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Meet our rescued animals

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Preparing food for
over 2000 animals in
our feed barn
at Frettenham
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Hillside Animal Sanctuary

Hill Top Farm,
Hall Lane, Frettenham,
Norwich, NR12 7LT, UK
Tel: 01603 736 200

Welcome

 

Hillside Animal Sanctuary was founded in 1995 to help and campaign for animals in need and most importantly, to bring public awareness to the millions of animals suffering every day in the intensive factory farming industry. Although at Hillside we have given sanctuary to 2500 horses, ponies and donkeys, many of our residents have been rescued from the
farming industry.

 

 

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Prison Term for slaughterman exposed in Hillside Farm Animal Investigation

 


To see the RSPCA's response when we report severe animal suffering on their 'monitored' Freedom Food farms, please watch 'Ducks in Despair' (below)
or
click here to read our report

 

Click here to read about further farm animal investigations

WE REPORTED FOOT AND MOUTH FARM TWO MONTHS BEFORE DISEASE WAS DETECTED in 2001 . . .

Burnside Farm at Heddon-on-the Wall was the subject of a Hillside investigation just two months before the first British case of F&M was detected there. We had received information that there were rotting carcasses amongst live pigs, piglets being eaten alive by other pigs, and sickly-looking pigs indicating the possibility of a disease being present. The Waugh brothers, who ran the farm, had previously been evicted from a pig farm by a local council where pictorial evidence also revealed pigs living in absolute squalor. On arrival at Burnside we could see what we now know may have been the contaminated swill which was being fed to the pigs. We reported our concerns to the appropriate authorities expecting them to fully investigate. The farm was inspected 22nd Dec 2000 by Trading Standards and MAFF. At the time these government officials claimed they could find no prosecutable offences and simply 'advised' the Waughs to clean up. However, soon after this farm was confirmed to be the source of the F&M outbreak, Mr Waugh was convicted of several charges, including causing unnecessary suffering to animals.
Hillside's investigation team have video evidence to prove that time and time again all species of farm animals are routinely left to suffer injury, illness and disease without any care or veterinary treatment. Can we really be surprised that such a serious disease was overlooked when finding sick animals in the intensive factory farming industry is so commonplace?

During Christmas, the village where I live, was resounding with the sound of cows bellowing out for their calves. People went about their business seemingly oblivious to the dreadful mental torture those animals were going through. Even Christmas Day churchgoers, in full earshot of the desperate calling, just turned the other cheek. If it had been a human mother who had been so ruthlessly separated from her baby and been in such distress the whole village would have turned out, trying to help.
The cows’ offspring had been deliberately taken away, leaving them suffering the same anguish that any human mother would. I find it hard to believe that people can be so callous to another living creature. The cows that I could only listen to and sympathise with over Christmas were in this state in order to supply humans with beef. Dairy cows suffer the same horrific mental torture when their calves are taken away, and often killed, so that humans can drink the milk intended for their offspring. Wendy Valentine

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Donkey Rescue...
Thirteen Donkeys arrive safely at Hillside...

A Christmas Rescue

Urgent Rescue of 23 Thoroughbreds

Sunday Mirror reports on Hillside's Investigation at 'Simply Halal' Slaughterhouse

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Another Herd of Cows arrive at Hillside...

Herd of Cows arrive at Hillside after Beef Farmer Turns Veggie...

Hillside exposes extreme cruelty at non-stun slaughterhouse...

Prison Sentence for Bagshaw after Hillside's Investigation Uncovers Cruelty at Slaughterhouse

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JULY 2014 - 39 Horses and Ponies abandoned on Manmoel Common arrive safely at Hiilside...

Lots of Rescued Animals arrive at Hillside...

Stray Horse Rescue Appeal...

Evicted animals from Rainbow Ark arrive safely at Hillside...

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See Hillside's latest Farm Animal Investigation on an RSPCA Freedom Food Farm

Hillside Expose More Farm Animal Suffering

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Monday 24th Sept

See Hillside's latest farm animal investigation HERE...

Rescued - a family herd of Shetland Ponies...

Ten rescued Shires arrive at Hillside Shire Horse Sanctuary...

ITV Anglia Tonight report on Hillside's case against Bernard Matthews

Hillside Launches Legal Proceedings Against Bernard Matthews...

Hillside to help Romanian Dogs...

