We would love to send a certificate and a little horse shaped thank you to everyone who donates £25 or sets up a fundraising page for this campaign - could you help please

Help us to raise a Barn for our Ponies 

That’s right just £25 (or a Pony) can help us build a Barn for our farm animals. 

The rescue and re-homing of Field Animals, particularly horses, has been on the increase over the last 3 – 5 years, Church Knowle is well placed to take additional Farm Animals, the centre is situated on 35 acres, but it does not have a large enough (or suitable) barn or additional stabling. 

The current covered yard only has 4 stables, and in addition has wind and rain cover issues due to the breeze-block walls and asbestos roofing, and is not suitable for our larger animals due to the low ceiling height. Surrounding the covered yard are 4 small enclosures, with 2 old and dilapidated shelters, which are no longer fit for sustained use. To give our horses and ponies the best possible chance to be re-homed they need to be introduced to daily life and the noises and activity that go hand in hand with that.

The lack of a Barn stabling area is restricting the amount of horses and farm animals we could be rescuing and re-homing.   Any of our horses may need stabling at short notice should they become sick or injured or due to adverse weather and a new barn would resolve this and many other issues should an emergency arise.  

In short, a new barn would improve the lives, not just for our horses, but for many of our animals at Church Knowle.   Can you help ?   

We’ve set a target towards the Barn we think you could help us achieve, it would take just 200 people raising £25 each to get to £5000, and if you would like to know how you could help us raise even more, or have some great ideas for us – we would love to hear from you  - the overall total we need to raise is £150,000