Who we work with

We work to improve animal welfare standards through contact and cooperation with local partners. These may be other animal welfare or environmental organisations, universities and teacher training institutes, and central or local government agencies. In addition, we cooperate with global organisations on a wide range of issues and we are a founder member of Eurogroup for Animal Welfare.
 

European Union

The UK’s membership of the European Union offers the perfect arena for us to campaign for animal welfare. For over 20 years it has been instrumental, along with the coordinating body of Eurogroup for Animals and animal welfare counterparts from all the other European member countries, in initiating successful campaigns against:

• veal calf crates

• leghold traps

• cosmetics testing on animals

• the use of drift nets which ensnare dolphins. 

Global partners

We are involved in talks started at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2001 on setting animal welfare standards for trade in agricultural products and we also work with the UN Food and Agriculture Organisation (FAO). Find out more about the FAO.

Our ongoing cooperation with the World Organisation for Animal Health (OIE) aims to set global animal welfare standards, for the control of dog populations for example, and to work with other producer and industry groups to ensure good farm animal welfare.

Over the past two years the RSPCA and Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) have been working together in a unique process with producers, scientists, retailers and farmers to find realistic and economically viable solutions to the live transport of calves to Europe and towards getting a greater number of male dairy calves reared in the UK. A similar partnership group is looking at the chicken industry. Visit the CIWF website.

We are a member of the World Society for the Protection of Animals (WSPA).
Visit the WSPA website to find out more.

Visit campaigns and global issues for more information on our work and cooperation with Eurogroup, the WTO and the OIE.

Links to overseas organisations

Over 200 organisations in 66 countries are formally associated with the RSPCA. All of these organisations share the aims of promoting animal welfare and preventing cruelty to animals. Find out more on the associates' network page