A Legacy for Life

If you would like to secure Hillside’s future, helping and campaigning for animals in need, please consider a legacy to HillsideAnimalSanctuary, so that your ideals maycontinuetolive onthroughourwork. Thank you for caring

Please request our Legacy Leaflet

‘Can you take them?’ This is a question we are so often asked... We have received a call asking if we can take in two separate herds of abandoned horses. The bailiffs are under instruction to ‘dispose’ of the 28 horses and their only chance of life is if we agree to take them in. However, we need to tell them this week if we have room and, if we cannot take them, they will be put to sleep. This truly is a last chance for these poor horses who deserve so much better. To put your mind at rest, we did, or course, agree to give them ALL a home here in the Sanctuary.

It is particularly poignant when animals come to the Sanctuary pregnant, and give birth soon after arriving, when we can witness the bond between new life and old, a natural and beautiful bond that would have been denied, but will now be free to thrive. So much of what we are able to do to help animals, to give them that last chance to be the characters they were born to be,is dependent on kind, caring people who make the choice to leave Hillside a legacy, so that when we are asked ‘Can you take them?’ , we can say,‘Yes’.

It is only through kindly bequeathed legacies that we have been able to buy new land, shelters, kennels and additional facilities to care for the animals when they arrive at the Sanctuary and, if necessary, to work with them until they are ready to enjoy their new life at Hillside.

Thanks to the kindness of those who have remembered us in their will, we have had the confidence to say ‘Yes’ to horses, ponies, donkeys, cows, sheep, pigs, ducks, rabbits and lots of other animals over the last 25 years and for the animals that receive this wonderful gift, it really is a life to remember...

Our deepest admiration and thanks go out to everyone, past and present, who has thought of Hillside in their Will. If you would like to consider doing this, please ring the Sanctuary office on 01603 736200 and ask for Lesley. Or, email Lesley at legacies@hillside.org.uk for more information or request our ‘Legacy Leaflet’.

Who Lives at Hillside?

300 Pigs

650 Cows

800 Sheep and Goats

2500 Horses, Ponies and Donkeys

And lots of smaller animals and dogs...