Happy Meadows Animal Therapy take pride in their duty of care and endeavour in taking service very seriously. They cover all aspects of animal therapy helping many people within the Herefordshire and Worcestershire area.
They have a responsibility as a Collective to protect and nurture clients. Due to the COVID-19 outbreak, they have found that their online services are more in demand than ever. Happy Meadows Animal Therapy belongs to KoKoro Collective in which there are many alternative therapists that want to love and perform healing and offer counsel to people, enabling them in their time of need or reflection.
KoKoro means Mind, Body, and Soul and they want to offer all therapies to accommodate this. Due to Happy Meadows Animal Therapy being recognised as a Therapy and Sanctuary provider, they have been inundated with animals who have been abandoned and taken to the Happy Meadows Animal Therapy Centre. This, in turn, has caused the financial output to be a strain, as right now due to them not being in business for 2-3 years they are unable to apply to receive the Small Business grant offered by the government.
Therefore for them to be able to stay afloat and look after the animals, so that they are ready to help people once this crisis is over, they have no choice in having to ask for help off animal lovers because they will understand the importance of loving these animals and giving them their feed, straw, hay and diligent care.
Happy Meadows Animal Therapy are also calling to the better nature of people who understand the mental/physical/emotional turmoil of isolation and stress, therefore benefiting from animal therapy. As a CIC that only set up in the hope of starting a business in March 2020, they have been heavily affected by the COVID-19 lockdown. This has affected grants and other financial means which has put them in a very difficult spot financially.
Sadly, so much so that the centre was forced to post the following update on social media yesterday evening:
“We are needing to rehome all of our animals due to the COVID-19 pandemic absolutely devastating our animal outreach programme and what with the government not helping or recognising our worth by helping with grants, so we need help.”
Following this post on social media, the local community really has rallied around to support. A GoFundMe page has been set up to support them and you can donate by visiting – Fundraiser by Zara Roberts : Happy Meadows Animal Therapy Sanctuary Support (gofundme.com)
Alternatively, to make an enquiry about one of the animals or to simply read about the magnificent work that they do, please visit – (2) Happy Meadows Animal Therapy | Facebook
