Winter Feed Appeal

You can help hundreds of horses like Daisy (pictured) survive this winter by supporting our 2018 Winter Feed Appeal.

Many horses will die this winter without food. We can help them, but we need your donations to help us buy the sheer volume of hay that is always required. We cannot afford to buy the lorry loads of hay to deliver out, without your support.

In the picture, Daisy is safe, warm and fed, now happily residing at Remus Horse Sanctuary – she is one of eight horses that we rescued in the summer of 2018. Two of those horses were left out in the heatwave with no food, water or shelter; two horses were kept in a cage, again with no food or water; four stallions had been kept in closed dirty stables for two years… Can you picture the horror of that situation?

Sadly, it’s one that many, many foals and horses experience and will die without our assistance. The cold winter months will make any situation worse and we will need to get food and water out to them regularly to avoid starvation and ultimately death. We will try to deliver as many lorry-loads of hay to those horses that need it, but it will set the Sanctuary back many thousands of pounds. We need your help to raise those funds.

At present, there are more than 7,000 horses at risk in the UK and the welfare crisis in this country continues to escalate year on year with little or no progress – when the mares foal, the problem doubles and so on and so forth each year.

The news regularly features horses that are victims of physical and mental abuse and we continue to receive calls daily throughout the year. Keeping an animal fed over winter will give it a chance to thrive into spring. Forage also helps a horse keep warm. Without the Sanctuary’s help, many animals will die a slow, painful and unnecessary death.

Please, help us to help them! You can make a donation on our JustGiving page or buy hay and other food stuffs on our website.

Thank you so much for your support. It means the world to us and our animals and we look forward to seeing you again for our first Open Day in May.

Christmas Greetings!

Once again the year is drawing to a close and we would like to take this opportunity to thank you for all your friendship and support over the past 12 months.

Wishing you and your family a very Merry Christmas and a Happy, Healthy and Prosperous New Year!

With best wishes, from the Humans and Animals at Remus Horse Sanctuary

Free fundraising at your fingertips

We’ve got some exciting news…

Give as you Live’s new look fundraising app is now ready to download to your iOS device!

Packing more features and functionality than ever before including a fast and intelligent browser search enabling you to shop faster on-the-go, their revolutionary fundraising app allows you to raise free funds for us at the touch of a button.

Download iOS app

Tell your friends! Help spread the word and get others raising free donations when they shop online through Give as you Live. Use Twitter and Facebook to tell all your friends today.

Co-op Supports Remus Horse Sanctuary

We mentioned back in October that we had been chosen for the next round of the Co-op Local Community Funding and we can see from the website that funds are already being raised!

What is the Co-op Local Community Fund

The Co-op Local Community Fund helps to support local projects that the Co-op members care about. Since its launch in 2017, Co-op members have raised £39 million pounds for over 12,000 local causes!

We’re absolutely delighted that Remus Horse Sanctuary will now be able to access this funding opportunity.

How the fund works

Every time a Co-op member shops at the Co-op, 1% of what they spend on Co-op branded products and services helps fund community projects. Members can shop at any Co-op Group stores across the UK to raise money for the cause – we understand its not just restricted to the local stores.

Members can choose which causes to support by signing into their membership account or by calling the membership helpline on 0800 023 4708. Our cause will be available for members to select until November 2019.

Our cause

Every cause has a page on the Co-op membership website and ours is no exception! This includes information about our cause and the project we want to complete – in this instance we would like to buy some replacement field shelters costing £4,500 each, so our animals can shelter during sudden inclement weather – such as the gales, flooding and extreme heat that we’ve experience over the past few years.

You can find out more here.

Our local stores

The stores in our community are:

Store Name	Store Address	Store Postcode	Business Unit
Billericay Queens Park	Billericay	CM12 0UA	Food
Billericay	Billericay	CM12 0RP	Food
Billericay	Billericay	CM12 9BQ	Funeralcare

Please do support Remus Horse Sanctuary and share our cause on Twitter quoting #TheCoopWay!

#GivingTuesday Bonus

As we launch our Winter Feed Appeal today – 27 November – those nice people at Give as you Live are offering a bonus 50p donation to us on #GivingTuesday!

If you’ve still got some festive shopping to do, or shopping in general, why not shop through Give as you Live and raise some money for Remus Horse Sanctuary at the same time. This GivingTuesday Give as you Live is offering an extra 50p bonus donation to charity for every user who makes a transaction via the site on the day.

