Helping In Times of Trouble...

A Happy Ending For Sanctuary Animals at Christmas

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Just before Christmas 2019, we were asked if we could take in the animals as the elderly sanctuary owner could no longer carry on due to her declining health.

Three different rescued Hillside animals, who are so often thought of, and treated, very differently by humans,lie together enjoying each other’s company.

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Kath Wilson, the sanctuary’s founder, had spent her life devotedly caring for animals and even won community awards for her work. However, following a tragic accident that left her hospitalised, she was no longer able to manage her sanctuary, which was home to eight donkeys and also horses, ponies, sheep, dogs and hens.

Already facing great challenges, raising the funds needed to look after the animals at Hillside, we could have said ‘sorry,thereisnomoreroomattheinn’ but, we simply could not leave Kath and her animals to face an uncertain fate and so agreed to give them a new home here at Hillside...

25 Years of Rescue...

Hillside was founded in 1995 and during this time we have taken in animals from several sanctuaries that have sadly had to close. In 2011 we welcomed 35 horses and ponies as well as cows, sheep and goats from the stricken Quality of Life Sanctuary and in January 2014, we were contacted by the Rainbow Ark Sanctuary after they had been forcibly evicted from their farm through lack of funds. We immediately offered to help their stranded animals and it took two days to carefully transport all the horses, ponies, donkeys, alpacas, pigs, sheep and goats over two hundred miles from County Durham to their new home here in Norfolk. We also brought back all the smaller animals that Rainbow Ark were unable to rehome locally and these included around a hundred hens, cockerels, geese, turkeys, ducks, peacocks, rheas and other birds, which otherwise would have been left behind. Other sanctuaries that we have stepped in to help included Green Meadows and Blossoms Sanctuary. It is always very difficult when a sanctuary has to close.

Happy times - Happy times Happy times - Happy times Happy times - Kath Wilson and some of her beloved animals at the Derwent Valley Sanctuary...