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25 Years of Happy times - Kath Wilson
and some of her beloved
Rescue... animals at the Derwent

Hillside was founded Valley Sanctuary... 61
in 1995 and during
this time we have
taken in animals from
several sanctuaries
that have sadly had
to close. In 2011 we
welcomed 35 horses
and ponies as well as
cows, sheep and
goats from the
stricken Quality of
Life Sanctuary and in
January 2014, we
were contacted by
the Rainbow Ark
Sanctuary after they
had been forcibly
evicted from their
farm through lack of funds. We immediately offered to help their stranded animals and it
took two days to carefully transport all the horses, ponies, donkeys, alpacas, pigs, sheep
and goats over two hundred miles from County Durham to their new home here in Norfolk.
We also brought back all the smaller animals that Rainbow Ark were unable to rehome
locally and these included around a hundred hens, cockerels, geese, turkeys, ducks,
peacocks, rheas and other birds, which otherwise would have been left behind. Other
sanctuaries that we have stepped in to help included Green Meadows and Blossoms
Sanctuary. It is always very difficult when a sanctuary has to close.