Reception Staff

Alison Copley

Alison is currently split in her duties between Conway Drive and Kirkham, and has worked at Abbey Vets since 2004. She is the proud owner of a Boxer puppy called 'Betsy'.

Angela Perry

Angela works between both surgeries on Conway Drive and Watling Street Road and has worked as a receptionist since 2005. She is married and has two daughters, a step-daughter and a step-son. She has several animals including her Rottweiler ‘Tia’, a horse ‘Comannchi’, 2 rabbits 'Princess' and 'Pirate', and a fish. Her husband says ‘No more pets!’

Anne Walne

Anne joined our small animal teams at Abbey Conway Drive and Watling Street Road in January 2011, following the sad closure of Raggamuffins kennels and cattery where she had worked since 2005.

Anne has owned and cared for a variety of animals over the years and her spare time is taken up looking after her pets, currently cats, rabbitts, fish and a fancy dove. 

Beverley Hall

Beverley joined Abbey Vet Centre in October 2007. She has a teenage daughter, two cats called ‘Malcolm’ and ‘Jenny’ and a cocker spaniel called ‘Poppy’. She works full time during the day as a laboratory technician at a local high school and at Abbey Vet Centre in the evenings.

Deborah Pratt

Deborah has worked on reception at the Watling Street Road branch since 2003, with additional duties in theatre. She is the fun loving owner of two Glen of Imaal Terriers called ‘Molly’ and ‘Murphy’. A breed that originated from county Wicklow in Southern Ireland. She finds Murphy is the more laid back of the two whereas Molly has often got a tendency to be hyperactive.

Georgina Flood

Georgina joined the Abbey Watling Street Rd practice in March 2011.

As well as working the evenings at Abbey, Georgina has a very active day job as a dog walker and pet sitter.

Her spare time is spent with her three jack russells - Phoebe, Izzie and Henry and her adopted bearded dragon 'Katarvi'

Helen Dutton

Helen is a receptionist at Watling street road where she has worked for nearly 5 years. She enjoys her job and spends much of her spare time with her various animals.

Karen Kelly

Karen has worked on reception at Conway Drive since 2005 and is married with two teenage sons. She has a dog called ‘Polly’ who she rescued and nursed back to health, a rabbit called ‘Albert’ and a tortoise called ‘Speedy’.

Lynne Ward

Lynne has been married for 35 years and has two sons, three grandchildren, a ginger cat called ‘Ant’ and two british shorthairs called 'Sully' and 'Lilly'. Lynne has worked at Abbey Vet Centre as a receptionist for over 20 years and has loved working with clients and pets alike. She lives in Fulwood so quite often is found chatting with clients and their pets outside of the work environment too!