Welcome to the Web Site of The Flicka Foundation founded by Mary Berryman in 1995
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This is the newest and latest web site of the Flicka Foundation, please bear with us, every horse and donkey will be added over the coming weeks/months, but there are alot of them!!
CAROLINE QUENTIN WILL BE AT FLICKA'S
OPEN DAY ON SATURDAY 19th JULY
Check out the details here
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Will You Help Our Winter Hay and Feed Appeal Here?
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CAROLINE QUENTIN WILL BE AT FLICKA'S
OPEN DAY ON SATURDAY 19th JULY
Check out the details here
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Will You Help Our Winter Hay and Feed Appeal Here?
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It all started with a pony called Mickey in 1995..................(we're trying to source an old photo)
Bilbo
The Flicka Foundation started with Mary Berryman and her rescue and care for an elderly pony called Mickey. Back then the charity started off as 'The Golden Oldies'.
This followed with the rescue of a strawberry roan pony found in a field in the middle of an industrial estate – a small pony amongst high-rise buildings and billowing smoke. Flicka was delightful; he loved people, was very affectionate, despite his beginning, and adored lots of fuss. Sadly he developed liver cancer, after several years of teaching young children to ride; he was retired to convalesce with a condition we knew would ultimately take his life. Mary loved animals with a passion and could not bear to see or hear of anything suffering. So then The Flicka Foundation was born.
Since then we have had the privilege of many horses, ponies, sheep, pigs, cows, cats, dogs, rabbits and now donkeys - coming to us for many different reasons, each one has a story to tell. Some would tell of unthinkable cruelty, neglect, some ailing in some way and abandoned, and some just too old and require lots of TLC. We have rescued and rehabilitated well over a 250 since we began
This followed with the rescue of a strawberry roan pony found in a field in the middle of an industrial estate – a small pony amongst high-rise buildings and billowing smoke. Flicka was delightful; he loved people, was very affectionate, despite his beginning, and adored lots of fuss. Sadly he developed liver cancer, after several years of teaching young children to ride; he was retired to convalesce with a condition we knew would ultimately take his life. Mary loved animals with a passion and could not bear to see or hear of anything suffering. So then The Flicka Foundation was born.
Since then we have had the privilege of many horses, ponies, sheep, pigs, cows, cats, dogs, rabbits and now donkeys - coming to us for many different reasons, each one has a story to tell. Some would tell of unthinkable cruelty, neglect, some ailing in some way and abandoned, and some just too old and require lots of TLC. We have rescued and rehabilitated well over a 250 since we began
We are a very small sanctuary for funds raised, but quite large in terms of animals to care for.
DINO
All our supporters, donators and adopters are part of a very small team and every penny raised helps enormously. As our ‘residents’ ages increase, so do their requirements, care become more specialised and costly.
Our biggest expenses are vet fees, hay, straw and hard feed, it is difficult to anticipate how much they will be especially the vet fees. Donkeys that arrive from the continent need intensive care and veterinary treatment on arrival.
We currently have thirty four horses and ponies and thirty four donkeys. Some of the donkeys that arrive here are, unbeknown to us, in foal!!
Our biggest expenses are vet fees, hay, straw and hard feed, it is difficult to anticipate how much they will be especially the vet fees. Donkeys that arrive from the continent need intensive care and veterinary treatment on arrival.
We currently have thirty four horses and ponies and thirty four donkeys. Some of the donkeys that arrive here are, unbeknown to us, in foal!!
Please will you help us continue caring for our friends?
We have several other animals here too, a couple of cows, Raggi and Kerenza, one pig now called Phyllis well as our domestic cats and dogs. The Flicka Foundation, for ten years was a non-profit making organisation, then in 2007 we gained charitable status, this has helped us in our fund raising efforts. For some of the charity income, we ‘self-fund’ with our horse riding lessons and two mobile holiday homes, but it just isn’t enough.
Every year we do as many activities as we can – sponsored walks, Fun Runs, coffee mornings, cheese & wine evenings, Cream Tea Open Days, raffles and a couple of very successful concerts. 2007 also saw us doing an abseil down the cliffs on the north coast of Cornwall. In 2009 Judy did the London Marathon, for 'Flicka' and a cancer charity, in memory of Mary her dear Mum......... Could you do something for 'Flicka'?
All animals deserve a chance - whilst there is so much cruelty in this world to people as well as animals the reality is that it’s possible to care about more than one issue at a time. We mustn’t assume that a capacity for compassion is dependent on mutual exclusitivity.
Every year we do as many activities as we can – sponsored walks, Fun Runs, coffee mornings, cheese & wine evenings, Cream Tea Open Days, raffles and a couple of very successful concerts. 2007 also saw us doing an abseil down the cliffs on the north coast of Cornwall. In 2009 Judy did the London Marathon, for 'Flicka' and a cancer charity, in memory of Mary her dear Mum......... Could you do something for 'Flicka'?
All animals deserve a chance - whilst there is so much cruelty in this world to people as well as animals the reality is that it’s possible to care about more than one issue at a time. We mustn’t assume that a capacity for compassion is dependent on mutual exclusitivity.
Flicka in the Community
The Flicka Foundation is very prevalent in the community welcoming youngsters from all walks of life and disabled, disadvantaged and handicapped children to come and bond with the donkeys the elderly too - in fact all ages - donkeys are just so therapeutic - take a look here..............
The Flicka Foundation is very prevalent in the community welcoming youngsters from all walks of life and disabled, disadvantaged and handicapped children to come and bond with the donkeys the elderly too - in fact all ages - donkeys are just so therapeutic - take a look here..............
Will You Adopt Me?
Dougal
We hope you may consider adopting one of our horses or donkeys, or making a donation, any amount helps more than we can say, these beautiful animals depend so much on us; they deserve to live out their twilight years in green fields with their friends. Thank you so much for your interest, if you would like any more details about the ‘Flicka Foundation’ and animals to adopt you can email us at – info@flicka.org.uk - or write to us via the contact us page.
“If you will have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will do likewise with their fellow
men”
St Francis of
Assisi
“If you will have men who will exclude any of God’s creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will do likewise with their fellow
men”
St Francis of
Assisi
