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Hello to everyone,
My name is Sharon and I run with the help of a wonderful group of volunteers, a small equine sanctuary in Devon.
I wanted everone to know what a great job our volunteers do and without them we would not have a sanctuary.
have a look at our web site and let me have your feed back. thanks
sharon
www.hoofbeats.org.uk
 
Hi Sharon ... love the site and your enthusiasm and all the work you do.

HHO are a family and like to get involved - tell us more about you, how you started and why and about your rescues and rehoming.
 
Looks lovely to me..... can i donate myself???
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Thank you for your nice words. well without putting you to sleep I have been taking in unwanted usually problem horses and ponies all my adult life. Hoofbeats was formed in 2000 and is now run as a non profit making organisation, none of us are paid, so every penny we get in is used for the horses. We are working on becoming a regestered charity, and really hope this will happen this year or at the lastest early next.
Most of our work now seems to be taking horses and ponies that owners can no longer keep, and the big sanctuarys have no room for.
 
Hi Sharon. I do very similar work to you but on a much smaller scale. My OH goes out to work so that I can take on these rescues, most of which come my way in desperate circumstances without me having to look for them. This is what I do. However, I know of a registered charity rescue home who did fantastic proper rescue work. When the founder died - various managers were put there to run the organisation. Rescues almost ceased and the 'then' managers took in friends old ponies, which turned this once stoic rescue centre into a retirement home. The weekly/monthly donations which came in were used for the upkeep of 'friends retirement ponies'. Unfortunately the real reason that the establishment was founded was lost. I dont know if things have changed (I hope so), it seems that the current management at that time lost sight of this wonderful lady's dream.

You are doing a wonderful job on a bigger scale than me and I wish you lots of fortune and success - and healthy horses
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Hi Sharon - I'm one of HHO's insomniacs!

Hoofbeats looks like a lovely place for horses and humans. I've just taken a horse from a welfare group as a companion for my own. Its so lovely to see him out chomping grass in the autumn sun - he was found starving as a 2 year old but the rescue centre got him back on his feet (literally) and now he's come here to be our friend and have a nice life. Despite the shaky start in life he is the sweetest, gentlest creature.

Keep up the good work.
 
Hello you are all seem really nice.
Llwyncwn this is how i started, just one or two horses at a time, I never knew how these horses and ponies found me but they did. My first one came in because my land lord phoned me and said he had a horse that had been dumped in his field his words " your one of those do gooders can you take it " next day she was in my field!!!! and the rest as they say is history.
I am in the lucky position that i am self employed so i can work around the horses although when i am stuck on a computer I would rather be out the yard !!! but then thats most of us on here i should think !!!
I am very lucky with the volunteers we have, most of them feel the same way that i do about horses and the committee
back me 100% . Allthough we are getting bigger and can help more horses sometimes I miss the old days when i had a lot more hands on with the horses.

I live in Plymouth and the yard is at Moreleigh. Totnes.

Kitty is a wonderful little pony and will make a great pc pony.

Well done to everyone that take on these rescues, without people like you that people like us would not be able to re-home and so would have to close the doors.

Well I have to go up the yard now.
Thanks again for everyones nice words, it means a lot.
Its a shame i cant work out how to put some sort of page on the site to leave your comments it would be nice for the volunteers to see.
 
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