VETS WITH HORSEPOWER - GETTING TOGETHER FOR THE GREATER GOOD
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Every penny raised via sponsorship, donations and sold CPD tickets is going to amazing charity work. We support projects that are making a difference to humans or other animals, are achievable, where success can be demonstrated and that would not have been possible without our help. Please have a look at the projects we support below and get involved!

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Our selected charities for 2025

For 2025, we have selected no less than 5 charities that we will go the extra mile for. Find details below!
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Changing Lives Malawi
Working with the community to improve opportunities for the children in a small rural community in Ibuluma, Northern Malawi.
About CLW
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Veterinary Faculty, Maputo, Mozambique
A very enthusiastic team of teachers and students, providing veterinary care and education to communities who rely on it to survive.
About Vets Mozambique
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Saving the Survivors
Treating and caring for rhinos that had fallen victim to poaching or traumatic incidents and other wildlife.
About StS
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the Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust
A small but essential and very positive charity that has been instrumental in completely changing the perception of animal welfare in Gambia
About GHDT
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the Shy Lowen horse and pony sanctuary
Based near Liverpool, UK - ​"Humans Helping Horses Helping Humans Helping Horses"
Shy Lowen website

Our selected charities for 2024

Saving the Survivors
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​Helping the victims of poaching attacks and providing info to capture the perpetrators and the criminals ordering the attacks.
Gambia Horse&Donkey trust
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​Providing veterinary care to working animals and education for the families that rely on them.
Changing Lives Malawi
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A children's education charity REALLY changing lives of children and young people in Malawi, giving them a future of hope.
Khmer Sight Foundation
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​A human cataract surgery charity working in Cambodia
About StS
About GHDT
About CLM
About KSF


​Our selected charities for 2023
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Saving the Survivors
​Helping the victims of poaching attacks and providing info to capture the perpetrators and the criminals ordering the attacks.
Read more about StS
Gambia Horse&Donkey trust
​Providing veterinary care to working animals and education for the families that rely on them.
Read more about GHDT
Equine welfare in Ukraine
​Through the BEVA trust and World horse Welfare we want to help the veterinary care for horses in Ukraine. The vets need power generators, and these have been sources and need to be safely transported to the Ukrainian vets.
Camphill village trust
Camphill Village Trusts offers a sense of belonging and community, supporting adults with learning disabilities in our ten communities and services throughout England. 
CVT website

Our selected charities for 2021

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Read more about Vetlife
Read More about STS
Read more about GHDT
Read more about Ethelbert

Our selected projects and charities for 2020

Mozambique vet school

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Building another teaching lab to help the final year vet students become the best vets they can be!
Read more about the Mozambique vet school

Ethelbert children's home

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Helping to construct further playground facilities for these South African children that need a safe home away from home.
Read more about Ethelbert children's home

Gambia Horse&Donkey trust

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Providing veterinary care to working animals and education for the families that rely on them.
Read more about the GHDT

Saving the Survivors

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Helping the victims of poaching attacks and development of trackers to capture the perpetrators and the criminals ordering the attacks.
Read more about Saving the Survivors

POSSIBLY - Malawi veterinary care

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We are also looking into the possibilities of extending our help to Malawi. As in every country around the globe, veterinary care has some room for improvement. In Malawi the need is exceptionally great for help with rabies prevention programmes, as the rabies incidences was reported to be one of the highest in the world. We will likely collaborate with WVS to help.

Supported charities in 2019

Saving the Survivors

Saving the survivors

Helping the victims of poaching attacks and development of trackers to capture the perpetrators and the criminals ordering the attacks.
Read more about Saving the Survivors
Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust

Gambia Horse&Donkey Trust

Providing veterinary care to working animals and education for the families that rely on them.
Read more about the Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust
Tiny Tickers

Tiny Tickers

A UK-based charity working for research and education worldwide, to enable early detection and treatment of newborn babies.
Read more about Tiny Tickers
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Mozambique vet school
The veterinary school is educating the future vets, and setting up a mobile clinic to reach working horses and donkeys in more rural communities to educate their owners as well as the veterinary students.
Read more about the Mozambique vet school's project

