A RESIDENT from Tadley has been overwhelmed with the sheer amount of donations received after organising a huge Ukraine collection to help animals and people in need.

Thirty-one-year-old Utopia Adaway, who has lived in Tadley for three years was overwhelmed with the collection that she said completely “filled her conservatory”.

She organised the collection to deliver a van full of items to a charity called Nowzad, which is currently supporting animals shelters and the courageous staff who stayed behind to care for animals in Ukraine.

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They work hard to relieve the suffering of animals; including companion animals, working equines, stray and abandoned dogs and cats and all other animals in need of care and attention.

Utopia said she has always supported and loved the charity.

She said: “I got in touch with them and they said they are looking for local collection points and I was just so excited to get going and got to work posting messages on Facebook.

“My conservatory was so full and I literally could not get anything else inside it.”

She said she wanted to do the collection after seeing the horror of events unfolding in Ukraine and said seeing all the animals in need of help just really pulled on her heartstrings.

She added: “It has really been so overwhelming to see the generosity of people. I even had one lady who went into a shop with £350 and asked how much she could buy with it.”

Utopia said that she cannot thank the residents of Basingstoke enough for all their donations and help.

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She added: “People across Basingstoke, Thatcham, Newbury and Tadley have been donating all week to my house.

“This is my way of saying thank you to the local people that have been flooding my driveway with donations this week because without them I wouldn’t be doing any of this and I am so grateful for doing my bit with the disasters that are happening at the moment.”

The donations are being sent to Poland where they will be sorted out and given to Ukrainian refugees.

For more information about the charity, visit: www.nowzad.com.

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