Redwings Horse Sanctuary

Redwings Horse Sanctuary was established in 1984 and in 2009 celebrated its Silver Jubilee.

Over the last 25 years, Redwings has grown to become the largest horse charity in the UK, working to provide and promote the welfare, care and protection of horses, ponies, donkeys and mules. The charity’s work has three main themes - rescue and rehabilitation, specialist sanctuary care and prevention through education.

Redwings provides permanent specialised Sanctuary care to over 1100 equines that no longer have a working life but retain a quality of life. Many have been rescued from neglect, abandonment or abuse and so need sympathetic handling and specialist veterinary treatment on top of their routine day-to-day care.

The charity also has an expert re-homing team, which is dedicated to finding guardians for those equines with the potential for a working life. There are currently over 500 Redwings equines living in Guardian homes around East Anglia and beyond.

For those special residents living in the sanctuary’s permanent care, there is an in-house veterinary facility with an x-ray room and operating theatre, intensive care stables and pharmacy, plus five full-time vets and nine veterinary nurses to provide round the clock veterinary support.

Meanwhile, around the UK Redwings’ dedicated welfare team responds to over 3,000 calls annually to its Welfare Hotline and investigates over 700 cases where the welfare of a horse is a cause for concern. A team of Welfare Advisers across the country are on call to offer advice or respond to reports of cruelty and neglect.

For more information about how you can help Redwings help horses, please contact our Legacy Office.