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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, 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, Donkeys and ponies from Derwent Valley Donkey Sanctuary,
had spent her life devotedly caring for pictured settling in safely at Hillside
animals and even won community
awards for her work. However,
following a tragic accident that
left her hospitalised, she was no
longer able to 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...

Happy times - Kath Wilson and some of her beloved animals at the Derwent Valley Sanctuary...

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