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Helping In Times of Trouble...
A Happy Ending For Sanctuary Animals at Christmas
We would like to extend our heartfelt thanks
to everyone who donated towards our appeal
to help the animals at the Derwent Valley
Donkey Sanctuary.
Just before Christmas 2019, we were asked
if we could take in the animals as the elderly
sanctuary owner could no longer carry on due
to her declining health.
Kath Wilson, the sanctuary’s founder, had
spent her life devotedly caring for animals and
even won community awards for her work.
However, following a tragic accident that left Donkeys and ponies from Derwent Valley Donkey
her hospitalised, she was no longer able to Sanctuary, pictured settling in safely at Hillside in 2020
manage her sanctuary, which was home to
eight donkeys and also horses, ponies, sheep, dogs and hens.
Already facing great challenges, raising the funds needed to look after the animals at Hillside, we
could have said ‘sorry, there is no more room at the inn’ but, we simply could not leave Kath and
her animals to face an uncertain fate and so agreed to give them a new home here at Hillside...
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