A charity dedicated to reuniting lost and stolen animals with their owners has received a funding boost to help it continue its mission.
Beauty’s Legacy, which is based in the Newark area but operates across the country, received £1,000 as a share of the £1million fund from Benefact Group’s Movement for Good Awards — which will help it continue its crucial animal welfare work.
Beauty’s Legacy is a small charity which consists of an animal search team whose responsibility it is to reunite lost and stolen animals with their families. It also promotes safer pet ownership whilst campaigning for overall better animal welfare.
As well as running nationwide search campaigns and media appeals, the organisation works with the police and the RSPCA to stop puppy farming.
Its work is entirely funded by donations.
Recently, the charity was vital in tracking down a young German Shepherd, named Boy, who went missing — believed stolen — from Girton in November 2023.
He was successfully re-united with his family in January 2024 after Beauty’s Legacy traced an attempt to change his microchip details to the Southampton area.
Boy’s owners are one of hundreds who have been helped to be reunited with their beloved pets by the charity, which has a network of volunteers and social media pages across the country to help trace pets.
The £1,000 donation made as part of the Movement for Good Awards will enable the volunteers to continue their work on high profile search campaigns, where they use thousands of posters, trapping equipment and cameras.
It will also contribute towards the cost of a thermal drone, which the organisation has always wanted to have but hasn’t ever had the funds to procure.
Lisa Dean, chief executive and senior animal welfare officer at Beauty’s Legacy, said: “The impact pet loss has on families is devastating. When a pet is stolen the impact is greater still.
“We provide 24-hour support to families — emotionally, financially, practically and physically.
“The £1,000 donation from the Movement for Good Awards is greatly appreciated and will allow us to continue our work supporting those who need it most. We’d like to thank everybody who nominated us.”
Lisa set up the charity while living in Kent, after being reunited with her 20-year-old cat, Beauty, who had gone missing, and was believed to have been stolen.
She was only able to spend hours with Beauty before she died from illnesses caused by the treatment she received when she was taken — but because of the role social media played in reuniting them, she was inspired to set up a Facebook group called Beauty’s Legacy.
Upon moving to Newark and Sherwood she spread awareness of the service in the area, and began to establish a support network like the one created in Kent.
Benefact Group’s Movement for Good Awards is set to give away more than £1million to charities across the year and members of the public are invited to nominate causes close to their hearts.
Further winners will be revealed later in the year and Nottinghamshire residents are encouraged to keep nominating by visiting https://movementforgood.com/.
Mark Hews, group chief executive at Benefact Group, said: “We would like to thank every single person who took the time to nominate a good cause as part of our Movement for Good Awards. Benefact Group is a family of award-winning specialist financial services companies and the third largest corporate donor to charity in the UK.
“Owned by a charity ourselves, charitable giving is at the heart of what we do. All of our available profits go to good causes and the more the group grows, the more the group can give.
“We are delighted to be able to donate over £1million to good causes each year through our Movement for Good Awards and are grateful to all our supporters, including the customers of the trusted insurer, Ecclesiastical, and the responsible and sustainable asset manager, EdenTree.
“We know that £1,000 can make a huge difference to the incredible work that charities do and we’re looking forward to seeing how this financial boost will change lives for the better.”
