UK Animal Rights Organisations 

Advocates for Animals on-line
We campaign against all animal abuse and encourage people to change their relationship with animals from one of exploitation and harm to one of respect and compassion.

Animal Aid
Campaign peacefully against all forms of animal abuse and promote a cruelty-free lifestyle. We investigate and expose animal cruelty, and our undercover investigations are often used by the media.

Animal Concern
Animal Concern was formed in 1988 and incorporates its parent body the Scottish Anti-Vivisection Society, founded in 1876. Animal Concern is involved in campaigns against issues such as factory-farming, dog-fighting, the fur trade, performing animals, killing of seals, misuse of air weapons and bloodsports.

Animal Kingdom Foundation, Incorporated
AKF Inc. is the local affiliate of the International Wildlife Coalition Trust (IWCT) based in the United Kingdom. AKF's mission is to support, protect and promote welfare and the rights of animals; to eliminate the practice of illegal slaughter of dogs for human consumption and to introduce legislations or amendments in the existing animal-welfare laws of the Philippines.

Animal Liberation Front Supporters Group
The Animal Liberation Front Supporters Group (ALFSG) exists to provide support for activists in the UK who are imprisoned for their activities against animal abuse.

Antispeciesist Action
Antispeciesist Action is an autonomous collective of militant antispeciesists and animal rights activists committed to confronting animal abuse, suffering and exploitation of non-human beings through the use of direct action.

British Divers Marine Life Rescue
Our teams are on standby to respond immediately to any marine disaster or marine mammal stranding anywhere in the UK. All our volunteers regularly train to refresh rescue techniques and meet socially to keep in touch with each other and raise funds.

British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV)
For over 100 years the British Union for the Abolition of Vivisection (BUAV) has been campaigning peacefully to create a world where nobody wants or believes we need to experiment on animals.

Campaign for the Abolition of Terrier Work (CATW)
Exposes the cruelty of digging out foxes and the injuries also inflicted on terriers. We are seeking legislation in the UK and Ireland outlawing the use of terriers to attack animals underground. Terrierwork is one of the cruellest so called 'sports' and should be illegal, just like dog fighting, fox hunting and badger baiting have become.

Captive Animals' Protection Society (CAPS)
CAPS is one of this country's leading campaigning organisations on behalf of animals in circuses, zoos, and the entertainments industry.

Coalition of Badger Action Groups (CBAG)
We take non-violent direct action against DEFRA's (formerly MAFF's) unscientific and cruel badger slaughtering program. We 'monitor' the killing areas and individuals take action to save badgers' (and other animals) lives.

Coalition to Abolish the Fur Trade (CAFT)
Formed in 1997, CAFT-UK has helped regenerate the grass-roots campaign against the fur trade in Britain.

Covance Cruelty
Covance is an international company, operating in Europe (including in the United Kingdom), and was able to get a court order temporarily preventing PETA Europe from showing undercover footage taken inside the US animal-testing facility. But when the case came to a full hearing, the judge dismissed the company's case against PETA Europe for showing the video and awarded us £145,000 to cover costs. Now we are using that money to expose the truth about Covance – and all animal testing – via a billboard campaign launched in Leeds and Harrogate.

Diaries of Despair
Uncaged Campaigns has achieved an astonishing legal success by winning the right to publish the Diaries of Despair report and over a thousand pages of confidential documents. Uncaged Campaigns argued successfully that it was in the public interest to reveal the shocking truth behind one of Britain's most extreme programmes of animal experiments in recent history.

Doctors and Lawyers for Responsible Medicine
Its objective is the immediate and total abolition of all animal experiments, on medical and scientific grounds.

East Anglia Animal Rights Coalition
An organisation that is a central point for new people wishing to fight for a better future for animals.

Gateway to Hell Campaign
Aims to bring to the worlds attention the thousands of primates shipped around the world who will suffer and die in vicious and cruel experiments in animal testing labs.

Greyhound Action
Greyhound Action is an independent group dedicated to campaigning against the inherent cruelty of the greyhound racing industry. We work to close existing tracks and to prevent new tracks from opening.

Greyhound Action Scotland
A campaign group established to raise awareness of the plight of the racing greyhound with an ultimate aim for a total ban on greyhound racing in Scotland. This would outlaw breeding, training and racing greyhounds for sport.

Hunt Saboteurs Association
The only organisation that works directly in the field to protect wildlife from the huntsmen

Irish Animal Rights Action Network
Animal Rights Action Network (ARAN), Ireland’s national animal rights group is a vegan based group working to end all forms of animal cruelty and to speak out for their rights.

Kill Hunting UK
Killhunting UK highlights and campaigns against the annual killing of millions of defenceless animals and birds in the name of "conservation" and "sport".

League Against Cruel Sports
Established in 1924, and works to end cruelty to animals in the name of sport.

McSpotlight
The biggest, loudest, most red, most read Anti-McDonald's extravaganza the world has ever seen. Anything you could possibly want to know about McDonald's or McLibel nestles somewhere in our 21,000 files. McDonald's spends over $2 billion a year broadcasting their glossy image to the world. This is a small space for alternatives to be heard.

National Animal Rights Association (NARA)
The National Animal Rights Association is a newly formed, voluntary, animal rights group based in Dublin. We have many ongoing campaigns, and are constantly out spreading awareness through our protests, demonstrations and information tables. Whether it's a fur shop, a circus or a pharmaceutical company that funds vivisection - anywhere we find to be violating the rights of animals - web will be there.

National Anti Snaring Campaign (NASC)
Launched by the West Sussex Badger Protection Group (WSBPG), we are a political lobbying, educational, and pro active campaign. The NASC is not linked to any other organisation than the WSBPG. It is, however, endorsed by the Badger Trust (formerly the National Federation of Badger Groups NFBG) and the League Against Cruel Sports (LACS).

