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Check out all the brilliant campaigns that we support! If you want to get active in your area to help any of the following campaigns contact SARC for help finding your local group.

Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS) is the largest contract testing lab in Europe. They have around 70,000 animals on site at any given time and they kill 500 animals a day.

They carry out experiments which involve poisoning animals with household products, pesticides, drugs, herbicides, food colourings and additives, sweeteners and genetically modified organisms.

HLS has been exposed at least 5 times for disgusting animal cruelty and rule breaking.

In 1997 Zoe Broughton worked undercover inside HLS as part of a Channel Four Series, Countryside Undercover, her investigation showed workers punching beagle puppies in the face and Home Office Inspectors failing to do their job.

The SHAC campaign is global, and the most effective and inspirational battle of our time, they have bashed Huntingdon to the brink of closure time and time again, but after bail outs from the Government they still need a bigger push. To help fight this hell hole please visit: www.shac.net and join the campaign. You can also contact SARC if you want to to get active in your area to close HLS.

Click here to view the undercover footage and read the diary kept by an undercover worker:

"The worst day yet, as the experiments started on my 32 puppies. The test involves putting each dog in a sling and injecting a chemical used in scanning of human livers. Two are sick as they are being injected, some of their legs swell up and on top of this the puppies have 10 blood tests each through the day. The technicians keep saying that "these dogs are too young for this type of experiment as their veins are too small" If the puppies wriggle, they are hit or shaken by the scruff of their necks. I feel like a torturer."

The Gateway To Hell Campaign aims to stop the importation of captive-bred and wild caught animals that enter the UK every year through airports to end up in vivisection laboratories. What they have uncovered is a secretive but lucrative trade, in wild and specially bred animals being imported by a small network of companies purely for laboratories. It is happening right under the noses of the millions of tourists who come in and out of the country every year.

The campaign takes action against the airlines and airports allowing and profiting from this trade. This is already a successful campaign and within the first few months of its launch, Air Mauritious, Air China, and BA announced they would not bring in animals for exploitation.

There is still loads of work to do, so visit www.gatewaytohell.net to find out what you can do.

In 2004 Cambridge University announced it was to abandon their plans to build Europe's largest primate research centre after a short and sustained campaign by 'SPEAC' (Stop Primate Experiments At Cambridge). SPEAC did not sit around celebrating for long after they discovered Oxford University had already begun building a new lab. The campaign relaunched itself under the banner of 'SPEAK - The voice for the animals', and were determined to stop the new lab. In July 2004, just months into the campaign, work at the Oxford Lab was halted after a mixture of protest and sabotage at the company building the laboratory. The building company refused to continue building the lab, and still over one year on Oxford haven't managed to find a building company brave enough to take the job on.

Oxford University have recently been investigated by Thames Valley Police over an allegation of abuse against a primate being used for vivisection. This primate was suffering immensely and even though a vet recommended that she be euthanaised the scientist wanted to keep her alive because she was an 'asset'. Not suprisingly the police and CPS are not taking this very seriously so SPEAK is offering a £15,000 reward to any information given which leads to a conviction.

Find out more about the campaign by visiting www.speakcampaigns.org.uk

In 1984 a group of volunteers entered Wickham labs where they found beagle puppies undergoing experimentation. The campaigners who exposed the suffering of the beagles were there to find something else. It was their aim to expose the links between the stolen pet trade, and vivisection.

An earlier investigation at the Royal College of Surgeons had shown that a wide variety of dogs, which were clearly not purpose bred, were being supplied by a company called APT. The director of this company, Mr David Walker, was also a director of Wickham Labs. When the dogs were approached many of them were able to respond to commands such as 'sit' and 'lie down'.

As if they had not caused enough of an uproar through their implications in the ex-pet trade, David Walker proceeded to publicly call on the RSPCA to hand over their stray dogs to animal testing laboratories.

In 1991 an ex-police officer got a job working inside the laboratory undercover. He showed evidence of the suffering of over 70,000 animals every year inside Wickham. The footage that he recovered documented row upon row of rabbits, lined up in stocks undergoing the notorious draize eye test, which involved dripping noxious substances into the rabbits eyes.

The most recent expose of Wickham was in December 2003, when animal care volunteers entered the laboratories, and revealed that tests were being carried out using a highly controversial, and partially banned LD50 test to test every single batch of BOTOX that enters the market. Paperwork revealed that over 600 animals were dying every day for that one experiment alone.

Find out more about Wickham Labs and the SWAT campaign, by visiting www.swatonline.co.uk