Category: Updates

Grab your tickets for our Summer Raffle Draw, we have some exciting prizes which you could win! It is only £5 for a pack of 5 tickets! Our draw date is on the 15th July 2023.  We have a fabulous selection of prizes:

We are proud to say that we have two new girls joining our adoption scheme, Rose and Castle. You can find out more about these two half-sisters on our adoption scheme page

We need your help to get the ponies a new roof for their stables! The wind, rain and recent winter snow saw a dramatic end to our upper yard stable roof, leaving us with a substantial bill of £10,000 to provide a replacement! So many of our equines have vulnerabilities – sickness, age, lameness, and […]

Happy new Year to all our supporters, volunteers, staff and our trustees. 2022 has been another really busy year with lots of horses and ponies needing our help. Our residents on site have also required a lot of special care and training, which we always provide to our best abilities. We have 23 animals on […]

Anyone who has visited our Hope Pastures Tack Sales & Live Auctions will know that it’s run by an amazing group of volunteers. Led by Sarah, Tracie, Kerry, and Hannah, sort, clean, and resell used tack donated by members of the public to raise much-needed funds for Hope Pastures. Now Kerry has been recognised for […]

Meet our latest arrivals. Foals Badger, Bear and Sunny are three foals who needed a safe place to go for various reasons so we were happy to be able to help them. Badger and Bear are really nervous and unsocialised after a bad start in life. They are getting braver day by day and learning […]

Meet little Jack He’s only been with us a short while and has stolen our hearts already! He’s been on an unfortunate journey in life in recent years judging by how incredibly thin he is – especially for a Shetland! They are usually so difficult to get to lose weight. Fortunately for Jack, some people […]

We’re sad to let you know that we had to let Peewee go over the rainbow bridge on 3rd November. Peewee was a miniature pony (Falabella was his breed) who arrived as a 20-year-old stallion along with two other stallions. He was a really cute, wise, and gentle old pony with a gorgeous thick mane […]

We have some wonderful news! Hope Pastures has won a Yorkshire in Bloom – Gold Award! Thanks to so many people for making this happen, but in particular Philip, Beatrice and Sophie, whose imagination and hard work keep the site working well for the equines and looking so splendid. We were praised in particular for […]

Our Hope Pastures calendars are now on sale. You can buy them online here or direct from our Visitor Centre. Open size approx 297mm x 420mm (A3) with plenty of space to write your notes.

Our new Christmas cards are now in stock Our Christmas cards are now in stock so get yours now. They are at an amazing price of just £3.50 for 10 cards (with envelopes). They are available from our webshop or from our Visitor Centre at Hope Pastures. They are also available from selected outlets. More […]

To celebrate our 18th birthday year, we are asking our lovely supporters to get involved to raise awareness of Hope Pastures and help us raise funds by purchasing one of our amazing knitted pony mascots, and taking a photo, making a video or a selfie with your mascot on your travels, on an outing, or […]

Our beautiful celebration garden was opened to our visitors from Sunday 5th September 2021- to provide a place of reflection and green space peace for anyone visiting us at Hope. It has been created in celebration of the amazing supporters whose memory lives on in the equines we are able to rescue, thanks to them […]