For Mothering Sunday 2021, Remus Horse Sanctuary are offering to include a Mother’s Day card with hand-written personalised message within their sponsorship packages this year, to assist those unable to get out and shop or visit the Post Office during the current lockdown. This year, Mother’s Day will fall on Sunday 14 March. Under current […]

Jenny Palmer’s cryptic quizzes have for many years helped to provide a little of the much-needed funds for the Sanctuary. Her present Lockdown Quiz is currently on sale at £1.50 a copy and there is a prize of £25 for the winner! The quiz is guaranteed to fill in some of those hours of boredom […]

February is the month of love and kindness. Unfortunately, the horse world has been experiencing some perceived acts of kindness by the public, which have sadly had dire consequences for too many of our beloved equines. Since the first lockdown last year, many more people have been taking to the countryside for walks. At the […]

Founder of Remus Horse Sanctuary, Sue Burton, is appealing for support of a new appeal to buy a Bale of Hay, to help feed the many tethered horses in the South East of England. Based on Ms Burton’s knowledge, the number of tethered horses in Essex alone is likely to exceed several hundred, with many […]

January has rolled around again; the month of fresh new starts and exciting exercise regimes, well, in usual years at least! While January 2021 may still consist of some of that, it also consists of ‘bubbles’ and ‘social distancing’, which is not so different to some interesting new research into horses’ herds from the University […]

Happy New Year to you! Just before Christmas, we launched a new fundraising appeal to help us to build a new roof for one of our shelters which houses Pippa, Sophie, Dickie and Megan… The area that we call the shelter is a large area enclosed on three sides with two gate size openings at […]

We all know how hard the pandemic has hit us during 2020. In the horse world, there have been more welfare-related calls to equine charities than ever before and together we are very worried that the country faces a horse welfare catastrophe this winter, as restrictions continue to affect us socially and economically. Although times […]

Sue Burton, founder of Remus Horse Sanctuary is delighted to share that volunteer Esme Fordham has been awarded ‘Volunteer of the Year’ in the Horse & Hound Awards for 2020, sponsored by Dengie. Mrs Fordham was shortlisted and the winners announced on 8 December. Mrs Fordham started volunteering at the Sanctuary in 2013 when, at […]

What an incredible Giving Tuesday we had. Together we were able to gain a number of new monthly donors, and we couldn’t have done that without your help. Your support means we are another step closer to achieving our goal of getting more regular monthly donations. Regular monthly donations will help us to become more […]

Giving Tuesday will end at midnight, only 6 hours away. #GIVEBACK2020 We urgently need your help to help us reach our goal of gaining a minimum of 200 NEW MONTHLY DONORS in the next few hours. Watch this short video from our Founder, Sue Burton   Helping us to reach our goal is easy. All […]