Supported charities in 2018

Saving the Survivors

Saving the survivors

Helping the victims of poaching attacks and fitting them with radio-trackers to prevent further attacks.
Read more about Saving the survivors
Smile Train

Smile Train

Performing cleft palate surgeries in developing countries and teaching local surgeons to be able to help more children smile. After surgery the children can eat, drink and speak normally, so they can attend school with their peers and have a brighter future.
Read more about the smile train
Dakar Interstate Veterinary school

Dakar veterinary school

Educating vets for the surrounding 9 West-African countries and needing materials to develop equine teaching in the curriculum.
Read more about the Dakar vet school

Some examples of the projects supported 2010 - 2017

HEROS provides 'a new life after racing' through the (re)training and rehoming of ex-racing thoroughbreds. They also provide education for people to be able to give high standards of care to racehorses or for staff leaving the racing life to be able to start an alternative career. Vets with horsepower has supported by funding teaching materials. 
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SPANA helps working animals around the world, providing veterinary care and educating local vets as well as animal owners. Together with SPANA, we have also enabled the opening and continuation of a riding centre for disabled children in Mali.
“Through the efforts of Vets with Horsepower the Disabled riding centre in Bamako has been saved – it is now safe and will continue to provide riding and physiotherapy for some of the most deprived children in Mali.”  Amadou Doumbia, Director SPANA Mali (HP1, 2, 3)
"What Vets with Horsepower has achieved is beyond belief and has impacted on the lives of so many people and animals.  What an achievement! Thank you ALL so much!" 

and another later email titled 'Ripples' tells us the story of how a small donation can have reach further to help in places we had not imagined: 

"I thought I would tell you a little story of how you have all had an effect for the better on so much more that you might have thought.
Kruuse [sponsored VwHP and] very kindly donated a lot of sutures and other equipment thanks to you, more than we could use, so we shared it with the hospital and a Gambian led charity which is collecting equipment for the regional clinics. During this time I met a truly inspirational
and altruistic young Gambian girl who worked for the Gambian charity on a voluntary basis. She is a poet with a passion for books and I discovered that she runs a club/library for city children who are too poor to go to school or have access to books.
I recently worked with Lala once again on our campaign to save a forest park known locally as the Monkey Park which we won. Lala now wants to take her group of inner city children on a camping trip to teach them the importance of the environment and the wonders of nature. She politely sought my help.  Through our education charity we are giving a little financial support, but the main expense was moving a large number of children, food and tents. Due to your generosity we just happen to have Fred, a beautiful lorry! Fred will be diverted to drop off kids and their baggage for a weekend camp.
As I walked my dogs yesterday and pondered on it all, I realised that without the input of all of you none of this could have happened and I marvelled at the ripple effect of your good deeds which have had an effect on so much more than horses and donkeys. Thank you all so much!"


Heather Armstrong, Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust (HP 5, 6, 7)
"Donations from HP6 and HP7 have been a godsend to Ethelbert Child and Youth Care Centre.  We are a 110-year-old children’s home in Durban (South Africa) which cares for 65 vulnerable and abused children.  There is a story about a headmaster who started a new job at a school which looked run down and broken.  He noticed that the pupils were also slovenly, seemingly a reflection of their surroundings.  He made it his mission to clean up the school environment: no litter on the ground, the grass was always short and neat, and broken windows were replaced immediately.  In slow degrees he noticed a change in the children – their appearance was neater, there were less incidents of them breaking windows, and there was virtually no litter on the ground. At Ethelbert we use the lesson from this story as our mantra – a healthy, neat and clean environment promotes healthy, happy, considerate and well-rounded children who are proud to come back to Ethelbert every day after school.  The Vets with Horse Power donations have helped us to live up to this." Gaylene Allen, Ethelbert Child and Youth Care Centre (HP 6 and 7)
“We are absolutely thrilled with the money that has been raised by Vets with Horsepower. The trip is an enormous achievement but to have raised this amount of money for charities along the way is an incredible demonstration of altruism and compassion. I’d like to thank Vets with Horsepower for this outstanding contribution and wish the team well in all their future endeavours.” The Smile Train (HP 5, 7 and 8)
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