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WELCOME TO THE SWHP WEBSITE

 

 

We would like to take this opportunity to thank all our members and supporters for their help during 2011 and to wish everyone a very happy and prosperous New Year.

Mistletoe, Olilver and Archie are looking for a new home - Jan 2012

Equestrian Table Top Sale - Wednesday 8th February - Whitchurch Village Hall

January 2011 -Feel Good Park by Animal Friends - SWHP are in line to receive £1,500.

Jenny & Alasdair MacGregor - BHS Award for Equine Welfare

Natwest Community Force - SWHP awarded £6,000

The Pure Feed Company donate 1 tonne of horse feed to the SWHP

Surprise Foal November 2011


Established 1973 - A charity dedicated to the care of sick, injured or abused horses and ponies
The Society for the Welfare of Horses and Ponies (SWHP) has been run as a horse hospital for more that 30 years, taking in sick, injured or abused animals and nursing them back to health.



Visit of HRH The Princess Royal - Coxstone January 2004

There are usually between 30 and 40 horses and ponies in care at the Horse Hospital at any one time and no animal ever leaves the Charity's ownership. When fully recovered they are not sold but enter our loan scheme and are found homes matched to their age, fitness and abilities.

Applejack when we rescued him

 Applejack fully recovered and in a new home




Adoption homes are checked regularly and the SWHP now owns more than 250 horses and ponies, ranging from former racehorses to Shires and Shetland ponies.

Kaiser our Shire with Sebastian our Shetland Mascot

The Horse Hospital is near Monmouth, with 37 acres of grazing, 18 individual stables and four large field shelters sited in stoned coralls. There is a fully equipped special care unit where animals which are too weak to get to their feet unaided can be cared for in slings.

 

 

 

The Society receives several reports each week of horses in distress, many of them in pathetic condition through neglect or abuse. Many of our cases are urgent and we aim to be able to react immediately. On one occasion we were called by the police at a quarter to three on a Saturday morning in mid-winter because a horse had been injured on the road. We were on site, 33 miles from here, within the hour and the mare was safe in our stables by six o'clock that morning.



Biscuit in 2002 and Biscuit at a fun ride in 2007

 

 

 

 

SWHP Chairman Jenny MacGregor has been presented with awards by the British Horse Society and the British Equine Veterinary Association, and has been awarded the MBE in recognition of the outstanding work of the Charity.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


We are enormously grateful to both Redwings and Bransby for the tremendous support which they have given to the SWHP and we expect this cooperation to continue well into the future.

 


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