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Status
Received: 57 days late
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Income
£85.4K
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Spending
£87.0K
Public benefits
To organise educational meetings at the sanctuary for both children and adults. These horses will help children to grow in a positive healthy environment. To educate the public on all matters concerning the welfare of these animals enabling the community to interact more positively with others. The directors believe that all the charity’s
donations etc. should be put to the maximum use and so no director receives any payment, fess nor any benefit in kind from the charity, 100% of what is received by the charity is used for the equines care and upkeep. Our purpose is to prevent and relieve cruelty to horses etc. and to protect them from unnecessary suffering and encourage a knowledge and love for horses and of their proper care and treatment among the people of Northern Ireland. We wish to prevent the pain and suffering of horses. The sanctuary has been looking after equines since 2001 and we find homes for unwanted horses etc. throughout Northern Ireland. Most of our horses are elderly and some suffer from the human equivalent of arthritis and so they must be treated for this. Their teeth must also be treated by an equine dentist, this is very important, because if they have bad teeth, they will not be eating correctly. We have approximately 35 equines at the sanctuary at any time, we would like to have more but unfortunately the amount of land we have restricts the number of horses etc. that we can look after. We also have upwards of 68 out on loan to members. If any one wishes to take a horse out please contact us. The charity provided a suitable environment for the equines to live in: we ensure that they have a healthy diet including supplements were necessary, have the appropriate company as horses are sociable animals and are protected from pain, suffering, injury and disease. All the equines are wormed on a regular basis and the farrier visits the sanctuary on a regular basis’s. The equines are inspected at least once a day to ensure that they are as healthy as possible considering their age. To ensure that we operate a best practice approach in the sanctuary we have arranged for a British Horse Society Approved Yard Owner to review the sanctuary every three of four months. We will not put a horse down unless a Veterinary Surgeon has advised this final course of action and this will be carried out by the Veterinary Surgeon in a very humane manner.
... [more] [less]What your organisation does
In addition to providing a sanctuary for these animals, together with the provision of veterinary, dentistry and farrier care as required to ensure that they are pain free with a good quality of life, we organise school groups to visit the sanctuary to meet the equines and arrange coffee mornings to show these children and adults how caring equines
can be and this in turn has a beneficial effect on the visitors in that it has a calming effect on them, and it is usually the first time that children can have a close view of equines.
... [more] [less]The charity’s classifications
- The advancement of education
- The advancement of animal welfare
Who the charity helps
- Children (5-13 year olds)
- General public
- Youth (14-25 year olds)
How the charity works
- Animal welfare
- Community development
- Education/training
