About the Scottish Wildcat Association
Friends and Supporters | Volunteers

The Scottish Wildcat Association is an entirely voluntary organisation; we strongly believe that bringing together dedicated volunteers is an ideal charity structure which leaves the vast majority of financial donations and income available for directly benefitting the Scottish wildcat.

We're always interested in hearing from anyone who can spare us a little time in any capacity but at present we do have a short wish list we'd be especially interested in hearing from anyone about! If you're interested in volunteering we'd love to hear from you, drop us a line telling us how you'd like to get involved or anything useful you've got experience doing, we look forward to hearing from you; click here to send an e-mail.

Cat show volunteers
We are currently getting together a "cat show pack" which includes a variety of items enabling us to set up a stall at cat shows raising awareness, signing up members and selling items from the shop. We would like to hear from people who could commit to attending a few shows nearby them each year that will be confident meeting the general public, answering their questions about wildcats and the charity and doing a little bit of paperwork and money handling. We'll help you brush up on your wildcat knowledge if you need to and provide essentials like a backdrop, posters, t-shirts etc. and cover costs like petrol money. At present we are keen to hear from people based near Edinburgh or London where our cat show packs will be based!.

If you live outside these areas or even abroad and would like to help we'd still like to hear from you; perhaps you can have leaflets on a stall you run regularly or perhaps you could attend events with a t-shirt, leaflets and some membership forms to help spread the word!

Newsletter contributors
Every three months we produce a newsletter for our members which is sent out almost entirely by e-mail. We're keen to hear from anyone with some journalistic or similar experience who would like to get involved putting the newsletter together, writing articles, doing interviews and ideally acting as editor; we want to produce a really high quality publication with plenty in it that our members really look forward to receiving! Applications are welcome worldwide from anyone with Internet access and excellent written English!

Researchers
One of our upcoming campaigns will create an opportunity for some very detailed scientific research into wildcat, hybrid, feral and domestic cat population numbers, density and spread across part of the Scottish Highlands. We would be interested in hearing from anyone with good relevant scientific research experience and qualifications who might be interested in getting involved in the project for a short or long period (the project will run for approximately 4 years) collating data, providing us with up to the minute statistics and information, helping our team manage the project effectively and ultimately producing a paper recording findings. we will be able to provide basic sustenance costs. Applications are open to established researchers and advanced students perhaps working towards a PhD

If you're interested in volunteering we'd love to hear from you, drop us a line telling us how you'd like to get involved or anything useful you've got experience doing, we look forward to hearing from you; click here to send an e-mail.