Hillside Online Charity Shop...

Playtime at Hillside...

Evicted animals arrive at Hillside...

Oct 2011 Hillside take in 37 horses & ponies also cows, sheep & goats evicted from Devon sanctuary...

Oct 2011 Hillside help injured ponies...

See Hillside footage referred to in THE PEOPLE article here...

Sunday 18th Sept
See Hillside's latest farm animal investigation HERE...

Events in aid of Hillside...

Rescued Dog Kennel Appeal

Watch a short Film Cow & Calf Rescue

Tragedy at local Sanctuary...

Cruelty-free Toiletries, Lotions & Potions are now available from Hillside...

Easy 'Animal Friendly' cake recipes...

Rescued ewegives birth to three lambs...

10th February...
75 rescued sheep arrive at the Sanctuary...

8th February...
Our Farm Animal Investigation on Sky & C5 TODAY...

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Who lives at Hillside...

We rescue seven donkeys...

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See Sugar's recovery...

A recent Hillside farm animal investigation...

See our animals in the recent snow...

Winter 2009 Highland Cow Rescue Appeal...

9th Nov 2009
Hillside help C5 to expose puppy farming in Wales. Click to see programme...

August 2009
See a short film made by a visitor to our Sanctuary...

Lizzie's Appeal

Jackie and her dog, Tippy Toes, from 'Britain's Got Talent' coming to Hillside...

July 2009
Watch a short film of Starlight the sheep - her rescue, being shorn and with her friends in the Sanctuary...

July 2009
See Star, a talented pony who came into our care Feb 2008 ...

July 2009
Click here to see our latest rescued piglet ...

March 2009

Safe in the Sanctuary - Floss, the runaway Highland cow, arrives at Hillside...

January 2009
Hillside film conditions at Bernard Matthews' in the weeks before a bird flu outbreak there in Feb 2009...

18th Feb 2009
Channel 5 show our disturbing footage of birds on an RSPCA 'monitored' turkey farm.

17 July 2008
Foal born to rescued donkey mare.

23rd June 2008
Channel 5 and Sky News show our farm animal investigation footage.
Our evidence exposes yet another RSPCA Freedom Food Scheme monitored farm, keeping ‘free-range’ hens in appalling conditions.

March 16th 2008
Open Days begin at our new farm at West Runton on the North Norfolk coast

20th Dec 07
Donkey rescued from France
Five rescued donkeys who were destined for the slaughterhouse, arrive from France. Click to see pictures...

6th August 2007 Bio-security farce Despite the recent FMD outbreak, we have been able to film rotting pig carcasses, heaving with maggots, just a few feet from the public highway. Defra may put a ban on the movement of farm animals but how can they prevent flies, which can easily travel two miles, from spreading the disease?
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June 14th 2007
We film ANOTHER Bernard Matthews' worker kicking turkeys.
Kicking turkeys at Bernard Matthews

June 2007
ITV1's 'Tonight with Trevor McDonald' showed our investigation footage which exposed conditions on a free-range, organic poultry farm. Click to request free copy

May 2007
BBC1's 'Whistleblower' featured a Hillside investigation which exposed serious bio-security lapses in the poultry industry.

March 2007
ITV1's 'Tonight with Trevor Mcdonald' featured Hillside footage taken on four farms, three of which reared animals under the RSPCA's monitored Freedom Food Scheme! Click to request free copy

Sept 7th 2006
Following the investigation below, two Bernard Matthew workers have been sentenced. Click for report...

April 06 - Daily Mirror and Daily Mail reported another Hillside investigation - we filmed turkeys being sadistically beaten at Bernard Matthews!

Bernard Matthews videoClick here to view...To see further footage showing the conditions in which Bernard Matthew's turkeys were being kept, click here...

April 06
Lamb born in slaughterhouse arrives at Hillside
lamb and ewe

16th March Norfolk Farmers sentenced for ill-treating animals following Hillside investigation...

Sky News (Jan 06) Hillside investigation footage was broadcast exposing the appalling conditions that ducks being produced for M&S, Morrisons and Iceland are kept in! Click here to view Sky News clip.

Channel Four's Dispatches (Dec 05) Featured Hillside's investigation footage in their programme 'What's Really in Your Christmas Dinner?'

We have exposed THREE illegal slaughterhouses resulting in prison sentences.

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