| Welcome to the SWHP Website Promise Auction - thanks to everyone who attended and bid on our super lots - a wonderful night and we raised just over £3,000 Well done to SUE HUGHES who completed the London Marathon yesterday and in doing so has raised a lot of money for the SWHP. Our Galloping Granny completed it in 5 hours, 46 minutes and 12 seconds - HUGE CONGRATULATIONS ___________________________________________________________ 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.
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.
Biscuit 2002 Biscuit 2007 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. 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.
Jenny receiving her MBE at Buckingham Palace
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Kaiser our Shire with Sebastian our
Shetland Mascot saying hello!