National Anti-Vivisection Society (NAVS)
The world’s first organisation campaigning against animal experiments having been founded in 1875. Millions of animals suffer and die in cruel, unscientific, and futile experiments. The NAVS advocates the prohibition of all animal experiments and, pending the achievement of this aim, we may support partial measures of reform which would provide steps towards the abolition of vivisection. Animal experiments: Unreliable. Unethical. Unnecessary.

North West Animal Rights
We organise, take part in & publicise peaceful demonstrations, leafleting & other events across Cumbria and Lancashire. We work closely with other local groups and national groups in order to be more effective. We often travel to larger events around the country. We also promote veggie and vegan diets as the most important thing anyone can do to stop animal cruelty.

Northern Animal Rights Coalition
The aim of NARC is to help northern groups to effectively get the message out to the public about different animal rights issues, provide an up-to-date and easy-to-use website to keep people informed about what is going on and how they can help and to provide information about various campaigns and issues. Anyone interested in getting involved in animal rights campaigns, please get in touch with us and we will put you in touch with your local group.

PETA 2
PETA UK website for teenagers

People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA)
PETA are dedicated to establishing and protecting the rights of all animals.

Roots of Blood Campaign
A campaign against the Woodland Trust's wildlife and conservation policies and its use of euphemistic language to mask its darker activities. It employs hunting agencies to shoot deer in its woodlands and describes this as "management", "intervention", "control" and "thinning out". The Woodland Trust also uses glyphosate weedkiller that, according to the World Health Organisation, "reduces the populations of beneficial insects, birds and small mammals by destroying vegetation on which they depend for their food and shelter".

SPEAK Campaigns
Migrating from Cambridge, the SPEAK campaign is to continue its role in the animal rights debate within the public and political arena through pro-active campaigning.

SPEAK Political Party
We are a new political party which aims to simultaneously represent the interests of people and non-human animals, a party that isn’t frightened to speak the truth and a party that wants to see real change rather than just be seen to want it. We hold that the concepts of human and animal rights are complementary to each other.

Scottish Animal Rights Alliance
SARA is a coalition of grassroots groups and individuals from all over Scotland working together to further the rights of animals

Sea Shepherd UK
Sea Shepherd uses innovative direct-action tactics to investigate, document, and take action when necessary to expose and confront illegal activities on the high seas.

Shellfish Network
Formed in 1994 to campaign peacefully against cruelty to these animals. Standard cooking methods are to boil, steam, grill or cut up while they are alive and fully conscious. It is a much-neglected subject compared with other issues of animal abuse.

South East Animal Rights
Campaigning on a wide range of subjects, we value the real support of animal lovers, whether you are new to the idea or are an old hand who can enlighten and widen the range of knowledge on all aspects of helping animals.

Southern Animal Rights Coalition
Campaign peacefully against all forms of animal abuse across the southern region.

Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty
SHAC is a worldwide campaign, and the first of its kind, with SHAC groups in the UK and many other countries all uniting to target HLS and the companies that support them globally.

Stop Sequani Animal Testing
Please support the campaign to stop Sequani using animals in horrific experiments. Sequani test pharmaceutical drugs, chemical compounds and medical devices on animals.Among the animal ‘test models‘ that Sequani imprison and experiment on are beagle dogs, rabbits, genetically stunted pigs known as ‘minipigs’, transgenic mice, chinese hamsters, rats and guinea pigs. These animals know no other life than that of which their captors have chosen for them, ‘a life of imprisonment, misery, suffering, fear and death’.

Stop Sequani Campaign.
Fighting for an end to animal testing at Sequani. Sequani Limited are a Contract Research Organisation (CRO) that test pharmaceutical drugs, chemical compounds and medical devices on animals. Anti-vivisection demonstrations are held outside Sequani in Ledbury each week highlighting the horror of vivisection to the passing public and companies that supply and help to maintain Sequani Limited are alerted to the horrors of the vivisection industry.

Stop Wickham Animal Testing
SWAT is not a group that has formal membership, SWAT is an umbrella term for anybody actively campaigning within the law against Wickham Laboratories. Whether you are making phonecalls, writing letters, organising demo's or assisting financially you are part of the SWAT campaign.

Stop Wickham Animal Testing
Wickham Laboratories has long been the centre of scandal and of outrage. Campaigners who exposed the suffering of beagles there also wanted to confirm something else. It was their aim to expose the links between the stolen pet trade and vivisection. David Walker, director of Wickham Laboratories, proceeded to publicly call on the RSPCA to hand over their stray dogs to animal testing laboratories.

Students Against Animal Cruelty
SAAC is a brand new national vegetarian/animal rights organisation especially for students. An opportunity for students to share their ideas and experiences getting active to help animals.

Uncaged
In the decade since it was founded, Uncaged has developed a unique campaigning approach which has placed it at the forefront of the anti-vivisection movement. Our campaigns are based on painstaking research, producing results that command widespread respect from media, politicians and the public alike. We operate at every level, from grassroots protests to motions in Parliament, through to participation in academic discourse.

Vegan Prisoners Support Group (VPSG)
The aims of the VPSG are to give moral and practical support where needed, help to obtain vegan food for prisoners or anyone arrested whilst in custody, help to obtain vegan toiletries for prisoners, highlight and work to improve the inadequate facilities for vegans in prison shops and campaign for equal rights for vegan prisoners. VPSG Emergency Arrest Line: 07984 733008

Western Animal Rights Network (WARN)
A coalition of animal liberation groups from the West working toward a common goal of total animal liberation through protest and direct action.

Yorkshire Animal & Environmental Protection
Yorkshire guide to cruelty-free living and campaigning - includes national campaigning too.