You can sign up for free here and shop at over 4,200 online retailers including eBay and John Lewis and Partners. With thousands of offers across leading stores, take advantage of the top festive savings whilst doing good and giving back with Give as you Live.

PayPal is matching funding this #GivingTuesday!

As we officially launch our Winter Feed Appeal on Tuesday 27 November #GivingTuesday, we have some amazing news to share from PayPal.

PayPal will be doubling donations received through the PayPal fundraising page and the PayPal App, up to a maximum of £50,000 total matching donations on the day.

Donations through PayPal’s fundraising page and app are received and delivered by PayPal’s charity Giving Fund UK.

Please donate to Remus on Tuesday 27 November for us to receive double the donation via PayPal.

Charity Launches Winter Feed Appeal on #GivingTuesday

It’s a sad fact, but many horses will die this winter without food. Remus Horse Sanctuary has created its 2018 Winter Feed Appeal to help minimise that number. The Appeal will launch officially on #GivingTuesday 27 November when the charity will also be sharing photographs and videos throughout the day demonstrating ‘a day in the life of Remus Horse Sanctuary’, via social media.

Sue Burton, Founder of Remus Horse Sanctuary commented: “Thousands of foals will have been born this summer only to die during the winter. This is a huge crisis and where we can we will get food and water to these horses to get them through the worst of the winter until the grass grows in the spring, but this comes at a substantial cost.”

Keeping an animal fed over winter will give it a chance to thrive into spring and forage also helps a horse keep warm. Without the Sanctuary’s help, many animals will die a slow, painful and unnecessary death.

Further information can be found on the JustGiving appeal page where donations can be made online. They can also be made via the website or by texting FEED36 £10 to 70070 to donate to Remus with JustTextGiving.*

The news regularly features horses that are victims of physical and mental abuse and Remus continue to receive calls daily throughout the year. However, the cold winter months will make any situation worse and Remus need to get food and water out to them regularly to avoid starvation and ultimately death.

Daisy – pictured safe, warm and fed at Remus Horse Sanctuary – is one of eight horses that the charity rescued earlier this year. Two of those horses were left out in the summer heatwave with no food, water or shelter; two horses were kept in a cage, again with no food or water; and four stallions had been kept in closed dirty stables for two years.

Sue added: “We’re launching the new winter feed appeal to help raise £2,500 to feed the many neglected, unloved and abandoned horses that are either tethered by their necks on waste ground or just left wandering and unwanted with no food, water or shelter, whatever the weather.”

Additionally, Remus offer plenty of foodstuffs via its online shop where people can buy a bale of hay, bag of animal food, straw bedding and more. A week’s supply of food and hay for a tethered horse will help improve their life and wellbeing for just £25 and help get them through the cold winter months.

Visit our online shop to find out more or contact Sue Burton on telephone: 01277 356191.

* Please note that text donations can only be £1, £2, £3, £4, £5 or £10. However a donor can donate up to three times per day. £10 is the maximum donation amount for all mobile operators.

#YouMadeItHappen

#YouMadeItHappen is a social media campaign created by NCVO (The National Council for Voluntary Organisations) who champion the voluntary sector and volunteering because they’re essential for a better society.

It is taking place on Monday 19 November.

The NCVO recognise that what people want to hear about from charities, is the difference their support has made, so we’ve put together just a few lines of ways in which you help us!

When little Dante was dumped at our gates in 2015, we were able to give him the medical attention, food, time, care and love that he needed for him to grow into a strong and healthy adult.
When a gust of wind in 2016, demolished one of our much-needed field shelters for our animals, you helped us replace it.
When we rescued 2 horses from Kent that had been in a field for 14 weeks with no food, water or attention, your support helped us to do so. Sadly we lost Lady as she was just too sick and too malnourished, but Blax is thriving.
When we needed to rescue 8 horses this summer that were all sick and malnourished, including 4 stallions that had been kept in closed dirty stables for two years, you helped us.
When we rescued the two blind and pregnant mares Holly and Grace, who then gave birth to Bracken and Jess, your support enabled us not only to do so, but to give them the attention they needed to thrive into young and healthy adults and to provide a special, protective area for Holly and Grace to spend time outside safely.
When Tony Goat came to us with half his jaw hanging off, you enabled us to fix him!
When Pippa and Minstral needed specialist eye operations, you helped us raise the funds to pay for their medical care.

