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Iʼve raised £1,272 to help fund hopefield animal sanctuary restore their tearoom after 3 break-ins.
- Brentwood District, Essex, United Kingdom
- Funded on Monday, 6th November 2017
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It is with a heavy heart that hopefield report to that over the last 2 months Hopefield Animal Sanctuary has been the victim of 3 acts of trespassing, theft and worst of all animal abuse.
On the 1st of August 3 youths entered the sanctuary out of hours and took snapchat photos of themselves pulling an innocent goat, Nathan onto an electric fence and tormenting him. They continued on to then push one of the beautiful pigs over and traumatized them. The horses were extremely distressed and CCTV footage showed the horses running away from the youths so we are sure they suffered at the hands of these abusers also. They continued to trespass around the sanctuary for over an hour. This attack was reported to the police immediately and finally after a week we had a visit from an officer, just to be told this is a civil matter and that they could do nothing. We are talking with the RSPCA on how to move forward here and hoping to work together to bring justice.
The second break in we found the bin pushed at our entrance, the small gate had been opened from the inside and they trespassed onto the sanctuary. The police were contacted and we were informed they were going to see the youths involved.
Most recently this week we came in and our beautiful tearoom had been vandalized and items stolen. Sadly lots of essential tearoom goods were stolen and the whole room has had to be closed off while we spend time fixing it back up. We sadly can’t see if they hurt any of the animals or what they spent their time doing whilst they trespassed on the site as they now know where the cameras are and avoided most of them. As a small charity, this has set us back so much with the cost of replacing what has been stolen and the time needed from staff and volunteers to fix the room back up.
The police have been to the sanctuary today and we hope to see immediate action on finding who was involved in this latest attack and support from them to ensure these people are held responsible for their crimes.
We are heartbroken that such cruel people exist and are here within our community. Our animals at Hopefield have been through so much already and are rescued from neglect and abuse cases, to come here where they should feel safe and loved and to then endure more cruelty at the hands of these truly awful people is unthinkable.
We are also asking for donations from any security stores / companies that may be willing to donate equipment to help us further protect our animals from this senseless abuse..
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- 7 years ago
Iona Morrison
7 years agoThanks to everyone who donated. The final total has been transferred to hopefield this afternoon. 😁
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- 7 years ago
Iona Morrison
7 years agoAn unbelievable response since 18:30 last night thank you all. If you could all share on your facebooks, twitter accounts and anything else that would be amazing. We’ve exceeded the target I aimed to raise for hopefield and if we can all keep going who knows how much we will raise. Thanks to each and everyone of you. I will post details of how the payment will be passed on to hopefield once contact has been made.
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Anonymous
Oct 11, 2017
So pleased the target figure has been reached to help pay for security equipment to keep the animals safe. I'd love to get hold of the idiots - what is wrong with these people??!!
£10.00
f gower
Oct 11, 2017
Hope the scum who done this get caught. They should hang their heads in shame little b******s
£10.00
Matt Whitehall
Oct 11, 2017
I have visited Hopefield a number of times over the years and I'm absolutely heartbroken to hear the devastating news. Lona thank you for setting up this page for the animals xx
£20.00
Anonymous
Oct 10, 2017
£10.00
ANNE WATSON
Oct 10, 2017
I hope this small donation helps you to continue your fantastic work and keeps the sanctuary safe for the animals, gets the tea room up and running again and keeps the dregs of society out.
£30.00
Peter Smith
Oct 10, 2017
Good luck.
£20.00
Pat and Brian Norton
Oct 10, 2017
£20.00
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Iona Morrison
Brentwood District, Essex, United Kingdom
I’m just an animal lover who loves hopefield. All money will go to hopefield after just giving take their fees.