Shy Lowen Horse & Pony Sanctuary

10/10/2025

It's National Mental Health Day. At Shy Lowen every day is mental health day. The horses and ponies connect and change lives every minute of every day. Humans and Horses healing each other - a very special type of magic.

09/10/2025

Huge thanks to Vets with Horsepower who have put us well on the way to putting the roof over our all weather arena. This will make a massive difference for humans and horses alike as well as creating possibilities for additional fund raising activities such as a dog training venue, morris dancing practice venue etc etc. We anticipate that it will be in place and ready to use next Spring.
We are so grateful for this assistance and are still pinching ourselves that we were chosen to receive this help alongside such incredible work done at Changing Lives Malawi, The Gambia Horse and Donkey Trust, Mozambique Veterinary School and Saving The Survivors which makes us feel very humble indeed.
A picture of the roof design is in the comments as Facebook wouldn't let us add it to the shared post.

04/10/2025

We are being battered by today's storm. All horse riding activities are cancelled owing to the higher risk of injury. Really sorry 😞

02/10/2025

All at Shy Lowen, especially our team of proudly 'difficult' women, would like to pay tribute to the wonderful, wise, brave and incredible Dr Jane Goodall, an inspiration to anyone and everyone who cares about animals and the natural world, who died yesterday after 91 years of tireless, impassioned work. We urge everyone to read her books, watch her documentaries and learn from the best!
Her achievements in her 91 years are too many and too great to summarise in a social media post, and we can never thank her enough for what she did for apes and all animals, for women and all humans, for nature and the planet, for science and education and for humanity itself - standing up to show that there is infinite power in gentleness, that one individual can make an immeasurable difference, and that peace, love, compassion and hope can change the world for the better. It's her philosophy that drives us and many small animal rescues to keep going and strive to keep caring and making improvements in our own little corners of the world, and it does all add up.
What a legacy she has left, and what a poignant time for her beautiful message to be spread ❤️

22/09/2025

Huge thanks to everyone who helped at and attended our autumn open day yesterday! We were lucky with the weather after Saturday's deluge and we hope you all had a lovely time meeting our fantastic rescue horses and ponies. We raised £1087.66 which will all go towards their care over the coming difficult winter months. If you were unable to attend, please consider making a donation - every little helps!
Sadly that's it for our open afternoons until the time that it's still too early to mention... Christmas! We hope to see you all on Sunday 14th December for our final fundraiser of the year ❤️

21/09/2025

Today 😀 It's quite wet underfoot in parts so wear boots or wellies if you have them. Carrier bags or bin bags over your shoes will work too 😀

📢 This Sunday 21 September is our Autumn fundraiser, from 1-4pm 🐴🍂 We hope you can make it 🩷

It's our last open day before Christmas...did we just say that?! 🫣 So please join us if you can 😃

We'll have refreshments, homemade cakes, fundraising stalls, tombola, and of course our pony rides (for those who have not been before, please be assured that we are fully insured) 🐴

If you can't make it, please consider making a donation. We know money is tight right now, but we really need every penny you can spare, especially heading into the winter months 🙏

If the donation button isn't working, you can also donate by:
PayPal [email protected], friends and family please, or bank transfer to Shy Lowen Horse & Pony Sanctuary Sort code 16 24 06 and account number 10499555

Sharing this post far and wide really helps us too 🤗 Thanks for all your support 🩷

20/09/2025

Today we had the pleasure of meeting a lovely young man who had some misfortune yesterday resulting in him losing his work diary outside of Shy Lowen. In tracking him down we spoke with some of his customers who spoke very highly of his work. He has been reunited with his diary now and having had a chat with him we'd like you all to know about his lovely business. If you need any gardening work done please consider contacting him. https://www.facebook.com/share/19qNWLXdc8/

We do all the hard work to provide you with a stress free experience. Services include:

• Grass Cutting
• Hedge Trimming
• Weeding/Pruning
• Strimming
• Rubbish Removal
• Power Washing

We won’t be beaten on price!

Sister company .clear.space

19/09/2025

📢 This Sunday 21 September is our Autumn fundraiser, from 1-4pm 🐴🍂 We hope you can make it 🩷

It's our last open day before Christmas...did we just say that?! 🫣 So please join us if you can 😃

We'll have refreshments, homemade cakes, fundraising stalls, tombola, and of course our pony rides (for those who have not been before, please be assured that we are fully insured) 🐴

If you can't make it, please consider making a donation. We know money is tight right now, but we really need every penny you can spare, especially heading into the winter months 🙏

If the donation button isn't working, you can also donate by:
PayPal [email protected], friends and family please, or bank transfer to Shy Lowen Horse & Pony Sanctuary Sort code 16 24 06 and account number 10499555

Sharing this post far and wide really helps us too 🤗 Thanks for all your support 🩷

16/09/2025

Bonus ball is number 22. Congratulations Barbara Fox, you're the winner 🏆

Fabulous Autumn Equinox Bonus Ball Draw for the Saturday 20th September bonus ball.
only £1.00 a ball.
Prize is Crazy Shark, Oil Tanker and a red Castle Tent ( a blue castle tent picture is included for illustration purposes because we were concerned that we might not be able to get the red one back in its packet if we erected it).
To enter please comment your chosen numbers and make your payment either by PayPal Friends and Family to [email protected] or by bank transfer to Shy Lowen Horse & Pony Sanctuary sort code 16 24 06 account number 10499555
Good Luck everyone 🙂
1
2 Bernadette Johnson
3 Cheryl Oztufan
4
5 Barbara Fox
6 Bernadette Johnson
7 Norma Osborne
8
9 Emma Cook
10 Cheryl Oztufan
11 Cheryl Oztufan
12 Bernadette Johnson
13 Emma Cook
14 Barbara Fox
15 Denise Lysaght
16 Emma Cook
17 Norma Osborne
18 Irene Frances
19
20 Emma Cook
21 Barbara Fox
22 Barbara Fox
23
24
25
26 Emma Cook
27 Cheryl Oztufan
28 Bernadette Johnson
29 Norma Osborne
30
31 Denise Lysaght
32 Irene Frances
33
34
35 Bernadette Johnson
36 Norma Osborne
37 Denise Lysaght
38
39
40 Irene Frances
41
42
43
44
45
46
47 Barbara Fox
48 Cheryl Oztufan
49 Denise Lysaght
50 Norma Osborne
51
52
53
54 Irene Frances
55
56
57
58
59 Denise Lysaght

08/09/2025

🍂 Sunday 21 September is our Autumn fundraiser, from 1-4pm 🐴🍂

It's our last open day before Christmas...did we just say that?! 🫣 So please join us if you can 😃

We'll have refreshments, homemade cakes, fundraising stalls, tombola, and of course our pony rides (for those who have not been before, please be assured that we are fully insured) 🐴

If you can't make it, please consider making a donation. We know money is tight right now, but we really need every penny you can spare, especially heading into the winter months 🙏

If the donation button isn't working, you can also donate by:
PayPal [email protected], friends and family please, or bank transfer to Shy Lowen Horse & Pony Sanctuary Sort code 16 24 06 and account number 10499555

Sharing this post far and wide really helps us too 🤗 Thanks for all your support 🩷

25/08/2025

Today saw our lovely Sandy leave us for her new adventure. She is going to be the best friend of a very handsome boy. He's very lucky having such a wonderful partner to share his field 😍 Best of luck Sandy, be happy 😊

18/08/2025

Somebody attending our open day yesterday has left a pair of spectacles. Are they yours?