These are just a few of the ways in which you help Remus every day – in fact we could not continue to do what we do without you! We get no grants and can only stay afloat by fundraising and the support offered to us by volunteers.

This year we celebrated our 35th Anniversary #YouMadeItHappen!

If you would like to find out more about volunteering for Remus, visit the web page here and, if you’re not already doing so, please follow us on Facebook and Twitter too.

You might also like to take a look at our Winter Feed Appeal for 2018.

We look forward to hearing from you!

Horse Sanctuary Joins Giving Tuesday Movement

Remus Horse Sanctuary joins #givingtuesday movement to encourage people in Essex and the surrounding counties to do “good stuff” this Christmas.

Remus Horse Sanctuary has announced it will be taking part in this year’s campaign and will be using the momentum of #givingtuesday which will be taking place on Tuesday 27 November to launch its winter feed appeal – a date which is all about supporting and celebrating Britain’s charities.

Sue Burton, Founder of Remus Horse Sanctuary commented: “We are launching the new winter feed appeal to help raise £2,500 to feed the many neglected, unloved and abandoned horses that are either tethered by their necks on waste ground or just left wandering and unwanted with no food, water or shelter, whatever the weather.”

Further information can be found on the JustGiving appeal page and donations can be made on our JustGiving page, via the website or by texting FEED36 £10 to 70070 to donate to Remus with JustTextGiving.*

Additionally, Remus offer numerous foodstuffs via its online shop where people can buy a bale of hay, bag of animal food, straw bedding and more. A week’s supply of food and hay for a tethered horse will help improve their life and wellbeing for just £25 and help get them through the cold winter months.

The #givingtuesday campaign, which began in America, is an antidote to the mass consumerism of Black Friday and aims to get people thinking of others in the run up to Christmas, be it through donating to charity, volunteering or simply helping a friend, neighbour or family member.

Since its inception in 2014, #givingtuesday has become one of the biggest events in the global charity calendar, breaking successive Guinness World Records for the most amount of money donated online to charity in 24 hours. In 2016, £48 million was donated online via PayPal with the UK accounting for the second largest amount of donations. An estimated 4.5 million people in Britain also did something to support a good cause on the day.

Ben Russell, Director of Communications at CAF, said: “Giving gifts is a big part of most people’s Christmas celebrations and because of this, it is no wonder that Black Friday has become such a feature of the Christmas calendar. However, while many of us will be sharing presents with loved ones this year, millions more will spend it alone, hungry or worse.”

Sue Burton concluded: “The aim of #givingtuesday is to get people thinking about others this Christmas and doing little things that can make a big difference. It could be donating money or volunteering but, if we all do something small this #givingtuesday, it would make a real difference not only to the hundreds of abandoned horses in this area but Remus too.”

* Please note that text donations can only be £1, £2, £3, £4, £5 or £10. However a donor can donate up to three times per day. £10 is the maximum donation amount for all mobile operators.

New for Christmas 2018!

Special Offer from Sara Abbott – Oil on Canvas Animal Portraits

In support of all the work that is done, and to help towards the costs involved I would like to extend to Remus Horse Sanctuary on-going support through my contemporary animal portraits.

I’ve been creating these for nearly 20 years and have built up a worldwide client list and painted many wonderful animals. Horses, dogs, cats, cows…the list is endless.

With each Formal Oil on Canvas portrait I donate £100 from my fee to animals in rescue. I would like to include Remus Horse Sanctuary in my fundraising, so if you get in touch with a view to commissioning a portrait of YOUR animal, now or in the future, please mention REMUS and I will send them the donation in your name.

These Formal Oil on Canvas works are £580 for a 60 x 60cm deep edge canvas. This cost also includes a gentle photo shoot at the animal’s home – I travel nationally to meet my subjects. I have a six-month waiting list so always ask for a 50% deposit to secure a slot in my work load.

I also offer Loose Sketch on Paper portraits too – these are also in oil but are as the name suggests, a more relaxed piece of work. You need to send a suitable, high resolution jpeg for these and once done the finished works are posted to you rolled in a tube ready for you to frame under glass.

The Loose Sketch on paper is approx 50 x 50cm and is £250 – £25 of that would be donated to Remus too, so remember to mention them!

Please have a look at the Domestic Animal page of my website for more examples and information, if interested you are able to email direct from the website or make contact via my professional Facebook page.

Yours in rescue – Sara