donate to a
friend's fundraiser

Irish Horse Welfare Trust CLG

banner-image

Equine Welfare Centre , Ballinamona, Woodenbridge , Arklow, Wicklow - Y14 D283

Irish Horse Welfare Trust CLG

The Irish Horse Welfare Trust, Charity No.CHY 14634 is one of the larges equine welfare charities in Ireland and the longest running equine welfare charity.

Mission
Rescue, Rehabilitation & Re-homing of horses and ponies.
Ex Racehorse Promotion and Re-homing Programme.
Campaigning on issues affecting equines.
Promoting equine welfare awareness and education
 

overview

The Irish Horse Welfare Trust, Charity No. CHY14634 was established in 1999 and is one of Ireland’s largest running dedicated equine welfare charities. It was established to deal with Ireland’s forgotten horses and to have a dedicated centre that is equipped for dealing with equines.  The charity deals with all types of horses and ponies (and the occasional donkey or mule) but is specialist in caring for Thoroughbred horses.

IHWT operates from it’s a 68 acre farm in Woodenbridge, Co. Wicklow. The IHWT Equine Welfare Centre was purchased in 2008 following a Capital Appeal for the Charity to buy its own premises having rented for almost 10 years.

The IHWT also runs an Ex Racehorse Programme, The aim of the programme is to promote  of the versatility and trainability of Racehorses and to encourage more people to take them on as riding horses.  The IHWT also runs a programme to retrain and rehome racehorses and rescued thoroughbred horses.

 

The centre is open to visitors by appointment. Please contact our office to make an appointment. Phone 0402 30773 or email [email protected]   More information is available at www.ihwt.ie

where your money goes

The money that is donated to the IHWT goes towards the care & feeding of our rescues at our Equine Centre. We have a holding capacity for an average of 65 equines, but in the past few years we have numbers on average from 75 to 90 as a result of high numbers of stray & abandoned equines. We deal with many rescues most of which are suffering from severe neglect and cruelty. 

The cost of running IHWT is almost €300,000 per annum so we rely on donations from members of the public to continue helping horses who have suffered. The length of rehabilitation of equines at IHWT will vary depending on injury and the condition of the horse/pony when they are rescued. IHWT has a huge rescue and re-homing success rate with hundreds of horses and ponies re-homed in Ireland, all who would have died through neglect if it had not been for IHWT intervention.

 

You can make a real difference by making a donation. 

Gift Donations

Make a donation as a gift on behalf of someone special by clicking below.

Following your donation, you will receive a Gift Donation Certificate, which you can send to the person that you made the donation on behalf of, or print for yourself.

The Gift of €25

The Gift of €25

Donate €25 on behalf of someone special, and give them a gift that keeps on giving

The Gift of €50

The Gift of €50

Donate €50 on behalf of someone special, and give them a gift that keeps on giving

The Gift of €100

The Gift of €100

Donate €100 on behalf of someone special, and give them a gift that keeps on giving

fundraisers