Become a PAWS Sponsor!

You can do more to help us save the homeless animals of Southside Virginia by becoming a PAWS Program member.  As a PAWS sponsor, you will be asked to contribute monthly to help support a PAWS animal at one of our shelters.

As a PAWS sponsor, you will receive:

You can sponsor any of the dogs or cats in our gallery. We ask that our PAWS sponsors contribute at least $60.00 per month.

Please print and mail the enrollment form to us.

Donate Using Gifts of Stock

The Southside SPCA welcomes donations in the form of marketable securities. These securities can be transferred to our account at Merrill Lynch. Please contact Donte Smith at Merrill Lynch Wealth Management for more information.  He may be reached at (804) 225-6804 or donte.smith2@ml.com

Help Provide for the Southside SPCA

Please consider becoming a member of our Legacy Society by including the Southside SPCA in your will or a trust. Supporters who include the Southside SPCA in their wills or trusts create a legacy of support that will help to ensure that the Southside SPCA will always be here to save and care for the homeless animals of Southside Virginia.

Here are the ways that you can leave a legacy of support for the homeless animals of Southside Virginia:

You can also make a request by naming the Southside SPCA as a beneficiary of your Individual Retirement Account (IRA) and/or your life insurance policy.

Additional options for including the Southside SPCA in your long-term, charitable giving plans include:

If you are considering a planned gift to the Southside SPCA or would like more information, please call Dave Evans at 804.357.2421 or email at monaskonfarm@outlook.com, and thank you again for your support!

If you are interested in volunteering please contact Jim Snow at sspcatailwaggers@gmail.com.

Devoted to Support the Southside SPCA

Supporters are encouraged to purchase goods from our Thrift Store, Tailwaggers, in Keysville, Virginia. All proceeds from sales at the store go to the Southside SPCA, and donations to the store are tax deductible to the extent allowed by law

The store, which is managed by volunteers Jim Snow and Barbara Snow, is well-stocked with a wide variety of donated, gently-used, every-day items at bargain prices. In addition to supporting the shelter, Tailwaggers helps those in our community to purchase items they might otherwise not be able to afford and presents the opportunity to educate the public about the shelter and our work for the homeless animals of Southside Virginia.

Thrift Store Address: 439 Railroad Ave. Keysville, Virginia 23947

Hours: Thursday and Friday 10:00 to 3:00 and Saturday 10:00 to 2:00, except holidays.

Directions: From Richmond, travel Route 360 West to the second Keysville exit; turn right on Route 40, which merges into 360 Business to Railroad Avenue. The store is on the left.

Please contact Jim Snow at sspcatailwaggers@gmail.com for more information about donations to or purchases from the store.

Donate Items and Goods

The Southside SPCA always needs and welcomes donations of items for use at our shelters.  Donations of goods for the Thrift Store may be made at either the store or the shelter in Meherrin.

Check out our Amazon Wish List for items we are always in need of!

Your donation of the following will help to reduce the cost of operation:

Directions: From Richmond, travel Route 360 West approximately 50 miles to Green Bay. The shelter is on the eastbound side of Route 360 approximately one mile after Green Bay.

Our Tail Waggers Thrift Store also accepts gently used donations for sale in our thrift store in Keysville, Virginia.

Donations may be dropped off at our main shelter or at Tail Waggers.

We Accept Donations of Vehicles

To help us save the homeless animals of Southside Virginia we will happily accept donations of complete vehicles of any kind and in any condition within a 50-mile radius of  Richmond.  There is no cost to you to make a gift of your vehicle and the donation is also tax deductible, but you must provide us with a clean title to the vehicle before we can accept the donation.

Step 1 – To make a vehicle donation, please complete the form below.

Step 2 – Once you have submitted your vehicle’s information, Chesterfield Auto Parts Company will contact you to arrange to pick up your vehicle at no charge to you.

Step 3 – After the vehicle has been picked up, you will receive a receipt and the vehicle will either be recycled or sold.  Within 30 days, you will receive a letter, along with IRS form 1098C, indicating the amount received from recycling or sale of the vehicle. Proceeds from recycling or the sale of your vehicle will be sent directly to the Southside SPCA.

*All vehicles must have a clear title in your name, and be accessible by a roll-back tow truck.

Become a Southside SPCA Volunteer

Our loyal and dedicated volunteers are one of the reasons why the Southside SPCA is able to do so much with limited financial resources, but we need more volunteers, so we hope you will consider serving as a volunteer to help with one or more of the following:

Volunteer Needs and Contact List

Helping with Shelter Maintenance

– please contact Jim Snow

Fostering Dogs – Please fill out the dog application form and put Fostering in the subject line.

Helping with cat adoptions

– please contact Francee Schuma

Helping with dog adoptions

– please contact Francee Schuma

If you are interested in volunteering at the main shelter

– please contact Stephanie Drames

If you are a student or a group representative from Longwood University or Hampden-Sydney College and wish to volunteer

– please contact Mark Fink

If you are interested in joining our local friends group

– please contact Steve Smelcer

Where do your Donations go?

They go directly to support the homeless, abused, and abandoned animals in Southside Virginia On average, only about 10% of our income goes to pay for fundraising and administration. The rest covers the cost of operating and maintaining our shelters and the cost of continuing to rescue, care for, adopt, and spay and neuter well over1,000 dogs, cats kittens, and puppies each year. Go to 2014 Animal Welfare and Financial Statistics for information on where your donations went last year.

Where do your Donations go?

Because few animal welfare organizations do more with the help they receive than the Southside SPCA, so you can be sure that every dollar and hour you donate will go directly to benefit the animals.

We are located in a largely rural, low-income area of Virginia. Unlike donor supported, non-profits located in urban and suburban areas, most of our financial support is from relatively small donations by loyal supporters throughout Virginia and beyond who have adopted our animals or who have heard of our work.  What we lack in the financial resources available to more wealthy animal welfare organizations, we make up for with a small group of dedicated volunteers and paid staff that does great things with what we have.  Our Director, Sandy Wyatt, for example, has dedicated her life to the Southside SPCA, volunteering 12 hours a day, seven days a week, 365 days a year for over 25 years to save and care for the abandoned, abused and neglected animals of Southside Virginia.