About Sector Sheet

Sector Sheet is a news and policy intelligence feed for the UK animal welfare sector. It brings together coverage from national media, specialist publications, government sources, and sector organisations, so you can see what is moving without manually checking dozens of sites each day.

What it is

A curated, deduplicated stream of headlines, refreshed automatically every two to four hours. Each item shows the headline, link, publication date and time, and source, with an RSS summary where the original feed provides one.

Stories are tagged into practical categories: UK Policy and Legal, Wildlife, Farming and Agriculture, Companion Animals, International, and Research.

What you can do with it

Policy and public affairs teams use it for horizon scanning: consultations, enforcement signals, and parliamentary activity. Campaigns and comms teams use it for early warning on emerging narratives and issues likely to escalate. Leadership use it for a single view across the sector, with featured items and basic coverage stats.

How it works

Sector Sheet pulls from RSS and Atom feeds across charities, government bodies, broadcasters, national and regional press, and specialist titles. It filters for relevance using configurable rules, applies category tagging via keyword mappings, and suppresses near-duplicates that appear across multiple outlets.

If a feed is broken or temporarily unavailable, ingestion continues for other sources, and the system logs failures for diagnosis.

What it is not

Sector Sheet is not a media monitoring suite. It does not track mentions of your organisation. It is a sector-wide agenda view, built to answer a different question: what is changing in animal welfare, and where.

It does not republish the full article text. We show the headline and metadata, then link to the original publisher.

Integrity and attribution

Every item links to its source. You can always see where something came from and when it was published, which matters when you are briefing, escalating, or deciding whether an issue is real, new, and relevant.

Get in touch

To suggest a source, report a broken feed, or discuss access for your organisation, use the contact link on the site.