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Vulnerable horses urgently need your help

Abused, neglected and frightened horses are promised a brighter future thanks to your ongoing support.

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Urgent call for a fully centralised equine ID and traceability system

World Horse Welfare’s vision is a world where every horse is treated with respect, compassion and understanding

Thanks to your support we have been helping horses for nearly 100 years

About us

We are an international charity whose values are grounded in pragmatism and compassion.

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Helping horses
for nearly 100 years

brown horse and a member of the worlds horse welfare

What we do

We work across the horse world to improve the horse-human relationship.

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We work in the
UK and Internationally

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Meet our horses and see our work first hand.

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Want to rehome?

Could you give one of our horses or ponies their forever home?

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Who we help

We can categorise most of the equines we help as:

Horses in need

Sport and leisure horses

Work and production horses

We also help horses by helping people

The people we work with

We help horse owners and keepers, communities, governments and agencies, sport regulators and institutions to improve their policies and practices.
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The horse-human relationship

Our charity believes in improving welfare by strengthening the horse-human relationship.
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Our core resources

We apply varying combinations of our expertise, influence, networks, physical assets and funds to the whole spectrum of the charity's work.
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