About New Hope
New Hope Animal Rescue founders, Niall and Steph always had a natural affinity with animals and both began rescuing at a young age. They began New Hope Animal Rescue as a rescue dedicated to saving animals on death row or those in immediate danger due to medical or behavioral issues.
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As the years went by, they found they had become a Sanctuary to other animals such as pigs, chickens, turkeys and ducks. The ever-expanding Sanctuary forced them to relocate from London to a 12 acre farm in Kent!
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After selling their property and sticking with their full time jobs, and, most importantly, with supporters' amazing generousity, they were able to purchase the land needed to open out doors to the many farm animals needing sanctuary. New Hope is now home to pigs, cows, horses, sheep, goats, alpaca, fish, dogs, cats, guinea pigs, rabbits and birds of all shapes and sizes - we do our best not to turn any species away! We also have a soft release pen for orphaned foxes and assist in many wildlife rescues too.
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Although we have moved and a lot of hard work goes into looking after the farm and our other permanent residents, we continue to work tirelessly, saving death row animals and working hard to find them places in other rescues. We occasionally rehome those that we consider rehomeable but concentrate on being the middleman between immediate danger and rescue spaces. We care for animals in our own homes, foster homes or private boarding kennels, where we often have to keep many of the death row dogs.
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We are a not for profit organisation dedicated to providing a safe and loving environment for over 400 animals at the sanctuary. We strive to create a compassionate community that values the well-being of all animals and promotes a vegan lifestyle. Our focus is on rescuing, rehabilitating, and providing lifelong sanctuary for animals in need. 100% of all donations and funds raised goes directly to the animals in our care, ensuring they have everything they need to thrive.
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Our Work in the Local Community
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For the past three years we have been doing quite a lot in our local community! We work with different community projects and normally, every week day, we host a different community group. These include a young offenders programme, assisted learning with the local college and three different groups from SEN schools for children and young adults with severe learning difficulties. We have previously worked with young adults with brain injuries and we also do individual projects through different schools that help children in foster care and young adults with extra learning needs.
This is something that we always want to be able to open the sanctuary up to. Although we are first and foremost a rescue and sanctuary, we do think it’s important to help as many members of the community as we can, especially those in most need and that can really benefit from what we do here.
