring the future of the hospital is in safe hands and we are able to support every wild bird who needs our care.
Jeremy is Chair of the Trustee Council and lives in Falmouth, where he was previously Director of Marketing & External Affairs at Falmouth University. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and runs his own transport consultancy. Jeremy is also a Director and Chair of the Community Rail Network Board.
From her arrival in Mousehole in 1963, Margaret always loved visiting the Hospital with her children. She became involved with fundraising as a volunteer before officially joining the council in the 1970’s. She was then elected chair from 1990 until her retirement in 2022 but is still actively involved.
Christine semi-retired to Cornwall in 2006 having worked in administration for Balfour Beatty for a number of years, and became a trustee for Mousehole Wild Bird Hospital shortly afterwards. She’s always been interested in birds and enjoys being part of a team with their welfare at heart. She has also served on the Mousehole carnival committee as secretary and is a volunteer gardener for the National Trust.
Bob has lived in mid Cornwall with his growing family since 1985. He runs his own management consultancy business working with a wide range of clients across the UK and Europe. He enjoys the great outdoors, has walked the South West Coast Path and is an active volunteer in North Cornwall with the National Trust coast path team.
Sally Crabtree was once a world class gymnast and is now a song-writing poet and children’s author. She is also the creative director of Artconnexion UK CIC – an organisation that devises and delivers award winning creative literacy projects internationally. Sally has always had a passion for song birds and is delighted to be working on a current Birds on the Branchline initiative which aims to celebrate and preserve the heritage of songbirds and their habitats along Cornwall’s Branchlines.
We work with a dedicated and knowledgeable Council of Trustees, all of whom are devoted to securing the long-term future of Mousehole Wild Bird Hospital Cornwall as a charity and centre of excellence in the care of wild birds.
Here’s what we want to achieve within the next five years.
To build our reputation as an organisation where our care is led by veterinary trained and advised people
To monitor our treatment programmes and interventions with the objective to improve our capability, reach and impact in terms of the number of birds treated and survival rates by species
To establish a volunteer team to support the delivery of all aspects of our operation, ensuring funding is directed towards delivery of our core purpose of bird care
To ensure that our day to day operations are financially secure, we plan to diversify and improve our fundraising capabilities, focused on memberships and specific fundraising campaigns. Our initial campaign will be in support of the refurbishment of the hospital site
To promote study and research into the disease of wild birds and methods of prevention control or cure and into the treatment of injured birds and to publish the results of all such study and research.