Our Achievements

Images of new MRI with staff

Since its inception the Trust, with your help, has raised over £13 million for a wide variety of projects at Cambridge Veterinary School including:

  • A 1.3 Tesla MRI machine and MRI Unit;
  • A refurbishment of the library to create a student study and teaching space;
  • Currently sponsoring FIVE clinical training posts;
  • A replacement ultrasound machine for the Diagnostic & Imaging Department;
  • The Clinical Skills Centre including a range of interactive teaching models, equipment and furniture; 
  • Sponsorship of a Clinical Skills Centre staff member;
  • Nine new small animal consulting rooms and a teaching consultation room; 
  • The Equine Diagnostic Unit refurbishment;
  • Europe's first Cancer Therapy Unit for animals and in 2009, with the completion of the HOPE Appeal, the Trust purchased a new radiotherapy machine and extended the Unit;
  • The Small Animal Wing, Intensive Care Unit and Small Animal Surgical Suite;
  • The Equine Surgical Suite and Equine Diagnostic Unit;
  • The Farm Animal Medicine Centre;
  • The world's first Chair in Animal Welfare;
  • An Endowment Fund to support the work of the Hospital in perpetuity.

AND thanks to your continued support a huge amount of equipment from the hospital's wishlist including:

Radiation positioning equipment (oncology); capnograph/oximeter machine; anaesthetic machine (small animal); transport refrigeration system (farm animal); refractometer (now ultra sonic waterbath); suction machine; electrophoresis; 30 degree laprascope; dental stand; cordless clippers; doppler probe; stethoscopes; fribrescope/urethrosocpe; warming blankets (small animal recovery); obstetrics equipment; de-horning choppers (farm animal); small clippers; anaesthetic monitor (equine); probe for portable scanner; portable x-ray machine (equine); fleuroscope; arthroscope; drip stand; infusion pump; electric plates (oncology); critical care unit; radio frequency ablator; medicine trolleys; teaching equipment and aids for the clinical skills centre; atroscope; bench-top centrifuge; surgical theatre lights; tilt-top tables for consulting rooms; crush cage; teaching stethoscope; radiotherapy aids; ultrasound scanners; brachytherapy machine; mobile resuscitation trolley; neurology EMG equipment; ECG machine; cardiology probe; lambing/calving simulators - the list continues!

If you would like an up-to-date list of the items that we need funding for then we'd be delighted to hear from you - every contribution makes a vast difference.