Meet the team
Rabbit Residence Rescue is lucky to have such dedicated staff and volunteers!
Lea Facey
Lea began volunteering at the rescue in 2015, starting out with cleaning hutches and fundraising then taking on many other tasks such as being in charge of new intakes and rehoming as the need arose.
Lea is also one of the three trustees and has managed the rescue on a voluntary basis since the birth of Caroline's son, Theo alongside her full time job.
Lea is passionate about rabbit welfare and is currently studying a course in rabbit behaviour and is an advisor for the One Voice for Animals 2021 campaign: A Better Life for Rodents & Rabbits as well as being a core team member for One Voice for Animals UK.
Lea also runs home based rabbit sanctuary, Hope for Hoppers (https://m.facebook.com/hope4hoppers/) which cares for harder to rehome rabbits and has offered nursing and palliative care within a home environment for many of the long term Rabbit Residence rabbits.
Paige Everdeen
Paige started off as a volunteer, we then offered her a position as a part-time animal care assistant in 2017. Paige definitely deserves a medal as she turned up day after day to take care of the rabbits in thick snow when no one else could get to the rescue. She’s hard working and reliable and a real asset to the rescue. Paige is our Senior animal care assistant, she runs our cleaning rota, health checks & deals with our holiday boarders.
Emma Collins
Long time volunteer, Emma rejoined us as a part-time member of staff in spring 2022. She has been assistant manager at ARC and also worked at Wood Green Animal Shelter and the RSPCA. She has a keen interest in enrichment, behaviour and foraging. Emma loves our red eyed bunnies but our elderly half wildies, Jackie and Aragon have always been her favourites.
Molly Lofts
Molly originally worked at the rescue in 2016 as a full time member of staff, she then left to have her son, Fred. She rejoined us in summer 2022 as a part time member of staff. Molly has a keen interest in all things health related, does much of our bonding and is hoping to train as a veterinary nurse.
Ella Carlton
Ella joined us at the start of 2023 as a part-time animal care assistant. Having previously worked with horses, Ella has taken to caring for the bunnies like a duck to water, she is resourceful, reliable, works hard & is a huge asset to the team.
Lynda Martin
Lynda volunteers at the rescue every week and also helps at fundraising events too as well as helping Lea organise our successful Facebook auctions. Lynda also assists the rescue in applying for grants. Lynda is also a member of the rescues committee. Lynda’s favourites are Bruno and Darcy. She also recently adopted ex-T&S farm bunny, Salvator as a friend for her giant, Beatrix.
Andrew Ball
Andrew is part of our behind the scenes team, he's definitely someone we couldn't survive without as he deals with the rescues wages and pension scheme.
Heather Pointer
Heather runs the rescues sponsorship scheme and also designs our calendars and our greetings cards. Heather is bunny mum to two rabbits, Caramac and Dmitri who she adopted from us.
Lea Facey
Lea began volunteering at the rescue in 2015, starting out with cleaning hutches and fundraising then taking on many other tasks such as being in charge of new intakes and rehoming as the need arose.
Lea is also one of the three trustees and has managed the rescue on a voluntary basis since the birth of Caroline's son, Theo alongside her full time job.
Lea is passionate about rabbit welfare and is currently studying a course in rabbit behaviour and is an advisor for the One Voice for Animals 2021 campaign: A Better Life for Rodents & Rabbits as well as being a core team member for One Voice for Animals UK.
Lea also runs home based rabbit sanctuary, Hope for Hoppers (https://m.facebook.com/hope4hoppers/) which cares for harder to rehome rabbits and has offered nursing and palliative care within a home environment for many of the long term Rabbit Residence rabbits.
Paige Everdeen
Paige started off as a volunteer, we then offered her a position as a part-time animal care assistant in 2017. Paige definitely deserves a medal as she turned up day after day to take care of the rabbits in thick snow when no one else could get to the rescue. She’s hard working and reliable and a real asset to the rescue. Paige is our Senior animal care assistant, she runs our cleaning rota, health checks & deals with our holiday boarders.
Emma Collins
Long time volunteer, Emma rejoined us as a part-time member of staff in spring 2022. She has been assistant manager at ARC and also worked at Wood Green Animal Shelter and the RSPCA. She has a keen interest in enrichment, behaviour and foraging. Emma loves our red eyed bunnies but our elderly half wildies, Jackie and Aragon have always been her favourites.
Molly Lofts
Molly originally worked at the rescue in 2016 as a full time member of staff, she then left to have her son, Fred. She rejoined us in summer 2022 as a part time member of staff. Molly has a keen interest in all things health related, does much of our bonding and is hoping to train as a veterinary nurse.
Ella Carlton
Ella joined us at the start of 2023 as a part-time animal care assistant. Having previously worked with horses, Ella has taken to caring for the bunnies like a duck to water, she is resourceful, reliable, works hard & is a huge asset to the team.
Lynda Martin
Lynda volunteers at the rescue every week and also helps at fundraising events too as well as helping Lea organise our successful Facebook auctions. Lynda also assists the rescue in applying for grants. Lynda is also a member of the rescues committee. Lynda’s favourites are Bruno and Darcy. She also recently adopted ex-T&S farm bunny, Salvator as a friend for her giant, Beatrix.
Andrew Ball
Andrew is part of our behind the scenes team, he's definitely someone we couldn't survive without as he deals with the rescues wages and pension scheme.
Heather Pointer
Heather runs the rescues sponsorship scheme and also designs our calendars and our greetings cards. Heather is bunny mum to two rabbits, Caramac and Dmitri who she adopted from us.
Gary Sherin
Ace photographer and Big Ears, Tiny Tails blog writer Gary AKA bunny hugging volunteer has been foster dad to many of our rabbits over the last ten years. He is currently bunny slave to Ludwig and Sumatra.
Julie Hall
Julie helps with all of the rescues signage needs and produces our rabbit ID cards.
Hannah Bird
Hannah was originally one of our adoptees and then started helping with fundraising doing digital drawings and designing car stickers. She’s also great at DIY too which has made a huge difference to us. Hannah is bun mum to six rescue rabbits, including Nora and Midi who were adopted from us.
Cat Davies
Former trustee, Cat recently took over responsibility for managing our Instagram and Twitter accounts.she is bunny slave to two rescue rabbits who she adopted from us, Ava and Ted.
James Chilcott
James can often be found on site helping with cleaning or socialising our shyer rabbits. He is bunny slave to two very spoilt house rabbits, Putter and Emily but is also a huge fan of our New Zealand whites.
Anna & Peter
Anna and Peter are bun parents to 5 rescue rabbits adopted from us, they volunteer on site once a month and Peter helps with DIY.
Caroline Collings
Caroline founded the rescue (see our page on how the rescue began) and is also one of our three trustees. We have been extremely lucky that Caroline is always on hand to offer support and advice despite no longer working for the rescue herself as she focuses on her young son, Theo and running her own business, Rabbit Owner Support Services.
Sue Kent
Sue travels over two hours in order to volunteer at the rescue and is also one of our trustees.
