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We are so fortunate to be supported by so many local businesses. Recently we hosted a work day for the Ross-on-Wye soft drinks manufacturer Nichols PLC whose famous brands include the iconic Vimto. It was a hugely successful day with the group working extremely hard preparing ground for some new enclosures, distributing gravel for new

Another spotlight on one of our fabulous volunteers – today it’s Lisa who goes out of her way to help us most weeks by collecting donations left at Stanwells Pet Styling, collecting and dropping off fruit, vegetables and other donations collected from her business clients and friends, and generally helping us whenever she can however

Continuing the introductions on some of our fabulous volunteers, we asked Ed to tell us his thoughts about his volunteering at Pen Y Bryn. Ed travels all the way from Chippenham to volunteer and gets stuck in with a lot of the manual jobs that are so important at the sanctuary – creating new enclosures,

We are so excited about the support and belief that we have been given by the Herefordshire County Council and Talk Community enabling us to become a real community hub. As the summer comes to an end the hard work and perseverance is paying off and we are nearing completion on the projects that will

Continuing with our posts about some of our wonderful volunteers, we asked Mandy, who started volunteering with us earlier this summer how she felt about working at the sanctuary.This is what she had to say: ‘When I first met Peter through dancing & heard he was running this fantastic sanctuary with Kelly I was really

This summer we have had an influx of new residents at Pen Y Bryn from disabled herring gulls to guinea pigs to chickens to puppies to lovebirds to Pete the Peacock. Unfortunately we can’t take in every animal that is offered to us, though of course we wish we could, but we always do our

We have some wonderful volunteers helping us at Pen Y Bryn, so we wanted to run some feature posts on them. Our first volunteer who still comes every fortnight to help is Ellie who you will know from the wonderful photographs she takes. We asked her what it meant to volunteer with us: I absolutely